Re: Duke Nukem 3-D Anaglyph Sterescopic Glasses Support

Posted on 2009-11-27, 17:35

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by ChrisR3tro

in DOS

in DOS

BTW, I assume that you're using DOSBox to run Duke? Nope, using a real DOS machine with DOS 6.22 on it and S3 ViRGE VESA 2.0 card. Under DOSBox everything is fine. Anyway the convergence is way off, so I doubt that anyone actually sees a 3D picture or is able to bear the eyestrain more than 1 …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3-D Anaglyph Sterescopic Glasses Support

Posted on 2009-11-26, 14:23

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by ChrisR3tro

in DOS

in DOS

I managed to get the mode running under v1.5. I am also experiencing strange vertical lines, like described here in the thread. Unfortunately v1.3d crashes on me when trying to set the ScreenMode = 7 (computer reboots). Any Idea why (using S3 ViRGE/DX graphics card)?

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Re: Duke Nukem 3-D Anaglyph Sterescopic Glasses Support

Posted on 2009-11-22, 19:54

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by ChrisR3tro

in DOS

in DOS

I've tried setting screen mode to "7" (RedBlue Stereo), but somehow it doesn't have any effect other than that of the game being reduced to 320x240 now. My game version 1.5. Is there any trick to it? locutus

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Re: Creative AWE32, with an unusual addition to it.

Posted on 2009-10-06, 11:41

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by ChrisR3tro

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great find! Maybe you can overclock that sucker to 88.2 khz :-)

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Re: Perfect ISA soundcard, in theory

Posted on 2009-09-07, 16:01

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by ChrisR3tro

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in Marvin \ Sound

I suppose the CT2940 has the hanging notes bug , so even if its output is clean, its of no real use in my opinion, right? Creative's MPU implementation is just flawed... Early non-PNP SB16 which don't have that bug are noisy as hell by the way. Another problem is that Creative's SB16 and newer cards …

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Re: Tomb Raider III: Problem

Posted on 2009-08-22, 18:43

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by ChrisR3tro

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This might have something to do with NT compatibility. When Windows XP first came out, I tried TR3 on it and cutscenes would work very unreliably. Some cutscenes just wouldn't be displayed, exactly as you described. (Tomb Raider III wouldn't even start on Win 2000 btw.) The situation has improved …

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Re: Freespace not getting closer to ready to be played . .

Posted on 2009-08-20, 17:47

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by ChrisR3tro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You mention Privateer Deluxe. By that, do you mean the sequel "The Darkenning" or is there really a Windows version of the first game?

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Re: Freespace not getting closer to ready to be played . .

Posted on 2009-08-17, 16:14

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by ChrisR3tro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you have a v1.06 Freespace installation, installing the mission disk ("Silent Threat") will revert the version to v1.04. Make sure to start the game once before you re-apply the v1.06 patch. Not doing so, left me with some patching errors. If you plan on using EAX, make sure you have updated to …

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Re: Freespace not getting closer to ready to be played . .

Posted on 2009-08-17, 12:45

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by ChrisR3tro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello! Freespace runs fine on my Win98-Box, which has the following specs: PIII 1,4 GHz ASUS TUSL2-C 512 MB RAM Graphics: Voodoo5 Sound: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Graphics: The game makes use of Glide drivers, but will also run on Direct3D hardware. It supports both graphics APIs quite well, but I …

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall released for free!

Posted on 2009-08-03, 21:34

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by ChrisR3tro

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in Release Announcements

It seems the download link Bethesda have on their site is broken. :-(

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Re: Got another Tualatin board

Posted on 2009-08-03, 15:40

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by ChrisR3tro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The VIA Apollo 133T chipset is not as fast as Intel's 815ep, but on the other hand it can support a lot more RAM. (815ep can only support 512 MB). To have one ISA slot is also very nice, although the southbridge is said to be a bit buggy (VIA 686B bug). Unfortunately the page doesn't say if the …

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Re: randomw 98se crashes

Posted on 2009-08-02, 15:34

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by ChrisR3tro

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

YOu might also want to try another PSU just for tests

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Re: randomw 98se crashes

Posted on 2009-08-02, 11:49

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by ChrisR3tro

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In a working system, memtest86 should give no errors at all. If there is as much as one single error, you can be certain that there's something wrong. Try cleaning the RAM slots with pressure air or contact spray. Select standard RAM timings in BIOS (e.g. by SPD) and make sure your chipset supports …

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Re: randomw 98se crashes

Posted on 2009-07-31, 14:58

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by ChrisR3tro

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Almost every virus scanner comes with an on-demand scanner. You should try to disable it and see if it helps. "On-Demand" means that there's a background-task scanning every file you access, thus constantly draining performance off the real important tasks and possibly interfacing with the system on …

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Re: randomw 98se crashes

Posted on 2009-07-31, 13:07

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by ChrisR3tro

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

First of all, run memtest86 preferably for a long time to determine if your system is stable. If memtest86 detects problems, there's no sense in continuing your efforts with Windows 9x until the errors (e.g. faulty RAM, wrong timings, faulty PSU) are fixed. Here are some basic rules for Win9x: * …

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Re: WTB: Midi boards

Posted on 2009-07-24, 11:17

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by ChrisR3tro

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why don't you try the card with Tyrian, then we'll see about compatibility... Honking might be the only thing that comes out of the card then. ;)

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Re: Look voodoo card I won!

Posted on 2009-07-18, 01:32

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by ChrisR3tro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello again @batracio: No, this isn't my card. I didn't get mine from eBay, but I managed to get one for 25 EUR (that would be around 35 USD) Anyway, I have done a little testing: Test system: PIII-S 1.4 ghz, the 512 kb L2 cache version ASUS TUSL2-C (Intel 815EP chipset), latest beta BIOS 1014 …

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Re: Look voodoo card I won!

Posted on 2009-07-10, 13:08

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by ChrisR3tro

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have also acquired a V5 5500 PCI now and I will benchmark it to compare it to the AGP version once it arrives.

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Re: Look voodoo card I won!

Posted on 2009-06-27, 13:39

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by ChrisR3tro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi Marvin! Usually AGP versions of that card are priced around that. I still have mine, which I bought when it came out (for a little fortune back then :). The PCI version is usually harder to find and more expensive. I wonder if there is a big performance difference between the PCI and AGP versions …

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Finally, mute bug resolved

Posted on 2009-04-14, 19:23

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by ChrisR3tro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello guys, forgive me if I don't read through the whole thread, but I just wanted to let you know that we finally have found a solution to the EWS64XL mute bug. Details follow. I recently bought an EWS64XL from eBay and eventually ran into the mute bug myself. To remind everyone of the symptoms: …

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