Re: Bruninho's Virtual Machines (Windows, Linux, Mac)

Posted on 2020-11-15, 12:04

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by Bladeforce

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

As fun and cool as all these approaches are, particularly kjliew's passthrough solution, it does make me wonder if most of these older games don't already run flawlessly under Wine these days. Even if you're not running Linux as your host system, you could run Wine in a 3D-accelerated Linux guest …

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Re: Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries non-Titanium version

Posted on 2020-10-31, 09:24

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by Bladeforce

in Windows

in Windows

PCem with windows 98 plays the 3dfx version PCem is too slow for any games that support 3D acceleration. Simple games (for eg. Moto Racer 1) can be barely playable with hefty machines, high single-core turbo clocked and desktop class CPUs. Anything more than that (for eg. NFS3, Quake2 etc.) would …

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Re: Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries non-Titanium version

Posted on 2020-10-29, 04:27

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by Bladeforce

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in Windows

PCem with windows 98 plays the 3dfx version

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Re: The Need for Speed Special Edition for Windows doesn't work

Posted on 2020-08-24, 19:52

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by Bladeforce

in Windows

in Windows

Can you not just play the 3DO version?

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Re: Return Fire

Posted on 2020-07-14, 20:24

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by Bladeforce

in Windows

in Windows

15 year bump!

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Re: Arabic theme games?

Posted on 2020-05-16, 14:38

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by Bladeforce

in Windows

in Windows

Master of the lamps? C64/atari

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Re: Problematic Windows games list

Posted on 2020-02-17, 00:14

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by Bladeforce

in Windows

in Windows

This wrapper works fine for need for speed 2 https://github.com/zaps166/NFSIISE

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Re: MDK on Wine, mouse issue

Posted on 2020-01-12, 21:13

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by Bladeforce

in Windows

in Windows

I can verify that mdk runs perfectly well in vanilla wine (5.0rc4) only difference is im running the 3Dfx exe through nGlide

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Re: help skip startup screen/desktop of windows 3.1 within dosbox

Posted on 2018-10-24, 18:08

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by Bladeforce

in Windows

in Windows

Wouldnt know if it's possible to bypass the brief desktop at boot up but whats wrong with ctrl+f9 to quit? This page has tips on changing the boot logo http://www.win31.de/etips.htm Change it to a plain black maybe?

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Re: Star Trek Generations: video won't play

Posted on 2017-10-25, 20:30

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by Bladeforce

in Windows

in Windows

The videos also work fine in Wine but as for the information needed this is the mediainfo output of the video files: General Complete name : /mov_01.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Format settings : rec File size : 87.9 MiB Duration : 3mn 43s Overall bit rate : 3 300 Kbps vedt …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows)

Posted on 2017-09-25, 19:53

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by Bladeforce

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

Any chance of listing the changes wth every release?

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Re: Moto Racer freezes when starting race

Posted on 2017-07-20, 19:41

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by Bladeforce

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Moto racer is a d3d game and glide doesn't have a native version as it's only supported through directx Maybe this link will help? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filede … s/?id=814853718 I use wine where it runs fine OOTB

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Re: Old Games best way to play?

Posted on 2017-06-08, 18:39

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by Bladeforce

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in Windows

Virtualization has compatibility issues. WINE has compatibility issues. Emulation has performance issues. Using old hardware has performance issues. Using new hardware has compatibility issues. Oh and everything has both compatibility and performance issues, I just wrote down what the largest …

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Re: Old Games best way to play?

Posted on 2017-06-07, 16:17

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by Bladeforce

in Windows

in Windows

Or wine 😀 No need for many of those patches or worrying about 3d acceleration not working in wine

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Re: Playing Windows 95 Games on Windows 10 Through Emulation

Posted on 2017-04-11, 19:53

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by Bladeforce

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

PCem and qemu have windows 95/98 3d acceleration. Personally i use WINE

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Re: Need for Speed 2 on modern computer?

Posted on 2017-02-10, 16:54

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by Bladeforce

in Windows

in Windows

https://github.com/zaps166/NFSIISE Windows, Mac & Linux runs fine without the hassles

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Dosbox and Linux Exiting problem

Posted on 2016-10-21, 19:47

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by Bladeforce

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Hello! I am using dosbox with linux specifically KDE. When exiting a full screen dos game using dosbox any windows that are open before running dosbox are not in the same position as before running dosbox in full screen. For example if i have my home folder open in the center of the screen after …

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Re: Wine on newer windows OSes?

Posted on 2016-07-16, 23:24

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by Bladeforce

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

"(It gets worse: Even the 32bit version of Wine has dropped support for Win 2.x binaries the last time I checked.)" Use playonlinux instead of one install of wine and you will never lose support for win 2.x binaries

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Re: Mechwarrior 2 BIN/CUE not mounting

Posted on 2016-06-25, 19:11

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by Bladeforce

in DOS

in DOS

Make sure the cue file is in that location first then open the cue file in a text editor and see if the cue file has the image named correctly (Linux requires the case to be the same too) and in the correct place other than that i'd say you have a corrupt image

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Re: A superior "Riven" build

Posted on 2016-06-23, 16:32

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by Bladeforce

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in Windows

Original works fine in WINE (Never needed to bother with the Steam version) as long as the exact version of quicktime is used from the CD. I did manage to find this from somewhere (repects due to the person who did it Needs to be installed in XP first) I opened two Explorer windows: one showing my …

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