Re: Lenovo Desktop Keyboard Confusion

Posted on 2023-01-02, 21:20

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I got some sort of reply. Informing me both my resellers are official Lenovo dealer. So the inferior keyboard model is an official product and a chinese replica all at once. I have given up on getting more explanation from Lenovo on this matter, could not reach anyone knowledgeable. Rather …

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Re: Thinking of using a fan controller for my Win9x/XP PC's - any advice?

Posted on 2022-12-30, 17:35

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If someone can please explain how I would install something like this in the link I will be very grateful, thanks in advance: https://pt.aliexpress.com/item/1005004551230242.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.13.3b35349e5QSr0C&algo_pvid=049bcf5b-d165-40df-91fc-d5c8903fc19b&algo_exp_id=049bcf5b-d165- …

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Re: The Force Engine (Dark Forces Port)

Posted on 2022-12-30, 14:44

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So, yeah, how do I change "the values in fraq shaders files"? This post details things, though it does not read like a fix, more like a workaround: https://the-force-engine.freeforums.net/thread/165/linux-gpu-render-green-color PS. I updated my 32-bit XPmod port yesterday. Now managed to make it …

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Re: The Force Engine (Dark Forces Port)

Posted on 2022-12-29, 16:40

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I get this kind of color glitches if I select hardware rendering. Green instead of white on the trooper, and also some other colors on the walls and the sky. Is there a fix for that? Still prefer it as there is perspecive correction in this mode. I play on a laptop with Iintel HD Graphics 4000. IMG …

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-12-28, 02:05

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Maybe isn't wrong thing to ask developer implementing some graphical cue to write in-game in which parts/modules of engine is time spent. I mean VM/Drawing/Music/IO waits/whatever. Shall I ask in for New issue? Some months ago I was reading posts at the 4Duke forums, the Steam game reviews and …

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Re: The Force Engine (Dark Forces Port)

Posted on 2022-12-27, 17:02

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About resolution i tested in tft 1920x1080 and 640x400 in crt But even with low res, is same 1fps I would suggest for speed test, run TFE with software-renderer in Windowed mode, at a low resolution. And make sure it does NOT upscale, like 800x600 has to give an 800x600 pixel window. Use in-game …

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Re: The Force Engine (Dark Forces Port)

Posted on 2022-12-27, 15:00

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Ok i tested Dark Forces, run, but is like 1fps, not possible to play, any advice? my computer is a C2Q 2.5ghz, ATI 5760. In software mode is like 1fps, in GL mode is like 1fps too, but with bad graphics I found the following myself, using this x86 XPmod TFE port: 1) Core i5-3550 + AMD Radeon HD …

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Re: The Force Engine (Dark Forces Port)

Posted on 2022-12-26, 20:02

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jeje im waiting 32bits and XP support This weekend I worked on making an XPmod version, of the The Force Engine project v1.00. There is a recent Linux pull request version over at github, which goes a long way in making it build with MinGW32/GCC, instead of MSVC. Though there were still quite a few …

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-12-23, 01:09

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I don't know how exactly Fury should work in DOS. On eduke32_20211006 and little tweaking, I've been able to get Polymer running even on OGL2.1 compatible graphic card. But it is no fun: It is slow (CPU intensive), full of graphical glitches and corruptions. Ion Fury is more like slideshow and with …

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Re: Allegro devs - timers causing exe to crash?

Posted on 2022-12-22, 22:37

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Ok, confirmed. Swapping out OpenWatcom with a GCC 12.x version of djgpp, and rebuilding the Allegro 4.2.3.1 library to use it (bear in mind anyone wanting to compile Allegro 4.x from source with a modern compiler - you need to add the -fgnu89-inline argument to the CFLAGS options in makefile.dj to …

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Re: Allegro devs - timers causing exe to crash?

Posted on 2022-12-22, 18:32

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Can you build the whole Allegro package with tools and examples? Surely there is one example in there using the timers. OpenWatcom + Linux Cross-compile is not really a common platform for Allegro, I suppose... I use DJGPP on Windows XP x86, two separate setups. But neither of them are semi-modern …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2022-12-22, 18:15

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Trying out how OPL music sounds, and would like your opinion, folks - https://youtu.be/eC7zaIOL9w4 Don't have access to my Yamaha cards anymore (and to be honest the 744B one never sounded right), and this sounds nothing like any of these recordings on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= …

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Re: CPU/GPU Undervolting experiences, is it safe for the rest of the components?

Posted on 2022-12-21, 19:57

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Needless to say, I don't have any kind of temperature or power consumption problems with this processor nor have I ever had them with any Athlon XP, even the latest Thunderbirds never gave me any problems. I am confused - Why do you want to undervolt then? - How do you define a problem with power …

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-12-21, 19:20

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IMO - Before considering any serious back-port efforts, one has to first assess why and how, after eDuke 2018-02-12 r6650, legacy compatibility and especially performance was hit so severely. In different steps that is, in the period 2018..2021. Without addressing that, why bother.

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Re: CPU/GPU Undervolting experiences, is it safe for the rest of the components?

Posted on 2022-12-21, 17:08

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I expected at least to be able to testing 1.3v and 1.1v would be great. I figure it is unlikely that motherboard designers add such undervolting functionality. Because it can easily result in a non-working or unstable system, resulting in time/money-wasting troubleshooting support calls. Maybe you …

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Re: Lenovo Desktop Keyboard Confusion

Posted on 2022-12-19, 16:30

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Looks like "Preferred Pro" is a keyboard series rather then a specific model. You'll be safer when seaching to confirm it's P/N matches one on your good list Dell did a similar thing with their Quietkey range The RT7D5JTW being is quite desirable been considered one of the nicest rubber dome …

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2022-12-15, 01:31

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At this point none of the VST Midi Driver variants can be recommended. I don't know exactly what you mean. VST Synths or the interfacing hosts? My humble opinion in that regard, is that the MIDI standard is flawed for the use cases here, where the synth mode is important and the defaults …

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Re: Powerleap PL-iP3/T not reporting CPU Temps

Posted on 2022-12-15, 01:15

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See example image of a Chaintech 6BTM i440BX Pentium II/III motherboard that has this feature. CPU Temperature sensor probe is the protruding wire at the bottom right. I think the "Winbond" chip on the top left is interfacing with the probe. The BIOS with the 'MX' branding is next to it, and has …

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Re: Powerleap PL-iP3/T not reporting CPU Temps

Posted on 2022-12-15, 00:03

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Anyone have one of these Powerleap Slotkets, are they supposed to report the CPU Temperature. I have a Celeron 1Ghz chip in it right now, everything works fine it seems. But I can't see the CPU temperature, figure that's a very important metric that should be passed through I would think! There is …

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Re: TIE Fighter - TIESND.EXE

Posted on 2022-12-14, 23:44

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Contents of the patch: # Archive tiesnd.exe 1994-09-22 20:16 2496 1496 GMIDI.MDR 1994-09-29 15:49 3592 2357 PAS.WDR 1994-09-22 20:18 3504 2258 ROLAND.MDR 1994-09-02 17:32 3808 2361 SNDSCAPE.MDR 1994-09-15 17:16 3879 2247 SNDSCAPE.WDR 1994-10-10 11:07 1109 431 PATCH.BAT 1994-10-10 14:48 739 396 …

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