Re: These aren't the results you're looking for

Posted on 2021-04-14, 15:52

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Oh wow, what a blast from the past. Pretty sure that was the laptop I was sent off to college with in 2002. When the Doom 3 tech demo was leaked, I made a valiant attempt to play it on that thing. More on topic, I found scattered benchmarks actually putting a Geforce 440 Go in the 5000 range in …

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Re: What is your unconscious motive for retro hardware ?

Posted on 2021-04-14, 15:25

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I only recently started getting into actual retro hardware. Although for a long time I was attempting, with increasing difficulty, to keep my array of sentimental video games in a playable state on my primary, modern PC. Dosbox, dgVoodoo2, occasionally a virtual machine or PCem in the worst case …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-12, 15:10

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I would totally buy a newbuilt C64. The arm based reproduction by Retro Games LTD isn't half bad. Some people consider the fact that it doesn't use all the discrete chips of the original C64 production a mark against it. It's just running an older version of VICE on an SoC really. But it has the …

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-07, 18:58

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Meh....gold value, the real value in those old chips is when they do something cool! I'd rather my money actually do something than sit around as a part of a brick of metal. I kind of hate the whole gold harvesting thing because it's ruining supplies of vintage chips in the name of greed. Is that …

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-07, 17:59

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I kind of feel the pre-95 "golden age" is exaggerated because that's when I Started. Few at my school knew what Monkey Island, Commander Keen, or Ultima was - they were at home playing Street Fighter, Sonic, and Super Mario Bros. Today it's made out like a lot of games and software of that time was …

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-05, 14:59

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You can only have a Golden Age of something through the lens of history. For comic books this was from 1938 to 1956, which was then followed by the Silver Age 1956 – 1970, and finally the Bronze Age 1970–1984. I think we can all agree there was definitely a Golden Age of PC computing. When and for …

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-03, 01:13

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It's really hard for me to perceive now as any sort of computing golden age. Is the hardware better than ever? Sure. Is the thought behind the software better than ever? IMHO, it's worse than it's ever been. It's all about training the user into compulsive behavior, to drive "engagement", harvest …

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-02, 14:47

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For me, it really peaks around 1997. PC's gained the capability to be legitimately rich media machines. The internet wasn't seamlessly integrated into all software yet, and it still felt like you owned the hardware and software in full, despite whatever the EULA might say. Plus the games were …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 16:27

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So I've fired up Dungeon Keeper 2 again. I remember playing an ARRR'ed copy back in college, but I clearly vastly misremembered when and on what hardware. I thought I had played it on the laptop I was sent off to college with, which had an unremarkable mobile CPU and a mobile Geforce 2 MX. This was …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-03-20, 03:18

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So I finally beat Doom 3! Trophy Screen 20210319_Doom_3.jpg All in all, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It got off to a slow start, but wowed me to this day with it's lighting model and level design. Once the action got underway in Alpha Labs I was having a good time, even if the jump …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-03-17, 13:37

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Might And Magic VI: The Mandate Of Heaven . About 20 years ago, this was THE game that made me install it on 4 different computers and always have the latest savegame with me on a floppy disk, wherever I went. It took me MONTHS to beat it. A week ago I mentioned this title in another forum, got a …

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Re: Have anyone actually gotten hardware damaged due to using old PSUs?

Posted on 2021-03-16, 14:31

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Back in college, so I think around 2003, I had an old Antec 300W blow out in my old LAN Party Pentium 2/3 (I don't remember), Geforce 2 GTS system that went off to school with me. It did... weird things. One of the hard drives that must have gotten a shock could only correctly read data. I was …

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Re: Did you create maps for games?

Posted on 2021-03-15, 12:59

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I once made kind of a jokey map for Quake 3. Had two main loops that criss crossed, and a rail gun in kind of a dead corner I wanted people vulnerable in. During this time I was going to LAN parties every weekend, and we got up to the sorts of antics a bunch of teenage boys do. One guy was …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-03-15, 02:58

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Well, after some issues with my graphics card, I successfully saddled up in Doom 3 again. Just wrapped up the Hell level. Midway through it, Doom 3 began hard locking the system in a specific room with a berserker powerup. To add insult to injury, if I quicksaved immediately before the room, Doom 3 …

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Re: Geforce 6800 GT output suddenly corrupted

Posted on 2021-03-13, 23:37

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So I think, I'm going to try to reflow the solder with a heatgun this weekend as my last attempt to get this card back. Mostly the VRAM area. Sounds about my skill level I'm sad to say. Fingers crossed. Don't reflow anything with the paint strippers. Get your self a proper hot air station. " …

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Re: Geforce 6800 GT output suddenly corrupted

Posted on 2021-03-12, 19:47

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So I think, I'm going to try to reflow the solder with a heatgun this weekend as my last attempt to get this card back. Mostly the VRAM area. Sounds about my skill level I'm sad to say. Fingers crossed.

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Geforce 6800 GT output suddenly corrupted

Posted on 2021-03-12, 15:10

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So I'm playing Doom 3 last night on an Athlon 64/Geforce 6800 GT rig I built in Dec. I've made it all the way up to Delta Labs 3, and extremely suddenly while I'm listening to a PDA log, the display corrupts with a patterned distortion, and then the computer hard locks. I restart, and things look …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-03-09, 23:57

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With Doom 3, Carmack was all about bringing the next generation of lighting improvements, to take the envisioned game's immersion to all-new levels not yet achieved anywhere else. An attitude seen many year earlier with Quake II. In both cases, he absolutely succeeded. Back at the time of original …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-03-09, 03:54

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Speaking of Doom 3, I'm still slowly making my way through it. I'm continually astounded how much the jump scares, monster closets, teleporting behind you, darkness and screen shaking just take a toll on me. I beat Delta Labs Level 2 today... and the last time I played was 2 weeks ago. Took me that …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-03-05, 18:37

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I’ve been meaning to return to Ultima VI since March of last year. I beat it back when it launched, but have just gotten stuck/lost on my recent play through. I’ve thought about looking at a hint, but I have such a hard time with that idea. On the one hand it feels like I’m cheating myself, but on …

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