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Re: Windows 98 games that won't run in Windows XP

Posted on Today, 01:45

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Nothing to do with the OS itself, but moving from the 9800 to the x1600 may lose support for Palleted Textures and Table Fog. I can't remember when ATI stopped supporting them, but either of these will be necessary for some early 9x games with hardware accelerated video. Anything that old I run on …

Re: Which old games would you like to see remastered version of it?

Posted on Yesterday, 20:32

in Milliways

in Milliways

I meant the original Pool of X, Y of Krynn series etc. And yes if your concern was the real-time nature, I fully agree, something like Infinity with turn-based play baked in. Really I am just saying modernized/re-mastered version of those games...the IE was just a suggestion. TBH I don't really see …

Re: Which old games would you like to see remastered version of it?

Posted on Yesterday, 20:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

Gold Box games on the Infinity Engine. Oh dear god no. Let us just reverse engineer the original FRUA engine instead and make it compatible with all the games that uses that engine. FRUA = Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures , even though other games used the same engine. And let us hope some …

Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-07, 22:16

in Windows

in Windows

I had it installed on XP Steam before the Steampocalypse, and it still works fine (offline mode).

Re: Windows 2000 20th Anniversary Client/server build

Posted on 2020-04-07, 17:36

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I have win2k on a p3 866, fx5200, game theater xp, and I really like it. A playing XIII on it the other day.

Re: Which old games would you like to see remastered version of it?

Posted on 2020-04-07, 10:17

in Milliways

in Milliways

Gold Box games on the Infinity Engine.

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

Posted on 2020-04-07, 06:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I find novert to be fine.

Re: When did PCI become popular? And when did you have your first PCI System?

Posted on 2020-04-07, 03:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Was that because of eisa?

Re: What are some common failure modes for defective Voodoo2 cards?

Posted on 2020-04-07, 01:26

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Lucky he asked! 😁

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-04-06, 21:15

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Is all that in an attic? Looks like a retro workshop.

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

Posted on 2020-04-06, 21:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice. Do you use the same speakers for both PCs?

Re: Experiences with early Windows XP games on late Windows XP hardware

Posted on 2020-04-06, 11:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Core2duo + gtx560 + x-fi is the gold standard. And yes, it does early xp just fine.

Re: Help me build the Ultimate DOS gaming computer.

Posted on 2020-04-06, 01:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They barely might keep up with a k6. I push an ezra 1ghz to 1.2ghz and it just manages to play q2 and unreal gold at acceptable frame rates. They slow down well, but they start to struggle towards the end of 1998....consider a high end p3 (same socket) will easily get you through 2001 with gpu …

Re: Incompatibilities between Voodoo2 and some AGP cards?

Posted on 2020-04-06, 01:05

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I also use the savage4 with v2sli (matched pair) and it works well. I do wonder if the mismatch is the underlying issue though ...

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

Posted on 2020-04-05, 06:56

in Milliways

in Milliways

Did your tastebuds survive the hit 😁

Re: Win98SE reads as Windows ME!!! WHY???

Posted on 2020-04-04, 21:23

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Haha I don't know but I can understand your dismay! 😁

Re: AWE32 3990 & Waveblaster - no music

Posted on 2020-04-04, 05:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AWE32 is on a special port that never requires the tsr. The waveblaster is just a midi device and you typically need aweutil to be resident. The AWE is much better under Win98 where all of this becomes irrelevant.

Re: AWE32 3990 & Waveblaster - no music

Posted on 2020-04-04, 04:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does that require the aweutil tsr to be loaded? It doesn't work with protected mode games like doom. Are you in dos or windows?

Re: Build Advice - Best All Rounder Retro PC for the first 2.5 eras of gaming

Posted on 2020-04-04, 03:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Post pics once you have the parts and the final build.

Re: What are some common failure modes for defective Voodoo2 cards?

Posted on 2020-04-04, 02:49

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Here's an uncommon failure mode on my current sli setup - one of the cards had a tiny cap fall off, the result being it can *only be used as the slave card*. Not alone, not as primary. But it is perfect as the slave in sli! That's something I had been wondering about, and is good news at least. …

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