Re: After 40+ years of home printer technology, what have we learned?

Posted on 2023-03-31, 05:04

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ARE there any good inkjets? Were there any at some point? Are they all that bad? Yes, if you understand some limitations. The most important one is that injectors will fail if unused for a time, so any inkjet will fail if left unused for a few months. I recommend to print a colour page every week …

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Re: Terminal Velocity Boosted Edition

Posted on 2023-03-27, 04:56

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TV did have high-res textures IF and only IF you had the CD-ROM version, and the high res textures were only really used on spots that had buildings on them, the so called "satellite picture" textures I like to call them because it looks like a birds eye view from a satellite camera. F!ZONE had way …

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Re: Terminal Velocity Boosted Edition

Posted on 2023-03-26, 08:42

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Pros: - It works nicely on Windows. - More languages supported. Cons: - It is the same thing as original TV. - No higher resolution textures. - No enhaced soundtrack (yes it is 48kHz, but I guess the samples are the same). - No enhanced FMVs... and they've aged very badly. - No goodies (arts, icons, …

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Re: Check WD Hard Drives with “Data Lifeguard Diagnostics” suggestions…

Posted on 2023-03-15, 05:58

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I downloaded Victoria and it looks great, I prefer graphical interfaces over dos for equal functions and victoria seems pleasant to use. Basically I just check if the drives are trustworthy, when they start failing they are untrustworthy and trash them. The advantage of victoria is that it can test …

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Re: Check WD Hard Drives with “Data Lifeguard Diagnostics” suggestions…

Posted on 2023-03-14, 05:50

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just use MHDD / Victoria / WHDD. They read every block on disk and "time" every operation and show the results. Up to "green", usually is fine. "Orange" or worse means that a problem is developing in that zone, even before SMART catches that. A disk with "orange" blocks is not reliable. Also, keep …

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2023-02-13, 05:53

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Some games I backed up recently... - F-22 Total Air War. - TFX. - Fast Attack. - Pro-Pinball Timeshock!

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Re: Program that searches words inside multiple files

Posted on 2023-01-25, 05:45

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I guess Google Desktop Search (deprecated) and Copernic were the best programs to catalog and search your documents. Windows had one search feature but didn't support as many file types. On the other hand, if you only want to search once inside a bunch of files (a drive, a folder), I use the search …

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Re: Recommended 16-bit DOS compressor?

Posted on 2023-01-08, 18:29

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I remember other called AIN, almost as efficient as RAR.

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Re: Old jet game from 94/95?

Posted on 2023-01-07, 13:33

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Jetstrike ? A jet game can be a simulator, a shoot'em'up... even there were strategy game based on jet planes. You should give us some hints, like views (inside the cockpit, behind the plane, horizontal/vertical shooter), genre, polygon/sprite based, gameplay, if you remember a jet model used on …

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2022-12-29, 05:42

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Epic - Severed Steel Amazon Prime Gaming Dishonored 2 (GOG) The King of Fighters 2003 Metal Slug X Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers Metal Slug Twinkly Star Sprites The Last Blade The Last Blade 2 Most of that games are old Neo Geo games... you can extract the ROMs from the installers and then …

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Re: Unidentified Device Conflict with VGA

Posted on 2022-12-27, 05:47

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It's identified as a PCI card. Your first step should be running PCI list or another program that lists every PCI device and then look what is unnacounted for.

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How to get Realtek drivers?

Posted on 2022-12-01, 06:03

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I'm setting up a computer for my son, and it's on a room without wired ethernet. So I was going to use a USB wifi dongle, but... Realtek downloads site is a mess. It used to be slow and hard to navigate, but now it seems that many downloads are simply gone. I know that maybe Windows (or Microsoft …

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Re: SMARTDRV and controller with cache.

Posted on 2022-11-16, 15:42

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There are some things to note: - Usually, the controller caché size is less than the caché that you can create in RAM (i.e.: via SMARTDRV or the caché included in Windows). - I really doubt that MS-DOS is aware of the caché in the controller. That means that, if write caché is enabled, that data …

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-05, 14:41

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Another two games: - Crusader: No Remorse : Almost everything can explode. Also, the environment is very detailed. - Serious Sam HD The First Encounter : I have that game. I hate games that base their difficulty in launching waves and waves of enemies. But I must say that the environments are top …

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Re: Simply describe a game or game genre in a single sentence

Posted on 2022-11-02, 14:59

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Feed your OCD (Pokémon, TCGs, anything based on collectibles).

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-01, 18:07

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Another one: Tachyon: The Fringe : The game is a (somewhat) standard space shooting-simulator, like Wing Commander / X-Wing series. But in most space games, space ships or space stations tends to be tiny but in this game they are HUGE. They can fill your windscreen way before you get to dock and you …

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-01, 14:58

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Half-Life : Because it was a "familiar" environment. Before Half-Life, they weren't realistic (Wolf 3D) or depicted futuristic / fantastic (Doom, Heretic) places. Half-Life was one of the first games that depicted places that you feel you could find on real life (I mean, offices, industrial areas …

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What can I do with an HP t620?

Posted on 2022-10-16, 09:39

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Lately, I've received a number of faulty HP t620s. After combining parts, I've made a (very?) unbalanced HP t620. It is the dual core model, upgraded to 16Gb RAM... but sadly the it has a small 16Gb M2 SSD (and it doesn't seem to be a fast one). Also, I've upgraded it to the latest BIOS available. …

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Re: Final Fantasy VII AWE Ripping

Posted on 2022-09-25, 17:55

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I used Final Fantasy VII with a Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold, so three things I remember: - Although FF7 had a built-in soundfont utility, it didn't work with AWE64. You had to load the soundfont using the card utility before running FF7. - Some tracks had "sound effects" embedded. Besides that vocals/ …

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Re: Creating a BIN/CUE thingy from Linux?

Posted on 2022-09-07, 04:59

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So I used cdrdao to rip the game (fortunately, it only took 8 hours). Still I haven't found a way to pause (and power off the computer) without having to restart. Now I have got two CUE+BIN (F22TAW and TFX) images that have audio data, but I was wondering about CUE+BIN+WAV. - What tools can split my …

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