Alpha Waves

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

Wow, this takes me back. I seem to remember never being very good at this and I'm not sure if I even really figured out what I was supposed to be doing. Sure was interesting.

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In action mode it was basically exploring all the rooms trying to find all the cubes and getting those little stars for extra time before the clock ran out.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I don't think it's exactly new, but it's a Diamond DT-688. It was like $6, and my on-board shit wasn't working with Win98 (and didn't have a joystick port to boot). But the legacy support is a nice bonus, and it seems to be real OPL3, too, or if not the accuracy is dead-on and alot better than creative labs emulated drivers.

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So it'd have both Soundblaster and Adlib support for DOS games? Very interesting.

I actually prefer Wolfenstein 3-D's Adlib sound to the digitized Soundblaster stuff.

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Originally Posted by skelly

So it'd have both Soundblaster and Adlib support for DOS games? Very interesting.

I actually prefer Wolfenstein 3-D's Adlib sound to the digitized Soundblaster stuff.

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SB is backward compatible with Adlib.

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I'm pretty sure this is the first 3D platformer, at least that I know of.

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I was thinking the same thing when I was making that Video Game Firsts thread but I decided I wasn't sure enough to include it. There are a good handful of polygonal action/adventure games(stuff by Incentive Software and Mindscape) made before Alpha Waves but I can't think of a single one that really meets the platformer criteria.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

SB is backward compatible with Adlib.

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Huh, never in my experience. I can never choose Adlib support in games like Wolf 3D.

Ah well, don't mean to derail the thread.

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Originally Posted by skelly

Huh, never in my experience. I can never choose Adlib support in games like Wolf 3D.

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I can. It could be that your card/drivers are only partially SB compatible. Which can often be the case, since most later cards don't have OPL3 chips any more.

Anyway, try the game in DOSBox. I was very pleased with the results.

Good stuff, gotten off a BBS yonks ago. Jump mechanics similar to Jumping Flash.