Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on Today, 08:20

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by Cyberdyne

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Well yes, UPX is not so optimal to use on a program that you want to run on a low end 486 or a 386. Better not pack the exe and let the users choose the packer if they want to pack. APACK is a fast one for example.

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Re: Great soundcard audio!

Posted on Today, 05:12

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by Cyberdyne

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Well yes, I even play original MT-32 and different versions of Monkey Island 1 title music in my car, also DooM music, one Half-Life theme and few rearranged NES/Famicom titles Power Blade, Contra, Ironsword, Batman and few more. Well I am that crazy person that even plays chiptunes in my card... …

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Re: Changing the Mouse Pointer in Windows 3.0???

Posted on Yesterday, 12:08

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by Cyberdyne

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Borland Delphi 1.0 Resource Manager works just as well, I like it better, clean interface and very compact. It is free and you can rip it out from Delphi, I only use this for hacking Windows 3.x files.

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Re: Hot EMU8000

Posted on 2021-04-08, 05:59

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by Cyberdyne

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well these little faulty/little hot chips may be ok for years to come, and they may die tomorrow. I have first had experience. even chips that should be cool as a cucumber.

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Re: Best sound/music option for DooM?

Posted on 2021-04-08, 05:44

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by Cyberdyne

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GUS version has its moments. And Adlib/SB music brings the best nostalgia and is pretty good. Nobody had a SC-55 back in the day, that we started to play DooM.

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Re: vintage budget cards instead of 'good' cards

Posted on 2021-04-07, 11:26

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by Cyberdyne

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I always use newer generation low end cards, they take less electricity, and are more silent(no vent) and reliable(no heat). By the way FX5200 and FX5500 are the best retro pre DX9 all arounder cards. And Geforce 2/4 based MX cards are also good ones.

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Re: Did you create maps for games?

Posted on 2021-04-06, 05:56

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Lots of maps for Wolfenstein 3D. Even some TC-s. Some maps for Warcraft 2. Tried some mapping with DooM, but in my times, the tools were not very intuitive or realtime, and it was a chore, so I quit. Now i have made some Duke Nukem 1 maps, just for fun. That's about it, if Quake and Unreal came …

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-05, 05:54

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by Cyberdyne

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Golden era of internet was the time where the internet had only porn and dancing hamsters, still no popup, and you downloaded music from Napster. Golden era of easy functional operating system was late Windows XP. But the golden era of computers in general is so personal. Someone says that its the …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2021-03-01, 13:03

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by Cyberdyne

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I am a DOS nut, so need to have many 486-P3 ISA based machines in storage. And multitude of S3 and Cirrus and Nvidia based video cards. And many sound cards. Just need. but well if someone will buy my Voodoos and Gravises for good money ... I have no real objection for that 😁

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2021-03-01, 12:41

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by Cyberdyne

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If thing go any further, we will be playing DooM on a IBM PC/XT soon 😁

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Re: Video Card prices

Posted on 2021-03-01, 12:37

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by Cyberdyne

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Well if you ban it globally. You have no way to convert it to normal currency of your country, and it will stay a means to only make illegal transactions for illegal goods or activities. Yeah cocaine is nice and expensive (not in South-America), but you can not go to any store and buy bread with it …

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Re: Keyboard Suggestion?

Posted on 2021-02-23, 06:54

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by Cyberdyne

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Cherry G80-3000 series still has PS/2 functionality with a passive adapter. Good quality, timeless look, different versions of switches. And you can get them in beige. PS. I have many membrane keyboards, and some of they are totally good! Keytronic, IBM(Membrane) and Dell are usually good examples. …

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Re: Project: Mini functional Windows 3.1 standard mode/ svga 256 color/ 32bit fat.

Posted on 2021-02-22, 20:16

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by Cyberdyne

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In the cozy place of your eastern europe home, you can do "allmost" anything. 😉

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Re: What made you join VOGONS?

Posted on 2021-02-22, 13:22

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by Cyberdyne

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I just googled stuff and information for my hobby, not Very Old Games On Newer Systems, but computers that can run DOS with compatible sound. Dos games, old programs. Old operating systems. And many times the answer was in VOGONS, so one day I just registered. Maybe I needed to download something …

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Re: Project: Mini functional Windows 3.1 standard mode/ svga 256 color/ 32bit fat.

Posted on 2021-02-22, 10:03

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by Cyberdyne

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Not really, a bit of nostalgia, it boots from a 486/Pentium as from a 286 with a hard drive. But after it loads, it works just fine. And Windows 3.x programs are so small, that it takes just few second to load a program. Well we saw first Word and Excel for Windows 2.xx to be source released. And MS …

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Re: Worst LucasArts/Sierra adventure game

Posted on 2021-02-19, 13:12

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by Cyberdyne

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I was little bit disappointed with Full Throttle, and I am a biker myself. But maybe it was the expectations, that I would love the game. Sam n Max Hit the Road is my favorite.

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Re: *The big list of 8086 real-mode Windows 3.0 compatible software - please contribute*

Posted on 2021-02-19, 07:33

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by Cyberdyne

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I just wanted to start an experiment to make a hybrid Windows 2.11 / Windows 3.0. Make it look and feel like Windows 2.11. Because the windows button images and many visual resources are inside the video drivers.

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2021-02-18, 18:28

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by Cyberdyne

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Hope there will be a final pruduct "budget" option without the display, only the interface for connecting the compute module to your waveblaster header.

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Re: Which operating systems work on i586?

Posted on 2021-02-18, 10:11

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by Cyberdyne

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MS-DOS 5.0 3.3x work. I have used them in many fast machines. Few times tried 4.01. Temple OS needs a 64bit cpu. OS/2 1.3 2.11 Warp all have been used and tested. Beos 5 woks and I have been using.

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Re: Project: Mini functional Windows 3.1 standard mode/ svga 256 color/ 32bit fat.

Posted on 2021-02-18, 06:25

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by Cyberdyne

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I use LZ-DOS all the time and it works perfectly as a replacement. I have not totally reverse engineer it, but I made a little "change to it" from this instruction. """"Now, clip everything up to 0x205 in IO.SYS, since "mov si, 0205h" refers there. Clip everything after ~04FFh bytes. You should now …

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