For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Number 42

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fo … -the-number-42/ Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians

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Re: Half-Life 2 not running on Windows 98, "unable to load engine.dll"

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I prefer to do this kind of testing in a VM for those reasons and then once I'm done then play it on the real system. Doing test without a VM like in the old days (before when VPC and Vmware came out) is beyond frustrating. Of course in this case you wouldn't get 3D acceleration in a 9x VM but most …

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Re: Running "MS-DOS prompt" in Windows 3.11 at 1.5MB RAM

Posted on 2020-09-20, 21:16

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1. It isn't. 2. Then you've found the problem. 3. Are you running in standard or enhanced?

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Re: Is anyone excited for the Nvidia 3000 series cards

Posted on 2020-09-20, 19:39

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MS Flightsim 2020 VRAM usage https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/m ... iew,4.html

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2020-09-20, 18:54

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Probably should be on vogons drivers as well either split into the Adlib and Creative Labs section with a identifiable name so it can be used on real PC and emulators or left as is in a new section. It shouldn't be labeled specificically for DOSBox, see this too often for fixes that are listed as …

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2020-09-20, 18:15

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In the other thread is a list of Microsoft games. Is there a way to query a list of new free Microsoft store games? I've used Windows 10 since the beginning but I can count on on hand the number of times I've opened the app and the only thing I've ever installed from it is WSL and I don't open it if …

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2020-09-20, 18:00

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Reserved

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

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Reserved

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2020-09-20, 17:59

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Copied from other thread, not cleaned up. EPIC 9-20-2020 to 9-24-2020 Football Manager 2020 Stick It To The Man Watch Dogs 2 Troy A Total War Saga ????? Amazon DLC for Troy on September 24th 1. Go here and create an account: https://access.totalwar.com/auth/email_register/ 2. Email will be sent. …

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List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2020-09-20, 17:49

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This thread is for an up to date list of games that are currently free as of 9-20-2020. This includes: Online Stores Free games offered with subscriptions Free games for a temporary period Free games for regular websites. Online only games Free games with DRM Rules: Please keep game discussion out …

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-09-20, 17:45

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Down to 3 threads! Just need to set aside some time for the boring stuff.

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List of DRM Free Games on online stores

Posted on 2020-09-20, 17:15

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9-20-2020 Bethesda Arx Fatalis Doom 64 Elder Scrolls Morrowind Fallout Shelter Quake 1 Quake 2 Quake 3 Rage 2 The Elder Scrolls Arena The Elder Scrolls II Daggerfall Blizzard Starcraft v1.18 EPIC 20XX 3 out of 10 EP 2 3 out of 10 EP1 Welcome to Shovelworks A Short Hike Abzu Aer Memories of Old Alan …

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-09-20, 14:27

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MS Store: 1) Rope Championship 2) Dark Chess+ 3) Aeroplane Chess 3D 4) Spider Heroes Parkour 5) Sudoku.org 6) Soccer Power Hero

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-20, 11:38

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Guys keep it civil please. Again vogons is not a marketplace and it seems we can't even talk about the subject without it going off the rails. If it keeps up the thread will be closed. Wonder if we should just start being ridiculous and censoring the words for the trading sites to get the point …

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Re: How to install and run vanilla Half-Life 2 without Steam

Posted on 2020-09-20, 00:35

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For the HL1 steam versions before v4554 you need the following from revemu copied to where hl.exe is located: rev.ini steam.dll steamclient.dll As well as the switch -steam -game xxx The above works on 9x with Kernelex with v4554 for the following combined into one folder blueshift, conditionzero, …

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Re: How to install and run vanilla Half-Life 2 without Steam

Posted on 2020-09-19, 23:24

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Builds after v5135 do not require steam but builds before do. Using just "-game xxx" is all you need for all the various HL2 games after v5135.

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Re: Windows 98 SE VM on a Ryzen 3000 not working

Posted on 2020-09-19, 15:52

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Considering Ryzen 4 later this year and was researching the VME issue with 9x in a VM. For some reason I completely missed that it affected NT up to XP and 2003 but it makes sense. Is this still broken as of 9-19-2020? Anyone have the time to test 9x and XP in the latest Vmware Player VM? Interested …

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Re: Half-Life 2 not running on Windows 98, "unable to load engine.dll"

Posted on 2020-09-19, 03:20

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Best bet would be verifying the game works on a modern machine before copying over to Windows 98. If you are using the revemu steam.dll then newer versions may be incompatible with 9x and also if some of the HL2 files are corrupted then you'll experience those kinds of errors. Once you've verified …

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Re: Half-Life 2 not running on Windows 98, "unable to load engine.dll"

Posted on 2020-09-19, 00:09

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This thread may be legit so staying open for now

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Re: Half-Life 2 not running on Windows 98, "unable to load engine.dll"

Posted on 2020-09-18, 23:18

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It would have to be Old Engine as well since IIRC anything newer required SSE. I want to say SSE2 was required with the first steampipe build but could be wrong there. The reason I called you a troll is because of the ridiculousness of your post. If you don't recognize that then okay but that's why. …

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