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Re: Preservation of historical ftp site content

Posted on 2013-11-27, 21:33

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If there were only someone to grab all the goodies from mbnet.fi... they seem to have the more obscure stuff. I've heard about the extent of their collection (and IIRC at some point - around 2010 I guess - one could even browse it without having an account, albeit not download anything; I think …

Re: Preservation of historical ftp site content

Posted on 2013-11-27, 19:19

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Kahenraz wrote: I've got some new drives on the way I nabbed from an early Black Friday deal, replacing all of my 1.5TB backup drives to 3TB, so I'm planning to have a fair amount of free space shortly. I'll definitely try to mirror all of the sites you listed if I can. That would be wonderful, …

Re: Steam Machine (Valve's first console)

Posted on 2013-11-27, 19:17

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Well, it's not like Valve is going to go out of business soon because of that anyway, is it? I think one could even make these figures widely known just to show that if their games are wanted so badly that some people are willing to pirate them then those games must really be worth something.

Re: Preservation of historical ftp site content

Posted on 2013-11-27, 18:47

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Of course, the problem is, what do you do with these backups once you've made them? Make backups of backups. No, seriously. And of course it would be nice if there was someone to host mirrors of said ftps. In fact, archive.org has this kind of archiving actually, within the FTP Site Boneyard …

Re: Steam Machine (Valve's first console)

Posted on 2013-11-27, 16:49

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The excuse for starting it in the first place has worn thin, as any security measure can be circumvented if you have the game files stored locally. Nevertheless the concept of buying and immediately playing video games online proved to be very productive. Maybe Steam did start as a brand-new DRM …

Preservation of historical ftp site content

Posted on 2013-11-27, 16:15

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Some time ago I checked gamers.org but it was down (both http and ftp). I thought it was undergoing maintenance and when I checked back later it was working again. However, now it's down again, and already for several days if not more. I was thinking, maybe it's time to start archiving those ftp …

Re: Steam Machine (Valve's first console)

Posted on 2013-11-26, 21:29

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I don't want one of these things but I'm interested to see where Valve go with it That. If there's a market for those things, why not. I'm pretty certain many people why buy a regular PC might very well not need all the extra stuff they get with it if they want to focus on gaming, and vice versa, …

Re: Will there ever be a practical WindowsBox program?

Posted on 2013-11-10, 23:02

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Well Windows 3.x is freely available to all on the internets. It's just not legal. Yeah but this is not what I meant when I said "freely available to all, as it is with DOSBox for DOS software". It's obvious that every piece of software can be pirated, however this has absolutely nothing to do with …

Re: Will there ever be a practical WindowsBox program?

Posted on 2013-11-09, 14:48

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(there are, after all, games that had been released both on DOS and Windows in the 90s). I can't think of very many of them, aside from SimCity and SimCity 2000. And in such cases the Windows port was clearly substantially different from the DOS port. Heroes of Might and Magic and Heroes of Might …

Re: Will there ever be a practical WindowsBox program?

Posted on 2013-11-08, 22:36

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The issue of running Win16 games without a copy of Win3.1 has incited some discussion at RGB Classic Games Forum , and it occurred to me that compatibility issues could be solved if Win16 games were backported to DOS (provided that source code is available). However, I have absolutely no idea if …

Re: Duke Nukem games

Posted on 2013-11-01, 22:56

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jwt27 wrote: Oh and I tried that DNF mod last week... And I can say it's pretty good so far! Much better than what I've seen of the official game. The Duke3D mapping/modding community is fantastic, they do a lot of excellent stuff.

Re: Will there ever be a practical WindowsBox program?

Posted on 2013-11-01, 22:54

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No one was suggesting that DOSBox change its goals, but a fork or a new project based on DOSBox and WINE would be fantastic. Silliness of Win 8.1 aside, all that "WinBox" would have to cover is the Win3x to Win9x era. For anything later you can play around with compatibility settings or patches. …

Re: Will there ever be a practical WindowsBox program?

Posted on 2013-11-01, 12:46

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Win3x installed in DOSBox is no solution because personally I don't have a copy of Win3x and I have no idea where to get one even if I wanted to. ...Google? Yes, of course that is not particularly legal This is not an acceptable method for me, if MS haven't bothered to release their old OS for free …

Re: Duke Nukem games

Posted on 2013-11-01, 12:08

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I guess I'll never understand this hype around true 3D back then, or any hype around new features in video game graphics for that matter. It all seems to be done to promote new hardware, and also results in "eww, this is not 3D" reactions from some people (critics included as it turns out). It seems …

Re: Will there ever be a practical WindowsBox program?

Posted on 2013-11-01, 11:57

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Unfortunately, Danoon is the only one that is looking into it that I know of. This is really a weird thing - I mean, Windows support doesn't have to be included in the vanilla builds, but an SVN build with this functionality would be welcome by most parties that are interested in running Windows …

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