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Free PS4 games! Sony are giving away ten PS4 games to help with the tedium of the Covid situation.

Posted on 2021-03-26, 13:27

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Sony are giving away ten commercial games, as a gift to people who are stuck at home during this miserable time. To download them on your PS4, go to the Playstation Store (it's at the very left, on the PS4's dashboard), then when it opens click on the 'Play at Home' page, and click on each game that …

Re: Disableing 'head bob' in DOS FPS games (DOOM, Heretic, Hexen, Blood, etc.)

Posted on 2021-02-16, 21:24

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in Marvin \ Software

Is there any medication you can get to counter motion sickness? Failing that, over the years I've read lots of posts from people who suffer from motion sickness when playing fast, first person games, and I've seen various solutions proposed, such as using a higher frame-rate, or altering the field …

Re: Serious Sam BFE

Posted on 2021-02-12, 17:22

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I was surprised to find that the Serious Sam Collectection wasn't released on PC (I have it on the XBox 360). It's not a great collection, as it has the PC version of the first game (both encounters), instead of the version for the original XBox (the XBox version is one of the very rare times when a …

Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2021-01-26, 22:27

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Timeshift , released in 2007. It's a first person shooter that should have been great, as it has a fantastic base to build upon; it's a first person shooter where you can also control time, and whilst the game has some rather low points, it also has some very good things too. Sadly, most reviews …

Re: ISS contact using a 40 years young home computer

Posted on 2021-01-26, 21:36

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The C64 was and is a great machine. It, and other great 8 bit systems still have a lot of modern users, lots of modern 'net activity, and a not inconsiderable stream of new games still being made by the fans.

Re: How to increase the view distance in The Elder Scrolls: Arena

Posted on 2021-01-18, 21:22

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in Marvin \ Software

This is really interesting, thanks.

Re: Your oldest favorite computer game?

Posted on 2021-01-10, 14:16

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My favourite oldest video game is the classic arcade game Md Do!, from 1980. Still my favourite arcade game. https://static.retrogames.cc/previews/mrdo.png For some reason, Mr Do! was one of the few arcade games that never received a decent port (official or ripoff) on the ZX Spectrum. But …

Re: Was Deus Ex rough on contemporary hardware?

Posted on 2021-01-10, 13:42

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in Marvin \ Software

I can't remember my PCs specs when I first played Deus Ex, sorry, but I do remember being really pleased at the game. One of the very few times when a game not only delivered what had been promised in the magazine previews, but actually exceeded my hopes. We're talking Half-Life, Goldeneye, Perfect …

Re: Lost games

Posted on 2020-11-01, 17:44

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The reviews were terrible. It's the only id game I've never played. According to Metacritic, the PC version averages 74 percent for critic reviews, and 7.3 out of 10 for player reviews, which hardly spells 'terrible' to me. Those might be worse reviews than the other popular Wolfenstein games, such …

Re: Lost games

Posted on 2020-11-01, 14:45

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If you can get Wolfenstein 2009 from anywhere, then you should, as it's a great game, and my favourite of all the Wolfenstein games.

Re: Does a no-steam retail version 0f Half Life 2 even exist?

Posted on 2020-10-31, 17:56

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The Xbox port of Doom 3 is also pretty impressive. Too bad some levels had to be cut down to fit in 64 MB of RAM, but the game still looks good and runs smooth. The engine has a render path tailored for the NV20 architecture; probably helps a lot. But yeah, Half-Life 2 on the Xbox is superb. The …

Re: Does a no-steam retail version 0f Half Life 2 even exist?

Posted on 2020-10-29, 17:46

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in Marvin \ Software

I kid you not, when I first got Half-Life 2 in 2005 and saw that it wanted to install some other (then unknown) internet-connected software, it was such a turn-off that I canceled the installation, put the game on a shelf, and didn't touch it again for a year. Glad I did eventually play it, though. …

Re: Any Analogue.co console users?

Posted on 2020-10-29, 16:50

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Of course, if N64 emulation becomes good enough, then I'd be happy emulating the console on my PC or laptop, but it still has problems at the moment. libretro's Mupen64next has a very fast good ParaLLEl Vulkan backend that takes in all of its dithered+smoothed+antialiased 240p glory. There were …

Re: Any Analogue.co console users?

Posted on 2020-10-17, 14:31

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

I just wish that someone would make an N64 clone with HDMI output. By far the best HDMI solution currently available for the N64 is the UltraHDMI, which stopped production a couple of years ago, and scalpers are now selling them for ridiculous prices (I saw one for almost $1,500). Lesser solutions …

Re: FICTIONAL STARSHIPS Size COMPARISON

Posted on 2020-10-17, 14:15

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[Sorry, this post turned out to be much longer than I expected (I'm at work, and bored). It's a " My favourite space-ship is the [your answer], what is yours ? " type post, please feel free to skip my fan-warblings about why I choose the TARDIS, and go straight to posting your own favourite and the …

Re: So how far can I upgrade my processor before I screw up Daggerfall?

Posted on 2020-07-09, 14:22

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mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-07-08, 21:45: Native under windows 98 and Me. Oh right. I wouldn't have thought 98 and ME would work properly on hardware that was so monumentally faster than the operating systems were written for.

Re: So how far can I upgrade my processor before I screw up Daggerfall?

Posted on 2020-07-08, 21:15

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in Marvin \ Software

I've ran Daggerfall on a 2ghz Pentium 4 NW no issues. Also on my P3 1.4S Daggerfall is DOS only, isn't it? If so, then do you mean you ran it in DOSBox, or in native DOS on your PC? If the latter, then I'm surprised that DOS games can run on modern machines natively (though I've not tried to run …

Re: How can I force a program to start without administration rights

Posted on 2020-07-08, 16:25

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Maxtherabbit , yes UAC was turned off. I tried it on all settings, but the installer still complained that it had administrator rights . Imi, I didn't have another account (I'm the only person who uses this machine), so I unlocked the guest account, but when I did as you said, the installer just …

How can I force a program to start without administration rights

Posted on 2020-07-07, 14:18

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I'm going to install the latest version of The Dark Mod (a fan-made game inspired by the Thief games - https://www.thedarkmod.com/main/ ), but when I start the installer it says: " The updater was run 'as admin'. This is strongly discouraged. Please abort installation and restart updater without …

Re: Dosbox 0.75?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 16:19

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in DOSBox General

Where can I download the faster version of DOSBox, please? There was a talk about significantly faster new SVN x64 builds. Maybe some place hosts x64 builds of recent SVN. Emucr does not, for example, despite 64-bit Windows is common today. Since the 64 bit versions are presumably not too common at …

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