Re: What is your Favorite CPU and Why ?
Posted on Today, 05:25
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on Yesterday, 23:51
Quake was always better anyway. I think that is far from the consensus then or now. In reality they were equally important - quake for 3d advances and arguably music, dn3d for realistic level design, destructable environments and humor. Half-Life's pretty much the progressive amalgamation of both …
Re: List of Free Games
Posted on Yesterday, 02:06
The thing about Codemasters....they've always wanted to make "Simulators", so it's not surprising that it's very non-arcade (though ironically, their earliest "simulator" series titles are pretty arcadey due to C64 hardware limitations)
Re: Flying Heroes
Posted on Yesterday, 01:18
Probably failing on the CD check (which Windows 10 infamously gutted support for). Flying Heroes used Safedisc IIRC.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on Yesterday, 00:28
I've even heard someone call Duke Nukem 3D a toxic game. Oh, how absurd this is... It's true though. A few BUILD games are cursed and were always cursed. The Duke character was originally a parody of the 80s-90s narcisstic macho action hero type (more evident in Duke2), and by 3D, many sought him …
Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?
Posted on 2020-08-11, 00:30
Yeah, Mech2 can get new appreciation for the earlier untextured gradient looks with heavy palette bias (for atmosphere!) thanks to minimalist art games like Journey, etc... it's more gracefully aging than the early texturemapped 3d stuff that needed to affine it up for the CPUs of the day (Jane's …
Re: Win32s compatibility issues?
Posted on 2020-08-10, 06:33
Sometimes different Win32s releases can play a factor (the last win32s release regressed some apps IIRC)
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-08-10, 05:53
PSO2, finally. Is it considered "retro gaming" to play a late-localized DX9-using* MMO from the early 2010s? 😀 also yes. * - the "d3d9ex" parts seem optional, maybe there's potential in 200X battlestations playing this. 👀
Re: Best sound setup for each LucasArts classic adventure?
Posted on 2020-08-09, 03:29
yes. they're practically bonus materials of a gotta-use-up-that-disc-space manner
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-08-08, 15:12
Discrete_BOB_058 wrote on 2020-08-08, 10:21: Jane's USNF doesnt work that's a dos game
Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread
Posted on 2020-08-07, 01:14
Also mind that most "mods" for DC HL are naive asset replacements under the guise of a "yeah!!! DC finally has !!!" delusion. Let's hope Paranoia isn't one of those cases... (also I checked the vod of the Inducer stream. A lot of the common "synthesizer"-sounding sounds come right out of The Games …
Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2020-08-07, 00:23
Maybe Fastdoom could have the old scrapped "2MB RAM support" idea of loading only 3 generic sounds commonly applied to everything (Gun fire, Death OOGH, Door swish), as seen in the Nov 93 "A visit to id software" video For all those potato fans (and haters that don't get the point), a reminder that …
Re: Will WinXP *run* on a 486?
Posted on 2020-08-07, 00:18
Yeah XP would never run on a 486 even if you swap CPUs after. It's not a requirement "on paper" like most things, it really needs those instructions. I've seen some 486 XP bullshitters before... Win2000 will run on a 486 though! Probably not after a certain service pack however...
Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2020-08-06, 10:43
PS I'll bring back gamma correction support in the next version of FastDoom :D Yeah I can only seeing this happening to the palette and the tint lumps on load (cached in memory), and reloading them with new processing on F11 press. unless that's what doom already did (I know quake throws all …
Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?
Posted on 2020-08-03, 23:03
If you want more DOS 16-color VGA graphics porn (sometimes.... literally) there's always those few PC-98->IBM game ports (i.e. Megatech) though they never had any smooth scrolling.
Re: This has been driving me nuts for years... looking for an old screen saver
Posted on 2020-08-03, 03:02
Jorpho wrote on 2020-08-02, 22:39: Does this have the man with the saxophone? That pic in particular was very distinctive. It doesn't. However... Screen Gallery (part of Hallmark Card Studio ~1995) does. A P100 would definitely be in the right time for this as an OEM pack-in.
Re: Building A Website That Supports Older Browsers
Posted on 2020-08-02, 21:17
Java runtimes won't affect Javascript. Also like flash, many avoid installing that
Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?
Posted on 2020-08-02, 02:10
Tyrian's quite beautiful. Disregard the "2000" version and its ugly changes though
Re: Need help configuring everything for the perfect Quake 1 experience.
Posted on 2020-08-02, 01:16
DOSBox can't do anything about 1. Statusbar scaling was a thing only GLQuake officially did (and this feature's present in pretty much all accelerated source ports). 2. Quake's resolution cap is a hard 1280x1024 and is fixed to 4:3 aspect for the FOV calculation. aspect=true should help that. 3. …
Re: If you were able to go back say 15-20 years ago what one motherboard would you buy ?
Posted on 2020-08-02, 00:26
20 years ago? Probably the Epox 8KTA+.
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