Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-01-12, 23:18

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by Almoststew1990

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Well I've finished Game 1 game! The Catacomb Abyss 3D - Shareware https://i.imgur.com/dSuGunGh.jpg This was suggested as a very early FPS, ahead of Wolfenstein 3D. I thought I'd give it a go as I've played Wolfenstein a bit (maybe for a couple of hours in total over the last two years in dosbox on …

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

Posted on 2019-01-12, 18:47

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by Almoststew1990

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Set up a P3 650 / SB32 / MX440 for a project. Whilst i was waiting for installs, I thought I'd sort out my pile of cards (warning, image may be upsetting ;)) https://i.imgur.com/kyyD7Soh.jpg I thought I should check what I actually have these days: AMD 390x with bodged cooler Nvidia GTS240 ATI X1650 …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-01-11, 20:03

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by Almoststew1990

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I've "installed" the .ecw files and now during boot up the sound card does not produce an error. I also get general midi sound and some sound effects. However, most DOS games give an error about an IRQ conflict. Windows doesn't think there is a conflict and wave sounds in Windows plays fine. I've …

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Re: The Weekend Thread (Fri-Sun)

Posted on 2019-01-11, 19:49

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by Almoststew1990

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Tomorrow I'm getting some tyres fitted on my car. Cheapest price is booking through a generic website which gives me a morning or afternoon slot only. I get the confirmation email... 8.30am 🙁 No other plans really. Try and sort out my latest PC.

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-01-11, 08:03

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by Almoststew1990

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Damn, it looks like I am not onto any games yet as I don't get any sound in DOS. The SBL! DOS drivers installed fine and autoexec has been updated. Before Windows loads it says: Setblaster a220 I11 D1 H56 P330 T6 SBinit etc... Creative @Port e400, IRQ11 error: Cannot open C:\Windows\System\Default. …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-01-10, 22:45

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by Almoststew1990

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This project has got to a slow start. I've had lots of problems putting together my P4 PC to run on Windows 98; I would get windows protection errors when I install the chipset drivers which I think was related to USB in particular. I've put together four or five PCs and done the same number of …

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Re: Driver Help

Posted on 2019-01-09, 16:40

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by Almoststew1990

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Thanks very much. The PC has been very unstable all day so I'll give this a go once I've tested the RAM and HDD etc.

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Re: Driver Help

Posted on 2019-01-09, 09:23

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by Almoststew1990

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

dionb wrote: Which chipset are we talking about here? Sorry it is a SIS 648 on S478 motherboard (ECS L4S8A2)

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Driver Help

Posted on 2019-01-09, 08:19

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by Almoststew1990

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm trying to get my chipset drivers installed on my fresh Windows 98SE install, but whenever I install the readily available latest release v1.21, it gives me a Windows Protection Error. The drivers are from 2005... I have struggled to find an earlier version of the driver. However, the 1.21 driver …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-01-08, 22:28

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by Almoststew1990

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Good suggestions thanks! I'll add RotT, Jedi Knight, Outlaws and AVP on there. I know I won't be able to finish R6 and probably Deus Ex although they might make a nice change when I'm no doubt drained on fast fps action and this could be the time I actually finish them! I'm planning on playing …

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Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-01-08, 21:47

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by Almoststew1990

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https://i.imgur.com/FwfZtteh.jpg Hello everyone I've had the urge to do a bit of a project - to play a bit of history! I want to play a bunch of first person shooters from old to new to get a feel for how the genre "grew up". I came into the genre around the COD2 era and therefore I've never …

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Is this an interesting graphics card

Posted on 2019-01-08, 14:09

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by Almoststew1990

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I've come across an ELSA Gloria Synergy. I've Never heard of this card before and I saw that it had a Ram slot on it which is pretty interesting! Does anyone know anything about this card? I guess ram from the Ram amount it is a generation earlier than a Nvidia TNT. Could I expect performance in …

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Re: I spent Christmas in Finland and Estonia (Many Pictures!)

Posted on 2019-01-04, 18:13

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by Almoststew1990

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ok, no need to worry then, your camera has done shite loads of post-processing for you ;) White balancing, noise reduction, sharpness, chromatic aberration reduction and the blackness has been emphasised. Damn, really?! Do you mean my phone has? I'm fine with that, it's default is "superior auto" …

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Re: I spent Christmas in Finland and Estonia (Many Pictures!)

Posted on 2019-01-04, 13:22

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by Almoststew1990

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Very nice photos (very techincal) and very nice post-processing! What lens was used? Seems like a fast one :) I didn't do any post processing at all! I never do. I'm no professional photographer or anything, but I don't really like PP, it usually looks over done. Also I don't know how to do it :lol …

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I spent Christmas in Finland and Estonia (Many Pictures!)

Posted on 2018-12-30, 15:53

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by Almoststew1990

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Hello everyone, I thought I would share some pictures from my holidays Finland and Estonia, if anyone is interested! We started in Finland. Christmas Eve (which is when Finnish people celebrate Christmas) was very cold - 14c in Tervakoski! Quite snowy too; we walked out onto a lake as well as on …

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Re: The perfect computer

Posted on 2018-12-21, 10:41

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by Almoststew1990

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I think the question is impossible - perfect to me would suggest that it never needs to be compact but powerful, silent but powerful, portable but with a large screen, thin but with good speakers, lightweight but durable, cheap but high quality. That's outside of specifics of components, OS support …

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Is my HDD dead

Posted on 2018-12-21, 09:48

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by Almoststew1990

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When I turn on my PC the HDD does a small clunk followed by the normal quiet background hum whirs of the drive. However it has also started doing it in Windows (98se). It will be whirring normally and then stop and immediately clunk and start whirring again. Almost as if it has been restarted. The …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2018-12-15, 21:16

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by Almoststew1990

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pretty sure it's a Avermedia Gamebroadcaster HD https://shop.avermedia-usa.com/products/game-broadcaster-hd?variant=996694345 I downloaded the driver and software from the Avermedia site, but it won't detect my card. I manually extracted the driver from the install package and tried to manually …

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Re: What are YOUR favorite PC Racers / Flyers

Posted on 2018-12-08, 22:03

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by Almoststew1990

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I've flirted with countless racing games over the years but Network Q RAC Rally (1996) is the only one I still play. It's SVGA so runs best on a PIII or so, and I use a steering wheel too which increases the fun factor. Easy left... easy right... HAARDD LEFT!!!!!!!!!!! ... medium right... Driving …

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Re: output=opengl ONLY

Posted on 2018-12-06, 23:15

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by Almoststew1990

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Does the PC use intel graphics on Windows 7 8 or 10? The the drivers have had issues with dx7 and 8 games for a few years, for me only 2/3 of the screen will show This includes DOSBox which defaults to "surface" rendering which I assume is some kind of DX rendering. The Intel problem doesn't seem to …

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