Re: Prince of Persia Macintosh - how to download/extract?

Posted on 2020-04-25, 19:34

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Oh. I wouldn't have expected that they'd have kept the source code for such an old game. Is there some reason they never bothered with a proper PC port? The DOS version is another port done by a 3rd party, just like the Mac - the original game was for the Apple II. I'd say the Mac version is a …

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Re: Retro n-gon renderer - a JavaScript 3D software renderer for your retro projects

Posted on 2020-04-25, 09:18

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Hmm, in the Tomb Raider demo it looks like "square"/rectangular quads get rendered perspective-correctly at any angle, whereas deformed quads (at least one pair of non-parallel sides) show PS1-style warping? Does that make sense? Filename affine2.jpg File size 214.22 KiB Views 2068 views Filename …

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Re: Retro n-gon renderer - a JavaScript 3D software renderer for your retro projects

Posted on 2020-04-25, 07:04

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Cool engine! Looks better than the stock Tomb Raider rendering. Would love to see this get used in some things. Filename affine.jpg File size 197.08 KiB Views 2093 views Nice implimentation of affine texturing. 😀

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Re: Prince of Persia Macintosh - how to download/extract?

Posted on 2020-04-25, 05:02

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Extracting the game from the PS2 disc and then running it in Basilisk II (assuming that's possible) will probably work much better than trying to run the game in a PS2 emulator. The PS2/Xbox/Wii versions are source ports built from the Mac codebase, not the original Mac binaries running under …

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2020-04-23, 05:25

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^^ One sample & 3 envelopes for the whole track. Nice! I'm not familiar with the original game but I checked out it's OST & your cover seems spot on. How come you changed the tempo between 120 & 121 each 16th note? This isn't exactly a "swing" track... were you just trying to get an intermediate …

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Re: Vogons streaming announcement thread

Posted on 2020-04-23, 00:00

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Welp, I think that episode went well! In terms of gameplay/being interesting and video quality at least. We managed a 6-in-one: Arvoesine, Edge of the Planet, Seven Minutes, ROM Check Fail, Battle Girl, and Out There Somewhere - all titles I really wanted to cover but too short to do on their own. …

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Re: List of known Thin Clients with SoundBlaster Pro support for cheap MS-DOS gaming !

Posted on 2020-04-22, 10:40

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Nice work! I have a few thin clients, but AFAIK the only one with a compatible sound chip is a Termtek TK-3350, which you already have listed. I'll double check this when I get the chance though.

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Re: Vogons streaming announcement thread

Posted on 2020-04-21, 12:26

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@leilei - thanks for checking it out! It was super interesting to explore even if the mod isn't the most polished thing in the world. I didn't have any experience with Tribes or its modding scene going in, so that was something completely new to me, which I love doing. (I actually highlighted the …

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Re: Just look at all those new-in-box PAS-16s

Posted on 2020-04-20, 19:26

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

^^ I didn't realize those were WSS cards, I thought they were boxed copies of Windows. Nice catch. Don't think I've ever even seen what the box for one looked like.

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Just look at all those new-in-box PAS-16s

Posted on 2020-04-20, 19:13

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Normally I wouldn't share a story from vice (which has become far too clickbait schlock blog-y for my liking) but a friend sent me this, and when the hell else are you going to see something like it? https://video-images.vice.com/test-uploads/articles/5e9469c9e448000098d57137/lede/1586785425430- …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-19, 22:21

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just a ramble: I re-organized some of my storage shelves to fit a couple extra machines I'm not using. Lately I've been thinking I should sell off all my pre-Pentium gear, once the pandemic dies down and people are comfortable meeting in person again. DOSBox & PCem adequately emulate anything 486 or …

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Damnit, Techmoan

Posted on 2020-04-18, 09:28

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in Marvin \ Sound

Now there's another device out there that I don't need but really, really want . ( Review of the Roland MT-90U standalone General MIDI player .) ...Although naturally I'd go for the floppy version, forget this USB nonsense. Interestingly this Roland box supports GS and XG (and also "General MIDI 2", …

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Re: Using VIA VT8231 South Bridge for sound blaster pro emulation

Posted on 2020-04-17, 23:55

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great w0rk figuring this out and making the init utility Prez & JazeFox. This is going to be SUPER useful on a ton of devices. I can't believe the solution was just a few register writes all this time; makes it even worse that lazy mfgers didn't include the BIOS support. :P Anyway, nice job! I think …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-04-16, 19:36

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Holy smokes, xjas, that's an amazing setup! You have two moogs (?) like it aint no thing!? xD From the looks of this you must be at least a semi-professional musician. Where can one listen to your productions? Thanks! The two synths visible in the pic are Roland "Boutiques" - recreations of the …

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Re: Vogons streaming announcement thread

Posted on 2020-04-16, 18:05

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Ironed out the lineup a bit more. :) Today we're exploring a couple abandoned universes that had a ton of work put into them over the years, including one which was only ever really meant to be played by the creator himself. Honestly with the current theme of isolation and remoteness, it's almost …

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2020-04-15, 22:25

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This one keeps popping up on my ebay "People who viewed this item also viewed" feed. it's nice but I'm not in the market. looks cool tho: https://www.ebay.com/itm/MacEffects-CLEAR-Apple-Computer-Macintosh-Mac-ADB-Mouse-G5431/274318165934 clear-mac-mouse.jpg That is something else... It looks like …

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Re: Vogons streaming announcement thread

Posted on 2020-04-15, 10:30

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Welp, that was fun. Today's stream turned out pretty much how I wanted these to go when I started the series, in terms of tighter gameplay (not going in completely blind), spending the right amount of time on each game, and ironing out the technical details beforehand. We played Strange Adventures …

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Re: Vogons streaming announcement thread

Posted on 2020-04-14, 10:31

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Tomorrow at 1 PDT, I've got a trio of top-down indie games lined up from pretty early in the indie era. In keeping with the current theme, two are space games and one is a very space-y game. Should be a good time! Twitch link is all over this thread & in my sig now too. 😀

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Re: Need someone to record music from various (will pay) - AppleIIe, Amiga, old Mac, PC (Speaker, SB1.5), FM-7, MSX, etc

Posted on 2020-04-14, 08:20

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If the MSX game can run on an NTSC machine from floppy disk, I can probably do it.

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Re: Burning CD's for DOS on Linux

Posted on 2020-04-13, 03:38

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I have better luck with K3B on Linux, it runs fine even if you're not using KDE (you'll have to pull in a bunch of KDE dependencies if that's the case but it's not too bad - couple hundred MB.) You can set it to strict ISO 9660 filesystem which should truncate all the filenames & ensure complete DOS …

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