Re: What's the best graphics card for VESA 3.0?
Posted on 2008-03-17, 01:25
You saw a sharper image with a Radeon than a GeForce FX? I know that GF3 on down frequently had really awful output quality, but GF4 and later addressed that very well.
Re: What's the best graphics card for VESA 3.0?
Posted on 2008-03-16, 19:46
What is the advantage of using these DOS console emulators vs. Windows?
Re: TIE Fighter Collector's CD-ROM Edition Crashes During Startup
Posted on 2008-03-16, 02:23
Yeah, TIECD should *just work*. I've played it a lot myself in DOSBOX 0.72 and the CVS versions since then. The only issue that I know of is with the joystick. You need to set "timed=false" in dosbox.conf's joystick section or the stick will not calibrate well or work right in general. DOS32A isn't …
Dark Forces Mod for JA final demo
Posted on 2008-03-15, 05:00
It looks like the DFMod folks are calling it quits and releasing what they have done up to this point. The demo has the first 6 missions from the classic Dark Forces DOS game re-made for the Jedi Academy Q3TA game engine. Looks rather nice, IMO, and is obviously made by people who knew the original …
Re: ESS Audiodrive opinions?
Posted on 2008-03-12, 21:24
leileilol wrote: they're noisy. You mean like every SB16 and AWExx I've ever used? 😀 My SCD-15 hates them too, suffering from the sticky notes problem. I just bought a original non-PNP SB16 (CT1740) off ebay in hopes that it will work with that DB.
Re: sites you miss
Posted on 2008-03-11, 21:30
leileilol wrote: not quite, they're anti-preservatant with the habit of removing old screenshots, demos and trailers once new ones release. hmmm. Oh well. I still use them to get patches for DOS games quite often.
ESS Audiodrive opinions?
Posted on 2008-03-11, 19:24
What do you guys think of these chips? In my experience they had pretty reliable SB compatibility. I've used ESS688 and ESS1688 I believe and both did the job with SBPro support that *just worked*. I've been pondering getting one with a daughterboard connector.
Re: P3 style, for music making madness. w3rd.
Posted on 2008-03-11, 19:22
omg not a 2X CD burner. 😀 Does it use a caddy? I had a Sony 2X way back when. That sucker made more coasters than anything else cuz of the lack of buffer underrun protection combined with fickle Win9x.
Re: sites you miss
Posted on 2008-03-11, 19:13
DosFreak wrote: 3DFiles. Fuckin' ZD. 3DGamers is an excellent site that is similar. All you need is a free login and you're good to go. Older files never have any wait.
Re: What's the best graphics card for VESA 3.0?
Posted on 2008-03-11, 19:06
Believe it or not GeForce FX is a great card for older games because it has 8-bit palletized texture support in hardware. They are really fast cards for DX5/6/7/8 games. Good anti-aliasing and you can force some anisotropic filtering to sharpen up textures. I've run Unreal and UT with zeckensack's …
Re: copy protection
Posted on 2008-03-10, 21:12
I think part of it may be that some people are just more "wordy" than others. Posts that only have short little hints at an answer can seem like "smart ass" responses. I don't think that's the intention usually.. They just want the reader to do a little research on their own.
Re: copy protection
Posted on 2008-03-10, 21:05
I'm not targeting you specifically, WolverineDK. There are more than a few threads on the forum that have ended rather unhappily... I just want everyone to remember what the forums are about.
Re: copy protection
Posted on 2008-03-10, 21:00
There is a bit of bitterness on the forums lately. I can only guess that some folks are having a rough time in real life... Hey, it happens to everyone. Let's just remember that this forum is about gaming. And in the end, nothing here really matters all that much and it isn't the end of the world …
Re: copy protection
Posted on 2008-03-10, 20:46
Defective sectors is a fact of life. Your newest SATA harddisk is full of defective sectors. That is why you format a disk so the computer can make a map out of the good and bad sectors. Actually that's not quite true. A new hard disk doesn't have bad sectors that are exposed to the system it is in …
Re: What's the best graphics card for VESA 3.0?
Posted on 2008-03-10, 17:46
3dfx cards have lots of VESA issues. Some of them are fixed with the VESAfix util you can get for them. But even with that, I get some strange flickering artifacts in various games. So, the NV cards are better than 3dfx here. Banshee and Voodoo 3,4,5 are actually fairly similar hardware. Banshee was …
Re: Master Of Orion Music
Posted on 2008-03-10, 17:41
you could just record it yourself with any audio recording app (such as free Audacity ). Start recording, open up DOSBOX and the game, and then crop out the extra. If you are using General MIDI and a card with a synth (not the Windows Roland GS softsynth), you will have to set the recording input …
Re: Pentium 133 MMX
Posted on 2008-03-09, 02:42
133 MMX was in lots of notebooks. My mother had a Dell Latitude LM with one. It wasn't socket 7 however, but used a Intel Mobile Module thing.
Re: Creative Wave Blaster...yuck?
Posted on 2008-03-08, 20:33
I think it's worth mentioning that protected mode games don't work with AWEUTIL and probably not with the Windows 9x-based MPU401 emulation either. If these games don't have native AWE support, you won't be able to use the synth at all. I believe that was a problem with early versions of Doom. …
Re: Creative Wave Blaster...yuck?
Posted on 2008-03-08, 02:18
ahh k. I would use an AWE32 for my SCD-15 hosting needs if only it worked on there! My AWE, SB32, and 2 SB16s just gave me stuck notes, wrong notes, and other bad things. Nevermind that they have some terrible output circuitry on those Creative cards that gives static, pops, clicks, etc. The people …
Re: What's the best graphics card for VESA 3.0?
Posted on 2008-03-08, 02:11
I'm having good luck with a GeForce FX 5600, believe it or not. Though I suppose I haven't used any VBE 3 specific stuff. It works quite well for SVGA VBE 1.2/2.0 DOS games tho. Better than quite a few other cards that I've tested (lots lol). I don't know if Radeons have VBE 3, but they are trouble …
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