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Re: The flip side of the cost of vintage computing

Posted on 2025-06-09, 21:34

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15 years ago stuff was cheap but the challenge then was finding it - people didn't bother listing things that were worth peanuts. Today of course most things are crazy prices but there's a lot more being listed, because of course it's worth the effort now. Pros and cons I suppose.

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2025-06-07, 21:16

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I thought I'd post all my criticisms of it for once. Ha yes no game is perfect that's for sure. Something that bothered me a lot about the first game were the NPC reactions when I wandered into their farms, etc. They never really seemed to see me. They'd be saying "who's there" when I was standing …

Re: Yamaha Audician 32 Compatibility Issue

Posted on 2025-06-02, 22:26

What resources do you have configured for your card? i.e. IRQ, DMA, etc. If you're relying on PnP then the PC might be assigning resources that games won't work with. Also what PC are you running these games on? If it's the Pentium 133 in your sig then speed could be an issue, some older games fail …

Re: Anyone else use their machines for productive things?

Posted on 2025-06-02, 22:20

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Nothing here but I've always liked the idea of short story writing on my Windows 98 machine - just me and the PC, no internet and modern life stuff to distract me. It'll never happen though, I don't have the time or energy for writing anymore and staring at text on a CRT is a killer compared to a …

Re: Install WP32 McCake in my 486 or my 386?

Posted on 2025-05-23, 00:11

Yes that's a good question and I tried to go down that path, but after trying countless sound fonts I couldn't find one that consistent beat the X2GS. There are some amazing ones out there of course but they'd sound awesome with one game, and not quite right with another. That's a personal opinion …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2025-05-22, 12:10

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BTW, @DosFreak mentioned an uPlay emulator here . Not sure if that works for your game though. Thanks but I couldn't find an emu option sadly. Out of desperation I went back and tried the GameCopyWorld nocd crack options again. There are 2 there, the first one really triggered Microsoft defender …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2025-05-22, 07:44

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I've been trying to play my old favourite time waster, Trials Evolution: Gold. But it seems that those fuckers Ubisoft have been messing around with that damn 'Connect' app, and now it asks me for a password every time I load the game. This is unworkable - I've tried all of the things suggested on …

Re: Install WP32 McCake in my 486 or my 386?

Posted on 2025-05-22, 04:18

Yes I'd stick it in the 386. In my experience games that need a 486 and offer MT-32 support will also offer GM, so your X2GS will have you covered there. Great devices those, bless that Dreamblaster. I only have one retro PC so I have both McCake and X2GS in it, with the McCake installed on a PCMIDI …

Re: Updating Roland SC-55 firmware?

Posted on 2025-05-20, 22:16

I get that. I do. But in some cases, I (or others) may have specific questions that aren't mentioned. If I've done my research and still don't have what I need then I put the effort in to explain that when asking the forum. I.e. "I found X and it told me Y, but I still don't understand how to do …

Re: Are early levels better than later levels in games?

Posted on 2025-05-15, 11:43

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This is often the case - FarCry and Crysis come to mind but yes there are countless examples. It makes sense though I think, the developers would be running out of time and ideas in the later levels but they'd also know that 80% (or more?) of players wouldn't even play them. Strife is another great …

Re: End of 10

Posted on 2025-05-09, 21:04

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I have been observing the user: some of the posts look completely normal as an user like their Syberia GOG issue, however the language looks extra refined. It may be possible they are using a translator as well? Possibly and I hope I haven't offended anybody, but I see a lot of AI summaries of …

Re: Show us your surround sound setup

Posted on 2025-05-06, 22:31

This is great for older games which use DirectSound or OpenAL, but newer titles from the Win7/10/11 era can be hit or miss. Yes I've noticed this too. I suppose there's some effort involved from a dev perspective to make a game properly utilise surround sound so perhaps it's just not a priority …

Show us your surround sound setup

Posted on 2025-05-06, 03:15

I spent a very enjoyable day yesterday reconfiguring my home office / man cave to allow me to properly install my recently purchased Logitech Z906 5.1 surround system. Going through that process has left me curious to see how other people have set up their systems, or if indeed many people are going …

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