Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox
Posted on 2020-02-10, 20:17
I feel like some sort of anachronistic dinosaur because I find DosBOX perfectly user friendly even when I first started using it back in the 0.63 days. I read the manual, of course.
Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox
Posted on 2020-02-08, 17:57
Most of the problems I apparently run into with DosBOX under Linux is due to me not using a i686 compile versus a x86_64 compile. I guess some of the code misbehaves really badly when compiled as 64-bit rather than 32-bit. That's probably not the case anymore but I never gotten around to pulling …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2020-02-08, 17:36
I think there's a few FS2Open games/mods that try to go all "Newtonian Physics" simulation rather than the "arcadey WW2 dogfight sim" physics, if you're curious to see how that holds up in today's gaming. ... also good lord the FMV quality is horrendous, what were they using for cameras!?
Re: Style problems/bugs
Posted on 2020-02-06, 13:59
Well, it's not just the display drivers colour management you have to worry about it's also the monitor itself. For example, with the ASUS VS228 monitor I use I have to explicitly go into the picture settings menu and set things to "sRGB", I can't just enforce a "sRGB Colour Profile" on the software …
Re: Style problems/bugs
Posted on 2020-02-06, 12:52
I'd have to ask if you're able to set your laptop display to a properly "sRGB" calibration, same goes for every other monitor that you own. The laptop looks like it's colour temperature is biased towards the "cool spectrum", which for some strange reason some monitors default to doing that.
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2020-02-05, 01:56
Imagine making custom maps for Operation: Body Count.....
Re: HDD with high load/unload cycle count... should I recycle it?
Posted on 2020-02-03, 09:47
I've had a drive that completely failed when trying to power on even though it had been running just fine for several years and nothing in S.M.A.R.T. would hint at a major mechanical fault about to happen. So if you're getting hangs and it's not the result of the filesystem driver, you really should …
Re: Lithtech game performance
Posted on 2020-02-02, 14:01
Has anyone tested playing the games with the dynamic lighting turned completely off? Because dgvoodoo2's notes mentions that causing a massive hitch. I kinda wish WineD3D worked more like dgvoodoo2 for these old "16-bit only" games because I'm getting really tired of the poor performance and ugly …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2020-02-02, 06:44
I recall someone, I think it was John Romero, mention that the maps in Wolf3D were originally made using the same tile editor used normally to make Commander Keen levels. I guess that makes sense because, like you said in the video, it's a grid of tiles.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-01-30, 00:40
Splinter wrote on 2020-01-29, 22:29: Unreal with D3D9 textures. This takes me back. https://i.imgur.com/TvGfMFg.jpg […] Show full quote Unreal with D3D9 textures. This takes me back. Heh, I still need to finish up working on the things for my Unreal server. I don't think most of the stuff will work …
Re: What are your favorite in-game soundtracks (arcade, PC, NES)?
Posted on 2020-01-29, 15:39
I don't really *have* any favourites. But I tend to listen to things from obscure or otherwise terrible games: Island Peril H20 Forbidden Forest 3 Dark Vengeance Severance: Blade of Darkness Though, alot of what I listen to isn't really from games but rather from the demoscene. Some of it ends up …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-01-27, 13:10
I'm taking time to enjoy more of the RPG mod for Starsiege: Tribes. I'll just leave this screenshot with absolutely no context. Filename Screenshot_2020-01-27_06-45-24.jpg File size 102.13 KiB Views 101 views
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-01-23, 06:51
leileilol wrote on 2020-01-23, 02:55: Bloodstained it's very fun and i love it Man, I hope you found the "Voice Changer" item in that. It makes the cutscene dialogue fantastic.
Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS
Posted on 2020-01-20, 15:40
a website overloading the default system mouse cursor strikes me as a feature on par with background MIDI and spinning wordart gifs but tbh I didn't even notice it until people got all fired up about it, so I don't actually care I personally don't care either, but I can understand how it would make …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2020-01-19, 17:10
Well don't "Pinned comments" always show on top regardless of the option? I never did look into that either but I figured if something is pinned it doesn't matter what the option is set to, it'll always be bumped to the top. There probably is a userscript people can use to automatically set the …
Re: Problematic games list
Posted on 2020-01-19, 13:40
Shogo: MAD and Blood 2 barely function properly even under Wine. But stability with those games can be achieved using a "undocumented" console command (I think it was like "max_fps" or "maxfps") to internally limit the execution rate to 60 FPS, and only using the "default" sound system. Even on …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2020-01-18, 19:19
The comment's in there. You may just have to switch out of "Top Comments" to "Newest First" as only showing the top comments will truncate the list. :P Just a slight suggestion, but Youtube does provide the option to default the viewing of comments from "Top Comments" to "Newest First" and I highly …
Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS
Posted on 2020-01-15, 12:50
Isn't there a option somewhere in whatever browser to forbid sites from replacing the cursor?
Re: A TNT2 32MB is apparently better than a 16MB Voodoo 3 3000?
Posted on 2020-01-13, 08:22
Didn't you need a TNT2 to even properly use the D3DDrv in Unreal 1 at the time? Or was it some other card I'm thinking of? While I understand when it comes to renderer subsystems, GlideDrv was the only absolutely superb choice for Unreal 1, but SoftDrv can run in 32-bit colour mode if your video …
Re: Spam, spam, spam
Posted on 2019-12-30, 07:32
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