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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on Yesterday, 00:16

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I remember reading in another thread here that it took a 600Mhz P3 to play fullscreen SVGA completely smoothly. Out of interest I installed it on my Cyrix MII 300 (233MHz) which runs Duke3D smoothly in SVGA, and Blood pretty well too. CM is definitely playable but not as smooth as I'd like if I was …

Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-11-24, 09:52

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-11-23, 12:02: I usually buy Starbucks coffee beans Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-11-23, 12:02: In USA people choose coffee like fine wine Lolz

Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-23, 22:27

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Anyone else watching Retro Recipes? It's more style than substance sometimes but he does some fun projects and regularly makes me 🤣: https://www.youtube.com/user/Perifractic

Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2020-11-19, 23:23

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I've managed to resist all of your excellent GM daughter boards somehow but this thing has me looking for a BUY NOW button!

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-19, 04:07

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Even the DOOM developers used the mouse - it is evident from some of the in-game demos (which I believe were recorded by John Romero). I remember reading that our friend John used mouse with Wolf3D too - mouse mandatory, said he. I'm a keyboard guy but I suspect as a lad I played with left hand on …

Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-11-13, 06:43

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in Marvin \ Sound

Why /I:7? 5 is more commonly used. And what sort of system are you running this bad boy in? If it's "modern" (PIII for example) then you might need to jump into the BIOS and set aside the relevant IRQ for your card so that nothing else grabs it.

Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-11-12, 10:09

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in Marvin \ Sound

That's my favourite Audiodrive you have there @Koveras. The driver you linked to should be fine, here's what I have in my Autoexec.bat: C:\DRIVERS\ESS1688\ESSCFG.EXE /A:220 /I:5 /D:1 /M:S /B:330 C:\DRIVERS\ESS1688\ESSVOL.EXE /A:10 /C:100 That should do the SET BLASTER variable for you, and no it's …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-09, 08:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Vegge wrote on 2020-11-08, 19:09: And Labway soundcards. Yamaha YMF719E-S chipset with QDSP QS1000 internal synth. This was kind of a surprise. Those are nice cards! Not the best GM option around but I think that chipset sounds pretty good, particularly for rock-y sound tracks like DOOM 👍

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-08, 02:35

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I built a PC specifically to play Ultima 7, but I've never come close to finishing Ultima 7. I also like PC speaker and have been known to set the FX in DOOM to PC speaker because that's how I played it for the first year I had it. I've also built some epic awesome super great vintage PCs that just …

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 00:21

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Cyberdyne wrote on 2020-11-05, 14:12: My two two wheels 😁 Sweet rides 👍

Re: Are there any more aspect ratio ultratolerant people?

Posted on 2020-11-05, 22:27

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mothergoose729 wrote on 2020-11-05, 20:11: Sorry, there might be a bit of a culture difference. That was a joke. I laughed!

Re: McFly : a VS1053 based waveblaster compatible board

Posted on 2020-11-05, 11:04

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in Marvin \ Sound

DOOM sounds weird I agree but otherwise I think it sounds pretty nice 👍

Re: Playing games on periodcorrect retro computer versus playing on newer/modern machine

Posted on 2020-11-01, 09:41

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I've struggled to play my fave SVGA games on period correct hardware after seeing them at max res on a 1Ghz P3 - you can still do ISA sound / super compatible graphics cards (Voodoo3, GF2, etc) / CRT but with lovely high frames.

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

Posted on 2020-10-28, 23:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Received a LumaFix 64 that I ordered and installed it into my Commodore 64 today. Immediately after installation and without any tweaks, the picture was already vastly improved. A couple of short tweaks later and it was practically as good as it's ever going to get. S-Video output now has correct …

Re: dogs in video games

Posted on 2020-10-24, 06:04

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I've had to send Dogmeat away in Fallout 4 because his helpful barking was upsetting our recently adopted (IRL) greyhound 😋

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-21, 09:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's a super pretty looking DB, congrats 👍

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-20, 03:23

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

HanJammer wrote on 2020-10-19, 21:57: And some boxed cards... Super nice - that ISA / VLB era Paradise chipset is fantastic in my experience. Great image quality and compatibility and nice drivers - speed is also OK, some fiddling with jumpers has made a difference for me.

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2020-10-17, 20:59

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Freshly purchased a few minutes ago. Ironically, I have pretty much every DUKE3D big box except this one, haha. Noice! Our AU version is a bit different because we got a 'modified version' of the game and it says so on the box - they turned off and locked the option to hide / show the rude bits. …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-14, 05:49

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Dark Forces ... Although I'm not a huge fan of some of the level design in this game, everything else is fantastic. The cleaner textures give it a sharper look than Doom, while the the audio is simply amazing—between the excellent sound effects and the fantastic dynamic soundtrack (Sound Canvas), …

Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-10-11, 11:36

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A lot of Split Enz here recently - been in the mood for something fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxg_oII5qBQ

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