Re: List of Currently Free Games

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TheMLGladiator wrote on Yesterday, 22:48: There are limited time login rewards for Town of Salem 2, so make sure to install and make an account Just checked it. It's barely a game, more of a shopfront for overpriced DLC. Feels like a early 2000s Flash game too.

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-13, 21:59

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3dfx was focusing on fill-rate not programmability. And VSA100 was a delayed product that should have been released a year earlier. 3dfx Rampage should have been out in 2000 to compete with GF2, which was the first Nvidia GPU with meaningful programmable shaders (T&L never actually amounted to much …

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-04-11, 20:08

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Not that it really matters but seems like Ghostrunner was dupe as well.

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Re: KVM switch that works with DOS/Windows 98 and Windows 10?

Posted on 2024-04-07, 05:05

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Could you please possibly post a pic of one of the dedicated KVM+audio cables included with this switch? I'm interested in this model but can find no images or specs for the cables online. It would be too much of a pain to unplug them to get a better photo, but here is one of them plugged in. They …

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Re: KVM switch that works with DOS/Windows 98 and Windows 10?

Posted on 2024-04-06, 14:31

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I have a Lindy one, this one to be exact: https://connectivitycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/32921_1.png I use it with DOS, Win98, XP, Win7 - but of course the OS is irrelevant so long as it supports VGA. It does audio, also hotkey switching which works well and does not introduce any delay …

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Re: Adventure remakes poll

Posted on 2024-04-05, 04:44

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Both beautiful in their own ways...

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Re: Adventure remakes poll

Posted on 2024-04-04, 21:41

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Just build a retro PC and play the real thing.

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-03-28, 19:47

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EPIC- Islets

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-03-22, 23:54

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Steam- The Sims™ 4 Backyard Stuff (requires base game)

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-03-21, 23:08

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It's must be a 2+ year old dupe as I didn't have it and thats how long I have been collecting free EPIC games.

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-03-12, 05:42

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-03-12, 04:56: Why does everybody keep forgetting about IndieGala? Because the internet is flooded with low quality indie games and this thread would become saturated with them.

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-03-11, 03:56

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Oh I thought it was a sharing website link

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-03-11, 03:44

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I am not sure those kind of links are allowed here...

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Re: Is 3Dfx Voodoo worth picking up in 2023 ?

Posted on 2024-02-28, 11:46

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The original Geforce 256 SDR might well have been called the Geforce TNT. It performed about the same as the TNT2 Ultra.

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Re: quick p4 question

Posted on 2024-02-16, 13:17

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A P4 HT is one core that can run two threads at once, so the second thread will not be used as it will never try to run two of them. Win98 might or might not run on the first thread as the scheduler calls. I would not say this is entirely accurate. "A P4 HT is one core that presents to the OS as 2 …

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Re: quick p4 question

Posted on 2024-02-16, 13:10

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Now its possible the CPU hardware scheduler could move things around at a low hardware level that isn't apparent to the OS but I doubt any performance increase would be noticed. Pipelining, out-of-order instruction execution, branch-prediction - these are all ways CPUs do things "at a low hardware …

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Re: quick p4 question

Posted on 2024-02-16, 09:59

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HT just saves the OS having to context switch. That's literally the only benefit.

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Re: quick p4 question

Posted on 2024-02-16, 09:57

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is there an advantage to using a pentium 4 chip with a non-NT OS? maybe i'm remembering this wrong but i seem to recall that hyperthreading (as opposed to multi-core or multi-socket) is done on a low hardware level so that even OSs that don't support multiple CPUs can see a benefit. Pipelining …

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-02-15, 19:37

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EPIC- Dakar Desert Rally

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-02-11, 05:26

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Steam- Ultimate Zombie Defense

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