Re: What game are you playing now?

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Having a lot of fun with Thief: TDP. In some ways, the technology used in this game was really ahead of its time. Being able to extinguish torches in order to create shadows was remarkable in '98. Positional audio which allows you to hear guards as they approach around the corner is superb as well. …

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Re: CT4830 vs SB0220

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KT7AGuy wrote on Yesterday, 21:12: Forget about DOS or SB16 emulation with the SB0220. DOS compatibility works just fine on the SB0220 when Audigy drivers are used. On topic, the CT4830 lacks the CD_SPDIF header and is a 4.1 card. The SB0220 lacks the AUD_EXT header (LiveDrive front panel) and is a …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on Yesterday, 07:32

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What are your PC specs? Too old for modern gaming. It's an Intel i5 5550 with 16 GB DDR3 and a lowly GeForce GTX650 Ti. I did plan on buying a Ryzen based system last year, but then the pandemic happened, and hardware prices went through the roof. At this point, it's more likely that I'll get one …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 20:27

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I'm still playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 30 hours after beating the main game. The more I hear about this game, the more interested I get. Unfortunately, my current PC is not powerful enough to run it comfortably. And from what I understand, performance on the PS4 isn't so great either, so I'll …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 10:53

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After many years, I decided to replay Thief: The Dark Project. I'm using the original, retail release since that's what I had as a kid. I did get the Gold version from GOG as well, but I'll leave that for another time. I chose to play this on my Celeron rig. Thanks to the Sensaura support of my …

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Re: Looking for WSS 1.0a and this mysterious special disk

Posted on 2021-10-12, 13:41

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If it helps, there are WSS drivers v1.0 and v2.00 on archive.org but I haven't seen v1.0a anywhere.

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Re: Anybody use the unofficial Win 98 SP3 pack?

Posted on 2021-10-12, 11:02

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Or perhaps additional updates are not necessary for a stable Windows 98 system? All I'm using these systems for is games, and maybe a few applications. Not surfing the web, doing any sort of music or video production or anything like that. For gaming purposes, all you need to add to a clean Win98SE …

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Re: Did Creative remove some legacy drivers from their website?

Posted on 2021-10-12, 03:00

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Ok this is weird. I can't see any drivers when I open that page from Safari on my iPad. But if I go to the page using Firefox on my Android phone, the drivers do show up.

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Re: SB16 or VIBRA16 MS-DOS driver? Any difference?

Posted on 2021-10-12, 02:49

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As part of my MS-DOS 6.22 installation, I've been using the latest sbbasic drivers (30 Dec 97) that include the CTSB16.SYS driver (1997-02-20) which I appear to have been using for a while (and without issue, for both devices). Due to the above driver not providing me an AWEUTIL TSR during …

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Did Creative remove some legacy drivers from their website?

Posted on 2021-10-12, 02:41

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Up until last year (2020) you could still download drivers for SB16, AWE64 and such from Creative's website. However, it seems that they are no longer available now. For example, this is the AWE64 Gold page. Last year, it was still possible to download DOS and Win95/98 drivers from there. But now, …

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Re: Athlon 64 3400+ with 9800 GTX?

Posted on 2021-10-10, 20:05

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It's likely that the CPU will be the bottleneck in that scenario. I use a 9600 GT with my Athlon64 3700+ and can definitively feel the CPU holding things down in games like Oblivion. That said, I don't play many games made after 2005 on that system, so it's not a huge issue.

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Re: How do i remove this f*cking heatsink?

Posted on 2021-10-10, 13:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I just place some thick paper underneath, in case of screwdriver slipping. This is such a simple yet extremely effective solution. It can make a huge difference as it's very easy to accidentally scratch the board and/or ruin some traces in case the screwdriver slips without any protection. As for …

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

Posted on 2021-10-09, 14:37

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Joakim wrote: That is a really nice wallpaper. It looks kind of familiar, but I don't think I ever used win 95 plus. I think it was included by default in some later Windows versions.

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

Posted on 2021-10-09, 13:54

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Ydee wrote on 2021-10-09, 13:49: Is that the one with the cougar on the wallpaper? That's the one. I think it was probably the first wallpaper that I ever used. Attaching image in case anyone else is interested. Filename MS_Plus.JPG File size 103.26 KiB Views 325 views

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

Posted on 2021-10-09, 13:35

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Installed Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 on my Pentium MMX rig. I set the desktop theme to "Dangerous Creatures" which was my favorite as a kid. Now this PC looks and sounds exactly as my old one did back in '97.

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Re: AWE64 Gold, Soundfonts and General MIDI in MS-DOS

Posted on 2021-10-09, 11:22

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georgel wrote on 2021-10-09, 11:19: Jo_Jo, you are flooding the topic and you know it! I was merely trying to be helpful, but you seem to think you own this forum. For the sake of courtesy, I'll stop responding to you. Added to my ignore list.

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Re: AWE64 Gold, Soundfonts and General MIDI in MS-DOS

Posted on 2021-10-09, 11:13

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by Joseph_Joestar

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We were discussing programming here, not fiddling with the GUI from a user's perspective. Moreover windows is not desired at all here! In the passage that I quoted, you specifically mentioned Windows, which is why I posted that screenshot. For reference, the AWE Control Panel also works under Win …

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Re: AWE64 Gold, Soundfonts and General MIDI in MS-DOS

Posted on 2021-10-09, 10:41

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by Joseph_Joestar

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The API pdf documentation only describes the possibility to load SF2 under windows API via VIENNA functions...But none of them is present in the DOS API...There is a controversy of some kind between the readme file and the API doc itself in one and the same creative's archive!? Under Win9x you load …

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Re: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / OPTi 82C930 / AWE64

Posted on 2021-10-08, 20:55

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by Joseph_Joestar

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anyway, you still have a nice new CD ROM there. a good quality drive at 40 should be ok most of the time, i do remember some of the cheaper ones at x52 or x56 sounding like they were about to take off towards the end of the CD era! In my never ending quest for the ultimate DOS CD drive, I've …

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Re: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / OPTi 82C930 / AWE64

Posted on 2021-10-08, 16:44

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Got a NOS Philips 40x CD-ROM drive since my old one was experiencing some problems when reading certain discs. The new drive reads all of my CDs without any issues, but it behaves oddly when used with slowdown utilities. On pure data discs such as Command & Conquer, the slowdown speed is accepted …

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