Re: Did any of you play the original Galaxian in the arcade?

Posted on 2018-10-15, 05:10

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GoblinUpTheRoad wrote: No, that's not normal. Movement was totally unimpeded from the firing. Agreed. I played the original in the early 80s (both licensed and bootleg cabinets) and your ship could move while pressing the firing button. The Tiny Arcade version is not doing it right.

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Re: Bad movies and horrible films

Posted on 2018-10-15, 03:49

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Here's some of the film trash I've seen: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) The Giant Gila Monster (1959) Monster a Go-Go (1965) The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1959) Village of the Giants (1965) The Creeping Terror (1964) Laserblast (1978) Revenge of the Creature (1955) They're sci-fi/horror …

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Re: GUS Soj RAM upgrade

Posted on 2018-10-14, 17:12

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That's a worthwhile upgrade that will allow you to get the most out of the GUS MAX :cool: Back in May 1996 I upgraded my GUS ACE from 512k to 1mb. When I received the package in the mail, a small piece of paper was included with instructions on how to install the SOJ ram; these were very useful to …

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Re: Descent 2 3DFX requirement - sorcery???

Posted on 2018-09-24, 05:04

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Well, I can tell you what I did to get Descent 2 3dfx working in my S370 gaming build - Asus CULS2-C board, Pentium 3 1GHz CPU, 512mb PC133 ram, Nvidia GF3 Ti200 64mb AGP video, 3dfx Voodoo2 1000 12mb SLI, Yamaha YMF724 PCI sound, Enermax 300 watt PSU, Windows 98 SE. D2_3dfx8 and latest 3dfx drivers …

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Re: REVEAL SC500 Rev 3 card, worth getting? UPDATE: Got it but looking for drivers.

Posted on 2018-09-24, 01:21

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Alright then, here's the download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p669xv0skwwcbs6/Rev … 0_Rev3.zip?dl=0 The ZIP file has 4 disk images and 2 readme files. If anyone wants to upload them to Vogons Drivers, feel free to do so.

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Re: REVEAL SC500 Rev 3 card, worth getting? UPDATE: Got it but looking for drivers.

Posted on 2018-09-23, 17:28

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Never owned one before, but the name sounds familiar. I looked through my floppy boxes and found these: http://i.imgur.com/mesiuFkh.png I made images of all 4 floppies a while back and can post a Dropbox download link if you want them :happy: Unfortunately I don't have any prior experience with …

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Re: Windows 95 is 23 years old

Posted on 2018-08-27, 02:53

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I'll just link to my 8/2015 comment, when Windows 95 turned 20: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=44610#p441633 I will add that, while Windows 95 is not my all-time favorite OS (MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 98 SE share that honor), it was an important step in the evolution of personal computers …

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Re: What retro hardware you killed today or in the past :( RIP.

Posted on 2018-08-24, 17:44

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My Abit KT7A/AMD Athlon XP 2000+ PC burned itself out in November 2011 after almost 10 years of continuous use. Powered it up one morning, went to make breakfast, then came back 15 minutes later to find the PC off, a cloud of wispy white smoke, and the unmistakable smell of barbecued electronics. …

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Re: EMM386 NOEMS Vs EMM386

Posted on 2018-08-20, 02:54

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound - No MIDI synth playback in Win98

Posted on 2018-08-05, 16:18

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Wow... with the legacy mplayer.exe it works! Thank you very much for this insight, never would've guessed that such a basic app could be the culprit. Back in the day I also owned an ACE (and being young and careless, eventually traded it for a Wave Blaster I...), but I do not remember issues like …

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound - No MIDI synth playback in Win98

Posted on 2018-08-03, 05:36

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Thanks for the suggestion. I did have the ULTRASND.INI file only in the \ULTRASND folder and it is over 5kb. Copying it to \ULTRASND\WINDOWS did not help though, there is still no music playing and no patches loaded. I am using the plain stock Windows Media Player. So I'm kind of stuck again. :( …

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound - No MIDI synth playback in Win98

Posted on 2018-08-02, 17:38

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Hi Everyone, I have recently acquired a GUS Classic for my DOS/Win98SE rig where it now coexists with an AWE32. Configuration seemed issue-free and in DOS both cards work perfectly fine. In Win98 however, the Ultrasound fails to play MIDI files as the Patch Manager shows no GUS Patches loaded …

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Re: How do you manage budget in buy these vintage stuffs?

Posted on 2018-07-30, 01:51

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For me it was good old fashioned pen, paper, and planning ahead - lots of planning ahead. This allowed me to get vintage PC hardware/software at reasonable prices. It also helped that I started doing this in the early 2000s, when local yard sales and swap meets were filled with dirt cheap "outdated" …

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Re: Matrox Millenium 2 connectors?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 02:15

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I have a Matrox Millenium 2 4MB PCI Card with a Rainbow Runner Add-on Card fitted, but there also looks to be three other interfaces to plug stuff in, I have this to fit in a J530BF with AMD K6-2 550MHz and 768MB of PC133, and a Creative Sound Blaster PCI128 What other stuff used to plug in the …

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Re: bad EGA on modern cards?

Posted on 2018-07-16, 15:38

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that's sad, I hate it every time modern computers lose some capability that old computers could do and it costs nothing and is not that hard to just keep it working. It's the price of 'progress'. Sad but true :-| that "pea soup green" tint is everywhere surely you mean "ski free dog pee is …

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Re: bad EGA on modern cards?

Posted on 2018-07-15, 18:08

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is it a well known "feature" that modern cards have a poor EGA support?. That's pretty much it. CGA/EGA looks terrible on recent video cards - that "pea soup green" tint is everywhere and nothing can be done about it. http://i.imgur.com/w5tZmNbh.png Commander Keen 4 on my GeForce GT640 http://i. …

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Re: Name your machines

Posted on 2018-07-15, 16:19

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I pick any name that comes to mind, nothing special or particular. FREEBIRD - S7 Pentium 166MMX/Win95A/DOS 6.2 PC, taken from Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1973 debut album (yes, I like this song a lot :blush: ) ICENI - S370 Pentium 3 1000EB/Win98SE PC, an iron-age Celtic Briton tribe from England (and a true …

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Re: Soundblaster Pro2 (CT1600) Drivers Needed

Posted on 2018-07-09, 02:22

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Windows 98 SE already has drivers for the SBPRO2 CT1600; all you have to do is run the Add New Hardware Wizard icon in Control Panel (SBPRO2 is not a plug and play card). Just make sure the card jumpers are set at defaults (port 220, irq 5, dma 1).

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Re: Whats more important? The game or the hardware?

Posted on 2018-06-22, 17:01

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For me it's both. Original hardware makes a classic game very desirable to play, even with patches to make it look and play great in current PCs (Unreal is a good example the OP mentioned). And while emulation is a viable option to consider, it will never equal real period hardware IMHO (even if …

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Re: How much $ did you spend in Steam?

Posted on 2018-06-22, 16:16

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ZERO. ZILCH. NADA. I refuse to do business with online entities that force me to install a client with DRM, no matter how good the prices are, how unique or desirable the content is, or how benign and fair they claim to be :angry: . This is why I fully support GOG and their business model - no …

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