Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2022-11-15, 05:59

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Hi guys, I've been playing around with Windows 98 on an HP T5710 thin client and would appreciate some feedback on the DOS side of things. I've been able to free up 602K of conventional memory using a basic setup similar to some of the examples here. One thing that been bugging me is that I'm seeing …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-11-13, 02:59

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Dune 2 scratched my RTS itch. Felt no need to play any further after that. Guess that means it's not my genre either. But that touches on a bit of a personal bugbear about the gaming scene. The way a successful, relatively original game gets turned into A Genre forevermore, spawning endless …

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Re: Just some lazy Sunday afternoon reading

Posted on 2022-11-13, 02:37

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I had that same issue as a kid. That brings me back. Unfortunately, a lot of PC Gamers from the classic 90s era aren't available anywhere for reasonable prices.

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Re: Games compatibility: DOS 7.1 (Win98SE) vs DOS 6.22

Posted on 2022-11-13, 02:30

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I think hardware will be a far bigger issue when it comes to compatibility. I don't think that troubleshooting games in DOS 6 vs 7 would be a good use of your time.

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Re: List of PC games that you have not played or beaten yet that you'd like to

Posted on 2022-11-10, 18:28

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I'm not actually 100% sure I've ever 100% beaten Half-Life. I've played through it countless times in the last 13 or 14 years but I don't ever remember fully beating it, nor any of the expansions. A few games I know for sure I've never beaten are: Halo 1, any of the games in the Command and Conquer …

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

Posted on 2022-11-10, 05:09

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I recently picked up a couple of thin clients to do some retrogaming on: a Wyse Cx0 and an HP T5710. Both were covered on Phil's Computer Lab, so many of you will be familiar with them. I picked up some cheap IDE cables off AliExpress, along with a couple of adapters to use with SD cards. I started …

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Re: What games did you become really good at?

Posted on 2022-11-09, 20:04

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On the other hand, I loved RTS and have always been utter shit at them unfortunately. Still played and enjoyed all of them, but mostly single player as I grew tired of having my ass handed to me :D being "good" at RTS just never clicked as naturally as FPS to me. Me neither. I was never good at …

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Re: What games did you become really good at?

Posted on 2022-11-09, 19:23

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I don't think I've become really good at any game. When I was a kid, I'd just play everything on easy mode. I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to games as an adult, and I'd rather tackle my backlog than focus on a single game.

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

Posted on 2022-11-09, 08:11

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I recently picked up a couple of thin clients to do some retrogaming on: a Wyse Cx0 and an HP T5710. Both were covered on Phil's Computer Lab, so many of you will be familiar with them. I picked up some cheap IDE cables off AliExpress, along with a couple of adapters to use with SD cards. I started …

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2022-11-06, 20:54

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Hi Lawnie, Just wanted to thank you for putting out these videos. You've been doing a great job on them and the production quality is excellent. I only found your channel recently, so there's a lot of content that I can browse through. Keep up the good work!

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Re: Check out this remix of CANYON.MID

Posted on 2022-11-04, 02:05

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It's weird to associate CANYON.MID with Windows 95 - it was already there in Windows 3.1, perhaps even in 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions? :P And it's definitely much older than that retarded paperclip :P All true. Clippy can go fuck himself. Would someone else count? https://www.amazon.ca/Conquered …

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-02, 20:30

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Thank you for the links. Life simulation through zero-player games is a very interesting field. I think it deserves a separate thread and I'll be glad to learn more about it from more involved folks. I don't want to hijack this thread, but I would certainly create a new one if there is interest. …

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-02, 17:56

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And now for something completely different ... game-of-life-loop-cropped.gif It's not a game in the complete sense of the word ... but it is still a game. I'm talking about "The Game of Life". When I've discovered it I was amazed. It is the same time a very primitive and a very complicated and …

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-02, 17:46

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I noticed that a lot of the choices are the earliest 3D open world games. When the technology finally allowed for these types of games, we were spoiled with some really immersive worlds. I also think that the writing was better back then, so I doubt that I will get as immersed in anything coming …

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Re: Simply describe a game or game genre in a single sentence

Posted on 2022-11-02, 03:07

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4x games: "One more turn"

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-02, 00:13

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Back in 1996, the first level of Duke Nukem 3D looked amazingly real to my kid eyes. You could even interact with a bunch of stuff like light switches, toilets, hydrants, fire extinguishers, pool tables and so on. That left a huge impression on me, and other FPS games of the time which didn't have …

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-01, 19:16

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I noticed that a lot of the choices are the earliest 3D open world games. When the technology finally allowed for these types of games, we were spoiled with some really immersive worlds. I also think that the writing was better back then, so I doubt that I will get as immersed in anything coming …

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-01, 18:14

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More games keep coming to mind. The Mass Effect games also created an incredible universe to play around with. I noticed that a lot of the choices are the earliest 3D open world games. When the technology finally allowed for these types of games, we were spoiled with some really immersive worlds. I …

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-01, 18:09

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RandomStranger wrote on 2022-11-01, 18:04: Where I know the game world itself had a huge part of my impressions are: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. How did I forget the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games? The atmosphere in that game is unparalleled. I even loved Clear Sky despite all the bugs. Apart from Half Life, those are …

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Re: Game environments that left a lasting impression

Posted on 2022-11-01, 18:04

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For me, that moment in Fallout3 when you first go outside of the Vault...just wow. Back in the day I was very sceptical about fo3 steering away from the isometric-turnbased style, but fo3 won me over very quickly once I played it. I did enjoy the sequel New Vegas too, but atmosphere-wise fo3 feels …

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