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Re: Non native 4:3 resolution centered on 16:9 screen

Posted on 2019-05-07, 05:07

in Marvin \ Video
your screen is 1280x1024 and you are telling it to just use 800x600 of those pixels, it's going to be much smaller than full res... That's not what I said. I selected no scaling for 1024x768 and I got a centered sharp picture about 2/3 of the screen size, letterboxed and pillarboxed. I compared it …

Re: Non native 4:3 resolution centered on 16:9 screen

Posted on 2019-05-04, 20:53

in Marvin \ Video
Checking in. DVI cable doesn't seem to do much on the random old screen I have. This is a 5:4 1280x1024. The screen just says it's DVI instead of VGA and behaves the same IIRC. Now, 1024x768 should fit in there just fine, and such programs will letterbox correctly, but unfortunately the result is …

Re: What DOS games do you feel I'm missing?

Posted on 2019-02-24, 01:42

in DOS
No idea what you're going for...and it seems like you have several years worth of games there :p But, having recently been working on it, I feel you're missing Willy Beamish. Also, you're missing the greatest game ever, Betrayal at Krondor, but hey, whatever...there's all kinds of riff raff in that …

Re: Splinter Cell 1 ShadowBufferMode shadows

Posted on 2019-02-24, 01:29

in Windows
Voodoo Glide? You must select "GeForce 4 Ti 4800" as a preset in the DirectX tab of dgVoodoo2, man! An you must use Windows >=7 with the lastest DX11 software stack. dgVoodoo2 is a wrapper (a translator) that uses DX10.1 technology, and you can use it on any DX10-class GPUs too but always with DX11 …

Re: Splinter Cell 1 ShadowBufferMode shadows

Posted on 2019-02-18, 08:33

in Windows
Back to the subject of Splinter Cell. I have tried the Komat wrapper - nothing happens. I tried the Dege wrapper (voodoo glide). The game will NOT start with its d3d8.dll present, which of course is the part that it works with. Simply encounters a critical error (null) and closes. I tried the nVidia …

Re: Simcopter keeps crashing...

Posted on 2018-04-28, 18:18

in Windows
IIRC Simcopter works pretty much as designed on XP. I guess "Compatibility mode" for 95 is correct, although my impression of that is it never does much of anything. I won't say the game never crashes, but no more so than under its native environment, maybe once in several hours. I think that was …

Re: Far Cry

Posted on 2018-04-28, 18:09

in Windows
Hm, I just sold my original 5 cd copy of Far Cry. Sweet graphics, game otherwise on the generic side. Also I hate fighting monsters in the dark. 😵 I only used it on XP, so I'll just be going now...

Re: Sim City 2000 does not play MIDI music

Posted on 2017-10-15, 13:59

in Windows
*slaps forehead* I was beginning to experiment with alternative synthesizers and sound fonts when... I found "SW Synth" in the volume turned all the way down. That was it! So now my question is, why did I get volume in WMP... :blah: Further data: "On XP, you cannot stop Windows Media Player muting …

Re: Period appropriate CRT size for 95-97 games

Posted on 2017-10-15, 11:39

in Marvin \ Video
The large majority of monitors from that time are 14 or 15". I don't see why that should bother you, though. I'd rather have a flat screen, which was unavailable until around 2000. Dot pitch is one of those things you like to worry about, but it isn't really something you can. It's more important to …

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