Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 10:02

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We're quite lucky that it's English that is the modern lingua franca. It's rather simple as far as languages go (its slightly tricky phonetics notwithstanding). If it was a language with non-rudimentary conjugation, declension etc., our life would be much more difficult. The truth is that English …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-21, 11:15

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Boats and ships are humanized too. And some other stuff, I guess. Noun genders don't exist, unless they do. English has no rules. Pah !

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-20, 21:14

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I have no nostalgia for the Atari ST. It was always an inferior platform with terrible sound, with mediocre games and mediocre ports of Amiga games.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-20, 14:13

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DoTT is much better. MM is way too hard. But I still Maniac Mansion Deluxe is the only good way to play MM.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-19, 07:07

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I need to get Windows ME on a machine of mine, but I don't have any that is both a) compatible b) not-compatible with Real Mode DOS games with sound I don't know why, but WinME attracts me.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-19, 07:05

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kolderman wrote on 2020-11-19, 04:42: I'm pretty sure I read the id guys used keyboard until they saw some pro players at a meet using mouse and they were converted. [...] That's not possible since the DOOM demos and manual clearly display/recommand a keyboard+mouse playstyle.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-18, 15:33

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I believe that the "proper era" playing device for Doom is keyboard only. Although I've played many FPS with keyboard+mouse, I feel like cheating when doing so in Doom. Also, I believe that being proud of playing FPS with a gamepad is like being proud of driving a scooter. https://www.youtube.com/ …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-18, 13:22

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DOSBox gave us DOS without endless suffering from "not enough conventionnal memory" errors. For that alone, it's a godsend.

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Re: DOSBox Pure ?

Posted on 2020-11-17, 09:27

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Stiletto wrote on 2020-11-13, 18:25: Libretro and Retroarch are a cancer upon the emulation development community. The fan/user community, IDK, but definitely the developer community. Why ?! As a developer, It's not my experience at all.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-11-16, 18:41

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I wish I could discover it again for the first time. 😁

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-15, 19:36

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Wrote this to run the PC port of Garfield - Caught in the ACT in fullscreen on startup of Windows 3.11 inside DOSBox : #include int main(void) { STARTUPINFO si; PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(si)); si.cb = sizeof(si); ZeroMemory(&pi, sizeof(pi)); CreateProcessA("C:\\SEGA\\GARFIELD\\ …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-11-15, 14:31

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CyberMage is a good choice. 😀

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Re: Feature Request: Spoof available CPU threads

Posted on 2020-11-15, 07:19

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"buy a less powerful CPU". How about no ?

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Re: Problems with _inmm.dll and winmm.dll.

Posted on 2020-11-14, 17:16

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Hello UCyborg :) Sorry, I did not see your post in time. I made it work with _inmm.dll instead. That's what I use nowadays. Maintaining my own fork didn't make much sense when _inmm just works everytime. Even if it requires more setup. Do you prefer Ogg-Winmm instead ? If you insist, I'll look into …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2020-11-13, 22:12

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There's BoxedWine or QEMU, too. I'd try the first one, first.

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Re: MechWarrior 3 with 60 FPS?

Posted on 2020-11-13, 21:15

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Muz wrote on 2020-11-13, 19:01: How to get this game running in 60 FPS with Windows 10 using 1024x768 resolution? You want 30 FPS, or else the AI is broken and the game really weird overall and not fun.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-11, 03:59

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The CD32/CD TV crap really made no sense. Commodore was idiotic. All the games they got were ports of A500 games !

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-10, 08:33

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Myst is pretty, but I can't get engaged in it. It's so... empty. I have an ATI Rage Mobility M1 (8 MB VRAM) inside my Packard Bell Chrom@ laptop . This piece of shit doesn't even work with ANY 3D accelerated game. Even some games are defeated by it in software mode. In. Software. Mode. Thank God I …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-09, 09:48

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I can't stand Windows 95. Windows 98SE or go home.

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2020-11-08, 20:42

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Works on my end. Check your system clock.

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