Re: Is there any point in using normal 2x or normal 3x scaler with openglnb?

Posted on 2017-02-11, 20:55

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by Azarien

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lukeman3000 wrote: So, I just took some screenshots for comparison's sake with the following settings: Both look equally bad to me, because of uneven pixel sizes.

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Re: Which XP?

Posted on 2017-02-11, 16:19

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WinFLP was meant to do one thing: be a client OS for Remote Desktop. Most of XP's standard services are removed or disabled by default. It doesn't even have Paint or Calc (or both, don't remember exactly) and it's missing joy.cpl, among other things. And when you reenable missing but useful services …

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Re: Blood - no menu text

Posted on 2017-02-11, 13:12

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I've never encountered such a problem with Blood. Maybe the game itself is corrupted. The only real problem with Blood on DOSBox 0.74 is that 320x400 graphics is broken. This seems to be fixed in SVN.

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Re: P-4 laptop what can be used for ?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 10:02

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dr_st wrote: Besides, Win2K is simply XP without the eye candy and some (useful) features. You can switch to classic look in WinXP and get back a lot of the "wasted" performance. It still has different icons, though. And 2K/Me icons were the best, IMHO.

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Re: P-4 laptop what can be used for ?

Posted on 2017-02-06, 23:21

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If you find an actual P4 laptop, you could use it to iron your shirts. I do have one, and I think you exaggerate :-) I use it for retro gaming, but sometimes also for web browsing, coding, MS Word etc. Although an attempt to encode a video in x265 on it was a mistake ;-) The main technical problem …

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Re: ES1863.11 BeloRussian 386SX PC '1993.

Posted on 2017-02-05, 21:20

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by Azarien

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CMOS checksum failure - battery seems dead 😀

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Re: Which XP?

Posted on 2017-02-05, 10:08

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What about x64 keys? What about them? I'm almost sure x86 and x64 keys for Windows XP are not interchangeable. Technically, Windows XP x64 is not a 64-bit version of 32-bit Windows XP. It's a client version of Windows Server 2003, rebranded as XP. Kernel version is higher (5.2 vs 5.1) and you …

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Re: 386/486 as main pc

Posted on 2017-02-05, 09:48

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a 1960 car would still run (and often they do)" Well, you certainly can use a 1960 car as your "main car". So I could use an office application with very limited functions as long the file will still be readable today by any os. Word 6 wasn't "very limited". Don't know if its files are still …

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Re: Slowest Desktop Processor For Windows 10

Posted on 2017-02-03, 14:15

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I'm using Dell Latitude D520 with a Core Duo running Windows 10 32bit but still it is not that slow. Well, we should distinguish "slowest" from "oldest". If "slowest" is wanted, then we should look at some single-core no-hyperthreading CPUs, like Prescott-era Celerons, or something with low clock …

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Re: dos music player oriented file browser

Posted on 2017-01-28, 20:02

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zirkoni wrote: Open Cubic Player It's good (very good) but it can't recognize mp3s with ID3V2 tags. But it's open source, so this problem is theoretically fixable. (and ogg support would be good, too)

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Re: Can you show photos from games on your CRT monitors? + need monitor advice

Posted on 2017-01-28, 19:01

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zomp wrote: Which age of the monitor would you prefer ? Or should i take one from the early 90s and one from circa 97 ? I wold take a 15" or 17" from early 2000's, even if that would be "non-retro enough".

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Re: Pentium 60 build: the other side of 1993

Posted on 2017-01-28, 18:54

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jheronimus wrote: Today I learned that a 16bit version of Total Commander exists. Total Commander (or Windows Commander, as it was called back then) began in 16 bits, actually, around 1993.

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Re: Slowest Desktop Processor For Windows 10

Posted on 2017-01-28, 18:48

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It runs surprisingly well with low resources and everything is pretty much auto-detected or gets picked up by update. Well, that doesn't always work as it should. On my Intel Atom netbook Windows 10 constantly wants to update the drivers, and the new ones have fewer options (gfx) or are less stable …

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Re: Error when loading X-Wing Collectors CD

Posted on 2017-01-28, 17:42

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AFAIK on GOG you get all three versions of X-Wing: DOS floppy, DOS CD and Windows CD, so no need for an old copy if you want to compare them.

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Re: Slowest Desktop Processor For Windows 10

Posted on 2017-01-26, 10:10

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Don't know if it helps, but I refurbished two Core 2 Duo machines with DDR3 memory and I put Windows 10 on both of them and they run perfectly happy. Both CPUs are Wolfdale. Check on the specs below if you don't believe me. Well, I still use Core 2 Quad as my main machine (It's 10 years old now but …

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Re: Old DX SDKs

Posted on 2017-01-24, 13:31

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would you happen to have software and driver sdks to share? im especially interested in the very old ones How old ones? I happen to have: Windows 3.1 - en_16bitddk.exe (142 MB) Windows NT 3.51 - en_win32ddk.exe (53 MB) XP - winxp_ddk.exe (130 MB) XP SP1 - en_winxp_sp1_ddk.exe (137 MB) Server 2003 - …

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Re: CD Dos games that uses midi as music?

Posted on 2017-01-24, 12:33

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Blood (midi is better than the CDDA) Agree, MIDI are sounds are beautiful, but CD music on same game is really spooky... Hmm. I like CD music more. Maybe Warcraft? Warcraft 2 definitely had both though War2 for DOS has MIDI music. War2 for Windows has the same tracks rendered as mp3 or similar.

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Re: Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning "Function Pointers Have Moved"

Posted on 2017-01-23, 14:53

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by Azarien

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This error means that your gamex86.dll is not the same as the one used when saving the game.

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Re: Is there any point in using normal 2x or normal 3x scaler with openglnb?

Posted on 2017-01-18, 10:01

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What I want to achieve is the crisp, grid-like pixel look. I don't want the graphics smoothed out or blurry in any way. Imagine 640x480 displayed in 1920x1080. Using 2x nearest neighbor scaling, that 640x480 becomes 1280x960, which is 120 pixels short vertically. The picture is crisp, but it …

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Re: How does an x86 CPU swtich from 16 to 32bit mode?

Posted on 2017-01-18, 09:37

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Unless you want to write your own OS (which is exciting but extremely hard), use a DOS extender. You can write protected mode programs in C or C++ using DJGPP and OpenWatcom. If you want pure assembly, NASM will work with both - yes I tried. There's also Free Pascal that uses the same extender as …

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