As time went on, Descent stands out for an even better reason: as one of the earliest games to go #opensource (though not Free Software, technically)
The engines have since been active community projects, providing a lot of quality of life features, optional bug fixes, and working with modern PCs, controllers and network protocols like UDP (as opposed to serial modem and IPX...)
https://github.com/dxx-rebirth/dxx-rebirth/
I hope some will buy the disc from GoG, dump its data files, and try it for its 30th!
