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Re: VU Confirms Quest Series Compilations

Posted on 2006-09-29, 00:13

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Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames/12508701/ref=pd_ts_c_th_head/104-7426736-3991907 Two of the compilations made it into the top 10 of amazon.com! :D King's Quest is actually selling more than Company of Heroes! I'd say thats an accomplishment. If it makes it above WoW …

Re: King's Quest XP Collection

Posted on 2006-09-28, 01:57

Those were all posts from before they were released. Has anyone actually tried the new collection? No, actually a few of them are post release. According to a few posts on AdventureGamers forums, they all use dosbox save for KQ7. So 'do they work' can be answered as 'yes'. They work about as much …

Re: Where to get DOS games from?

Posted on 2006-09-20, 09:27

Well for books and other such things it makes sense, it is the life of the author basically - unless the family renews. However no one has yet made a special "Computer Software Copyright Law" document to cover all these bases. Should not a copyright be void if the company no longer exists? Should a …

Re: Where to get DOS games from?

Posted on 2006-09-20, 08:55

The decision noted that, so long as a copyright term is finite, it is permissible under the Constitution. Thus, a copyright in the United States is protected by the full strength of the law until it expires, between 70 and 120 years after initial creation, giving the copyright owner the monopoly …

Re: Voodoo 1 on 64bit Windows

Posted on 2006-09-20, 08:51

but on the continued use of 3DFx cards as a whole. Not really the use, but the continued development and support of long dead cards. Why are there plugins and wrappers for programs that aren't even that old? Project 64 and 1964 are more modern emulators, and yet their most accurate results come …

Re: Where to get DOS games from?

Posted on 2006-09-20, 07:32

But this seems... silly? 2All: Is this true? Welcome to the gaming industry. Worse yet - game copyrights expire in the same amount of times as books and other IPs......100 years. :blah: Someone needs to rewrite the copyright laws, there needs to be a section addressing old dead games. How can 20 …

Re: Voodoo 1 on 64bit Windows

Posted on 2006-09-20, 00:53

Targaff - to get any decent accuracy Glide64 Wonder Plus (Nov 2005) must be used with either a wrapper (good, but not perfect) or Glide hardware. A year isn't a long time when it comes to development. Compare that to the DX plugins which focus on minor additions such as AA/AF rather than the core …

Re: VU Confirms Quest Series Compilations

Posted on 2006-09-19, 07:37

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I've now seen people who haven't realized the Sierra timing bugs are defeated in Dosbox using lower cycles.....which 8000 qualifies as. People cannot be this nearsighted, haven't they tried dosbox at all on their own? I mean come on.....

Re: Voodoo 1 on 64bit Windows

Posted on 2006-09-19, 07:33

"God I wish people would let them die" is a far cry from "They're a bit long in the tooth now, aren't they chaps?" , don't you think? If you're going to take the bull+china shop approach then it's entirely unsurprising that you don't generally get any reasonable replies. As if I'd say that wanting …

Re: Voodoo 1 on 64bit Windows

Posted on 2006-09-19, 06:20

Naw its not me getting upset, I just get fed up with brand loyalty. ;) I can understand wanting the glory days to return (we all do) but making programs and such for the 20 people who still own their geforce cards can get quite annoying for those of us interested in using said programs on modern …

Re: Voodoo 1 on 64bit Windows

Posted on 2006-09-19, 00:48

Ah cmon, even you have to see how pointless N64 emulation has gotten? The only decent graphic plugin is the Glide64 one, and the wrappers simply do not perform very well and do not give you the choice to offload onto the CPU. It is almost unacceptable that the fastest of PCs can't get decent N64 …

Re: Voodoo 1 on 64bit Windows

Posted on 2006-09-19, 00:32

My problem with Voodoo envy is that we now have N64/PSX emulators and plugins tha require a voodoo based card to function at full speeds. The wrapper have minimal effort put in, and no one seems to think this is a problem. People use age old hardware for no real reason, causing great annoyance to me …

Re: VU Confirms Quest Series Compilations

Posted on 2006-09-17, 09:59

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Why is Dynamic the default anyway? 8000 cycles actually isn't that high for even a modest PC, but I'm guessing they want as large an audience as possible. However I've gotten even the slowest of Celerons to pull 10000+ on normal, so they could have avoided stability issues by using normal instead.

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