Re: What was the last commercial game released that supported Windows 98 SE?
Posted on 2014-08-27, 09:49
Is the main bottleneck the CPU or the video card? You probably won't notice the weak CPU if it's matched with an OP card.
Re: Vintage hardware lovers - do you really love vintage hardware or simply pragmatism?
Posted on 2014-08-25, 11:32
I wonder how many people fried their motherboards because of that nasty piece of design.
Re: Taping specs and history to the inside of the computer case.
Posted on 2014-08-25, 11:22
If you're working with lots of computers and components a log is highly recommended. Put it in a physical binder, or some sort of computer database. (I use the old Palm PDA software for this.)
Re: Vintage hardware lovers - do you really love vintage hardware or simply pragmatism?
Posted on 2014-08-25, 10:07
Re: Identify two old games
Posted on 2014-08-22, 06:04
No Lightspeed seems to be a Star Raiders type space shoot-em-up. I've had a look at the two Outposts and they don't look familiar either. It wasn't an RTS game and graphics were 2D and basic. What I'll probably have to do is try and track down the magazine that the game came on.
Re: Does this look like a murder weapon?
Posted on 2014-08-21, 11:58
Holering wrote: Does this look like a murder weapon? If it's heavy enough, sure. You could whack someone over the head with it. A high-tech pool-ball-in-a-sock. But for fights in server-rooms rather than back alleys.
Re: Bandwidth's dream machine (RIMM i840 i850E)
Posted on 2014-08-21, 08:40
I had a TH7II P4 box for 8 years until it croaked in 2009 (cap failure). I remember I sold the 2 gigs of RDRAM for large amount of money to some guy in Australia.
Re: Identify two old games
Posted on 2014-08-21, 01:39
Such a ship apparently exists in the Star Trek universe, so there are probably lots of games that reference it, and a large number of similar games like this were produced in the 1990s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_4X_video_games I don't think it's any of those, though. This was an …
Re: Anyone have bad luck with Linux?
Posted on 2014-08-20, 21:23
Re: Identify two old games
Posted on 2014-08-20, 21:07
Re: Anyone have bad luck with Linux?
Posted on 2014-08-20, 20:54
Not Linux-related but this reminds me of a jinxed joystick I got on eBay some years ago. The previous owner died and his wife was selling off all his old stuff. I went over to collect it. She didn't say what he died of, and I didn't ask. A few weeks later I got a desperate email from her (or someone …
Re: Identify two old games
Posted on 2014-08-20, 20:03
^^ I think you've nailed 7th Legion correctly. I'll need to play it to be sure but it does look familiar. Outpost 2 also features a ship called 'Conestoga' but it's not either of the games I'm thinking of. The RTS had bigger/blockier sprites I recall. The DOS game was more strategic-like than Solar …
Re: Yamaha YMF-724 DOS Sound Blaster Setup Assistance Needed
Posted on 2014-08-20, 08:36
Glad to help. Hopefully someone will find it useful. If this is the sort of thing that interests you, you might want to contact SquallStrife by PM for an account on VogonsDrivers. ;) I may have a few other rare files. Let me make a list of stuff that might be of interest. Edit: although I have a lot …
Re: Identify two old games
Posted on 2014-08-20, 03:59
No Ascendancy looks pretty sophisticated. This game OTOH was more basic. It was a magazine disk freebie. Outlive looks very similar to StarCraft. This game was different to both: it had larger sprites and faster movement
Identify two old games
Posted on 2014-08-20, 00:56
The first was a strategic DOS space exploration game from c. 1995. All I remember about it was that it featured spaceships called 'Conestogas'. Unusual name which stuck in my memory. I think it was shareware. The second is a sci-fi RTS Windows game from c. 2000. Fast action, loud continuous music, …
Re: My Pentium 4 rig (LAN and MIDI recording)
Posted on 2014-08-19, 19:09
I had a big stack of old IDE drives and didn't know what to do with them, so decided to build a system around them. I wouldn't put any vital data on this machine though, it's used only for temporary storage of uncompressed video. When I used a P4 as my main gaming machine it had first a GeForce 6200 …
Re: Vintage hardware lovers - do you really love vintage hardware or simply pragmatism?
Posted on 2014-08-19, 09:05
Interesting discussion. Part of it is money of course. I'd really like to have a Drobo B800FS but they're insanely expensive, not even including drives. Knocking together a fileserver box out of old components could be done for a fraction of the price. Not a perfect substitute but it's good enough. …
Re: Video and Sound Card Storage
Posted on 2014-08-19, 08:46
That's a good idea. My current solution to this problem isn't very good: lay as many cards flat on the shelf as will fit, drape a thick cloth over them, then lay another layer of cards on top. Repeat 2 or 3 times. This is how I store motherboards as well.
Re: Geforce 3 64MB the right choice for a slower pentium III build?
Posted on 2014-08-19, 06:27
Heat was what killed my GF3. The stock fan wore out after a couple of years but I replaced it with (IIRC) a Vantec Iceberg. However that also failed eventually, and this time I didn't power the computer down in time, so lost the card.
Re: Obscure Old Racing Game
Posted on 2014-08-19, 04:06
OT: does the forum have a dedicated 'identify this game' thread? I have several old games in mind that I've forgotten the names of.
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