Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-07-03, 22:26

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by badmojo

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I've been giving Steam's refund policy a workout lately and I gotta say it works well. Actually I haven't felt the urge to complain about Steam since the beginning with HL2 on a dialup connection - the launcher never gets in the way and the family sharing option works pretty well too. My most recent …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-07-02, 07:26

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by badmojo

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Ooh la la those burgers look good!

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Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?

Posted on 2020-06-30, 12:22

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by badmojo

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Creative Play! 3 here - nifty little USB DAC. My motherboard has decent onboard sound but this creative thing has much better software; sounds great I think.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-06-27, 04:22

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by badmojo

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Steam's having a summer sale (in winter?) so I picked up a couple of games that have been on my wishlist - Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Full Ace Tennis Sim. AcO looks interested but I was most interested in Full Ace, having mastered my other fave tennis game (Sampras Extreme on PS1). Full Ace looks …

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Re: Ocean view from the highest mountain

Posted on 2020-06-14, 11:06

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by badmojo

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Congrats on mastering the art of cryptic subject + URL, that takes dedication.

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Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on 2020-06-10, 09:06

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by badmojo

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Pop one of these on the upcoming Orpheus and that's one quality ISA sound option 👍 Nice work team!

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Re: Trying to get Pro Audio Studio to work, failing to do so...help? Also, how does one load MVSOUND.sys?

Posted on 2020-06-09, 21:21

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by badmojo

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The PAS16 is speed sensitive in my experience, and also needs a -5volt rail on your PSU. Do you have a slower machine to test it with to confirm that it works and have the right drivers? For the Studio version, and my Spectrum version for that matter, I've had the most success with these drivers: …

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Re: The Great Sound Blaster Live! Install CD Test Off

Posted on 2020-06-07, 11:52

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by badmojo

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Fun project! I've had a few run-ins with Live! drivers over the years, most recently with a NOS Live! "X-Gamer" (just a CT4760 with a sweet software package). It of course came with the driver CD and installed without incident in my Windows98 SE machine, but I still needed to install the update …

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Re: Pentium 133 DOS gamer dream machine (1995/97 ).

Posted on 2020-06-07, 11:40

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by badmojo

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appiah4 wrote on 2020-06-07, 11:29: No Cadillac sticker? I'm disappoint total. Lol, and no Apple stickers either what's with that?

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-06-05, 04:54

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by badmojo

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I've always wanted to like Blood without success - sounds like I should have done some reading first! The MIDI song in the setup program is epic, and one of the songs I always try when testing out a new sound font or MIDI device 👍

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 11:51

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by badmojo

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I've been in a right muddle with my gaming and have bought->returned 2 games on Steam in the last week. Black Mesa looked to be a fine effort but meh, if I'm going to play Half Life then it might as well be the original. And for some reason I want to like survival games despite not really liking …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 03:22

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by badmojo

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I've been trying to install VLC on my 1st gen iPad, which is basically a paperweight since Vogons was updated and doesn't look right on it anymore (Vogons was the last of my sites that still worked 😋) I want VLC on there so that I can watch MKV versions of Miami Vice season 1 on there, but getting …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-29, 10:42

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by badmojo

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Beautiful card and great project! I look forward to hearing how it goes - big fan of the WDC chipsets for DOS here.

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Re: My Dream High-End Intel 486 Build

Posted on 2020-05-27, 12:15

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by badmojo

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I go with HI and LO when I can't gets me the 'actual' MHz 😜 The MHz display is such a gimmacy load of tosh, I LOVE it!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-26, 12:19

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by badmojo

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I am curious how this card performs compared to the more popular Cirrus Logic, Tseng Labs and S3 VLB cards. I used to have a WD90C33 card in my AMD 486 DX/40 VLB system years ago and it was good! Yes I've found the WD90C33 chipset to perform about the same as the other chipsets you mentioned there …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-25, 11:50

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by badmojo

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Epic post @jheronimus! Thanks for sharing that. I came across a full length PCI VGA card once in my early retro hardware collecting days and thought to myself "wow, this is going to be awesome!" but it was the same deal - boring Windows accelerator and absolutely stank for DOS VGA games 😂

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Re: My Dream High-End Intel 486 Build

Posted on 2020-05-25, 11:34

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by badmojo

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I like my 486dx4-100 computer. Pfft waste of time. Great machine OP! The DX4 is a bit of a beast - definitely a noticeable improvement over a DX2 in DOOM which is, of course, the first game that should be installed on any retro system 😋 I've updated all my AT machines to use new Startech PSUs over …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-05-24, 22:14

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by badmojo

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@brostenen that burger looks like the sort of thing our local hipster burger joints serve - I do eat one from time-to-time but always regret it slightly afterwards. The rich cheese / lots of meat / brioche bun combo is too much after a while - my wife and I often share them 😜

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Re: PC Case supply drying up?

Posted on 2020-05-20, 09:04

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by badmojo

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-05-19, 18:25: It’s just as easy to build something of good quality as it is to build a bad design. Now I've heard everything 🤨

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-20, 05:46

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by badmojo

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I finally started cataloguing my sound cards with a spreadsheet. Decided to start with Creative ISA cards. Thirty of those and counting... I love a good hardware spreadsheet - very cathartic to put together and curate. It also allows me to put comments in like where I got it which is great; my …

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