Re: Computer Shopper January 1996
Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:18
Re: VOGONS is no marketplace!
Posted on 2011-02-22, 03:32
yes it is, but it gets wormed too. its ftp upgrading is a bit of convenience, although does compromise potential security a bit
Re: Apocalypse 3DX complete in box
Posted on 2011-02-22, 03:20
It supports DirectX3, so quite basic right? In general how did it compare to a 3DFX Vodoo (1)? Well, it was faster, BUT!!! no blend modes other than alpha blending. This was a big killer to the future use of the chipset. so it's obsoleted by 1998. The SGL MiniGL icds suck, too The chips in new …
Re: including dosbox with games
Posted on 2011-02-21, 23:53
make .bat files or .lnks with -conf blahgame.conf and at the end of each conf you want just do your usual mounts and runs. Since it's a USB stick you should use relative paths (i.e. ..\games\sexman\) and maybe use physfs read-only so you don't write to your stick (i.e. mount C ..\games\sexman.zip)
Re: Windows 3.1 trouble.
Posted on 2011-02-21, 03:39
Windows 3.1 on P3 500 I can't even understand why do so to begin with especially with so much RAM to address with. What requires such a powerful system for?
Re: 1990s PC Hardware Magazine Review Archive
Posted on 2011-02-21, 00:29
Is he ripping the sampler CDs too? textfiles is starting to put some of those up, but they're mostly the later ones.
Re: Is there a DOSBOX .zip download?
Posted on 2011-02-20, 23:09
You could also get DBGL which comes in zip form which has DOSBox bundled with it 😁
Re: Telltale Games Reboots King's Quest
Posted on 2011-02-20, 23:07
Yeah, not to mention death by colordepthism, and the ability to lick and smell whatever.
Re: Most disappointing games?
Posted on 2011-02-20, 02:49
well, EVERY "doom clone" had Wolf3d-esque tech behind it. Don't ever trust a .DIZ
Re: How good is this? (New PC)
Posted on 2011-02-19, 17:49
The AWE64 Value will have freezing problems with some older games too. Duke Nukem II will hard freeze with digital sound enabled
Re: How good is this? (New PC)
Posted on 2011-02-19, 14:57
One of the more famous games to be screwed by Creative's FM clone is Doom. You DO NOT WANT TO HEAR DOOM MUSIC ON THAT THING
Re: VOGONS is no marketplace!
Posted on 2011-02-19, 14:55
collector wrote: It doesn't take that much to setup a phpBB board. Yeah nevermind mentioning maintaining updates for it, especially if you have a custom theme. phpBB is one of the most wormed forum softwares ever 🤣 🙁
Re: How good is this? (New PC)
Posted on 2011-02-19, 14:25
olivil wrote: If I was to install Win95/98, what would I need? (I'm guessing a GPU and more RAM?) No. What you have is already ideal for that! I'd recommend 98Lite, though. Using Win95's shell in Windows 98 could be a handy speed boost.
Re: Telltale Games Reboots King's Quest
Posted on 2011-02-19, 13:18
Re: My Ultimate 486
Posted on 2011-02-19, 13:15
Voodoos are only super effective in 486s when you're playing games with not alot of floating point vertex transforming going on. Some games in particular work very well on 486s with Voodoos: - Battlezone - GLQuake - GZDoom (!) (Make sure you lower sound settings asap as fmodex is an overrated piece …
Re: FM Synth soundfont
Posted on 2011-02-19, 11:25
I don't get why nobody has ever programmed something like this yet. XD If such a thing existed, I'd download it in a heartbeat. I know. It's one of those "too awesome" things to make you'd have to wait 20 years for someone to get off their duff and do it, like the idea of a DOS emulator. I was …
Re: FM Synth soundfont
Posted on 2011-02-19, 05:00
I think it'd be more effective to have a "Virtual OPL-3 Driver" which would be the best opl3 emulator ever, listening on port 338. From that point you would use any FM midi driver you'd want with whatever wacky timbres they have.
Re: Athlon PC problem
Posted on 2011-02-17, 14:54
I'm going to be cliche here. AGP voltage? I had freezes with Geforces when they had too much (fry danger). I get artifacts from the boot to all when they don't get enough. Also keep out the pair of Voodoos. Athlons and them don't get along (until those third-party hacks of course,, but i'm not sure …
Re: My Ultimate 486
Posted on 2011-02-17, 14:39
Perhaps you're just testing in a more intensive spot, I don't know - could you take a measurement there? He insists on testing in the non-standard non-default resolution of 320x2 4 0 which I don't even like. I'm not changing my methods for one guy. The additional 40 rows of pixels make all the …
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2011-02-17, 01:26
Nope! p.s. no hexen 2 blackmarsh on those two M3D cds above. however strangely, there's no cd audio track for cd1 either.
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