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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on Today, 20:46

I had a lot of trouble getting the tinycore image to boot on my socket 7 platforms, now that I have seen someone actually manage to do that it's a project on my list.. Which release did you use? I did the installation 2 years ago IIRC; this the kernel version (don't know if they upgraded it): tc@ …

Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2023-06-02, 16:54

For my P1 MMX 233 build, I find Tiny Core Linux the best option for a Linux distro. It requires minimum 64MB of RAM, otherwise it does not boot up, but it runs well on such old hardware, with only the tty. Moreover, it has the most up-to-date packages compared to other retro tiny Linux distros. In …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-06-02, 12:52

in Milliways
Btw, are there downloadable "modern" Half-Life versions one can still play on a K6 or is the only real solution an original CD + patches? I still remember my CD-key by heart, go figure why. Don't think so, the only digital version is the one on Steam, which is not DRM-free. The CD release is fairly …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-30, 12:16

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Now I'm tackling Half-Life: Opposing Force , which I played years ago. Continuing my journey through Opposing Force : encountered Black Ops , both male and female, and some more Race X aliens. As I remembered, the game is really fun, with good story/atmosphere and a great variety of weapons, both …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-26, 05:51

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After completing Half-Life several times, I decided to go from Normal to Difficult, and it certainly is harder. Both head crab zombies and head crabs got me a few times because I was having a hard time getting used to how much harder they are to kill. Yeah, enemies are bullet sponges at hard, worst …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-25, 10:49

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Finished Star Wars: Dark Forces . Overall a really fun experience, apart from some maze-like sections and the disappointing final boss. I also tought the game would be longer. In the meanwhile, I installed the pre-steam CD Half-Life on my Pentium II build, for testing purposes, but I ended up …

Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2023-05-23, 15:43

Filename IMG_20230423_192624.jpg File size 1.6 MiB Views 113 views File comment NEC MultiSync V720 Filename IMG_20230322_085708.jpg File size 1.72 MiB Views 113 views File comment My P1 MMX build CRT - Don't know the model Filename Screenshot_2023-05-23-17-37-24-604_com.miui.videoplayer.jpg File …

Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-23, 15:25

I noticed in your first post you mentioned you're using digital media extraction to play the CD instead of the analog mode (CD-audio cable to from CD-drive to the soundcard). Is this accurate? If it is, I would definitely try switching to regular analog audio mode for the CD-drive. edit: For the …

Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-19, 10:40

Got it. The CD is used only for playing the OST. In Windows 98, there's a menu for setting the drive speed: I will try to decrease it. Thanks anyway 🙂 The setting I've mentioned above is actually for the CD drive cache, based on its speed. I've seen on another Vogons thread that there's the utility …

Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-17, 09:00

Maybe a faster CD drive would mitigate the issue, but for now I'm gonna stick with the LG one as it works for other games. no, on the contrary i would rather try a slowdown utility that will run the drive at a constant speed. 40x is no good for playing games off CD because of the constant spinning …

Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-15, 20:57

I've a favor to ask; I recently played the original Half-Life (patched to 1.1.1.0) on a P4 system with Windows 98, and there's a bug where you will get stuck on elevators. I'm curious to know if you have the same issue on this PC. Judging by this old ArsTechnica thread , it was a common bug. I got …

Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-15, 11:24

Maybe a faster CD drive would mitigate the issue, but for now I'm gonna stick with the LG one as it works for other games. no, on the contrary i would rather try a slowdown utility that will run the drive at a constant speed. 40x is no good for playing games off CD because of the constant spinning …

Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-14, 14:10

If your system isn't at the absolute lowest end for system requirements and can handle MP3 playback during gameplay, you should patch the game at least to version 1.1.1.0 and then rip the CD-tracks. Place ripped tracks into X:\dir\Half-Life\valve\media and name the files like so: Half-Life01.mp3 …

Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-14, 14:02

I experienced this as well when I recently replayed Half-Life. My guess is that, since CD audio is used very rarely in this game, the drive spins down in-between tracks. The stutter likely occurs when the game requests another track to be played, and the drive needs to spin up first. In contrast, …

Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-14, 13:21

Hi, I'm having a problem with Half-Life (pre-Steam) CD music: before the game plays a track, it freezes for 2-3 seconds and then it resumes and plays the track. The game runs as expected, but this stuttering on the CD OST breaks the pace and it's annoying... I tought the problem could be the CD …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-10, 11:20

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Took advantage of Steam spring sales. Bought Star Wars: Dark Forces at 1,74€ I was never a fan of the series, but I loved the games: used to play a lot of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005) with my friends 🥲 When I discovered this DOOM clone Star Wars themed game, I wanted to buy the original CD …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2023-05-05, 11:14

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Got Unreal and Soldier of Fortune from a local seller. two great games looking good on that crt SoF and SoF2 are personal favorites :) Yeah, as an FPS enthusiast it's a shame I've never played SoF 😅 I will play it after finishing Dark Forces and Unreal. BTW, with EAX enabled, the audio is awesome 💪 …

Re: Retro game servers for vintage hardware (Quake, UT etc..)

Posted on 2023-05-01, 12:46

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I made some tests about this, both with UDP and IPX over Internet: UDP multiplayer Recently I tested Quake II coop with a friend of mine, as I wrote in this thread . I used an AWS EC2 (the free tier) in which I installed a Quake II server trough game-data-packager and quake2-server (I had to copy a …

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