Re: What do you think about Steam Deck handheld PC ?

Posted on Yesterday, 18:30

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- Lack of dockstation. Switch, laptops and even tablets like Surface have docks where you can drop the thing without having to plug anything. It does have a dock, sold separately. It sounds like you can use any generic USB-C dock too. https://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware[/quote] a) You have to buy …

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Re: Partition and format fat32 on disks from 128gb to 3tb

Posted on Yesterday, 08:47

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AFAIR: - Plain DOS can not format partitions beyond 2Gb (FAT16 limit). - Windows 98 couldn't go beyond 120Gb or so without being patched, because its LBA support. - Even it tried to not format disks beyond 32Gb or so, but could be forced to do so. - To use a disk bigger than 2Tb, you must use GPT. …

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Re: What do you think about Steam Deck handheld PC ?

Posted on 2021-07-20, 12:55

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It's hard to imagine it succeeding. I mean, every bit of hardware designed / promoted by valve has been abandoned (except that VR glasses). And please note that I didn't say "discontinued"... Looking at the Steam deck, the biggest drawbacks are: - Price. Although is on par with the Switch, both are …

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Re: You fly into space once and you're an astronaut

Posted on 2021-07-16, 09:13

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That's because the pilots managed to land the spaceship (can it be considered a spaceship? there are doubts if 50 miles is considered "space"). In other case, the headline could've been "You crash once and you're history".

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Re: Ports better than original.

Posted on 2021-07-06, 17:22

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Btw a "port" as I understand it here is "(mostly) the same thing, running on a new (different) platform". I do not feel the same. Maybe because I'm playing games since I had a ZX Spectrum. At that time, "AAA" (that term didn't even exist) games were released on 3 or 4 different platforms at the …

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Re: Need help with Toshiba laptop

Posted on 2021-07-06, 15:32

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It seems a pair of coin batteries soldered together...

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Re: Need help with Toshiba laptop

Posted on 2021-07-06, 11:00

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I remember having a Fujitsu that did similar things... starting to almost instantly power off, hard disk fails (if it gets that far)... the source of all problems was a depleted CMOS battery. Maybe you should try: - Disconnect your HDD. - Disconnect additional RAM (maybe all SO-DIMMs, I've got a …

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Re: Games & Gamepad problem

Posted on 2021-07-05, 07:28

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A PC gameloft supports 2 devices with 2 axis and 2 buttons each. Most 4 buttons devices "borrowed" the buttons of the second device. So when you press button 3 or 4, you're pressing button 1 or 2 on the secondd gamepad. So don't use button 3 and 4, or change your configuration to 2 axis/2 buttons.

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Re: MS-DOS 6.00 Upgrade

Posted on 2021-07-04, 10:37

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"Almost" clean: - Get a DOS 5.0 OS disk. - FDISK - FORMAT C: /S - Try to update your OS. After FORMAT /S you should have only three files (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM) that will be overwritten by your new DOS. (You could try to boot your first floppy of MS-DOS update while pressing SHIFT. It …

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Re: TIE Fighter Total Conversion (TFTC) v1.0 Full

Posted on 2021-07-04, 07:34

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I wonder if it can run over the spanish release, or if it has other languages...

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Re: Windows 3.x games that don't work in Windows

Posted on 2021-07-02, 09:28

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History is judging that so called Win 9x games appear to actually have Win 3.x compatibility. It's the other way. Windows 9x can run (almost) all Windows 3.x software. There are few Windows 9x games than run on Windows 3.1, and that's after installing Win32s and offering a goat as a sacrifice. I …

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Re: PCem v17

Posted on 2021-06-27, 08:17

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One stupid Question but is it possible to let the emulator connect to the internet when i installed win 98 se in it. Is there a way to pass throug the Host internet to the emulator. I've never tried it, but you should define a machine with a network card installed, install the proper drivers on …

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Re: Some questions I have on Sound Blaster cards...

Posted on 2021-06-23, 08:21

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But be careful... my old Sound Blaster AWE64 drivers allowed to use 32 + 32 channels... the first ones used the EMU (and should not take resources) but the other were made via software (my precious CPU cycles!). Do you mean the AWE ran out of memory because the no of channels you used and thus the …

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Re: C&C '95 was a mistake; here's why you should only play the DOS version

Posted on 2021-06-23, 07:25

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Oh yes, being able to see 4x as much of the map at once was a huge improvement! Maybe. It depends on how difficulty got balanced. A bigger viewport makes the game easier (you can see more terrain) so, unless they rebalanced difficulty, the game won't be as difficult as intended. I wonder if they …

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2021-06-23, 06:49

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Steam Arma: Cold War Assault (Windows) Arma: Cold War Assault (Mac) It's the first time I've seen a game that has two versions (Windows and Mac/Linux) on sale. Every other developer that support non Windows OSs sells a license that can be used on every OS supported. Not a big deal because that's …

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Re: Some questions I have on Sound Blaster cards...

Posted on 2021-06-22, 10:38

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- "Wavetable" synthesis: a complete misnomer. This is sample-based (unlike FM synth which actually uses waveforms), so the samples are recordings of instrument sounds. The quality of your sample set largely determines output quality. Some cards use hardware samples (one or more ROM chips with 512kB …

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Re: Line Wars 2 with S3 acceleration?

Posted on 2021-06-22, 08:58

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Sorry, my fault. I looked for "Line Wars" but not "LineWars". Thanks for the link.

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Line Wars 2 with S3 acceleration?

Posted on 2021-06-22, 06:38

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So I was trying some old games and I found Line Wars 2 (previously shareware, now freeware ). It supports a (small) variety of graphics cards, MCGA (Standard VGA), VGA (320x480, mode X), VESA (640x480), S3 (800x600) and ATI Mach 8 (800x600). My Dosbox.conf file include the line machine=svga_s3 so it …

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Re: DOS hard drive partitions question

Posted on 2021-06-14, 18:26

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Is not that easy. Keep in mind that, although 2 partitions of 1.6 Gb may be legal for DOS, you BIOS can have smaller limits. A limit of 528 My is typical of 486 systems.

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Re: PCem v17

Posted on 2021-06-14, 13:36

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Thanks. PCem started as a "niche" emulator that allowed many people remember the first PCs... a golden age when you everybody tried to make their own PC and didn't use non-descriptive cases. Now, it has surpassed every expectation and fills a very important gap (the Windows 9x era games are being …

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