Re: Build your XP Time Machines Now
Posted on 2016-10-02, 02:05
Way ahead of you! It's been by my leg for the past 10 years. It's powerful enough to Crysis on high and retro enough to run at 2003 period speeds with native EAX 2. 😀 .......🙁
Re: Dosbox Win95 - disk size 2GB limit hack?
Posted on 2016-09-30, 23:27
VirtualBox's guest additions (required to use the additional virtualization features) only work for XP at the least IIRC. You'll be stuck in VGA for Win9x with no acceleration whatsoever, and on top of that, activating virtualization for the CPU will just GPF it to hell. There's also the unsaid …
Re: Favorite MIDI game soundtracks?
Posted on 2016-09-30, 06:45
Re: Backing up DOS era CD-ROM games?
Posted on 2016-09-30, 06:22
Re: Windows 3.11
Posted on 2016-09-30, 06:17
I've always said "three point one one" in the day.
Re: Favorite MIDI game soundtracks?
Posted on 2016-09-30, 06:06
ROTT is up there. Probably the best soundtrack of any apogee game period (though certainly not the best of all time) Tyrian would be another for technical excellence, but that's rather repetitive and the new 2.0 tracks suck and destroy it.
Re: Do I really need a Voodoo card or can I do everything with a glide wrapper?
Posted on 2016-09-29, 11:42
For Pre-V3, Diamonds are the highly regarded brand for the Voodoos (Monster3D II was one of the earliest and best Voodoo2s period), followed by Canopus and Creative. Obsidian makes specialized pimped out Voodoo hardware that are super pricey (think nvidia titans) Voodoo5's a bit of a waste since …
Re: Do I really need a Voodoo card or can I do everything with a glide wrapper?
Posted on 2016-09-29, 11:00
The last Win98 glide wrappering i've used is that ye old zeckensack wrapper which was nice for its time. Also I prefer native 640x480 over stretched-to-hell "full HD"....... most of those dos glide games rely on a strict 640x480 frame buffer to draw the 2D in
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2016-09-29, 01:15
Having played the DOS version first i've never had the issue with hearing "boingboingboingboingboingboingboing". I've heard the yippee's first with the SNES Lemmings (which is actually an OK port for home consoles considering it had both 2 player and the special levels that got excised in later …
Re: Do I really need a Voodoo card or can I do everything with a glide wrapper?
Posted on 2016-09-28, 23:25
Glide wrappers won't give you the same experience of enjoying it with a filtery DAC :) The output is noisy? I wouldn't mind missing that tbh The Voodoo uses a 16-bit frame buffer with dithering, and the DAC tries some filtering tricks to hide the dithering leading to their characteristic waxy look …
Re: Do I really need a Voodoo card or can I do everything with a glide wrapper?
Posted on 2016-09-28, 22:22
If you install a Voodoo2 with v2-auto.inf with its drivers, it should be able to set a bunch of env vars for dos mode to run V1 games. I've never had luck with V3 running V1 dos games though Glide wrappers won't give you the same experience of enjoying it with a filtery DAC :) also inb4 someone's ' …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-27, 21:21
Maybe a warm up like porting NXEngine (Cave Story reimplmentation in C++) to DOS would help. Easier said than done I know, but at least there's an actual, finished, certainlywillbebetterthanthisproposedidea game in there, and most of the dev would involve chopping off the SDL bindings and making a …
Re: Best SC-55 SoundFont?
Posted on 2016-09-27, 08:38
Re: Delta Force 2 Broken 3D Acceleration
Posted on 2016-09-27, 03:52
That's how it was designed, and this was a big often complained about thing in the day that the D3D acceleration didn't accelerate Voxelspace's voxels, so there's a lack of depth testing.
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-27, 00:41
I'm not all that optimistic for Rad Rodgers. It's repeating Tommy Tronic history to me (Interplay's supposed "comeback" "oldschool platformer" game with a similar premise), and its "mature humor" is going to fall flat and end up limiting its demographic to be succsesful anyway. I also wonder what …
Re: Guess what's going inside lol
Posted on 2016-09-26, 21:56
M919 or similar 486VIP, AM5x86-160, Diamond Stealth3D 2000, Diamond Monster 3D II, Sound Blaster AWE32
Re: Building a model world
Posted on 2016-09-26, 21:54
People have made some pretty nifty Quake and Doom mods. That would probably be the way to go. for driving? no There really isn't that much moddable driving games. the GTA series are really unsupported and have bad pipelines (and GTAV will ban you for it i hear) I would highly advise against using …
Re: Off Topic: Most recent music video you liked
Posted on 2016-09-25, 21:37
Re: Worst cpus and worst computer builds
Posted on 2016-09-24, 11:12
Probably referring to the pre-Phenom Athlon64 x2 which needed a "dual-core optimizer" program for it
Re: Where has this sound card been all my life? I think I'm tearing up.
Posted on 2016-09-24, 00:23
Does this exhibit the same half-Hz behavior resulting in lower quality PCM sound under DOS? I remember an integrated ESS1688 doing just that, causing 22khz to become 11khz, 11khz to become 5.5khz etc. on some games, and sound pitch issues in certain emulators (ZSNES)
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