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Re: Dead Asus P3C-E?

Posted on 2021-06-22, 20:37

Not an expert, but did you try it with a different power supply? I had a motherboard that would not post any code till I changed the power supply, even though the power supply worked perfectly fine with a different motherboard. The only clue was that the "permanent reset" LED was lit on the post …

Re: Tyrian like DOS game around 1995-1997?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 13:34

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megatron-uk wrote on 2021-06-07, 13:10: Ha! Baryon wants to so much be like Raiden when it grows up! 😁 Gameplay, power ups, enemies are incredibly close copies... not that's a bad thing! Not to mention that it's a lot better than the unplayable Raiden DOS port!

Re: Tyrian like DOS game around 1995-1997?

Posted on 2021-06-06, 15:44

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Dacobi wrote on 2021-06-06, 14:26: I think is was more like R-Type/Firewind I'm guessing its around 1996 since my mind still wants the name to be Piranha, so probably played it in that period. Stargunner (1996) SideLine (1996)

Re: Monitors for MS-DOS gaming and certain size

Posted on 2021-06-03, 17:30

Greetings, My NOS KDS XF-9i is displaying pincushion distortion and horizontal OSD controls aren't affecting the screen, though the picture is relatively square at low resolutions (allowing use of safe mode.) While trying to find a technician or perhaps attempt to recap the thing myself, I need to …

Best DOS Games

Posted on 2021-06-02, 19:21

I did not see a similar topic posted with all the best DOS games lists in one place, so I decided to create one. I hope this is the right forum, if not please move it to the right place. 1. CGW - 150 Best Games of All Time ( Issue 148 - Nov 1998 ) Sid Meier's Civilization Microprose 1993 Ultima IV …

Re: Win2K Game Compatibility List

Posted on 2021-05-22, 15:06

The Serpent Rider wrote on 2021-05-22, 12:23: I have a C2D E6750, 7950GT and X-Fi XtremeGamer that should be great for 2001 - 2007, including Crysis. *chuckles* Lol, okay, maybe not great. I ran Crysis back then on this 7950GT and I got around 30 fps at medium settings. All I can say is, at least …

Re: Win2K Game Compatibility List

Posted on 2021-05-21, 17:00

Jorpho wrote on 2021-05-21, 15:43: Have you done that before? I thought I read that the Voodoo2 Win2k drivers were lacking. Oh really? You just dashed my hopes and dreams of living in a '98 free world 🙁. I guess I'll just dual boot the DOS PC into Win98 then and create this overkill LGA775 C2D …

Re: Win2K Game Compatibility List

Posted on 2021-05-20, 22:06

Good idea, here are the games that I haven't been able to play properly since I had upgraded from Win2K: * Thief Gold * Splinter Cell * NFS: Porsche Unleashed * F1 2001 * FIFA 2002 Would throwing Win2K on a C2D PC let me play them better? Or are they incompatible with modern hardware and I need …

Re: Win2K Game Compatibility List

Posted on 2021-05-20, 17:27

1997 to 2007 is quite a stretch in any case - it's from quake 2 to crysis - but there's no reason not to try I have a C2D E6750, 7950GT and X-Fi XtremeGamer that should be great for 2001 - 2007, including Crysis. I was hoping I could throw in a Voodoo 3 PCI for games from 1997- 2000. Do you see any …

Win2K Game Compatibility List

Posted on 2021-05-20, 13:38

For a future build, I was thinking of doing a retro Windows gaming PC that runs games from 1997 to 2007, but I hate Windows '98 with a passion. The frequent BSODs are what drove me to Linux all those years back, and the first Windows to not annoy me as much was Windows 2000. I ran it for several …

Re: Socket 370 VIA C3 Retro DOS PC

Posted on 2021-05-19, 02:56

A voodoo2 is always good to splurge on ;) You're only inches away from buying that Gravis Ultrasound card. And then a Roland MT32. And then another Sound Canvas 55 or 88. And then.. ah you know where this is going. Ha ha ha, that's so true! I've already spent 4x the amount I had budgeted, but I had …

Re: Socket 370 VIA C3 Retro DOS PC

Posted on 2021-05-17, 23:02

I hate this hobby! I just splurged again, this time on a Diamond Monster Voodoo2 8MB card. The Voodoo2 was a bit of a squeeze into this tiny mATX case. So I took a fan, reversed it, and attached it to the front of the case with duct tape to help with the airflow. Unlike the Voodoo 1, this card …

Re: Small MUS library written in C

Posted on 2021-05-12, 12:42

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Most DOOM source-ports do not play MUS files directly. Instead, they convert them to MIDI files on the fly, and play those via a MIDI soft synth like Timidity, Wildmidi, Fluidsynth, etc. See Chocolate DOOM's MUS2MID.c , for instance. In fact, the Chocolate DOOM source-port would be a great starting …

Re: Small MUS library written in C

Posted on 2021-05-12, 03:18

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Are you looking for a MUS library, a MIDI library, or a MIDI soft synth? AFAIK, they are 3 very different things. Fluidsynth, wildmidi and timidity are all MIDI soft synths. * MUSLib is a MUS library in C, but only for DOS. * TinySoundFont is a small cross-platform C soft synth, but it doesn't …

Re: What retro hardware you killed today or in the past :(. Killing spree stories+serial killers are welcome.Rest in pie

Posted on 2021-05-07, 14:20

I killed my Compaq Deskpro EXD P866 S370 motherboard when I tried to replace the Pentium III 866 MHz CPU with my new VIA C3-1.0AGHz CPU. I forgot to check for bent CPU pins, and it seems one of them ended up shorting. I could smell burning plastic when I turned it on, and when I took out the CPU, …

Re: Questions about adding an AWE 64 to my setup

Posted on 2021-05-03, 14:52

In my Ezra C3 based DOS PC, I use integrated SBPro 2.0, YMF744 for OPL3 FM, AWE64 for SB16 and AWESYNTH, and SC-7 for General MIDI. The AWE64 can be configured by editing the CTPNP.CFG file. In what I have seen so far, old games that automatically configure ADLIB or SoundBlaster, do not support SB16 …

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