Re: Interview with "last XP fan"

Posted on Today, 01:49

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Oh, it's fun sticking a non-patched XP machine directly on the internet and watching it get overrun by malware within a matter of minutes. BS do you care to wager? XP can tip toe through the net without issue if you know what your doing. I've heard this BS for years, I guess the internet doesn't …

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Re: Random weird PC tales

Posted on 2021-10-24, 05:48

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2021-10-24, 05:46: I would think like this: generic cable-huge file = fail, premium cable-huge file= doesn't fail. But it doesn't work that way, does it ? Well, the hard drive wasn't even detected when connected using generic USB cable.

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Re: Random weird PC tales

Posted on 2021-10-24, 05:39

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About... ten years ago I was supposed to restore a huge Oracle dump file to a new server. The dump file was stored in an external hard drive, and the server was located right under the KVM switch (which is slightly under chest-level), with nothing else beneath it down to the rack floor. So I have to …

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Re: I've been here for a decade

Posted on 2021-10-21, 15:53

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WolverineDK wrote on 2021-10-20, 14:59: Now I feel old, I joined back in 2006. 15 bloody years ago. Same here buddy. By the way, I miss the old guards: 5u3, Malik, Great Hierophant, Amigaz, to name a few. Well at least DosFreak is still around.

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Re: Bring back the game manuals!

Posted on 2021-10-09, 03:57

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The problem with game manuals that come out of the box is that they're not always spiral-bound. Blue Max: Aces of the Great War manual, for example, is paperback, which requires you to bend the paper to read them. https://i.postimg.cc/Y2bcy2GB/game-manuals-genuine.jpg Paperback (left) isn't really …

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Re: Bring back the game manuals!

Posted on 2021-10-08, 16:35

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How about printing your own manuals?

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Re: Babylon 5 remake?

Posted on 2021-10-08, 02:28

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I'm curious, by the way: have any of you seen any episodes of Crusade , the shortlived Babylon 5 spinoff? I actually liked it. It definitely felt part of the Babylon 5 universe, while at the same time having a unique atmosphere of its own. I quickly warmed up to the cast. Also, the music for it was …

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Re: Babylon 5 remake?

Posted on 2021-10-07, 03:50

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Fiction of any kind = Non-fiction+time. Given enough time the fiction becomes real. Babylon 5 is just a human-generated fantasy, and I am just a person who tries to make it real. The best stories are those with no happy endings, because death is never a happy ending, it is a realistic ending. This …

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Re: Babylon 5 remake?

Posted on 2021-10-01, 02:47

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You must not be much of a Babylon 5 fan otherwise you'd know about Delenn. Ah, Delenn. If I ever fell in love with a fictional character, it was definitely Delenn. :laughing: I would have to say I was mainly an Ivanova man. Though I found a slight leaning toward Talia Winters for a bit, but she was …

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Re: Babylon 5 remake?

Posted on 2021-09-30, 11:57

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You must not be much of a Babylon 5 fan otherwise you'd know about Delenn. Ah, Delenn. If I ever fell in love with a fictional character, it was definitely Delenn. :laughing: I remember, it was around 1996 or perhaps 1997. I was the head of the Souvenir Division in the university's student …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-09-06, 12:42

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I never loved CRT. Never did, never do, and perhaps never will. First, even with excellent CRT monitors like Mitsubishi Diamondtron, I can always see individual pixels. Yes, I can always see that the picture displayed in the monitor is made up of pixels. Less noticeable in dynamic scenes like games, …

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Re: Favorite forgotten games

Posted on 2021-09-06, 01:53

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Navy Strike. It is quite an obscure game, but I like its strategy game elements. Come to think of it, I always love flight sim/strategy hybrid like Their Finest Hour, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Reach for the Skies, and Total Air War. Knights of the Sky. It was overshadowed by Red Baron during …

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Re: Do you consider your physical posture during all those hours spent gaming? It might come & bite you when you're olde

Posted on 2021-09-01, 06:12

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As long as my lower back stands straight and properly supported, then I'm alright. That's why I prefer office chairs whose back stands upright or reclines only slightly.

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Re: Are Creative sound cards, especially X-Fi, really worth it for EAX games?

Posted on 2021-08-23, 07:48

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Why do I still want to play such old games like WarCraft III and Neverwinter Nights? Because of mods. I haven't tried WarCraft I on WarCraft III engine, for example. Or Ultima IV on NWN engine. Sound's like a perfect excuse for another retro build, Family room retro PC! You could always just use a …

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Do modern Radeon drivers stil allow GPU scaling and 4:3 aspect ratio (with black bars) on Windows 7?

Posted on 2021-08-23, 07:43

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Yes, I knew nVidia is not perfect, but one of the reasons I stick with nVidia is because I always have the option to maintain the correct aspect ratio using GPU scaling, regardless of OS and/or GPU model we're using. https://i.postimg.cc/tJKtXvSk/n-Vidia-GPU-scaling.jpg At least nVidia still gives …

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Re: Some Questions about Selling Big Box Games

Posted on 2021-08-22, 15:23

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Just to let the moderators know this is not an announcement, this is just a question I have. I currently have a collection of Big Box games but the disks on some of them are questionable. Is there any point to attempting to sell any with questionable disks or is that a waste of time? Trying to …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2021-08-21, 08:36

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I'm not fluent in German, but I learned the language long time ago and I still remember preferring it more than English, because German has very orderly grammatical structure that is almost like a programming language.

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Re: Blue screen in Windows 7 install

Posted on 2021-08-16, 15:30

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What is the specs of your machine? Are you using Ryzen? I remember reading somewhere that Ryzen has problem when installing Windows 7 with USB mouse and keyboard.

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Re: Are Creative sound cards, especially X-Fi, really worth it for EAX games?

Posted on 2021-08-14, 15:41

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A lot of games could run with DSOAL, Warcraft III, Morrowind, Dungeon Keeper 2 I have tried and works with DSOAL. It is just user preference in the end to use it or not, like ALchemy, or running on a native XP machine without emulation. There's a list here of games and what is supported, perhaps …

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Re: Are Creative sound cards, especially X-Fi, really worth it for EAX games?

Posted on 2021-08-14, 14:13

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Some games do sound nicer, like Star Wars Episode 1 Racer (sadly no A3D as shown in the video here, but if you try with ALchemy it sounds close, well better than none), Dungeon Keeper 2 , Dungeon Siege , Kotor 2 , Warcraft III , Morrowind which I prefer X-Fi over DSOAL because it doesn't pan …

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