Re: [DemoScene]Bugs with some demos
Posted on 2011-04-22, 17:19
You did use the vgaonly machine type did you?
Re: File not found ?
Posted on 2011-04-22, 13:36
Ok this is an absolute path issue (did you install it within DOSBox?). try this Make a E:\DOS directory, and move the Rimini_V folder into it Mount E: to E:\DOS E: cd Rimini_v rimini
Re: BASSMIDI Soundfont MIDI Synthesiser Driver for Windows XP/Vista/7
Posted on 2011-04-22, 09:05
y.mmdd
Re: List the PC games that you have beaten
Posted on 2011-04-22, 02:37
It's generally rushed to completion for that 'be cool on the internet' factor really so anyone that ever repeats whatever latest joke Portal 2 has won't go over anyone's head so they don't feel out of the hipness surrounding them.
Re: 3D Accelerators Compared
Posted on 2011-04-22, 00:23
That's what stupid overly snobby slogans are for. "The way it's meant to be played" for example 😀
Re: Look what I got for $19!
Posted on 2011-04-22, 00:00
Haha I remember the obnoxious marketing behind that little Rush.
Re: Should Scorched Earth 1.5 work with an LCD monitor??
Posted on 2011-04-21, 22:13
Scorched Earth defaults to 320x400, which may make modern hardware panic. You want to change this to 320x200 first. edit SCORCH.CFG
Re: 3D Accelerators Compared
Posted on 2011-04-21, 10:51
One weird thing no one ever mentions about the KYRO is the imprecise texture mapping try something with HUGE polygons (like say... old games) and check out that wobble! It'll blocky up too
Re: Monkey Island 1 in real DOS?
Posted on 2011-04-21, 00:39
Did you install the TSRs? Do you have a SET BLASTER line? AWE32 is only slightly more complicated to set up than the earlier SB lines
Re: 3D Accelerators Compared
Posted on 2011-04-20, 23:13
i should mention i didn't mention rage
Re: Any Virtualization for Windows 98?
Posted on 2011-04-20, 17:33
uh no, that's not the same thing. That's strictly for JAVA . You could've suggested worse, like run Quake3 because it has a quake virtual machine code for the game logic. I don't recall if Virtual PC 2003 works on 9x ... but one of the earlier VPCs do i think. QEMU might even work. hope there's a …
Re: Wine using DosBox
Posted on 2011-04-20, 13:43
interesting, as Wine isn't only for games.... which means this forum might end up getting even more "IT specialist" boneheads
Re: 3D Accelerators Compared
Posted on 2011-04-20, 11:34
my good lord gaming on the riva 128 is painful. sure the compatibility was awesome for the time, the 16-bit dither on those will really get on your tits like no other, it makes me cry for even voodoo dithering or geforce waffle dither. swaaye probably said everything that needs to be said about it …
Re: Do you have any odd collecting habits?
Posted on 2011-04-20, 01:02
Does hoarding zip files of obscure shareware games count? And by obscure, I don't mean Apogee, Epic, Moraff, Id, and Soleau, kids...
Re: DVD hardware decoder cards
Posted on 2011-04-20, 00:59
Zup wrote: And you did NOT go into a killing rampage? It could have been worse. In late 1997 I saw Batman & Robin bundled with some!
Re: help with a late 90s/early 2000s rig
Posted on 2011-04-20, 00:56
GXL750 wrote: circa 2002 You have no idea. Try circa 2000, one of the most notorious years of Maxtor history.
Re: help with a late 90s/early 2000s rig
Posted on 2011-04-20, 00:19
A 2000 period machine? You'd want a late Pentium III or a nice Athlon Socket A Thunderbird paired with a good TNT2 or a Voodoo3+ or a somethingforce2, a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (better yet, the higher end bundles, include some of the hot period games of the time, such as Thief 2, Deus Ex, MDK2 and …
Re: What are your minimum Windows system requirements?
Posted on 2011-04-20, 00:11
W31 - 386SX16 W95 - 486DX2-66 W98 - 486DX4-80 WME - P5-100 NT4 - 486DX4-100 W2K - 486DX4-100 WXP- PII-233 Vista - Quad Core 6GHZ with 16GB RAM W7 - AXP2600 WinME's hatedom from the first impression and the broken system restore never went away unfortunately. I do use it, it's a nice OS if you don't …
Re: Interesting findings with simcity classic
Posted on 2011-04-19, 13:23
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: ...and I thought Falcon 3.0 was first game that takes advantage of math co. Simcity Classic could be referring to the 1993 W3x rerelease but i'm not sure so myself. Wonder if the same happens to the cheesy interplay cd rom version too
Re: Back to the 2k's!
Posted on 2011-04-19, 11:14
olivil wrote: like insisting on running Win98 on a 486 Huh? You say that like it's a bad idea.
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