Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on Today, 02:38
Re: You can use Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and 2003 to edit Office 2007-formatted files
Posted on Yesterday, 21:35
Errius wrote on Yesterday, 16:20: How are people reading old Microsoft Write and Works files on modern systems? Surprisingly, LibreOffice supports .WRI and Works 2.0 files. I really hate the long initialization and big bloat of that though
Re: graphics that over promise and under deliver
Posted on Yesterday, 21:12
Thinking about uncanny valley: the eyes. I was never a big fan of sphere eyes either (See: Jedi Outcast, Timesplitters 2, Giants). The better aged eyes from around that time tend to be more of the "calculate UV like an environment map but reflecting from the eye origin to where they're looking at" …
Re: What game made you upgrade to Windows 95 back in the day?
Posted on Yesterday, 21:01
Special Edition also had Win3.1 and DOS builds on the disc. Are you sure you're not confusing it for the Win95-only Network Edition?
Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)
Posted on 2021-07-22, 21:13
Jane's WTF C-130s getting bird strikes, Chuck Yeager interjecting anything that's not about flying even if it's not his game, the texture mapper is even more affine and slower, RIO actually makes a mess on screen, out-of-context mid-air refueling, etc.
Re: PC gaming magazines with full games
Posted on 2021-07-22, 20:57
In the 90's US, there was Computer Games Strategy Plus which would occassionally bundle a full game's disc (usually years old by that point). What Computer Gaming World usually did was put old promotional freeware rereleases from Sierra (Red Baron EGA, Betrayal at Krondor) for promoting their …
Re: Open source DOS games
Posted on 2021-07-22, 19:13
Command & Conquer Remastered's source actually still has quite a bit of leftover DOS-era residue and there's a (non-DOS) faithful port using it, if that counts. https://github.com/Vanilla-Conquer/Vanilla-Conquer No idea if there is an attempt at a DOS backport of this. Some of the recent commits …
Re: Is Vista now Retro
Posted on 2021-07-22, 18:59
Considering the new GetShellFolderPathEx-esque sabotage in new Visual C Core runtimes exclusively made for Windows 10 since late 2020, this is already happening for 7 and even 8.1. It's pretty bad since it'll blindly hit visual studio-adjacent developers and there's much "7 broke? oh well its EOL …
Re: Red Alert 1 Windows - This isn't SVGA!?
Posted on 2021-07-22, 18:45
SVGA also covered 640x400/640x480 in 256 colors because that would often be part of typical early SVGA cards that could do 800x600 at 16 colors. Marketing yes.
Re: Retro Development
Posted on 2021-07-22, 18:39
Wish more at least kept and stuck with Mingw32 GCC 4.7.2 toolchains if you know what I mean...
Re: graphics that over promise and under deliver
Posted on 2021-07-22, 18:37
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2021-07-22, 18:24
Let's look closely at some PVR2 texels
Re: PCem v17
Posted on 2021-07-22, 18:13
In case anyone is curious at what my last commit was about...
Re: What do you think about Steam Deck handheld PC ?
Posted on 2021-07-22, 18:02
Hopefully there's no steam market connection with the deck. *cough*csgo crap-motivated decktheftery*cough*
Re: What game made you upgrade to Windows 95 back in the day?
Posted on 2021-07-22, 17:46
The start menu, the '3d' windows and more comfortable and compact screen fonts and new tiny icon sizes for programs. This was 1995 and the state of Windows gaming wasn't all that great to motivate a gaming-driven upgrade. (most of the new 95 games were adventure games and early Kinesoft console …
Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)
Posted on 2021-07-22, 17:23
Re: PCem v17
Posted on 2020-12-05, 02:10
The dynarec's improved yes. M II 400 and K6/200's my new sweet spot for constant 100% with the new Banshee emulation.
Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2020-12-05, 01:58
Glide ceased being proprietary when it opened in 2000 😀
Re: Vintage Hardware Wallpapers
Posted on 2020-12-05, 01:33
Use something excellent like Paint Shop Pro 3 that has very good color reduction processes.
Re: Video Games running with only GDI32.DLL
Posted on 2020-12-04, 13:32
I was thinking Virtual Stupidity. It's one of the earliest Win95 games and is amazingly forward compatible.
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