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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2023-01-24, 02:04

in Milliways
Wow, talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill. Some people simply can't take any constructive criticism. However, the issue is done. You've got bigger fish to fry, and the time you spent on this could have been used much better elsewhere. Pedantism and narcissists don't mix, is the moral of …

Re: DOS VE 4.0c Text Editor Released

Posted on 2023-01-23, 03:38

in DOS
Many thanks for your editor, particularly the new 32-bit DJGPP compile for DOS. I had never heard of this editor before, and am very glad you've kept the fires going since 1984!

Re: Tell me what it's like to own a GUS

Posted on 2023-01-08, 03:15

in Milliways
I always thought, at least during the DOS ISA era, the Turtle Beach Mutisound offered the lowest noise and best SN ratio. The problem is, no games supported it, and I don't think it had any SB-compatible mode at all. So, it was highly "useless" for any gaming, in spite of its excellent audio …

Re: Video games are too heavily monetized these days

Posted on 2023-01-06, 12:52

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Yes, I'll admit there have been some great free games of the past 5 years, I'm not so jaded that I can't admit that. Most of these have been released on sites like www.doshaven.eu or as part of compos and on itch.io These are definitely NOT AAA games. To most, they'd be consider blips on the radar, …

Re: Video games are too heavily monetized these days

Posted on 2023-01-06, 05:59

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Something that once ran on a 486 now needs a hexacore CPU, 32 GB RAM and 8 GB VRAM. 🙄 That's why I had stopped playing new video games for a few years. It's neither fun nor affordable anymore. It just hurts. That's it *Exactly*! When doing something that was once fun and cheap now HURTS to do, …

Re: Video games are too heavily monetized these days

Posted on 2023-01-04, 05:30

in Milliways
They sure are, yes, they're ridiculously monetized. It's "cooked" into the games now. Everything is a paywall of some sort, the very object of the game is often to pay your way through, as the game can't be completed without a severe additional drain on the wallet. Give me 40-year old, 30 year-old- …

Re: A program to refresh a hard drive, to stop data loss?

Posted on 2022-12-22, 10:25

in Milliways
If you listen to the Security Now podcast regularly, you'll get these answers. I'm not in a spot now where I can type long, but I can say that SR is in alpha and available to registered users who know how to get it. So finally, it is close to release. I agree it's been way too long, but he had his …

Re: A program to refresh a hard drive, to stop data loss?

Posted on 2022-12-20, 04:11

in Milliways
I would second SpinRite. It can be very useful for last ditch recovery, short of sending it to Drive Savers or somewhere similar. However, if your drive is larger than say 250GB or so you will likely have issues getting it to work properly. As far as I know Gibson still hasn't released a 6.1 update …

Re: Area 5150: New IBM PC+CGA demo

Posted on 2022-12-14, 06:03

Could not get the suitable required hardware for an acceptable price. ..so still watching 5150 via video/yt on the real machine. Ironic isn't it? And highly unfortunate. We have a "modern" program, where experts have stunned the world by maximizing the potential, the tweaks, and the performance of …

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