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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-04-28, 22:08

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Done with the main campaign of Unreal Gold . It was shorter than I expected. That said, I did run into some trouble with a couple of the mothership levels. They were too convoluted for my taste, and I had to consult a walkthrough on a few occasions. Didn't help that every corridor looked the same, …

Re: Some problematic games I've been trying to run for months...

Posted on 2023-04-23, 22:06

in Windows
marianoryu wrote on 2023-04-23, 12:34: BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2023-04-23, 05:06: You might try one more thing: delete the GPU driver and run games with the Microsoft default driver. See if that changes anything I was on the process of doing that now, and still no luck. if all else fails run Linux …

Re: Some problematic games I've been trying to run for months...

Posted on 2023-04-23, 13:10

in Windows
You might try one more thing: delete the GPU driver and run games with the Microsoft default driver. See if that changes anything I was on the process of doing that now, and still no luck. I assume you've tried compatibility mode and uninstall and reinstall it and clean out the directory. Hmm have …

Re: Some problematic games I've been trying to run for months...

Posted on 2023-04-22, 21:22

in Windows
I'm still fighting with this if anyone has any further ideas. If you were a coder or programmer, you could look into Urban Chaos' source code as it is on github https://github.com/dizzy2003/MuckyFoot-UrbanChaos Apart from the others, short of say VirtualBox and a legit copy and activated windows, I …

Re: Sega Documentary (1993)

Posted on 2023-04-22, 18:23

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Hi Jo22, thanks for the links, what a nice watch. There's also a curious video of leftover film from a news report inside the Nintendo Power Hotline service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj2drENV9uk Impressive how the operator knows every step of the game by memory to advise on his call even …

PCI Modem Cards

Posted on 2023-04-22, 15:26

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What do you do with PCI Modem Cards these days? I was thinking of internet faxing or old-school VOIP. Most of the time I gut them for screws whenever I find any. There are adapters to convert rj11 to rj45 but I don't think that would work for in-line house phone jacks. Gah I am glad I ripped out the …

Re: Sega Documentary (1993)

Posted on 2023-04-22, 15:16

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What was remarkable about SEGA was the Sonic franchise seeing it on Nick Arcade in the 1990s, SEGA and Paramount were once sister companies so I speculate they got permission to do that game in the show. The others were unknown to me. I did not own a Sega console since I was into Nintendo and …

Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-16, 21:33

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My kids are around age 25-30, nowadays they either have old consoles or mostly emulators for various Nintedo/Sony/Dreamcast. Some buy or otherwise obtain old PC games on steam or whatever (not gog so much). But they have zero interest in my old computing gear, even when it was stuff they played on …

Very old time related game review.

Posted on 2023-04-14, 23:16

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An example of games I played that dealt with time travel/machine, not an exhaustive list but I wish I had more time... ST TNG A Final Unity The Journeyman Project by Presto Studios Mission Critical by Legend Entertainment As I learned more about time and how it can be used, I am convinced a time …

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-13, 19:33

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The likelyhood of an individual making any headway with a lawsuit is laughable, more likely they may be able to get a refund for their library but then they wouldn't have those games available for any other OS. The route to take would likely be through the EFF concerning online DRM for "complete" …

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-04-13, 17:55

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I love how all posts are marked under CC-BY 4.0 International by default. I thought for sure it would be under CC-BY-SA 4.0 for some reason to keep the forums free and open. Having a default-free license does make what I say a story instead of a quote or opinion.

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-13, 17:09

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BBSs are no longer relevant for practical reasons. These games are no longer playable on their original platforms for purely business reasons. BIG Difference. From Valve's POV I can see this being as much a practical consideration as it is a business consideration. Ultimately, it's Microsoft who is …

Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-13, 17:07

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Well, for starters I sure hope turning 30 isn't your "mid-life" crisis. Dying at 60 can happen for sure, but let us hope not. Secondly the machine is more than the sum of it's parts....in other words it's the feelings that gets stirred up when messing with the hardware or playing the games that …

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-13, 15:23

in Milliways
BBSs are no longer relevant for practical reasons. These games are no longer playable on their original platforms for purely business reasons. BIG Difference. From Valve's POV I can see this being as much a practical consideration as it is a business consideration. Ultimately, it's Microsoft who is …

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-13, 14:30

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I used to use BBSs back in the 90s, for example. They're all gone now and never coming back. Not quite all, it seems: https://www.howtogeek.com/686600/remember-bbses-heres-how-you-can-visit-one-today/ (I guess some old dogs never learns to roll over and play dead.) I have difficulty learning why we …

nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-13, 00:55

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I turned 30 years old last year and looking forward to my birthday but I didn't do much this decade for my 20s and now I am starting into looking back. I used to collect maybe hoard everything I found, but now I feel dead inside, losing that happy feeling as I saw the rise of the internet at such an …

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-13, 00:32

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And I'm old enough to know that in this field, everything has to move forward, I'm only concerned with how it's going to do it, and the title of this thread is giving us a warning. This is how Steam is going to move forward, leaving everything behind as if it didn't exist. And that doesn't seem …

Why do we collect things? self-reflection and crisis

Posted on 2023-03-05, 13:58

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I collect shot glasses and small things that fit in a small cabinet. I collect them because they have practical use in addition to looking fabulous. They are made of thick glass and don't shatter if they hit the ground from my height. But is collecting pointless to the point that most of it will be …

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