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The Pain Train: Wolfenstein 3D and Doom... in CGA


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Sure, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom are legendary classics. But what if they came out in the 80s and sounded like abject garbage? Let's find out!

Links:

James Howard's Wolfenstein 3D CGA: https://github.com/jhhoward/WolfensteinCGA

FastDoom (incl. PickledDog's CGA driver): https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom

Footage credits:

Castlevania Pain Train: EpicPotatoFiend

Duke Nukem Pain Train: PickledDog
Space Quest IV Pain Train: James Howard
Dosgamert - "Alley Cat (1984) [MS-DOS]"
https://youtu.be/0lnFlsfqSOo
Dosgamert - "Longplay: Commander Keen 4 - Secret of the Oracle [CGA] (1991) [MS-DOS]"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw7Rcz6rCyM
High-Tech Mag@zine - "CGA COMPOSITE MODE"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL818tN3dRQ

Chapters:

00:00 Preamble: Why 4-color CGA?
03:52 Wolfenstein 3D
09:04 Doom

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The Classic Gamer's Guild Podcast (https://www.cggpodcast.com)
https://youtube.com/@AdventureGameHotspot - the main hub

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