Re: With all due respect this is the worse software i ever had
Posted on 2015-05-24, 09:01
Wow, amazing. I don't think I have ever seen such a combination of ignorance, rudeness, rule-breaking and stupidity in a newbie forum poster, ever. 😀
Re: Keyboard issue when playing Sopwith
Posted on 2015-05-22, 17:54
How many keys(and which ones) are you pressing at the same time to shoot while turning? Some keyboard start choking already at certain 3-key combinations.
Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance
Posted on 2015-05-22, 06:20
Lo Wang , You make some valid points, and I agree with them, in part. For a Pentium4, I would probably not go beyond XP myself. Then again, if I care about performance in general, I will not use a Pentium4 as my primary machine. It would feel a bit strange to talk about performance advantages of a …
Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance
Posted on 2015-05-21, 15:02
Its easy to see how much faster Windows 6.X is compared to the old bloated slow Windows XP, just check the 3dmark 2001 thread and the Doom 3 thread... wait a min... :P What about some more modern benchmarks (those that still run on XP)? With these things, tweaks may make a lot of difference, and …
Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance
Posted on 2015-05-21, 09:33
My point is that if one goes to apply tweaks to minimize footprint / increase responsiveness and what not, one will find that there are tweaks to apply to NT6 OSes as well, and that at the end, the result will be very similar. Vista was the worst among those OSes in terms of responsiveness, simply …
Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance
Posted on 2015-05-21, 07:52
Functionality in a general sense, does absolutely noting for me if the system's bloated and unresponsive I'd say that to me it's pretty much the opposite. Who cares that it's "blazing fast" if it can't do things I need it to do? Besides, a lot of the myths about newer NT6-based Windows being " …
Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance
Posted on 2015-05-20, 20:02
And if still sucks. I don't care if it's 50% faster. The ui is a disaster As I said: Oh, and if you don't like the Windows 8 UI - installing Classic Shell takes care of most of the trouble, and you can pretty much have something that looks like Vista/Win7, with a few nice improvements. A well …
Re: Installing Windows 3.1 from floppy disks
Posted on 2015-05-19, 19:31
This is the standard message you get when running a Win32 executable in DOS. Try running the executables in Windows. Put one in a test directory, launch it and see what happens.
Re: Best Doom ports for dos
Posted on 2015-05-19, 19:27
Re: Best Doom ports for dos
Posted on 2015-05-19, 17:08
That is not just an issue with this port I worked on, but with all of them. No one ever recreated the Mode-X code that is used in the original DOS releases. The source for that part was never released, and proper Mode-X support requires a lot of messy code and 'planar' image buffering. By then …
Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance
Posted on 2015-05-18, 19:28
Well, with 3 generations of OSes between them, they better. But of course one can't take it for granted, given how most applications actually tend to get more bloated and slow with every new version, due to the "hardware gets faster so who cares" notion. So, kudos to Microsoft here. :) Oh, and if …
Re: classic car racing games
Posted on 2015-05-15, 17:43
Crappy webpage design aside (come on, blue text on black?!), I liked the analysis of NFS and NFS2 (didn't play the other games in his list, except briefly NFS3). I also often felt that too much focus on realism made the original NFS less fun than it could be (or that NFS2 was).
Re: Run Windows in Dosbox?
Posted on 2015-05-13, 13:39
Also this (for Win3.x): http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=9405 Whereas it is said that Win9x stability is not ideal, I have had no problems running Win3.11 in DOSBox MegaBuild, and on WinXP even with working parallel port passthrough (using AllowIO). I needed it to run a Win3.x-specific …
Re: Bizarre Issue With Tyrian and Jazz Jackrabbit On My DOS Machine
Posted on 2015-05-10, 21:01
Snayperskaya wrote: Tried with "RAM" but CTCM seems to not be in the best terms if it, freezing the whole thing. Interesting. I haven't had problems with EMM386 RAM and CTCM. I use EMM386.EXE RAM I=B400-B7FF I=CA00-CBFF AUTO. I bet it depends on specific hardware configurations.
Re: SS7 cpu choice.
Posted on 2015-05-10, 06:51
Come to think about, it (Super) Socket 7 is an amazing thing. A relic of an old era in computing, before CPU technology diverged so much that it could not physically stay compatible. Can you imagine today being able to run CPUs from Intel, AMD, Cyrix, and a few obscure ones - all in the same board? …
Re: Bizarre Issue With Tyrian and Jazz Jackrabbit On My DOS Machine
Posted on 2015-05-10, 06:43
I know this is a old topic, but since I've been surprised by the same problem on one of my old machines I investigated it and found out that Tyrian/Tyrian 2000 seems to have this behavior when you hame EMM386 with NOEMS in your config.sys. Interesting and thank you for sharing. :) No less …
Re: SS7 cpu choice.
Posted on 2015-05-10, 06:21
I have a similar setup with a Super Socket 7 board. The CPU it came with is a K6-2, which may originally have been rated 450MHz or 475MHz, but it runs at 100*5=500MHz rock solid at the stock 2.2V voltage. It wouldn't do 550MHz at 2.2V (it would POST fine, but most of the time lock up in the middle …
Re: XP Rig ahead!
Posted on 2015-05-09, 14:03
I'd say that would be because of the HDD's RPMs,but it also depends on RAM and CPU. No, it wouldn't. Not in that particular example, at least. RAM has nothing to do with it, unless you have so little of it that you are already running out before the OS finished booting. CPU speed and hard drive RPM …
Re: XP Rig ahead!
Posted on 2015-05-09, 05:51
Well, it may run smooth enough (depending on the tasks it performs), but boot time is one of the worst benchmarks for performance. It depends very little on raw PC performance, and much more on your exact configuration, and what HW/SW you have installed ,including things that interact with other …
Re: Would anyone like to see a lapped P4?
Posted on 2015-05-07, 04:22
It is funny how the first result when you google "CPU lapping" is this article . The article is great when it comes to detail and clarity of explanation, and in the end presents a meager 2.5C difference in temperatures. :P I bet the guy was quite disappointed with the results. Of course he tries to …
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