Re: RIP 32 bit PC gaming?

Posted on 2014-09-23, 20:44

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One day Crisis 12 is going to come out and it will require a gigawatt power supply unit, 20 CPUs, 3 buckets full of DDR46 RAM, four latest GFX cards and a petabyte of drive space. If you're the kind out guy who wants to play Crisis 12, then yeah, 32 bits won't cut it for you. And when that happens …

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Re: Help with DOS mode in Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2014-09-23, 05:48

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I used to have a Sound Blaster Live! and GeForce FX 5500 in my Pentium 4 2.4GHz build and also had the same problem with DOS mode (had to use a Win98SE boot floppy to get around this). Then about 2 months ago I replaced the FX 5500 with a GeForce 4 Ti 4200, but the problem was still there. 2 weeks …

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Re: Awesome DOS Game Poster

Posted on 2014-09-22, 15:56

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A most excellent poster! Many of my favorites listed as well - the three D's (Doom/Doom 2, Descent/Descent 2, Duke Nukem 3D), Quake, Rise of the Triad, Warcraft 2, X-COM, Wacky Wheels, Epic Pinball, Wolf3D, and on and on and on...... :-D Thanks for posting this squareguy, you really made my day! : …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-09-21, 02:53

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Since I'm feeling a bit evil today, I replaced the Matrox Millennium II 4mb in my P166MMX with a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (S3 Virge 325) 4mb and ran 3DMark99 on it: 3DMark Project: 3DMark Build Version: 200 Date: 9/20/14 Time: 4:01:52 PM Project Name: Pure Torture! Comments: Do not try this at home …

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Re: End of the line

Posted on 2014-09-20, 17:41

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This is one of the reasons why I keep my computer hardware and software collection small; sooner or later the law of diminishing returns will hit you, and a decision has to be made: do I keep going in the same direction, spending more and more time, money and effort on something that no longer gives …

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Re: Ebay crashed again today. *sigh*

Posted on 2014-09-17, 20:07

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Good find pewpewpew. And you're right, I'll just wait it out until further notice. (And Ebay is working once again, looks like they replaced their old, tired, worn out hamsters with new, fresh, ready-to-go volunteers 🤣 ).

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Re: Ebay crashed again today. *sigh*

Posted on 2014-09-17, 18:22

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And it happened today again, apparently: 😦 😒 😵

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Re: Speed-compensated Gameport?

Posted on 2014-09-17, 05:09

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I have one, it's a Socket 7 board though: the Asus TX97-XE http://i.imgur.com/8uIhB0kl.png The 8-bit & 16-bit I/O recovery time settings help some games properly detect and use both my Sound Blaster Pro 2 and GUS ACE sound cards, otherwise they're not detected or unexpected freezes/lockups will …

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Re: Girl draws photorealistic picture to honor Robin Williams

Posted on 2014-09-15, 04:57

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Very very nice. I really like it 😀

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Re: Old harddrives -- any love?

Posted on 2014-09-14, 22:23

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I've always used hard drives on all my builds, and almost all are IDE - the only SATA hard drive is in my main rig (500GB WD Black). Some are recent (2006-2010), others are older (1997-2002). And I don't mind the noise and slow speeds at all. As for hard drive failure I agree with Nahkri, the data …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-14, 20:47

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I also played the game at the time of it's release on a AthlonXP 2000+ with a geforce3 ti200 128mb and as far as i remember it wasn't such a great experience. Also the game was a major disappointment..it had nothing to do with Unreal 1998 apart from some tattooed skaarjs. That's why I said it was …

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Re: What were your first computer(s)?

Posted on 2014-09-13, 06:08

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First PC was a Pentium 100 that took about 4 months to build in 1994; had a generic SIS Socket 5 motherboard, 8MB of RAM, Trident TGUI 9440 2MB video, Aztec Sound Forte or Sound Galaxy, Panasonic 2x CD-ROM, WD 500MB hard drive, DOS 6.2 & Windows 3.11. Was upgraded several times during the late 1990s …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-09-13, 02:39

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-11, 03:02

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I played Half-Life on a P233MMX with 64MB of RAM and a Voodoo 1 back in November 1998; not too bad, it did slow down a bit on large areas with lots of soldiers and/or aliens but still very playable (running at 512x384 also helped quite a bit). The long loading times were bothersome, though. Unreal …

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Re: Doom 3 + Voodoo 2 SLI + PIII Coppermine...

Posted on 2014-09-10, 15:51

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Man, more psychedelia!! I wonder if I should have tried playing Doom 3 with my Voodoo2 instead of my GeForce 3 back then - probably would have been more enjoyable as well 😊

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Re: Does this look like a faulty Voodoo2, or something else is going on?

Posted on 2014-09-10, 15:38

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by JayCeeBee64

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Oh wow man! Groovy to the Max!!!

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-10, 05:54

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Well, let me see (grabs his copy of Doom 3): * English version of Microsoft(r) Windows(r) 2000/XP * Pentium(r) 4 1.5 GHz or Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ processor · 384MB RAM · 8x Speed CD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers * 2.2GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus …

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-09, 05:57

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(Deleted. No longer relevant anyway)

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-08, 03:54

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-09-07, 20:20

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It was the Ghost in the Machine 😮 ! (starts humming "Spirits in the Material World" very quietly |-] ).

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