Re: A discussion on typing with modern and retro keyboards and the absence of historical keys on laptops

Posted on 2018-07-09, 05:37

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To me it's just a matter of remapping keys in old games (+ DOSBox) on a thumb drive or SD card, just 'cause arrow keys don't do diagonals while pressed together

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Screen tearing in Windows 10 with Direct3D

Posted on 2017-11-10, 19:53

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Hi! I was so enthusiastic I got a new laptop but I think I have a problem (see attached picture) similar to the one presented in this other thread https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=54824 Now, as to DOSBox, it can be solved using OpenGL as output. No compatibility option worked so far. But …

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Re: Alone In The Dark 3 - Ghosts in Town (Windows CD)

Posted on 2017-10-15, 00:42

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32 bits... It works

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Re: Alone In The Dark 3 - Ghosts in Town (Windows CD)

Posted on 2017-10-15, 00:01

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How did you get it to run? The Win32 version, I mean

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Re: Eggerland Episode 0/Revival! Eggerland on Windows 10?

Posted on 2017-10-06, 21:22

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It works in VMWare with Windows 98SE installed. Colors must be set at 256

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Re: Hello everyone. My 1st post and introduction.

Posted on 2016-09-11, 05:49

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Welcome

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Re: Growing up as DOS gamer in the early 90s, I once...

Posted on 2016-05-05, 08:12

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dr_st wrote: I can understand that point of view, and even agree with it Really? I don't

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Re: I found another CGA emulator for Hercules

Posted on 2015-12-22, 22:15

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I have no idea, sorry.

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Re: I found another CGA emulator for Hercules

Posted on 2015-11-30, 07:26

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Here's

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I found another CGA emulator for Hercules

Posted on 2015-11-29, 05:41

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It's called HERC.COM and I found it while doing a floppy image from a very old magazine diskette in which it's used to run a Multipede game but I tested it with Rastan too and it seems to work apparently better than UniCGA because the scrolling is smoother

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Re: Any good Windows 3.1 games?

Posted on 2015-11-21, 01:39

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Atomic Chill can be an addicting arcade platform game, it runs on Windows 3.11 and it's supposed to work on any Windows 3.x

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Re: Eat This

Posted on 2015-11-17, 18:59

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It looks like a Windows 95 game

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Re: Futurama - The fan based Adventure game

Posted on 2015-09-18, 21:57

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Urban Dictionary: FOXed

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Futurama - The fan based Adventure game

Posted on 2015-09-18, 13:56

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http://www.indieretronews.com/2015/04/futurama-fan-based-adventure-game-gets.html http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1f9lkI9B47o/VUIbA1UE1ZI/AAAAAAAAUIQ/I8qnXi7Frt8/s1600/0.jpg When we mentioned Arjon van Dam's 'Futurama' adventure game development using AGS, we never knew it was going to be one of our most …

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Re: Question: Why do you think retro computing is important?

Posted on 2015-03-24, 01:00

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It makes me feel good!

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Re: XP-era games that have trouble running on Win7/8

Posted on 2015-03-08, 22:27

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Bloodline (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/bloodline) goes black screen in Windows 7

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Re: Looks like Harekiet is cheating on us with vintage computer forums

Posted on 2015-03-08, 22:17

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Schneider's Euro PC is a computer-under-the-keyboard and it had a built-in 3.5" floppy drive

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Re: Comic demo for DOS?

Posted on 2015-01-22, 12:36

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Yes! I probably overlapped Pangaea and Lance Stone! Thanks for the help!

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Re: Just curious..what is your oldest computer still in daily use for actual work?

Posted on 2015-01-16, 17:13

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Celeron, 2Gb RAM with Windows 7 + MPC-HC + Yandex.browser as home theater 486 DX with DOS 6.22 as retrogaming consolle Pentium 4 with Windows XP to check mail, scan, write and print documents

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Re: Boxer-like frontend for Windows

Posted on 2014-11-30, 03:15

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OK, if it was about the looks I found something http://www.gr-lida.org/ I had missed it in the forums

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