Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2022-09-09, 13:51

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FreeSpace1.JPG FreeSpace2.JPG Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War nos sealed big box. I really wanted the US version even though as an european it would have been easier to track down an UK version, but this is one of those rarer cases where I personally like the US cover art more than the UK/EU …

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Re: Shipping gone wrong, our stories.

Posted on 2022-09-08, 17:36

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Two thin paper envelopes and piece of a bubble wrap, that's how things are being sent from Japan to the opposite part of the globe when you don't pay an additional fee for protective packaging. I once absolutely did pay enough shipping fees to cover protective packaging and I got the item wrapped …

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Re: Day of the Tentacle keeps locking up - CPU too fast?

Posted on 2022-09-08, 03:37

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Give drmouse.com from DR-DOS a go, it will work with every dos flavor I had similar issues, even made a thread about it as well , for me drmouse works fine in several builds Does it have switches to adjust both horizontal and vertical sensitivity? I kinda need that and also a switch to remove any …

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Re: Day of the Tentacle keeps locking up - CPU too fast?

Posted on 2022-09-07, 20:39

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Managed to fix the issue I was having, it was the mouse driver. I was looking for switch commands for mouse drivers to increase mouse sensitivity and happened upon this topic: Moving Mouse dramatically slows down CPU There AvalonH managed to fix completely different issue he was having by using …

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Re: Day of the Tentacle keeps locking up - CPU too fast?

Posted on 2022-09-06, 13:34

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- Tried three different mouse drivers and two different CD-ROM drivers Which mouse drivers have you tried? I'm still trying to get to the bottom of this. Some say switching to another mouse driver helps, others (you? me?) have less luck with that. I'm on a 386DX-40 - no cache or other funky stuff - …

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Re: Day of the Tentacle keeps locking up - CPU too fast?

Posted on 2022-09-06, 12:46

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Make sure "STACKS=9,256" is in config.sys. It is. As I've continued testing my games I also noticed Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis has the exact same issue, so either there's something specific about my hardware that is causing this or this is simply a symptom of having too new/fast …

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Re: Why VIA chipset vs. Intel for PII/III?

Posted on 2022-09-05, 04:54

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I wonder how many other games don't like ACPI throttling. The same question popped to my mind earlier last week on another topic, I had been under the impression ACPI throttling is nearly always problem free. I've started testing my rather small selection of games and I've already found that Doom …

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Re: Why VIA chipset vs. Intel for PII/III?

Posted on 2022-09-04, 18:41

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mockingbird wrote on 2022-09-04, 18:28: Then I tried THROTTLE.EXE without success... All settings just basically took it to a very slow 386 -- too slow. Did you use the -C switch with throttle? Without that switch it disables L1 cache which would explain why it brought the system that low.

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Re: Day of the Tentacle keeps locking up - CPU too fast?

Posted on 2022-09-04, 07:17

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Sorry for the slight pump but I've been doing what I've been meaning to do for ages now, testing DOS games more throroughly on my DOS/Win98SE box instead of just giving them a quick test and I've noticed something peculiar: Day of the Tentacle CD-ROM version is very prone to freeze if spoken voice …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-29, 04:59

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As I said, the Doom timedemo is irrelevant and will work fine with Throttle without showing any weird behavior. The fact that you only tested a few games explains why you only saw the behavior once (even though it’s very common). Also, the list of speed sensitive games is not even close to being …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-28, 18:41

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THROTTLE.EXE 1 -C = ~500 MHz Pentium III? THROTTLE.EXE 2 -C = ~400MHz Pentium II? THROTTLE.EXE 3 -C = ~233MHz Pentium MMX THROTTLE.EXE 4 -C = ~133MHz Pentium THROTTLE.EXE 5 -C = ~90MHz Pentium THROTTLE.EXE 6 -C = ~75MHz 486DX4 THROTTLE.EXE 7 -C = ~40MHz 486DX2 SETMUL.EXE L1D = ~33MHz 386SX I've …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-28, 17:59

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so the fastest system I tested with an AWE64 was most likely a 440BX/Pentium 3 build (and, as we know, Pentium 3s are not flexible in terms of speed - you can either run them too fast or very slow I'm hardly an expert when it comes to DOS, but P3 seems flexible enough to me? I've tested throttle …

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Re: ebay enters the ashbin of history

Posted on 2022-08-28, 08:02

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I occasionally WOULD sell stuff on eBay to reach a wider market for items I can't sell locally, but can't. Ever since they did some changes to how payments work on the site around 2019 I haven't been able to list anything, all I get is a "We looked everywhere" message on otherwise blank page. And …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-26, 10:57

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PS2 Slim, in working condition. Looking forward to do some REAL console gaming. I've been thinking about getting one too, then I checked the games and developed some doubts if there are enough exclusives I'm interested in for the console. I'm more interested in the PSP these days. I've gone periods …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-08-24, 13:29

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Apparently the motherboard I've got in my P4 rig has some coil whine issues and oddly having a HDD in there makes it worse. Took a while to notice it, I'm a headphone user, the case is pretty noise insulated and there's also been some ambient noise lately due to construction going on nearby. Not to …

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Re: DVD drive for windows 98

Posted on 2022-08-19, 17:23

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Are pc games from the late 90s and early 2000s even region locked? Because if not, it doesn't really matter if DVD drives for PCs have or don't have RC-0 Region locked PC games/content exist only as digital game codes for Steam and alike, and even then that's only a concern if you get your keys …

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Re: DVD drive for windows 98

Posted on 2022-08-19, 13:36

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Are pc games from the late 90s and early 2000s even region locked? Because if not, it doesn't really matter if DVD drives for PCs have or don't have RC-0 Region locked PC games/content exist only as digital game codes for Steam and alike, and even then that's only a concern if you get your keys …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-08-19, 09:05

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During the summer I haven't been playing around with computers much, but I did go and buy a bunch of stuff recently. Mainly to rebuild my Haswell based Win7 pc, ever since I saw Joseph_Joestar's Ivy Bridge WinXP build I've wanted one so I could have a machine that serves a dual purpose as a late …

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Re: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-18, 08:15

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Joseph, how did you know the motherboard has VT8237R Plus southbridge? The manual speaks only of VT8237R and so does the text on the chip, at least on the image I googled. It's written on the chip. Here's a close up pic: VT8237R_Plus.jpg Alright so it is written on the chip, that explains it. I …

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Re: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-18, 02:07

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Joseph, how did you know the motherboard has VT8237R Plus southbridge? The manual speaks only of VT8237R and so does the text on the chip, at least on the image I googled. Even the CPU-Z image you posted shows only VT8237. It obviously does have the Plus version since you are rocking modern SSD's …

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