Re: Glide wrapper for Win98?

Posted on 2022-05-04, 23:18

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It may be more productive to look for specific wrappers for specific games. As an example, here is an excerpt from the old Wings of Honor WW1 flight sim site concerning OpenGlide for Red Baron II/3D: OpenGLide Glide Wrapper OpenGLide 0.09 Release Candidate 5 OpenGLide 0.08 OpenGLide 0.07 Beta 5 Date …

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Re: Falcon 3.0 Releases

Posted on 2022-05-03, 09:03

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I am not familiar with the bundle you mention, but I can say that the CD-ROM Classics release is Version 3.05 out-of-the-box.

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Re: OLD NOT NEW List of Free Games

Posted on 2022-04-15, 08:47

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Source: http://www.remar.se/daniel/index.php Daniel Remar has added older versions of his games to his Resources page: http://www.remar.se/daniel/resources.php 5 April 2022 Old game version downloads I've added downloads for as many old versions of my games as I could find to the Resources page. Iji …

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Re: old movies

Posted on 2022-04-03, 17:51

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chris2021 wrote on 2022-04-03, 17:38: If that's the one that took place in divided up Germany just after the war, it had elements that were interesting. I may be thinking of a different movie. You are thinking of The Third Man with Wells as Harry Lime and Joseph Cotton as Holly Martins.

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In Case You Forgot about April 1...

Posted on 2022-04-02, 08:50

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Source: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20220401/ Apr 1, 2022: Look Behind You, a Three-Headed Monkey NFT! Posted by Thunderforge Starting today, the latest development versions of ScummVM support the new trend that gamers can't stop talking about: NFTs (non-fungible tokens)! This exciting new …

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The Dark Mod 2.10

Posted on 2022-03-03, 09:14

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Source: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21310-the-dark-mod-210-update-is-now-available/ We are proud to announce the release of The Dark Mod 2.10! The Dark Mod 2.10 comes with considerable improvements to loading times as well as a slew of new visual and gameplay features for mappers …

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Freeciv 3.0.0

Posted on 2022-02-19, 18:54

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Source: https://freeciv.fandom.com/wiki/NEWS-3.0.0 After almost a year of betas and release candidates, Freeciv 3.0.0 is available: Welcome to Freeciv 3.0.0 Thanks again to all our developers, who continue to work so hard. This release is a major upgrade which with some changes can support backward …

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Additional SkiFree Builds Available

Posted on 2022-02-13, 19:57

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This is kind of stale, but it seems to have slipped under the radar for a lot of folks. Circa October 2019, Chris Pirih rebuilt SkiFree in response to some complaints about malware positives. One build uses Visual Studio 6.0 on Windows 2000, and the other uses Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 7. …

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Re: Descent too fast - What could I do?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 10:40

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Something else to try: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=947979#p947979 And there are possibly other slow-down utilities worth trying: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=8070 According to DosFreak, DXX-Retro v14x5 is Win95 compatible: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=80362 …

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SDL Version 2.0.20

Posted on 2022-01-19, 01:57

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Source: https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-2-0-20-released/34407 SDL 2.0.20 released! slouken Thanks to all the people who contributed code and feedback, SDL 2.0.20 is now available! https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php This is largely a bugfix release, with the following changes: General: SDL_ …

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Re: Aleph One Version 1.3.1 2020-09-04 for Mac/Win/Linux/Android

Posted on 2022-01-17, 19:59

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Version 1.5 Released 2022 January 15 Aleph One 1.5 Latest @treellama Changes: Numerous bug fixes Additional Lua functionality (see Lua.html) Support for Apple Silicon Improved UPnP router configuration support (now using miniupnp) Adds an FOV override slider and warning Adds a checkbox for native …

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Re: ScummVM 2.5.0

Posted on 2022-01-03, 01:35

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Bugfix Version 2.5.1 release: Jan 2, 2022: New year with Californium(*) Posted by sev, rootfather Several months have passed since our monumental 2.5.0 release, and now the ScummVM Team is thrilled to announce the release of the bugfix release, 2.5.1 codenamed “Californium”*. The most notable …

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Re: DOS: Swap drive letters for CD + ZIP drive

Posted on 2021-12-31, 16:18

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When I build a system, I usually make the CD-ROM drive drive letter something close to the end of the alphabet. Here are some notes from an old build: Edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and make the following change: OLD: LH C:\CDROM\MSCDEX /D:MSCD000 NEW: LH C:\CDROM\MSCDEX /D:MSCD000 /L:Q This change will …

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NASA's Devoured by Gravity Poster

Posted on 2021-12-29, 23:25

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If you are a fan of mid-20th century sci-fi, you might like the Devoured by Gravity art from NASA: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2259/de … gravity-poster/

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TVGHF Support Pack at GOG.com

Posted on 2021-12-28, 19:33

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Given the purpose of this board and the interests of many participants, I thought it was worth mentioning that GOG.com is donating the proceeds from a couple of games for the next week or so to The Video Game History Foundation: https://www.gog.com/game/tvghf_support_pack Support game preservation …

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Re: Problems installing Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick software

Posted on 2021-12-25, 11:02

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Unfortunately, Microsoft never created any installable SideWinder 3D Pro drivers for any Windows NT-kernel OSes, including Windows XP. If you have at least DirectX 8 installed, then you already have all of the drivers for the stick. If Windows XP does not automatically recognize the stick (with …

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Re: Descent II Redbook CD Audio bug on PCem V17

Posted on 2021-12-19, 22:24

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Is the game patched to Version 1.2 or is it an earlier version?

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Re: Wavetable Daughterboard Spacers

Posted on 2021-12-14, 23:44

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TR Fastenings TRMDLSP1-10M-01 does not work for this purpose. The spacer part of the post is perhaps a millimeter shorter than the existing spacers on my Media Vision wavetable card, so that is acceptable, but the tips are too narrow, i.e. there is no friction when the tips are inserted into the …

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SDL 2 Version 2.0.18

Posted on 2021-12-12, 20:39

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Source: https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-2-0-18-released/33768 SDL 2.0.18 released! SDL Announcements slouken Thanks to all the people who contributed code and feedback, SDL 2.0.18 is now available! http://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php In addition to lots of bug fixes, here are the major changes …

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Re: Old audio player from Windows 3.1 era that looked like a Hi-Fi system

Posted on 2021-12-05, 15:34

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Just to add to the confusion, my Media Vision MV2200 multimedia package included "Sound Impression for Media Vision." It's similar, but not identical to Grzyb's image above.

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