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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-07, 13:51

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Any kind of heatsinks on IC components is a duct tape design for me. However it's ok for heavily heated power supply elements. I can sacrifice as much whole performance as it needed for normal operation of naked ICs even in chassis with no ventilation at all. Wonder if there ever was a design which …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-07, 11:48

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I'm still miffed how "DOS Games" are defined by mostly Apogee/Epic crap with a heavy FPS bias. It's a very ASP-revised history. Keen this, Duke that, "wow the gears war guy made rabbit sonic"...and of course "DOOM 95!!!! oooh dat nostalgia *Microsoft Synthesizer rendition of D_E1M1 plays*". and …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 21:47

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I confess I get mildly irritated when people call D_E1M1 music "Doom theme" -- when it's not. I don't really like 3dfx graphics because I think it's overrated API, which is inferior to OpenGL/D3D (even Wrappers can get the job done with better perfoemance) in most games (Windows -- not DOS). I mean …

Re: HL1 and A3D -- some sounds cutting off

Posted on 2020-05-24, 19:16

Thank you for your response! I've also seen that URL, yes -- but even after entering these "proper" values, deleting a3dapi.dll and installing A3D driver 2041 (the only one I shoud use, because later ones are buggy) I still have this issue: https://youtu.be/-gu_f-Q1mcI?t=5835 Looks like it will …

Aureal Vortex 2 Diagnostic/Testing Software

Posted on 2020-05-22, 09:39

I'm looking for a way to check if AU8830-based sound card is working properly. A3D Demos only show basic functionaity with 2-3 sound sources. If I remember, this card suports up to 96 streams. How to check if they all work without problems? Currently I came with temporary solution -- launch UnrealT …

Re: HL1 and A3D -- some sounds cutting off

Posted on 2020-05-21, 07:48

when i tried this game once on vortex2 with A3D everything just sounded very muffled, though i don't recall whether it had the cutting out issues you describe. what worked flawlessly for me was a live! card with liveware drivers, granted that just does EAX reverb as opposed to the A3D HRTF, but you …

HL1 and A3D -- some sounds cutting off

Posted on 2020-05-20, 09:16

Hello, I think I have a problem -- when you finish "Blast Pit" chapter (when the pipe breaks and you fall into the storeroom), as you remember, when the ceiling breaks, there's a lot of debris falling from it. As soon as they touch the floor (when they should play their sound), probably because the …

Re: 2001-2002 ASUS Tualatin build

Posted on 2020-05-12, 01:55

You’ve got a very nice setup there… If you ever get bored of switching the boot device in BIOS you can always setup multi-booting retro style using LiLo with a distro from back in the day. Thanks! I will definitely look into it when needed. Meanwhile, found overclocking mode I'll stick with for now …

Re: 2001-2002 ASUS Tualatin build

Posted on 2020-05-11, 02:02

foil_fresh wrote on 2020-05-11, 01:37: you dual booting 98 and xp? Not really -- each OS is installed on separate HDD, and WinXP is mostly used for maintenance of Win98 disk. Disk 1: Win98 OS, Win98 Software Disk 2: WinXP, Win98 Backups, CD image backups (for D-Tools in Win98) I switch boot device …

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