Re: Coronavirus chatter
Posted on 2020-03-25, 00:39
Errius wrote on 2020-03-24, 12:59: Currently watching Contagion (2011). Other viewing recommendations for the next days? Akira
Re: Recommend me some gold old DOS games?
Posted on 2020-03-24, 00:18
you're all incorrect Black Gold Blake Stone Aliens of Gold Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday Champions of Krynn Curse of the Azure Bonds Dark Queen of Krynn Disney's Duck Tales The Quest for Gold Epic Pinball: Pot of Gold Falcon Gold Gateway to the Savage Frontier Golden Axe Gold of the Aztecs …
Re: WIndows XP 64-Bit - Gaming Issues?
Posted on 2020-03-24, 00:01
Back in the day (~06), the only real issues to XP64 gaming were these: - StarForce didn't work then of course. Bye bye my legitimately owned europe published games!!! Sure you could install a 64-bit starforce driver nowadays, but that didn't exist at all in 2006!!! - No 16-bit stuff of course, but …
Re: DOSBOX eating up CPU
Posted on 2020-03-23, 03:23
By virtualizing, you introduce more variables into incompatibility as those supported modern CPUs passed through with unpredictable results with old 16-bit stuff as well as far less cycles control... and DOSBox's dynarec is fast enough to never need any use case for a virtualizer by that point since …
Re: Asus Drivers ( Geforce 2 GTS "v7700" )
Posted on 2020-03-22, 23:44
Generally Geforce2s break after Forceware 61.76. Any "supported" driver after that will break stuff as it feels like Nvidia didn't test them on Win9x at that point.
Re: DOS games with high memory usage
Posted on 2020-03-22, 13:21
Under DOS, Quake will try to grab 64MB
Re: Doom Eternal Released
Posted on 2020-03-22, 12:07
DosFreak wrote on 2020-03-21, 13:46: /EDIT Okay running into alot of pain in the ass platforming. Whomever had this idea needs to be shot in the face. after ROTT '13's hype running into the terrible level design issues, that edit speaks louder than the denuvo thing
Re: How important is a PCI graphics card in a 486?
Posted on 2020-03-21, 01:11
It's important if you have a M919 and an AM5x86 and intend to use the good clockspeeds. 😉 I've had VLB cards go nuts with that board a 1996 ago, either burning out (Cirrus) or having severe palette issues (Tseng). It only finally reached fast stable equilibrium with a PCI S3 Trio64...
Re: Video playback on a 286? - here's how to do it
Posted on 2020-03-20, 06:43
Can the 286 handle video playback? American Laser Games was banking on that back in the day. They've tuned their codec and data for 1x speed and 286s for their DOS ports. Most of the video kept being half-resolution in lots of chunks. It's noticeably visually worse than even other 1993 CD-ROM FMV …
Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...
Posted on 2020-03-20, 00:29
I'm curious on any technical reason why the pan command on .mod isn't supported. I use that a lot
Re: Command and conquer Setup
Posted on 2020-03-19, 00:36
Yeah the common Win95 version's when they went EA and had to ditch the DOS binaries to scrub away some Virgin brand residue.
Re: Windows 3.1 / 9x games that require Quicktime
Posted on 2020-03-18, 01:25
Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster and Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh are both Win16 Quicktimers
Re: VGA Capture Thread
Posted on 2020-03-16, 01:40
Another thing about DC VGA captures is curiousity about the green and some obvious channel shift/bleed. I've noticed some of this on official Toy Commander screenshots from '99 which had some similar artifacts to your earlier captures! Wonder if different DC models/VGA adapters affect that...
Re: The 65MB Win98 ram limit
Posted on 2020-03-16, 01:14
MXDash wrote on 2020-03-15, 15:25: As said before. I installed nothing before or after installing windows 98. If that were true, there wouldn't be an old HIMEM to load and this thread wouldn't have existed.
Re: 8 vs 12mb Voodoo 2 performance
Posted on 2020-03-16, 01:07
A SLI 8MB V2 won't compensate for the swapping penalties, it'll make it worse rather since the swapping will end up with double the PCI transfer and still effectively be a 2MB texmem card for most not-multitextured games. And yeah, back in 98 the 8mb V2 was considered an undesirable odd duck as some …
Re: AWE32 in Windows 95 DOS box vs DOS mode
Posted on 2020-03-16, 01:01
I think I remember some AWE music with some games that way causing some musical chaos when it tries through Windows (i.e. Duke3D) in which using General MIDI instead was the stable option. I wonder if that also happens for your card? A DOS game that should work with the AWE32 through Windows 95 is …
Re: "Jim Power - The Lost Dimension" cycle settings
Posted on 2020-03-15, 14:18
FWIW the freezing's mutual on PCem too with the same symptoms. I could only play it on a 386SX config there. Given the design clumsiness of the port (the whole using-320x200-making-jumps-a-risky-gamble especially), i'd almost blame the game...
Re: The 65MB Win98 ram limit
Posted on 2020-03-15, 00:47
So the thing that was causing me headaches was actually a known system bug in win98. As pointed out many times before in this thread, the problem lies in the old HIMEM.SYS loaded and has nothing to do with the alleged service packs . Win98's well known ram bug's more for >512MB and the "service …
Re: "Burger Blaster" (1988) - extra colors under CGA composite
Posted on 2020-03-14, 06:34
This is how it is through PCem v15's CGA composite emulation mode. Seems to only really matter for the text
Re: Game Suggestions.
Posted on 2020-03-13, 00:47
Quake3 (and most derivatives) have a 848x480 resolution in its video mode list so that's also something to try, given '99 was the period of wide plasma screens.
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