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Re: YOUR dance anthems?

Posted on 2007-11-06, 20:37

in Milliways
Rapture by IIO. That tune is an all-time fav for me too. How about: Perpetuous Dreamer - Sound of Goodbye Riva - Stringer Solid Globe - North Pole Sarah McLachlan - Fallen (Gabriel & Dresden remix) Evanescence - Hello (Gabriel & Dresden bootleg mix) <-omg Paul van Dyk - For an Angel Paul van Dyk - …

Re: Retro PC problems and thoughts

Posted on 2007-10-31, 21:14

in PC Emulation
in your config.sys: (substitute the windows dir for DOS if you aren't running win9x) device=c:\windows\himem.sys device=c:\windows\emm386.exe RAM i=B000-B7FF dos=high,umb stacks=9,256 (may also want to try "0,0") files=40 The RAM switch gets you expanded memory (EMS). If you only need extended …

Re: Retro PC problems and thoughts

Posted on 2007-10-30, 18:29

in PC Emulation
Instead of blurring the hell out of your screen output with a pair of Voodoo2 cards inline with a 2D/3D card, just go with a Voodoo3. I can barely stand even a single Voodoo card in the chain because of how much the passthru blurs analog output. Voodoo3 has extremely fast 2D for Windows and it has …

Re: Best DOS video card?

Posted on 2007-10-29, 21:23

Imagine 128 is horrible for DOS. That's what the Cirrus chip is used for and it is a absolute dog. Most of their cards use S3 chips though, and those usually are pretty decent for DOS compatibility, especially if you load the S3 VBE 2.0 TSR that's out there. I had a Motion 771, which used a S3 …

Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2007-10-26, 04:41

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Wow those are some impressive brain dumps over on the first page. Cool to be hanging out with fellow PC vets. :) Do you guys have insane histories with console games too? I have never been PC only... I'm not sure I have the energy to make a list like those. Heh. The first PC game I beat was probably …

Re: Build retro gaming PC -OR- emulation?

Posted on 2007-10-25, 20:27

Yeah. When you really get into building a machine from those days, you start to remember the good 'ol hardware conflicts and bugs. Stuff like certain chipsets not quite being compatible with games and their extenders, etc. Non-Intel CPUs with bugs and poor programmer support. Drivers that aren't …

Re: Build retro gaming PC -OR- emulation?

Posted on 2007-10-23, 20:03

The 1st PCI slot shares IRQ with AGP. And, on 440BX boards, if there is a 6th PCI slot it is a slave slot and can't be used with cards that need an IRQ (Voodoo cards don't so they can go there). Chipset limitation. My Abit BF6 manual is very descriptive on what IRQ signals go where. But, IMO, DOSBOX …

Re: Halo III - Hyped and Overrated?

Posted on 2007-10-18, 18:42

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That depends on your perspective. I'd argue that lots of movies are shit these days and that they are shitting on a lot of excellent franchises along the way. That AVP nonsense is my current favorite example. As for shooters, I like em. I've played almost every FPS since Stellar 7 and Wolf3D. I …

Re: Share your 3D accelerator nostalgia here

Posted on 2007-10-17, 22:05

in Milliways
I also intensely followed the Verite hardware. I wanted the Creative 3D Blaster PCI for the longest time. But I couldn't afford anything for years. I used a hopped-up AMD 5x86 @ 160 on a VLB mobo with S3-968 until late 1997. I was supremely bummed out when X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter wouldn't run on the …

Re: Halo III - Hyped and Overrated?

Posted on 2007-10-17, 21:51

in Milliways
HL2 is groundbreaking for cinematic storytelling in a game. It is also the most linear-feeling game I think I have ever played. It is very restrictive on where you can go, because of how unpredictable things could get otherwise (and break their scripting). To be honest, I really ended up not liking …

Re: fat16 vs fat32

Posted on 2007-10-15, 19:14

in PC Emulation
I dunno. I've played an awful lot of DOS games in DOS 7. Maybe there are some that don't work, but I'm not sure I've ever run into one myself. It's more likely that the new hardware you are undoubtedly running with Win9x and DOS7 (vs. DOS 6.x era stuff) is the culprit of instability. And yeah, …

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