Re: Looking for a WW2 planes/dogfight game for WinXp

Posted on 2018-08-23, 15:10

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.....MiG Alley. It's a deeply flawed sim, but still oh-so-good... I agree it's an awesome game - but *deeply* flawed? How so? Other than general bugginess I never have would have considered it a "diamond in the rough". Probablly a Top-8 flyer for me - great dogfights! It's generally buggy, just …

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Re: Looking for a WW2 planes/dogfight game for WinXp

Posted on 2018-08-23, 01:10

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KT7AGuy wrote: .....MiG Alley. It's a deeply flawed sim, but still oh-so-good... I agree it's an awesome game - but *deeply* flawed? How so? Other than general bugginess I never have would have considered it a "diamond in the rough". Probablly a Top-8 flyer for me - great dogfights!

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

Posted on 2018-08-08, 17:39

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by tincup

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Oooffff! Tossed out a garbage bag of third rate unused/broken parts; dead drives, crappy office machine grade mobos, tons of canabalized office machine parts I'll never actually use, crappy sound cards, fans/sinks, all manner of minor parts and accessories that that will never see the inside of a …

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

Posted on 2018-08-07, 23:08

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by tincup

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Oooffff! Tossed out a garbage bag of third rate unused/broken parts; dead drives, crappy office machine grade mobos, tons of canabalized office machine parts I'll never actually use, crappy sound cards, fans/sinks, all manner of minor parts and accessories that that will never see the inside of a …

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Re: Weird issue in DOS with ATAPI ZIP

Posted on 2018-07-18, 15:14

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by tincup

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Under the category of "unhelpful suggestions" Zip drives drove me/us crazy back in the day. My solution - wait for it - was to toss all my zip gear. Again, an unhelpful suggestion but even after all these years a zip rant flows effortlessly... Not finding files on Zip rives happened *all* the time. …

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Re: anyone running win95/98 games on 486 machine?

Posted on 2018-07-01, 18:06

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by tincup

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Vanilla W95a on a 486 here. HD in a 5.25" slot caddy for easy removal and off-rig file/data transfer & setup.

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Re: Recommended bike racing games

Posted on 2018-05-10, 01:03

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+1 for GP500. It's a Microprose classic and a real benchmark of bike simulation design.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-10, 00:58

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by tincup

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@jimpqfly Prepare to be disappointed. These cards were designed to boost poor performing hard drives, specifically in situations where there are a lot of read/writes happening often. Such as, but not limited to, heavy multi tasking. Its still damn cool, but Its practicality is zero. Yup, if you use …

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Panzer Commander on Win7 64-bit

Posted on 2018-01-07, 22:14

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I have Panzer Commander installed and running on my W7 64-bit PC. Stock runs fine with any one of a few modded DDraw.dll's out there. It even patches to v1.1 without issue. But that's as far as I can get without encountering serious graphic issues; what works for v1 and v11 doesn't work with the v12 …

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Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - 3D acceleration in XP?

Posted on 2018-01-03, 15:05

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by tincup

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Not the most technically elegant solution but Jedi Knight DK2 is available on GOG for 6 clams American and claims to run under XP. I know it works with Win7 because I bought it - but can't vouch for XP. I was aware of this, but even at $6, it bugs me that I should have to pay for something I …

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Re: Flying Corps Gold - D3D

Posted on 2018-01-03, 02:42

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Day 4 and I found something: DDrawCompat by a certain Narzoul (2017) available on GitHub. A single ddraw.dll, no configurator, but runs FCG in D3D smooth as silk and even solves severe mouse lag. Only issue so far is gauges do don't always display or display properly. The compass is a must! But even …

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Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - 3D acceleration in XP?

Posted on 2018-01-03, 02:13

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by tincup

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Not the most technically elegant solution but Jedi Knight DK2 is available on GOG for 6 clams American and claims to run under XP. I know it works with Win7 because I bought it - but can't vouch for XP.

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Flying Corps Gold - D3D

Posted on 2018-01-01, 01:11

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Last few days I've been fussing around trying to get this to run in accelerated D3D mode. I've tried a bunch of DX emulators so far to no avail: DDwindower, DDwrapper, dgVoodoo2 (D3D) and DXGL for example. I'm running Win7/Radeon 7870 with latest drivers Mostly what happens is a CTD as soon as I …

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Re: cant install windows 98

Posted on 2017-11-30, 22:30

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by tincup

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Another solution is to use an IDE to USB adapter to copy the CDROM's WIN98 directory to your C: drive and then install from there by booting off a floppy. No CD drive required for that. This. I ran into odd problems with 9x and this tends to fix the problem, its a band aid fix. But who cares once …

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Re: Best drivers for 3dfx Voodoo3 (partnered with Voodoo2)

Posted on 2017-08-11, 02:17

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by tincup

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...I've been googling for a bit and most hits are over 10 years old... There is way more we know now then we did then... Emulation maybe but not for original hardware... besides 10 years isn't long ago. Like the others are saying, I use reference drivers on my V1, V2 and V5 rigs. The magic happened …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-07-11, 02:11

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by tincup

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been a while since I dropped into the forum - this project is cool...

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Re: Retro flight sim room

Posted on 2017-06-27, 23:38

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control_053.png Unfortunately throttle and pedals fail to work properly. :( Dawn Patrol? Indeed! Apparently, the problem happens to all Rowan flight sims, that you can use either throttle or pedal, but not both. It also happens to Air Power. The only solution is mapping the pedal to keyboard …

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Re: Retro flight sim room

Posted on 2017-06-21, 00:49

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by tincup

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: control_053.png Unfortunately throttle and pedals fail to work properly. 🙁 Dawn Patrol?

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Re: Circa 2002 gaming rig (P4 based)

Posted on 2017-04-25, 02:19

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by tincup

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You can bump up the HDD and still be era friendly. Be sure to post Doom 3 Demo results on this thread... Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

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Re: How to Successfully use Windows 98 on PCI-Express Systems

Posted on 2017-03-31, 16:00

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by tincup

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Yes, you'll probably need to fiddle around in the bios to set the HDs correctly for XP/Sata and W98/Sata IDE Mode as there doesn't seem to be a consistent nomenclature for Sata IDE/legacy modes across different motherboard/bios . But once you get the routine down it's pretty quick. If you use …

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