Re: Most disappointing games?
Posted on 2016-02-27, 17:57
Quake, Quake II and Half-Life were all about the mods. The stock games may have been good (HL especially so) but it was TF/AQ2/CS/DoD and others that made them really great.
Re: Horrible box art
Posted on 2016-02-25, 16:39
Re: Pentium 4 RDRAM systems
Posted on 2016-02-09, 01:51
So to my question, do anyone have any experience with RDRAM? One of my retro PCs is based on Abit TH7II, P4 2.66 @ 3 GHz, 2x 256 MB RDRAM, GF4 Ti 4600 and windows 98SE. Running fine, performance is very similar to DDR-based P4. That board was my main rig though most of the last decade. It was …
Re: Old PC's used as props in movies
Posted on 2016-02-04, 21:22
RoyBatty wrote: They also need to stop acting like Apple ruled the world, the company was a fail in the 80's and jobs even left. Commodore ruled. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-real … 0s-2012-12?IR=T That graph is interesting. Commodore used to be a big deal.
Re: Most disappointing games?
Posted on 2016-02-03, 00:22
Interesting, hell is where I am bored. I never understood why so many people completely write Doom 3 off, instead of accepting it is not a game for everyone. Perhaps many people who enjoyed old Dooms expected miraculously similar experience ten years later. Too many monsters for a stealthy/scary …
Re: imac boot issue
Posted on 2016-02-01, 20:44
Watch those PRAM batteries. I just lost one of my tray-loaders because the battery burst and spewed gloop all over the logic board. The machine was a spare and hadn't been powered on for years. I assume this isn't a danger for machines that are regularly powered on?
Re: VGA In Memoriam
Posted on 2016-02-01, 05:43
What's a good way of piping VGA output to a TV? I'm temporarily working in the living room and there's a big old 1990s TV in the corner with RCA/S-Video inputs, and I was wondering if I could use it to watch movies. My video card has a spare VGA output.
Re: RIP ST34342A
Posted on 2016-01-30, 20:12
What's the smallest commercially released SATA drive?
Re: This is a bad idea right?
Posted on 2016-01-27, 03:15
So where are you guys getting isopropanol alcohol? As mentioned, the stuff is both useful and expensive and I never have enough of it.
Re: Missing floppy for book Super VGA Graphics Programming Secrets
Posted on 2016-01-25, 12:41
This is the curse of old computing books. I always tell the seller (usually Amazon) NOT to send the book if the floppy/CD is missing but they always send it anyway...
Re: vogons.org flagged by Google Safe Browsing
Posted on 2016-01-25, 12:40
Re: This is a bad idea right?
Posted on 2016-01-23, 02:33
I did something similar with a card that came to me covered in orange juice.
Re: Am I the only one preferring Westwood RTS to Blizzard RTS?
Posted on 2016-01-21, 01:38
I remember Tib Sun. Multiplayer was fun, at least before cheap custom 'gold' maps became the norm. I played Tib Sub before StarCraft and immediately disliked the control system, especially the limited 12-unit selections. OTOH SC was undeniably a more inventive and original game.
Re: When did you first get acces to the Internet and what sites did you visit at your first time ?
Posted on 2016-01-20, 21:50
I remember landing on an empty quake server and some guy telling me to go to another server where all the people were at. This was the first time I 'talked' to anyone on the internet. It was a strange feeling.
Re: Asus P4P800 Deluxe won't post
Posted on 2016-01-18, 10:09
I had one of these die on me recently as well. I haven't had time to test it but the problem sounds similar.
Re: John Romero releases new Doom .wad
Posted on 2016-01-18, 10:06
E1M8 was the only Episode 1 level not made by Romero. Is there some story behind that?
Re: Worst 90's computer brands?
Posted on 2016-01-14, 05:31
THAT CD-ROM died probably two years later; still an insanely short time imo. Isn't it normal for consumer-grade optical drives to malfunction after 2 or 3 years? First the tray begins to jam, then they lose the ability to burn certain kinds of media, then they lose the ability to read certain kinds …
Re: My Retro Rigs - Andariel and Duriel
Posted on 2016-01-09, 09:19
Congratulations on your beautiful daemonic twins. Double the trouble, double the fun.
Re: Worst colourschemes you ever seen?
Posted on 2016-01-01, 01:18
When CGA was being designed nobody used IBM PCs for games. It was intended for office/business graphics: bar charts, pie charts, that sort of thing. Games were an afterthought.
Re: What HDD do you recommend?
Posted on 2015-12-31, 15:19
Do you use Opti Drive Control or similar to check DVD-R and BD-R burn quality? I've done this for years, unfortunately compatible drives no longer seem to be manufactured.
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