Has anyone heard of the "TC" series of 16-bit Windows 3.1 games?

Posted on 2022-03-14, 22:39

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On a shovelware CD I've owned for years now called "The Complete Encyclopedia of Games Vol. 2" there's a series of games, all prefixed with "TC" done by a person by the name of "Anthony Carin", with a PO box address listed in Plainsboro, NJ. There was also a AOL email address listed to with the user …

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Re: Is there any way to install a MS Windows shim on a Linux distro through Wine?

Posted on 2022-03-11, 06:30

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Things I've had to use ACT Shims in on Windows (to varying degrees of unsuccess) I had not needed so under Wine, are you sure you need such things? It doesn't just run as-is under Wine? I had no idea Wine even had the "AppCompat" thing implemented at all. GOG installers that try to install sdb's …

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Re: Tell us which videogame sounds or voice-clips are the most burned into your brain for life

Posted on 2022-03-08, 22:22

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Here's some: "Warning: Unauthorized transit gate activity detected. Incoming hostiles." "Deploy wide spread, Riley take point." "Roger, heading zero-one-niner." "Switching to secured channel." "New mission orders received." "AHH! The fuel leads are jammed! I can't get loose! Cut the fuel leads!" --- …

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2022-03-07, 15:43

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Hi-Octane was knocked out by Bullfrog in a few weeks but it's still a good game. Hi-Octane happens to be one of the few MS-DOS games I know that uploads custom sound samples to AWE32 cards, the music sounds way more interesting when played that way as opposed to just standard General MIDI. Though …

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Re: Windows 95/98 games you never get tired of?

Posted on 2022-03-03, 13:07

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Despite not having any kind of modding tools or editor, I still like playing through Gunmetal because the maps are quite nice visually despite the game being stuck in 256 colours land. (in 1998 no less!) The soundtrack is great too.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-02-28, 13:49

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Just finished playing though all of Gunmetal (again), this time having realized DXGL can actually function under Wine and override Wine's own DirectDraw, I was able to run the game with significantly less CPU overhead, though it still thrashes the CPU when playing the FMV's, most of it kernel time …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-02-13, 05:48

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I just randomly tried to login to the Eden PSOBB private server, and it worked. So, I guess I'm playing PSO again. I haven't touched this account since making it in 2013, I'm surprised it's still there.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-02-05, 12:47

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Nope, I'm playing the stock game with just the official 1.1 patch applied. I generally avoid fan made patches (for any game) unless they are absolutely necessary for getting a game to run on a modern OS. But I rarely encounter such issues now, due to having multiple retro rigs. All the patch does …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-02-05, 11:52

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Still having a lot of fun with Freelancer. Freelancer is such a hit & miss game, the scripted storyline missions are about the only "fun" I can have out of the game. When you finish the story and the entire universe is unlocked, there's not a lot of "Special things" to experience other than just …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 05:17

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What about an HD6970. Everything above mentioned by swaaye plus price tax for "Oh my god, it has whopping 2 Gb of VRAM!". But to be fair, Linux open source drivers are better, but not by much. I have a HD 6870 and have had nothing but problems with it, both on Windows and Linux. Worse on Linux …

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Re: Tell us which videogame sounds or voice-clips are the most burned into your brain for life

Posted on 2022-01-19, 20:37

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I wonder if anyone remembers this: Stealth ... End Stealth

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2022-01-15, 09:59

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A lot of them are really good. The Command & Conquer series, the Tex Murphy series, ... Yeah but those are cutscenes in videogames. Cutscenes are fine. It's the "interactive movie" stuff I dislike. Basically if the entire game is just one huge FMV with very limited options in what to do in them, …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2022-01-15, 08:49

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I bypass a lot of monetization by downloading the entire video to RAM and viewing it locally after it finishes downloading. I also recall VWestlife doing a video about the "minimum time required" to copyright claim something, of course, ContentID being a automated system and there's very little if …

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2022-01-09, 14:01

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Lawnie wrote on 2022-01-09, 11:26: It's absolutely bizarre, isn't it? But once you get past the design choices there's actually a really good game in there! Yeah, but atleast Cruelty Squad HQ makes it very, very obvious the most important thing you need to remember is aim for the head.

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2022-01-05, 22:50

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Ahah... you briefly mentioned Cruelty Squad. That game really was the nicest FPS I ever played in this decade.

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Re: Is it just me or has Firefox gotten progressively worse every major release?

Posted on 2021-12-25, 18:25

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You give us absolutely no detail on your system specs or the operating system you are running. My specs don't really have anything to do with the issue on hand, as I said these are problems I've noticed happening overtime, well before I even moved to Linux. And they've never had any solutions other …

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Re: Is it just me or has Firefox gotten progressively worse every major release?

Posted on 2021-12-25, 12:18

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This could correlate with this known issue: https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/ No, I don't think it's related to that because I disable a lot of the cacheing and made Firefox only save my session when I exit, I don't notice any writes instigated by …

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Re: Is it just me or has Firefox gotten progressively worse every major release?

Posted on 2021-12-25, 07:56

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The only reason I bother to keep Firefox updated is because it's tiring having to fake out the User Agent string just to continue accessing whatever website that would otherwise give me a garbage page on purpose telling me to "update my browser". But this is seriously ridiculous, especially the …

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Re: Tell us which videogame sounds or voice-clips are the most burned into your brain for life

Posted on 2021-12-24, 22:22

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There's quite one too many to list for me: Hearing a cacophony of "Schutzstaffel!" in Wolf3D really does it for me. Pulse Rifle, and also the Bullgut firing sounds from Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. The former especially given how I often have to fall back to using that thing for the next 12 hours. …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 14:00

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We all have different skill sets and most people I know don't like getting their noses rubbed into it unprovoked. We're all here because we enjoy old computers and gaming. Boasting and belittling don't win friends. This is why I generally adopt a "Let the other person shoot first, return fire later …

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