Re: Restoring surround sound to Deus Ex and other games - should I get Sound Blaster MB3?

Posted on 2015-03-07, 00:03

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Doomsday is the only port I know of that can use EAX but it was really, really stupid. (In a sense I guess it was trying to mimic what Doom PSX did, but again the reverb was on a sector by sector basis, so every sector in the map had it's own reverb setting)

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-02-26, 17:11

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I swear I've played this but I don't remember it's exact name. Bah!

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-02-26, 01:13

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Gravitar?

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Re: Descent 1 error

Posted on 2015-02-19, 20:41

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On topic, have you tried booting your machine completely fresh in DOS, not loading EMM386 and seeing if it will run? If you did a full install you shouldn't need a disc inserted to run the game. You might even need MS-DOS 6, because I recall having issues with Descent on the "MS-DOS" that Windows 9x …

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Re: Good Minecraft mod ideas

Posted on 2015-02-13, 22:57

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it's less about 'graffix' and more about something far less stressing a virtualmachine. and software rendering would be more logical to avoid block overdraw and have really fast spans to work with Can one really write a software renderer for this thing in Java, of all languages? And actually have …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2015-01-25, 08:41

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The 1.3 patch introduces some interesting "Recycler Variants" that change up the gameplay. Even though the scrap mechanic remains the same some of these mods actually make BZ2 alot more fun than the stock version. Forgotten Enemies was also a really, really good community based expansion. I actually …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2015-01-24, 02:47

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BZ2's shortcoming really was the dramatic change in gameplay. Scrap is instantaneously collected, there are no geysers, your recycler is a permanent building after deploying, the armoury and factory are also permanent buildings CONSTRUCTED by the constructor unit, and additional scrap capacity is …

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Re: Unreal

Posted on 2015-01-22, 08:30

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I should mention. Audio choppiness in Unreal can be alleviated under Windows Vista/7 by setting Galaxy's latency to 80 or higher. I don't know about Windows 8 though. Another way to avoid audio stuttering is to use ALchemy with a hardware mixed chipset (EMU10k1, EMU10k2, EMU20k1, or EMU20k2), add …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2015-01-18, 08:26

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I would love to have new people to play Unreal with me. Though I'm still going through the process of consolidating my mods together and getting my custom server back up and running. I do frequent newbiesplayground jackals coop server whenever they're not running a 227 specific map, though.

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Re: Windows 7 died

Posted on 2015-01-14, 10:59

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This whole "planned obsolescence" crap is borderline trash for paid software. I can understand it for FOSS stuff like Linux, but Windows? Don't they get enough revenue to continue support for even atleast XP?

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Re: You Know You're a Hopeless Retro Geek When...

Posted on 2015-01-07, 21:48

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Wasn't there a "somewhat old" Macintosh computer in the sitcom Seinfield? I remember seeing it in various apartment scenes in that show, it was like the only thing that popped out to me in that show even though it was supposed to be just the usual props.

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Re: Is there a way to fix CDDA volume issues under Vista/7?

Posted on 2015-01-06, 01:40

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Ripping the audio and lowering it's dB reminds me of how that is the only way to lower music volume in PSO... It would defiantly work though, but if _inmm will bind properly to xtremeg2's executable is another story. There is no CD Audio level in the windows mixer on Vista/7... All you can do is …

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Is there a way to fix CDDA volume issues under Vista/7?

Posted on 2015-01-06, 01:18

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My spouse is playing Xtreme-G2 PC version after getting a pristine copy of it off eBay, and the program cannot alter the volume of the background music, it always plays at maximum volume. I notice Starsiege did this also unless I apply that strange WinMM wrapper that collector applied to Starsiege. …

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Is witchhaven 2 really that buggy?

Posted on 2014-12-31, 02:25

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-FoaCJdpM8 Saw this in my subscriptions, I don't know what to say...

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Re: Quake on an oscilloscope

Posted on 2014-12-30, 20:46

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Now we need Quake on the Vectrex.

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Re: Request for the title screen music for Wolf3D AppleII GS version.

Posted on 2014-12-26, 05:42

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I know about that video but the audio is being recorded though the microphone and the person recording doesn't wait for the title music to finish or loop over. EDIT: To be specific I just want a quality recording of just the title screen's music.

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Request for the title screen music for Wolf3D AppleII GS version.

Posted on 2014-12-26, 04:44

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I can't find any decent videos of this thing running on actual systems, with quality audio recording and I'd like to beable to hear this version's music really bad in proper quality without running it in a emulator. If anyone here has a apple ii gs, is there a possibility of recording this theme …

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Re: Poll: most annoying game controls

Posted on 2014-12-19, 06:08

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The wing commander games have horrid controls even with a joystick. It seems dependent on how fast the game is running. Privateer 2 though, good god... The dedicated roll keys only WORK if you have a joystick, you can't use them if mouse is enabled... WHY!?!?

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Re: The Pirate Bay Shut Down

Posted on 2014-12-18, 23:01

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by DracoNihil

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sliderider wrote: Have you tried using a Disc Doctor on it? Dunno' what that is. I'd be amazed if anything can make my old CD's readable again given the surface damage done to it.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2014-12-17, 21:34

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Unreal, though the game seems to be populated by this "clan" of Spanish speaking players that seem to like to insult anybody who speaks English, oh and they put forth zero effort to play nice with you. I wish all the good players didn't leave.

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