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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-02-13, 08:58

Greetings! I just saw your SimCity review and a few others, and I've gotta say it's a breath of fresh air to see someone else actually giving DOS games the attention they deserve! Excellent work, very professionally-done and I appreciate the depth and neutral take you provide. I've been reviewing …

Re: Best free video capture software for Win/Linux?

Posted on 2011-02-12, 21:04

in Milliways
It really depends on what you intend to capture. If all you intend to do is capture a small part of the screen, or capture from another device, then you can get away with using VirtualDub 's capture features. For full-screen stuff I'm not sure because the only full-screen gameplay I ever capture is …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-02-12, 21:01

So the filler episode will be about the NES. How does that fit into DOS? It doesn't. :P I never actually intended for my filler episodes to focus solely on DOS stuff, but rather, anything about classic gaming, even if it's only minorly related. My plan was to use my filler episodes to talk about …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-02-12, 12:35

Ancient DOS Games Episode 35 - SimCity is online! Nothing too much to say that I haven't already said in the additional information section. Plus I haven't gotten to bed yet so it's hard to think if there's anything I missed. I will say that numerous people guessed today's episode correctly, more …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-02-05, 18:30

The theme I hear in Linewars 2, reminds me of Jean Michelle Jarre Oxygene 2. All the music in LineWars II was originally done by the music tracking group U4ia, though I believe most, if not all of it, was modified just a little. And the hint you gave about your next review reminded me a bit of the …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-02-05, 12:52

Ancient DOS Games Episode 34 - LineWars & LineWars II is online! Hopefully my nerding out at the beginning doesn't scare away too many people... LineWars and LineWars II are both easier to appreciate the more of a programmer you are, so it was kinda necessary for me to get a little technical this …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-01-31, 09:40

After I got the episode up I started looking around a little more about EarthSiege 2 and discovered that, because it's a 16-bit application, many people are having trouble getting it running on modern Windows systems. That could be part of the reason why GOG doesn't have it up yet. Bummer. Should …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-01-30, 05:07

I've always had a passing interest in Mech games, so I dabbled with MW2 (and I either 3 and/or 4, I don't remember clearly) and picked up & put down Mech Commander several times. I was only dimly aware of EarthSiege/StarSiege, although I did play Tribes a little after Sierra released it for free to …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-01-29, 07:42

Ancient DOS Games Episode 33 - EarthSiege is online! Finally getting used to using my new video camera as a microphone. The audio quality is much better than in the past. Actually, much to my surprise, this was the first time I had to run an audio waveform compressor on the GAMEPLAY footage. …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-01-25, 04:18

Microsoft had control of much of the FASA stuff for awhile. I think Smith & Tinker has it now, but I'm not 100% certain. Activision still very much cares about its copyrights over the MechWarrior 2 games, but no idea what their stance is on the original MechWarrior. I forget at the moment which …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-01-22, 18:46

Ancient DOS Games Episode 32 - MechWarrior is online! Yeah, I doubt Harmony Gold would go after me if I didn't censor the Warhammer on the title screen, but I'm hoping that it comes off more-so as a joke than as being serious considering what happened when those videos of the newest MechWarrior …

Re: Projects you never finished

Posted on 2011-01-17, 22:50

in Milliways
Now that my Megazeux episode of Ancient DOS Games is up I can talk about my unfinished game projects, many of which stem from Megazeux. Battlesuits (MZX) - Unfinished because a hard drive crash destroyed the last half of the game (9 months worth of work) and I really didn't want to have to make all …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-01-15, 15:34

Actually, Canadian. ;) I generally perform my updates between 10:00 PM and 12:00 AM EST the night before Saturday, though there's the rare time when I'll be late and it will take an additional hour or two past midnight to get it up. I've noticed a lot of web shows are updated at or around midnight, …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-01-11, 10:31

But I still like the monitor I ended up with anyways because it has a super-fast response time and even allows it to be set FASTER. (Though with the side effect of making fade ins and outs look flickery.) LCD overdrive? ( http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/06/lcd-overdrive-gets-explained-lamented/ ) …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-01-09, 07:22

edit: I also noticed that the graphics seem to have been scaled bad either in DOSBox or when being converted to a streaming video format. The horizontal lines in the game intro are especially noticeable. Any idea what happened there? They're only a single pixel tall. Since I'm correcting for the …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-01-08, 18:31

Gemini000: depending on what soundcard you have, then you can maybe try get the soundcard to remove some of the static. My Xfi can remove noise, so maybe there is an option with your soundcard that can help you out there ? Technically, there is no soundcard on my main system. It's an onboard …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-01-08, 09:50

Ancient DOS Games Episode 30 - Covert Action is online! I picked up a new video camera and microphone, but only managed to get the video camera working properly. The mic I got works perfectly fine but the sound card in my main computer has severe static on its mic channel and can barely pick it up …

Re: Thexder EGA vs TANDY/PCjr mode

Posted on 2011-01-06, 14:06

in Milliways
There is no MCGA mode in the original Thexder... Begging your pardon, but Thexder supports the following, per each of the 'MAIN' files: MAIN = CGA MAINEG = EGA MAINJR = PCjr/Tandy MAINPS = PS/2 (MCGA) Oops. ^_^; I've long since lost my box and manual for the game and the disks don't state which …

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