Re: GOG Daggerfall on Windows 98 PC

Posted on 2024-05-26, 20:16

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It is interesting to note that the old free standalone version mentioned by Shagittarius can still be downloaded from the Bethesda server using the direct link provided by squareguy in this thread: The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-05-24, 20:00

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Warhammer Skulls 2024 Digital Goodie Bag is also free on GOG.com until 30 May.

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American Red Cross Offering Tetris T-Shirt to Blood Donors (Limited Time)

Posted on 2024-05-23, 12:18

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The American Red Cross is offering blood donors the chance to get a 40th Anniversary Tetris T-Shirt. Donors will also be entered for a chance to meet Alexey Pajitnov in New York: https://www.redcrossblood.org/local-homepage/ … nts/tetris.html

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winSPWW2 Version 17 Consolidation Upgrade (2024)

Posted on 2024-05-17, 08:47

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Source: https://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=53098 World War II! The 2024 winSPWW2 Upgrade Patch is In! Hooah! Wilmington, NC, 09 May 2024 Another year and anither anticipated Upgrade, Fixes and Additions have arrived. This game is now in it's Twenty Sixth year with the release of …

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Re: Do you keep a tech-journal?

Posted on 2024-05-15, 21:10

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Like you I use single documents for things, and the pile of documents has snowballed into thousands of documents over the decades. I have been using OpenOffice (Writer and Calc mostly), but it is not a good solution for large storage. The upper bound on a Calc spreadsheet is around 30000 rows, so …

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Re: Aleph One Version 1.8 (Win/Mac/Linux)

Posted on 2024-05-14, 13:10

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Source: https://github.com/Aleph-One-Marathon/alephone/releases/tag/release-20240513 Aleph One 1.8.1 Latest @treellama treellama released this 14 May 02:18 release-20240513 This is mostly a Steam bug fix release, but it does have a couple useful updates for Classic Marathon: Fix a crash with some …

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Re: Indiana Jones The Desktop Adventures / Yoda Stories clone?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 21:55

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The first thing that crossed my mind when I saw Zup's post was this: https://www.raunes.com/

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Aleph One Version 1.8 (Win/Mac/Linux)

Posted on 2024-05-10, 22:02

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Source: https://github.com/Aleph-One-Marathon/alephone/releases/tag/release-20240510 Aleph One 1.8 Latest @treellama treellama released this 10 May 15:38 The major new feature of this release is support for Steam and achievements: Standalone builds see a few changes and bug fixes: Various sound and …

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Re: Max Payne 1 on voodoo 3 3000 error "FPU precision assumed to be 53bits"

Posted on 2024-05-08, 15:33

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Did you by any chance try to run the Version 1.05 Max Payne demo on this particular machine before you installed the full game?

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Re: Max Payne 1 on voodoo 3 3000 error "FPU precision assumed to be 53bits"

Posted on 2024-05-07, 20:31

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And did you actually run the DX8 installer? Unfortunately, DirectX9 (pick any version release) does NOT necessarily install everything that previous DirectX versions might have provided. So I would suggest running the DirectX 8 installer. The following ancient pages may help with doing this and give …

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Re: shimstock's Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith Upscaled Sounds V2.0

Posted on 2024-05-04, 16:06

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Shimstock issued a Version 2.1 release (same URL as above): V2.1 Changes: Corrected error with vornattack1, now being the correct sound Improved sounds of rancchew1 and rancchew3 Replaced 10 sound effects with high quality 44kHz stereo sounds from source! Bryar mount sound, metal walking and running …

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SuperTuxKart 1.5/2.0 News

Posted on 2024-04-30, 18:09

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SuperTuxKart devs have provided information on what is coming down the pike with regard to Versions 1.5 and 2.0: https://blog.supertuxkart.net/2024/04/on-way- … -15-and-20.html

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Re: In which version of Windows was included Monster Truck Madness Trial Version?

Posted on 2024-04-18, 23:10

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You may be thinking of the Microsoft Interactive CD Sampler (1996). This disc has both Hellbender and the Monster Truck Madness Trial. I have no idea if this disc was ever bundled with a Microsoft version of Windows. Here is a video of the menu for the disc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMC_ …

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Re: ScummVM 2.8.0

Posted on 2024-04-01, 13:52

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Source: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20240331/ Mar 31, 2024: Please welcome ScummVM 2.8.1: Oh MMy! Posted by The ScummVM Team Oh MMy — a new ScummVM release! Please welcome the first ScummVM release of the year: ScummVM 2.8.1. ScummVM 2.8.1 is a maintenance release mainly focused on fixing bugs that …

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-03-29, 16:31

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Hammerting on https://www.gog.com/

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Re: electronic componemt kits

Posted on 2024-03-28, 00:00

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It is frequently the case that instructors in such courses create bills of material or pre-built shopping carts at distributors like DigiKey, Mouser, Newark, etc. in order to make it easy for students to get the parts necessary for a particular course. So I would definitely ask if such a shopping …

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Re: Problems with Voodoo2 in SLI

Posted on 2024-03-27, 20:10

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Looking for 3dfx Glide2 SDK for DOS/Win32 V2.43 / mojo.exe

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Re: What song does Prophecy of the Shadow use for it's intro credits?

Posted on 2024-03-25, 22:16

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I'm showing my age, but "Pictures at an Exhibition" used to be the interval signal for Voice of Russia on shortwave, and I believe Radio Moscow before that. Shortwave broadcasters needed a repetitive sound to play between broadcasts so listeners could tune to the correct frequency, particularly in …

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Re: Screamin Demons Over Europe WW1 MOD, Fokker Dr1 CTD when aileron trim used

Posted on 2024-03-11, 22:53

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You might try Item 8 on this page (if you haven't done so already): http://www.fsww1.com/documentation/Tweaks.html 8. If you are running Windows XP, set the compatibility mode to 'Windows 98 / Windows ME' and disable 'Visual themes' (This can be done by right clicking the shortcut or EXE file that …

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Re: shimstock's Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith Upscaled Sounds V2.0

Posted on 2024-03-11, 00:50

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The jkmsndlo.goo file is 45 MiB on my expansion disk, and the disk only contains 367.8 MiB of data, so LucasArts certainly had space left on the disk for the higher quality sounds. So you are probably correct. Unfortunately, it is all too common for devs/publishers to cut corners on expansions for a …

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