Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2014-09-08, 23:05
Klingon Academy is still on the list and should be removed. That's Direct3D and definitely not UnrealEngine.
Re: DOSBOX printing to local LPT1 port
Posted on 2014-09-08, 02:54
i have a feeling they start threads in this forum instead to feign ignorance of seeing that sticky topic
Re: VGA Capture Thread
Posted on 2014-09-08, 00:45
Max1wurf1977 you have a Voodoo3 right? You own Q3A right? You do have both installed right? 😀 😀: 😀 😀 😀: ): _): ) 😀 : ): ):
Re: Late 90's / early 2000's Cyberpunk asthetic
Posted on 2014-09-08, 00:40
The explosive City 17 ending doesn't fall into it either. Excess neon lights and dark blue colors are non-existant so you can't argue it's part of it.
Re: Late 90's / early 2000's Cyberpunk asthetic
Posted on 2014-09-07, 23:46
Most of those don't fit... HL2 definitely doesn't. You can't just associate any 'future' game with this particular aesthetic. Neocron is an MMO that is heavily into this aesthetic. It was developeod for years when that was big and it stuck to its design. Does The Fifth Element game count? 😀
Re: Is 233Mhz really too slow for Windows 2000?
Posted on 2014-09-07, 08:29
I've used Windows 2000 on a Pentium before. The memory footprint is very real, you need to get over 48mb+ for it to be very usable. 32mb and less has it churning the drive for minutes on the dialog right before the log-in screen (and that's not counting the screens before it) I've also Win2k'd on a …
Re: XP Service Pack 4?
Posted on 2014-09-07, 00:35
Required Flash and HTML5 is the common stopper for Win9X browsing anyhow. So is Java Runtime, but that however has become increasingly irrelevant these days (thank god!!!). If Flash's refusal for older OS doesn't stop you, the insane CPU usage for video playback will. 🙁
Re: powervr not working with tomb raider
Posted on 2014-09-07, 00:21
When you're used to 3dfx's high gamma (values of 1.3 through 1.7 by default) for every game it supports, you forget how accelerated gamma 1.0 looks leading to "game too dark" complaints, common for people switching from Voodoo to TNT/S3/ATI etc in 97-99 IIRC PowerVR version is at normal brightness. …
Re: Game collection
Posted on 2014-09-06, 23:40
Found an old screenshot from my winxp days back when i only had "The Sacred Terabyte of Gaming Goodness" As opposed to "The Most Holy Three Terabytes of Gaming Goodness" I have now Unless it's about storage rooms full of legit game media goodness I don't think screenshots of installed games can …
Re: Game collection
Posted on 2014-09-06, 22:53
Re: Late 90's / early 2000's Cyberpunk asthetic
Posted on 2014-09-06, 22:48
While you're at it, almost every game The Designers Republic touched and influenced. Redline may also be worth a look 😀
Re: Game collection
Posted on 2014-09-06, 13:45
Re: Do you play online with your Win98 retro rig?
Posted on 2014-09-06, 13:05
Agnitum Outpost Firewall 1.0 is much lighter.
Re: Late 90's / early 2000's Cyberpunk asthetic
Posted on 2014-09-06, 13:03
MDK2, more so than the first game especially in the later levels Also FarCry 3 Blood Dragon, which tries to be '1980 vhs cyberpunk' inspired by Blade Runner and Terminator, but ends up looking like a HD version of a 1999-2000 cyberpunk game.
Re: Earthworm Jim SE and 320x240 games
Posted on 2014-09-05, 23:49
320x240 is doublescanned so to your monitor it's no different than 640x480. Low resolution support is usually dropped by more recent video drivers than the OS itself. I've had a verying lack of 320x240 on XP before with several different cards...
Re: 2D side-scroller with a skeleton guy?
Posted on 2014-09-05, 23:36
Remember, the obscure ones are the tricky freeware/shareware and they do exist, there's more to DOS games than just the laundry list of 'popular' games on 'abandonware' sites. There is a lot out there, some I know that exist that I can't even find for decades!
Re: 2D side-scroller with a skeleton guy?
Posted on 2014-09-05, 22:57
Re: Win95 vs. Win98 for pre-Pentium 200 games
Posted on 2014-09-05, 14:13
Darkman wrote: the only reason ME exists is due to the cancellation of Neptune ME was in gestation many many months before Neptune, starting development almost immediately after Win98SE
Re: Playing Unreal Engine Games on Windows NT 3.51
Posted on 2014-09-04, 23:29
Generally these refined game engines have GDI and Waveout fallbacks for lack fo DirectX, Quake included though in quake's case there's a hard version check against anything under version 4. Is there anything like KernelEx or Compatibiltiy mode to fake that for 3.51?
Re: Playing Unreal Engine Games on Windows NT 3.51
Posted on 2014-09-04, 21:29
Not even by dropping a Silicon Graphics for Windows/Cosmo Player opengl.dll/cosmord11.dll into the Q3 folder renaming it to opengl32.dll for functional but slow software rendering?
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