[iopq]

> But unless you own a ’90s era PC, an Amiga or a 16-bit console, your chances of playing Dune II in its original glory are slim, which is a shame.

someone never heard of dosbox

[fermigier]

The game is actually playable in the browser: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dune_2_-_The_Building_of_a...

(I happen to have shown it to my 13yo son a few days ago. He wasn't impressed.)

[gus_massa]

I remember triying it a few years ago when the online version was released. The problem is that a lot of modern shorcuts are mising, like click on an enemy unit to atack instead of pressing A and then clicking on it. It was fantastic when it was released. Perhaps someone can add all those small tweaks and make an updated version.

[b112]

Was going to stroll down memory lane, and play it on a retro website. Sadly, Firefox is broken in this regard (what a shocker), with a broken UI that maps escape to 'exit pointer lock' or 'exit fullscreen'. Esc is used to bypass mega-long intros, and scenes between play, and other things of course.

There's no way to change the esc key to another key, which is just silly. Which makes Firefox silly.

[deaddodo]

I mean, if you have any 32-bit Windows, you can run it. You just have to launch it directly from the DOS command line, and you need to install an IPX->TCP/IP wrapper (or Kali/something similar) for multiplayer. I was playing Dune on my Windows XP box well into the 00s and NTVDM supported it fine.

But yeah, DOSbox is probably a better option these days.

[nirav72]

Does it need 32-bit windows? Can't it run in compatibility mode in standard 64-bit windows 11?

[b112]

Or UAE (amiga) or ... 1000 other things. Strange.

[callamdelaney]

'Original glory' could be defined as "on original hardware on a screen where the graphics looks as they're supposed to instead of being stretched and changed in all sorts of ways"

[Gormo]

Playing at 1600x1200 with a point scaler and aspect correction enabled gives you a pixel-perfect representation of the original graphics.

If you had a lower-quality CRT back in the day, so you remember fuzzier pixel boundaries, a CRT emulation GLSL filter will give you an extremely accurate recreation of that.

DOSBox-Staging now defaults everything to proper aspect-corrected settings and includes a good selection of CRT emulation filters: https://dosbox-staging.github.io/

[iopq]

You can always just do integer pixel scaling which will look just as good as the original