Re: Best CD-ROM drive speed for DOS PCs?
Posted on 2008-12-04, 14:09
You could, but it's your ide chain tangle adventure 😀
Re: Old Pentium motherboard recommendation
Posted on 2008-12-04, 14:07
You can buy Pentium MMX 150mhz cpus that aren't laptop bound!? I use a Socket 7 i430TX for my Pentium / Cyrix6x86 80mhz rig.
Re: Glide and A3D
Posted on 2008-12-02, 04:39
In Diablo 2's case, 3d cards at the time had slow texture caching/upload for Direct3D and voodoo hardware was still popular to use in 2000, plus there's the fact that Diablo 2 was in development since 1997 so Glide technology adoption was quite early and more mature than their own whatever-late-in- …
Re: Terratec DMX6 - any thoughts?
Posted on 2008-12-01, 23:33
Silent Loon wrote: Analog Devices 1816 chip Ewww those have horrible clipping, pitch and static noise issues 🙁
Re: DOSBOX ON PLAYSTATION 2!
Posted on 2008-11-30, 12:56
pointing out there that there is not x86 playstation 2! (doesn't exist) if it ever arrives on the ps2, don't expect to play Quake and Blood on it
Re: very slow with high graphics settings
Posted on 2008-11-28, 14:13
Re: No sound in GLQuake
Posted on 2008-11-28, 14:12
Re: PowerVR PCX2
Posted on 2008-11-25, 14:35
Hmm, that's weird because KHG dropped support for it too (in a patch) before the neon250 was released, ditto for Unreal as well I think. Interesting screenshots of Quake3 using the Half-Life MiniGL driver (1.0.2.1 is the only one that works) http://leileilol.mancubus.net/powervr/pcx2/shot0003.jpg …
Re: PowerVR PCX2
Posted on 2008-11-23, 06:17
Updated list slightly. Seems GLDirect 1.0x is the only version that could barely work with PCX2 (2.x later don't)
Re: 486 mobo: mouse, floppy, HDD, CD - where do they all go?
Posted on 2008-11-22, 17:58
dealing with serial ports is the worst part imo (especially if you lost them, or lose track of them). I've still yet to get mine to work. If you have to ask this question though, wait until you have to play with the CPU jumpers :) this 486 stuff makes dealing with new modern hardware seem...dumbed …
Re: Native Online Blood + XP
Posted on 2008-11-18, 11:19
You could have a linux live CD that's just DOSEmu, which is also a really-fast-and-still-better-than-ntvdm solution for older machines. Could use an easy configuration front end though, since people that tend to want to play Blood you find on the internet, lets say, want a more 'push button' …
Re: Native Online Blood + XP
Posted on 2008-11-17, 21:11
Win2k also has extremely lagged controls with Blood also this is no way to play a classic into the future. We need to get everyone's bad ntvdm habits dropped somehow because it's ruining the vision of dos (its ansi colors aren't even correct)
Re: Native Online Blood + XP
Posted on 2008-11-16, 22:22
lagged controls, lagged controls, lagged controls, oh did i mention the lagged controls? Also no sound, but the VDMSound solution only gives me the bad, crackling sound.
Re: How important are early Pentiums?
Posted on 2008-11-16, 00:28
I thought a 486 120mhz was a good sweet spot in the middle, though don't plan on playing any 1996+ game in 640x400+. Turbo button and switching a clock jumper or two could solve that 'too fast for wing commander' problem probably, though I never played that game on anything better than 16mhz. …
Re: Some General Basic Knoweledge Please
Posted on 2008-11-15, 23:16
WildTangent exclusively makes Windows games dependent on their own proprietary WildTangent web plugin (which is pretty much spyware 🤣). They have never done a DOS game.
Re: How important are early Pentiums?
Posted on 2008-11-15, 22:45
Weird. Could be the sound card or a dma conflict though, I can run Jazz on a P150 with 80mb of ram fine
Re: WildTangent Ceases Game Development
Posted on 2008-11-11, 20:21
it's been a spyware vehicle for way too long. WildTangent's only milestones to me are their development in the shoddy official Win32 ports of Doom and Hexen.
Re: PowerVR PCX2
Posted on 2008-11-10, 23:30
swaaye wrote: UT should work too. It doesn't. Direct3D driver crashes, OpenGL driver crashes, and SGL driver (from uncommenting) doesn't initialize, falls back to software. I also tried Deus Ex.
Re: PowerVR PCX2
Posted on 2008-11-09, 23:13
WIP "post-1998" compatibility list of games that 'run' on the card released from past its last driver release in March '98: Works great (runs as intended): Half-Life Unreal Rogue Squadron Battlezone (sometimes it can glitch and try to accellerate the game in 640x480x8 (YES 8BIT direct3d hardware)) …
Re: Why do my floppies keep going bad?
Posted on 2008-11-07, 03:49
Insulation rocks. I've done that in the 90s fortunately for my important disks. My more creative ones with the cool label writing I did with pens kinda is more ruined than the ones with clean surfaces :( sometimes even their dust protectors makes reading worse so i'd have to rip 'em off and save …
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