Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-08-11, 17:10

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Whatever. It's free. Quit complaining. The complaint wasn't about the game. It was about Formula 1. My apologies. His posts can tend to be on the negative/critical/complainy side and I've been noticing that about them fairly regularly lately. This time, rather than letting it roll off my back, I …

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Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?

Posted on 2020-08-11, 01:46

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Links386 Pro, Ultima VII, Underworld I and II. I guess LinksLS would run on a 486 with very slow screen drawing and it was one of the most amazing graphical experiences ever in DOS.

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-08-10, 23:01

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F1 2018 free to keep on Humble Store (2 days left, or until the Steam keys run out): https://www.humblebundle.com/store/f1-2018-free-game Thanks, fortunately they still had keys so I grabbed it. Unfortunately I absolutely hate the way F1 cars look since 2018 so even looking at the screenshots made …

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Re: Old hard disks lifetime?

Posted on 2020-08-09, 22:01

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I think the "expected" lifespan of a hard drive is only a few years, so it's amazing to me any of these old hard drives still work after 20 or 30 years. Typically it's 50,000 POH or more, which equates to 5+ years of 24/7 use. I have a 6.4GB Fireball CR that has 6623 POH and so far it's been …

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Re: Old hard disk lifetime?

Posted on 2020-08-09, 17:35

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POH is a good indicator, but not the only factor. A good way to keep old disks healthy is to read from/write to each sector on some regular schedule. That will "refresh" the sectors and keep what some people call "bit rot" from setting in. There are various ways of doing this, some destructive, some …

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-08-09, 10:13

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F1 2018 free to keep on Humble Store (2 days left, or until the Steam keys run out): https://www.humblebundle.com/store/f1-2018-free-game Nice one. My son and I each snagged this yesterday and he was playing it for the rest of the day. I mainly ran the built-in benchmark. :) I was pleased my i5- …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-08-09, 09:56

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I'm getting to the home stretch of Wizardry 8. I got the Destinae Dominus, am tying up a few loose ends in Arnika, then headed to the Rapax Rift and Ascension Peak to finish up this puppy. I'm 110 hours in and am guessing I'll need another 20 hours or so. My opinion is unchanged: This is one of the …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-07-21, 17:01

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Although, I never finished the game because I grew bored as I do with most massive open world games (they become grindy) so maybe I'm wrong and some are like this in the game. That's always been my problem with the Elder Scrolls games too. They just seem too open-ended to ever have a finish line in …

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2020-07-19, 18:00

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In most productivity workloads, the performance is more than double (video encoding, code compiling, 3D rendering). I can even see a noticeable improvement in the poorly optimized Adobe Photoshop. Mind you, these are all things that I do on a daily basis (some as part of my daily work, others for …

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2020-07-19, 16:21

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@bloodem - how do you justify the upgrade from the i5-7600K to Ryzen 5 3600X? At least here, they look to perform very similarly: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-C … 600X/3885vs4041 What do you do that takes advantage of the extra cores and threads?

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-07-19, 10:21

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liqmat wrote on 2020-07-17, 16:12: Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War @ GOG for the next 48 hours. Great, another free game I'll never play to clutter up my GOG library. 😉

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2020-07-19, 10:19

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I agree and will add that the last few generations of top of the line GPUs have been both much too expensive compared to the slightly lower end one the scale and, IMHO, thermally unmanageable . A TDP of 250 watts is too extreme for my taste and, if rumours are true, the next generation from Nvidia …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-07-19, 10:01

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Wizardry 8 started to get really good after I picked up RFS-81 (an android monk RPC). Our party found him broken down, repaired him, and now he considers us his leader and will even attack other Dark Savant androids. I'm playing both sides in the war between the T'rang and Umpani, seeing how far I …

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2020-07-17, 23:16

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gex85 wrote on 2020-07-17, 11:20: I was never willing to spend the extra money to have the latest and greatest CPUs... +1. There's so much better value out there. Often you get 90% of the performance at 10% of the price, especially when you factor in a powerful GPU and are primarily gaming.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 23:14

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I think I have it in my GOG library. This sentence right here. It's an overflowing dumpster cornucopia. I see something cool for cheap and it goes into my GOG library. I don't even think I have enough years left in my life to play what's in my GOG library. I have a GOG hoarding problem. Fellow …

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2020-07-17, 09:46

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In that case, I'll update too: 1990: 386sx/20 2000: P3 650 2010: C2D E4300 (overclocked to 2.4Ghz) 2020: i5-4590

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 09:35

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One reason I do like mapping by hand is that it helps to take away the sting of losing progress in the game in between saves when you die—even if you lose your progress, you've still made progress in drawing your maps. I totally get that. I used to do the same in my graph paper days as a teen. I'd …

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Re: Why do look old PC games so low-res?

Posted on 2020-07-12, 09:41

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I can't imagine an Atari 2600 version of a game ever being the better looking version. Graphically, my Intellivision was world's better than my friend's 2600.

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Re: Seeking for Chessmaster 3000 3.5 floppy disks images

Posted on 2020-07-10, 21:13

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syhlif32 wrote on 2020-07-10, 20:31: What is poor form about that? Maybe let the OP decide if it is poor form . As darry said, linking to abandonware is against the forum's terms of use, that is what I meant by poor form.

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

Posted on 2020-07-10, 15:04

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replaced the 60GB SSD in my ipfire firewall with a 128GB HP S700 Pro. The 60GB (an old OCZ Vertex 3) still has plenty of life left in it, so I'll convert it into the boot drive of my Ubuntu Server file server. You'll laugh: the current boot drive in that Core2Quad system is a 74GB Western Digital …

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