Re: Intel Core 2 Duo (E8400) versus Intel Core 2 Quad (Q6600)

Posted on 2015-05-30, 07:27

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is no sense in running a dual core when you already have a quad core that can be used in the same system. Q6600 is a fine overclocker, and you should be able to easily run it at the same FSB as your current E8400, which will equalize their performance in single/dual-threaded tasks, and of …

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Re: Issue with Blood + AWE64 Gold

Posted on 2015-05-26, 12:47

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

philscomputerlab wrote: CTCU doesn't run on MS-DOS 7.1. This can be fixed quite easily: https://cloakedthargoid.wordpress.com/ctpnp-dos7/

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Re: Windows XP updates

Posted on 2015-05-25, 20:49

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by dr_st

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

See this is what I am used to using to update windows XP and with any brand new install it refuses to even load the updater or the MS update web page. Now I realized that I have a 40gb drive with a fully updated install of XP on it from when some one was going to take this system off of my hands so …

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Re: Potentially very bad - in the near future you might not own your own car/PC/etc

Posted on 2015-05-24, 15:20

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This is just natural evolution of things. You already don't own the software you buy. Why should it be different with hardware? There's no right and wrong in this. It is just a system that everyone tries to bend to their own advantages, to the best of their abilities, within the parameters set by …

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Re: With all due respect this is the WORSE!!! software i ever had

Posted on 2015-05-24, 14:45

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aviramof wrote: Well I did my best and still no luck I'm sorry we couldn't solve your problem, sir. Would you like your money back?

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Re: With all due respect this is the WORSE!!! software i ever had

Posted on 2015-05-24, 10:33

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See how terrible? Now because you didn't tell us, the software is still crappy! So it's all your fault. I suggest you kill yourself against the wall.

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Re: With all due respect this is the WORSE!!! software i ever had

Posted on 2015-05-24, 09:53

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aviramof wrote: And for good reason!!! Yep, I'm sure genetics and upbringing have something to do with it. 🤣

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Re: With all due respect this is the worse software i ever had

Posted on 2015-05-24, 09:01

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Wow, amazing. I don't think I have ever seen such a combination of ignorance, rudeness, rule-breaking and stupidity in a newbie forum poster, ever. 😀

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Re: Keyboard issue when playing Sopwith

Posted on 2015-05-22, 17:54

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How many keys(and which ones) are you pressing at the same time to shoot while turning? Some keyboard start choking already at certain 3-key combinations.

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Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-22, 06:20

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Lo Wang , You make some valid points, and I agree with them, in part. For a Pentium4, I would probably not go beyond XP myself. Then again, if I care about performance in general, I will not use a Pentium4 as my primary machine. It would feel a bit strange to talk about performance advantages of a …

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Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-21, 15:02

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Its easy to see how much faster Windows 6.X is compared to the old bloated slow Windows XP, just check the 3dmark 2001 thread and the Doom 3 thread... wait a min... :P What about some more modern benchmarks (those that still run on XP)? With these things, tweaks may make a lot of difference, and …

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Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-21, 09:33

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My point is that if one goes to apply tweaks to minimize footprint / increase responsiveness and what not, one will find that there are tweaks to apply to NT6 OSes as well, and that at the end, the result will be very similar. Vista was the worst among those OSes in terms of responsiveness, simply …

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Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-21, 07:52

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Functionality in a general sense, does absolutely noting for me if the system's bloated and unresponsive I'd say that to me it's pretty much the opposite. Who cares that it's "blazing fast" if it can't do things I need it to do? Besides, a lot of the myths about newer NT6-based Windows being " …

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Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-20, 20:02

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And if still sucks. I don't care if it's 50% faster. The ui is a disaster As I said: Oh, and if you don't like the Windows 8 UI - installing Classic Shell takes care of most of the trouble, and you can pretty much have something that looks like Vista/Win7, with a few nice improvements. A well …

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Re: Installing Windows 3.1 from floppy disks

Posted on 2015-05-19, 19:31

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by dr_st

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This is the standard message you get when running a Win32 executable in DOS. Try running the executables in Windows. Put one in a test directory, launch it and see what happens.

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Re: Best Doom ports for dos

Posted on 2015-05-19, 19:27

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Thank you for the link. It was a very pleasant and informative read indeed. 😀

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Re: Best Doom ports for dos

Posted on 2015-05-19, 17:08

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That is not just an issue with this port I worked on, but with all of them. No one ever recreated the Mode-X code that is used in the original DOS releases. The source for that part was never released, and proper Mode-X support requires a lot of messy code and 'planar' image buffering. By then …

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Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-18, 19:28

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Well, with 3 generations of OSes between them, they better. But of course one can't take it for granted, given how most applications actually tend to get more bloated and slow with every new version, due to the "hardware gets faster so who cares" notion. So, kudos to Microsoft here. :) Oh, and if …

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Re: classic car racing games

Posted on 2015-05-15, 17:43

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Crappy webpage design aside (come on, blue text on black?!), I liked the analysis of NFS and NFS2 (didn't play the other games in his list, except briefly NFS3). I also often felt that too much focus on realism made the original NFS less fun than it could be (or that NFS2 was).

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Re: Run Windows in Dosbox?

Posted on 2015-05-13, 13:39

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Also this (for Win3.x): http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=9405 Whereas it is said that Win9x stability is not ideal, I have had no problems running Win3.11 in DOSBox MegaBuild, and on WinXP even with working parallel port passthrough (using AllowIO). I needed it to run a Win3.x-specific …

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