Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2019-02-07, 00:06
Hey nice one!
Re: Aureal Vortex 2 no music dos games
Posted on 2019-01-21, 21:26
I may have worded this somewhat poorly. For plain DOS, you only have 2 options for music, one is a poorly emulated FM Synthesis for OPL2 and OPL3 and two is to use either a daughterboard attached to the Vortex 2 or a sound module hooked up to the card externally via the DB-15 (joystick) port on the …
Re: Aureal Vortex 2 no music dos games
Posted on 2019-01-21, 15:50
Do you have a daughterboard installed on the card or a sound module connected through the DB-15 header? If the answer is no, then you won't be able to use the Vortex's internal Wavetable under pure DOS, although it does work fine through Win9x DOS Box. Your only other option in this case is the …
Re: Win 95C - installer update for Tomb Raider 1 needed
Posted on 2019-01-13, 19:57
The amazon listing you provided does not prove your point, all versions of Tomb Raider 1 come with a DOS installer because this is a DOS game. Win95 took a while before it took off for games, even in 1997 a lot of games came with DOS versions on disk or there was no Windows executable at all often. …
Re: Win 95C - installer update for Tomb Raider 1 needed
Posted on 2019-01-13, 17:58
There is no Windows 95 edition of Tomb Raider. It was a DOS game and the series moved to Windows one year later with Tomb Raider 2. All of the 3D accelerated versions, except for one, were DOS executables as well. The one that was a native Win95 app was the ATi Rage patched version.
Re: GOG WinterSale 2018 is here - 100 game giveaway
Posted on 2019-01-09, 18:57
Re: Pentium 4 'PressHot'
Posted on 2019-01-06, 17:39
Nice! I have something similar, same motherboard but with a Northwood 3.2GHz instead, 1GB of RAM and an FX 5900 Ultra. I also use SATA for all the drives just because, I should perhaps consider getting a modular PSU for this system, the case is quite cramped. I like the motherboard because it's mATX …
Re: Fastest Tualatin Chipset / Best Pentium III Motherboard
Posted on 2019-01-04, 08:35
Amazing work in this thread OP! But, if I may suggest, I have some readability concerns that would vanish if you put thumbnails linking to the image in your posts instead of the full image or if you put an imgur link to the images. As it is, it is a little hard to follow! Don't mean to shit on your …
Re: Odd old PCI VGA card; Cyber Rex 128VR... what is it?
Posted on 2018-12-29, 10:14
You could remove the sticker from the chip and see if it has any markings underneath.
Re: D2X-Rebirth + Win98 joystick issues
Posted on 2018-12-27, 10:50
Too many variables in there. I'd suggest trying to work with a reference driver for the audio card as a start.
Re: AI Neural Networks being used to generate HQ textures for older games
Posted on 2018-12-23, 17:40
Damn that's super impressive, especially on low res pre-rendered visuals. Diablo 1 and Riven look phenomenal on the stills, gotta try this myself!
Re: Via C3 Ezra Slot 1 Machine
Posted on 2018-12-19, 22:17
I use a Nehemiah at ~1466MHz (133MHz FSB) as my main retro system. At that speed, it's roughly as fast as a PIII 733 for demanding 3D games under Windows and usually quite a bit faster in everything else. SETMUL is an amazing tool and you can bring the processor all the way down to just 4x …
Re: GTX980 Issue that makes no sense!
Posted on 2018-12-18, 21:36
It can't be the core I don't think, but memory I could see being the culprit here. But I've never heard of memory errors shutting down systems like that, unless BSODs are preceding said shut downs. I second the idea to try underclocking and/or overvolting/undervolting using afterburner. I would test …
Re: GTX980 Issue that makes no sense!
Posted on 2018-12-18, 18:22
Any chance for RMA? What is the rest of your system like and more importantly what power supply are you using.
Re: Searching an old DOS game
Posted on 2018-12-18, 07:45
By any chance, was it this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4zcVJK_w4
Re: The good old and glorious 486 DX 50 - and - rant against 25 MHz buses in the Pentium era
Posted on 2018-12-17, 09:04
I'd be curious to compare the game on the three systems, same configuration, just different CPU (and bus speed accordingly): • DX2 50 • DX 50 • DX2 66 Hey, are you by any chance the Garrett Wang who was Ensign Harry Kim in Star Trek Enterprise?? :exclamation: No, not really. Magic Carpet 2 lists …
Re: 90s isometric cow abduction game?
Posted on 2018-12-16, 22:52
It was definitely some shareware Win9x game from ~1999. It was essentially an arcade action game, I remember it very vividly for some reason. EDIT: I think I've found it. It's Crop Circles: Escape from Planet 3.
Re: The good old and glorious 486 DX 50 - and - rant against 25 MHz buses in the Pentium era
Posted on 2018-12-16, 20:01
Don't have much to comment on, but I have some trivia that stayed with me throughout the years. Magic Carpet's minimum system requirements in early 1994 called for a 486 running at 50MHz, but they don't specify whether that's a DX-50 or DX2-50. I'm willing to believe it's the first, which would mean …
Re: 90s isometric cow abduction game?
Posted on 2018-12-16, 19:54
Anybody know of any 2D isometric cow abduction games from the 90s? Trying to identify one i remember playing. The goal was to abduct the cows with out getting shot down the farmers. Ha, I remember this. I played a demo of it at the time and for some reason it stuck with me. Can't remember the name …
Re: Mid-1999 GPU That Takes Rendering Load from the CPU
Posted on 2018-12-09, 23:28
Did you try turning V-Sync Off like I suggested in that thread? I'm fairly certain it will fix performance for the most part. Half-Life probably uses double buffered V-Sync, unless the TNT2M64 drivers allow you to use Triple Buffered VSync.
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