Re: Really, how much RAM you need a 486 dx66 ???

Posted on 2015-10-04, 08:49

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by DonutKing

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Back in the day I had 4MB in my 486, later upgraded to 8MB. Nowadays, for a DOS games rig I like to have 12-16MB as you can run SMARTDRV which speeds up disk access a bit and also configure 4MB as EMS for any games that require it. This lets you run the vast majority of DOS games without having to …

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Re: Surviving the late 90's without 3Dfx

Posted on 2015-09-29, 08:53

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In about 1998 I upgraded from a 486SX 25MHz to a P2 266MHz; unfortunately it came with an AGP S3 Virge. I lusted after a Voodoo 1 or 2 but I was young and couldn't afford it. I played pretty much all my games in software mode. It was the best I had to I persevered and finished Quake 1 and 2, Half …

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Re: 486DX2 build

Posted on 2015-09-26, 23:10

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Damn, necro bump! I don't have this machine any more - motherboard died, it was parted out and I built another machine in a different case. The battery I used was sealed, had a single 3.6V cell in it about AA size, and had a 4-pin connector on it which fits on the EXT_BATT header on the motherboard. …

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Re: System Shock might be available to buy soon!

Posted on 2015-09-22, 09:19

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Unlike most GOG releases they seem to have actually included a number of community mods/fixes.... this release runs natively under Windows, includes 1024x768 resolution and a mouselook mode. See here for details https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=8030.0 I've completed the game before but it …

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Re: What can dot matrix printers print?

Posted on 2015-09-22, 09:12

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I remember we had an Epson dot matrix printer, and I could draw things in NeoPaint for DOS and print them out. The quality wasn't brilliant but the drawings were legible. I think our LPT port must have shared an IRQ with our sound card as whenever we printed something, ugly static would come out the …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2015-09-20, 00:17

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I used to have the registered version of Halloween Harry (not Alien Carnage). It would hard lock at the mission select screen on my PC, however after we upgraded it from 4MB to 8MB RAM it started working. Apart from that I never had any crashes or runtime errors; I wonder if the errors you received …

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Re: Death in adventure games. Annoying or Entertaining?

Posted on 2015-08-26, 09:13

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Yep I prefer the LucasArts style, where you can't die or truly get stuck, to the Sierra style...

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Re: Does anyone have any idea what the spec of quantum fireball is

Posted on 2015-08-25, 21:16

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I still got a working 15GB Fireball. I pulled it out of a decommissioned office pc years ago and stuck the drive in a USB external caddy. After a few years of that I built a win98 box and stuck the drive in there. Still works today. Maybe it was only specific models that were dodgy - like the IBM …

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Re: What old game would you like to see remade?

Posted on 2015-08-07, 00:31

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I'm the opposite; I loved Morrowind, it's probably one of the games that I've put the most hours into. I was excited for Oblivion but after a while I got bored of the changes they'd made; it was much more of an action game than an RPG. Skyrim moved further in that direction, so I didn't really play …

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Re: What old game would you like to see remade?

Posted on 2015-08-06, 11:31

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Regarding Morrowind, I don't think it really needs a remake. There are plenty of texture mods (and guides on which ones to use), plus MGE:XE adds a lot of cool features like post-processing shaders and extreme draw distance.

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2015-07-31, 11:53

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Hey shock__, sorry to hear you've come across some tough times. You're a great contributor to this community with a wealth of knowledge, and this project is awesome. I've already got a GUS Classic but I can always appreciate a good reverse engineering effort. :) If you're ever in my neck of the …

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Re: Other hobbies?

Posted on 2015-07-28, 23:00

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I bought a house recently so it seems my current hobby is working on that! Current project is sanding and oiling a timber deck. I used to have a couple of motorcycles (both road and offroad) but I've sold all those now. It was an expensive hobby and I wasn't really riding much any more. I stacked …

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Re: Is it possible to play music with a Yamaha MU50 Midi module and sound effects with a Sound Blaster?

Posted on 2015-07-12, 22:08

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There is an unofficial version of Monkey Island 2 which adds the digital voices from the recent remake: http://gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/monkey2.html I played this version on my 386 with LAPC-I and Sound Blaster. I had to start It with MONKEY2 /R However it should work fine with SCUMMVM as …

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2015-06-24, 10:00

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Nice work keropi! I would be interested but I don't have any external MIDI modules any longer. One question I have is will this card still require an external dongle to break out the D-Sub connector into the 5 pin DIN connectors? What I'd like to see one day is an MPU401AT clone card that can run …

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Re: ISA Cards with more Functions on one PCB?

Posted on 2015-06-10, 09:50

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by DonutKing

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There are also IO/IDE controllers with VGA as well, but the ones I've seen were VESA local bus not ISA.

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-06-08, 10:51

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Gateworld looks a lot like an Apogee side scroller; did it have anything to do with them?

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Re: Any knowledgeable Amiga folk out there?

Posted on 2015-06-06, 22:27

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I know about this floppy emulator, but it isn't quite convenient as HDD and WHD images. I have something similar on the Atari 800XL though. I have an ACA500 with WHDLOAD installed and I'm thinking of selling it and just getting a cheap Gotek floppy emulator. WHDLOAD is great and all but not …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2015-06-06, 12:25

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I was sure I tried that... evidently I didn't !

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2015-06-06, 08:56

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by DonutKing

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Sam and Max Hit the Road is one of my favourite games from my childhood :) The highway surfing minigame always had a poor framerate on real hardware, on every machine I've ever tried. Also, I believe there is one way to make the game unwinnable: (SPOILERS BELOW) You need the golf ball retriever and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-16, 08:28

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by DonutKing

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That's not a fair comparison... Yours is 875P and Skyscraper asked for 865PE. :wink: Anyway I vaguely remembered seeing a Gigabyte P4 Titan 8PENXP put up for sale in the local forums a couple of years back. I wouldn't have remembered the exact model but I remembered it had 1 distinguishing feature: …

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