That's pretty good. There was another early 2.5D game that ran on my IBM PC that I played in around 1994 that this reminds me of. I'll go search for it now
I think the framerate was closer to like 5fps or so.
I was under the impression that this series running on an 8088 was a unique property but Wikipedia fails to mention it. I was a kid then so let's just presume I was wrong
I imagine that on a physical vintage PC with a spinning rust hard drive (rather than in an emulator with storage presumably backed by an SSD) we'd be looking at a 1fps slideshow or less.
But, maybe I'm wrong! Maybe things would fit into the HDD's onboard cache and it would perform OK.
PCs of a sufficient vintage had so little logic on the HDD that you could swap out the MFM controller card in your PC for an RLL one and get 50% more storage. The modulation of the signal written to the disk was the job of the controller card, not the board on the HDD. Turn your 20MB HDD into a 30MB with a controller change and reformat? Mighty tempting.
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