Re: Blue screen in Windows 7 install
Posted on 2021-08-16, 11:05
What happens if you try to boot some form of Linux on it? Especially one that boots with a loglevel that generally outputs plentiful information in the kernel message ringbuffer.
Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)
Posted on 2021-08-15, 23:23
I view the AAA gaming industry now in the same way I view the AAA movie industry - "mostly annoying, generic/teen/Michael Bay stuff that I'm not interested in, with the occasional gem that I'll eventually hear about and get around to later". It's simultaneously the best and worst time to be a gamer …
Re: Most important games
Posted on 2021-08-14, 09:44
Starsiege, Starsiege: Tribes and Unreal are the three big ones for me because it's what got me started in making mods and maps for video games in the first place. I know more about Unreal 1 modding than any one person should really ever know, heh.
Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi
Posted on 2021-08-14, 09:42
Falcosoft wrote on 2021-08-11, 15:38: Interestingly SB Audigy2's ASIO driver does not cause such problems. That would be because it's hardware accelerated like OpenAL. It's using one of the hardware voices on the main chip as a native ASIO buffer.
Re: Are Creative sound cards, especially X-Fi, really worth it for EAX games?
Posted on 2021-08-12, 07:51
I don't think it's worth it at all primarily because Creative is a terrible company. When you really look at it, the soundcards since AWE32 and above, are just music synthesizers being forced to do something they weren't designed to do in the first place: render MIDI music. The drivers are …
Re: What music are you listening to?
Posted on 2021-08-01, 04:15
Cruelty Squad's ingame music. Especially the theme of the game's third (and final) ending.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-07-31, 00:19
Still trying to get the rest of the fish caught in Cruelty Squad... And also trying to get some of the organs I haven't found yet either apparently.
Re: Remixed MIDI Pack Community Project for Eternal DOOM
Posted on 2021-07-29, 17:27
rfnagel wrote on 2021-07-29, 09:26: Even LEE JACKSON is participating... Woah, nice to see Lee Jackson is still alive and well these days. Good to see you're still around too. I should probably give Eternal Doom a try one of these days.
Re: Unreal vs Unreal Gold (UT engine) Performance
Posted on 2021-07-29, 17:06
Years ago, Epic said that they want to open-source Unreal Engine 1.0 and Unreal, but it requires a lot of time on their part to organize and clean-up the code, which is why they haven't done it. The successor releases can't be open-sourced because they use middleware that is commercial and requires …
Re: Unreal vs Unreal Gold (UT engine) Performance
Posted on 2021-07-28, 21:30
You know, before my family moved to a smaller house and got rid of a lot of things I wish they didn't get rid. (and also wished we didn't move to this house in the first place) I did have Unreal, straight off the CD, running completely unpatched on a old Windows 98 with SLI'd Voodoo 2 cards. Which …
Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)
Posted on 2021-07-26, 12:35
Heh, I've streamed Starsiege on Twitch several times but I rarely find anyone willing to give a honest review and look-over of that game. So, I'd be curious what Lawnie would have to say of it.
Re: Anyone have any recommendations for a replacement OpenWRT capable router?
Posted on 2021-07-23, 09:43
I think that's the standard everywhere both on fiber and copper. Where I live it's the same for over 10 years by now. Though here it's not a problem to switch it into bridge mode, use it as a modem and log in with your own router through PPPoE. With some ISPs you can do it yourself, with others …
Re: Anyone have any recommendations for a replacement OpenWRT capable router?
Posted on 2021-07-22, 15:08
What about Starlink? Is that available where you are yet? Really sounds like you mainly need a better connection to me. If anything I need better living conditions, but I'm trapped here with my "parents" and the COVID19 pandemic isn't helping. I'm not even sure if satellite internet can even …
Re: Anyone have any recommendations for a replacement OpenWRT capable router?
Posted on 2021-07-22, 13:14
So it's it's copper wire? Then probably slightly older routers are good too. I'm using an ASUS RT-N18U, it's decent on stock firmware, but it works with Advanced Tomato, OpenWRT and DD-WRT. My backup router is a really old TP-Link TL-WR841N with DD-WRT. Yeah, to make things even more insulting AT&T …
Re: Anyone have any recommendations for a replacement OpenWRT capable router?
Posted on 2021-07-22, 06:11
What exactly are you using this for? Do you not have any better ISP options available? What about ATT fibre? For a Linux box with multiple connections, you could use something as small as a laptop and an ExpressCard single or dual NIC card. No need for a "huge tower" to be a router box. I've played …
Anyone have any recommendations for a replacement OpenWRT capable router?
Posted on 2021-07-21, 18:23
I've been stuck living with belligerent parents, my father of which is completely oblivious to the concept of bufferbloat in addition to being behind a ISP (AT&T U-Verse DSL), that is also oblivious to the concept of bufferbloat as well, constantly shipping us only two kinds of gateway that have no …
Re: Duke Nukem 3D - Which music card is best? (re: Adlib/OPL3, MT-32, or SC-55?)
Posted on 2021-07-21, 17:58
To me, the Duke Nukem 3D music will always sound 'properly' in OPL3. :-) That's how I played it 25 years ago and that's how I will always remember it. Yes, Roland SC-55 sounds objectively better and it's very enjoyable, but whenever I want to have the 'true' (for me) experience... I will go with …
Re: Duke Nukem 3D - Which music card is best? (re: Adlib/OPL3, MT-32, or SC-55?)
Posted on 2021-07-21, 16:10
I'm pretty sure in regards to the music in Duke3D, it was all done on SC-88. Pay close attention to the BONUS.VOC and GRABBAG.VOC files and you can notice the instrumentation being identical to what you can find on the SC-88. I think perhaps the SC-88pro would be a good choice since that was out …
Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)
Posted on 2021-07-19, 15:08
Unterstate '76. (insert faux german here)
Re: IRC activity since the freenode incident?
Posted on 2021-07-08, 00:31
I'm on the Rizon and EsperNet networks, infact the most active place I'm in is EsperNet/#modarchive.
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