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by strongly-typed 805 days ago
Have you tried the ray traced version? In my opinion it's the best way to play it. https://github.com/BredaUniversityGames/DXX-Raytracer
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Thanks for sharing, that’s super cool. I loved Descent when I was a young lad.
What does it run on, and does it use a modern joystick?
If you want to use a non-modern joystick on a modern machine, there are adapters; I have one I like, and if I remember, I'll post the brand when I get home.
I have the Rockfire RM-203.

Only downside is that it is self-calibrating, so if you have a joystick pot that sometimes jumps to very high (or very low I suppose) resistance, it will scale the axis to that very high value; calibration on the PC in that case will give you terrible resolution (since it is quantized before being sent to the PC). I suggest cleaning the pots with DeoxIT if that happens.

I’ve actually played it on my steam deck and it runs well.