Re: Vector graphics games

Posted on 2023-07-02, 23:06

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I wouldn't call this "vector graphics". This is CPU-rendered polygonal 3D. Thousands of early 3D games on the PC look like that in the pre-accelerator times. Just search on Moby. When I think of vector graphics, I think of 80s arcade machines with vector monitors like Battlezone, Asteroid, Star Wars …

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Re: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Windows 98 - "No supported SVGA type and no VESA VBE were detected."

Posted on 2023-06-18, 19:25

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by feda

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FYI this game is fully supported by ScummVM on modern systems.

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on 2023-06-06, 23:12

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Caribbean Disaster is playable in PCem, though only in Windows mode. Pure DOS mode makes insane memory demands that I couldn't satisfy. Dosbox: complains about MSCDEX. Dosbox-X: a different error, but it runs with a fix that I found, but the graphics bug out ingame and it crashes. So, difficult to …

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Re: I'm looking for another game.

Posted on 2023-06-01, 18:17

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by feda

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JA2 definitely had some mined and fenced bases that I remember. There are some other candidates, though I'm not sure if they have mine detection mechanics: Soldiers at War and 101st Airborne.

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Re: I'm looking for another game.

Posted on 2023-06-01, 14:00

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by feda

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in Windows

Jagged Alliance.

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Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 13:42

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The engine might be "time-bombed". From acknex.exe: Time restricted - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION 4.0H alpha Mar 28 1999 Excellent find! Who knows what happened with this weird game, it only gets weirder. Could it be that they missed removing the restriction before the release? Is the release a hurried …

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Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 00:43

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No way...this actually works, even on my Windows 10 PC! However the game runs WAY too fast, I'm wondering if this is one of those where the speed of the game is dependent on the processor you're using, not sure if there's anything to simulate a slower processor that we could possibly use You can …

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Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?

Posted on 2023-05-28, 18:25

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I wondered if it was the old Y2K bug popping up, but then the IGN reviwers had problems with the game in 1999 already; the failed review the OP linked was originally posted in september 1999? Their problem was different that ours. They had the game crashing. Y2K bug doesn't even allow the game to …

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Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?

Posted on 2023-05-28, 11:14

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Firtasik wrote on 2023-05-27, 19:26: feda, only added the Start.wrs parameter after acknex.exe in a shortcut. Thanks, I hate it. I wonder why Macmillan, a book publisher, would put their name on something like this. Gotta be one of those tax write-off scams.

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Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 18:49

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Nice one, konc! It does work with dgVoodoo2 on Windows 10 but the game runs too fast (limiting FPS helps). Also there's no music. Does the original disc have audio tracks? I still can't get it to work in W10 even after changing the date. Did you do anything else apart from dgvoodoo? Runs okay in …

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Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 15:25

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konc wrote on 2023-05-27, 14:10: Just set the system date to something earlier like 1999 and you'll be surprised 😉 That's....incredible. Never would have thought to try something so stupid 😁

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Re: Wacky Wheels with higher FPS?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 15:14

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konc wrote on 2023-05-27, 13:17: I think that's not what Good_Punk ask guys. The frame rate is locked to a quite low value so once you reach that you can't go smoother regardless of dosbox cycles or real hardware power. Well, that's a different story. OP didn't mention this.

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Re: Wacky Wheels with higher FPS?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 08:19

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by feda

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Try it in DOSBox and crank up the cycles.

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Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 08:11

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Someone who commented on my upload said this: "Game was tested & runs on windows 98 only. Does not run on XP or up. How to run it extract ISO contents into new folder transfer to desktop of win 98. Run Setup file not auto-run will install then you can run it. Will also need graphics card with …

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Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?

Posted on 2023-05-23, 23:27

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I can't get it to work on any of my emulated systems (pcem, vmware).

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Re: No MP3 background music in Half-Life in Windows 98

Posted on 2023-05-23, 08:26

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Did you fully remove the id tags? Half-Life's old mp3 playback method really doesn't like them.

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Re: Hitman Blood Money and dgV2: Can it fix broken reflections?

Posted on 2023-05-15, 17:49

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by feda

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in dgVoodoo General

W10 64 bit.

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Re: What's bottlenecking?

Posted on 2023-05-07, 21:15

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by feda

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Lintu wrote on 2023-05-07, 20:52: It says on the download site: "These disks are original boot floppy disk media for use with Microsoft Windows CD-ROMs. " Those are for writing to a floppy disk.

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Re: What's bottlenecking?

Posted on 2023-05-07, 20:40

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Nope, the boot disk CD isn't working. I burned the iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive, booted up, the boot up hangs on to a black screen with the hyphen or underline flashing but nothing happens. Why would you burn a floppy disk image to a CD? Notice how it says "Boot Disk (3.5-1.44mb)". Disk vs …

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Re: What's bottlenecking?

Posted on 2023-05-06, 14:44

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Lintu wrote on 2023-05-06, 07:34: Everything works ok but some games that don't work on Windows 10 and I have therefore installed on this computer could work better. Which games?

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