Re: Collecting rants

Posted on Today, 07:33

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MMaximus wrote on Yesterday, 20:59: 320 euros for a MPU-IPC-T, no box (I bought a boxed one on ebay for 25 euros in 2014 and sold it for 99 euros a year later 🤦) And then the guy who bought it for 99 also sold it for x4 and there you have the 400 euros 😉

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Re: 386 Max Partition Size?

Posted on Yesterday, 12:17

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The partition size limit is an OS thing, you did well keeping it below 2GB for FAT16. However there is also the BIOS hard disk limit, which in your case is most probably 512MB. You have options, the easiest would be to use some dynamic drive overlay software (like EZ-drive...) or the XT-IDE BIOS

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Re: 3D Accelerated Demoscene Demos for DOS/Windows List (Proprietary APIs - including 3DFX)

Posted on 2020-09-17, 14:32

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Anyone succeeded in running First Demo II and yume 2?

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Re: Doom and Doom II just got official widescreen support

Posted on 2020-09-09, 14:41

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So has anyone actually tried it? Impressions? I'm wondering if it has an out of the box internet deathmatch capability. I don't even know if these digital releases even offer network multiplayer, let alone through internet, so excuse the dumb question.

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Re: Doom and Doom II just got official widescreen support

Posted on 2020-09-09, 08:15

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Are these only for modern storefront versions or are they compatible with the original DOS release? No clue how they implemented the changes as I don't have the game from steam and the gog version doesn't (won't?) have the modified version to have a look at it. A version that can run under dos and …

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Re: Trying to source physical copies of games

Posted on 2020-09-09, 08:12

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I guess you're tried already to post a "wanted" ad on related forums and facebook groups? These options don't need monitoring

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Doom and Doom II just got official widescreen support

Posted on 2020-09-07, 14:20

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Not sure if this is the correct place to post this but I think it qualifies as a release :) I just read over bethesda.net that they released modified versions of Doom and Doom II, that among many other things, natively render 16:9 (no chopping) and include modified titlescreen, intermission and …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-08-27, 07:58

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What? They didn't need them at all? Is there something that you collect that you also "need"? Of course they don't need them, maybe some of them kinda need them to make a retro system, but most of such cards are collected only, not needed/used. Just wanted to say that there is a point where it's no …

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

Posted on 2020-08-26, 09:28

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One kind request: would you be able to add this list (second screenshot) to the thread about Hercules and mono-CGA games: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=61035&start=120 ? Most classics are already there and this is by no means a "best cga & hercules games" list as per your thread …

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Re: Chaintech 4SLD (socket 3) jumper settings guide -recreated, clean & readable

Posted on 2020-08-24, 19:11

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Excellent info & presentation, thanks keropi!

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Re: HELP - Optimize my 486 computer.

Posted on 2020-08-06, 19:35

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I wasn't a placebo effect believer but I'm strongly reconsidering.

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Re: Some 3dfx for a Pentium MMX 200Mhz..

Posted on 2020-07-29, 15:15

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ok because dos i bought me a voodoo1. Hope this will be fine for the handfull of dos 3dfx games. Thanks again guys for your help! Voodoo1 is the way to go for dos games, good decision. Most of dos glide games will play with a Voodoo2 (there is a thread about it) but it's not worth it in my opinion. …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-27, 17:51

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On this subject, I really believe a time will come were 60 years old folks won't hunt for XT-286-386-486s any more, our modern equivalent won't give a damn about them and collections will be liquefied for peanuts. I mean I don't see ISA sound of VGA cards going for that much in 10-20 years, once the …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-07-27, 17:41

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That's true, games that were originally designed for cga do have their charm (if you have some kind of nostalgia about cga of course). Most games that were designed for EGA/VGA but also have a cga mode look like... I don't know, a cheap counterfeit. There are very few games that have original art …

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Re: Games set in the future, on a date that is now in the past

Posted on 2020-07-25, 18:45

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MobyGames has a dedicated category for this, which is likely the most complete list you'll get ATM: Setting: Future now Past Another list I wasn't aware of. Oh well then this thread can die in peace, it served its purpose though since I believe most of us didn't know there were such lists. Thanks …

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Re: Games set in the future, on a date that is now in the past

Posted on 2020-07-25, 08:04

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There are some Wiki pages about games set in different decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_set_in_the_2020s Niiice, I didn't know about this. Which makes this thread even more pointless :) After a brief look is t's far from complete though so I guess it doesn't hurt …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-25, 07:59

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Regarding search engines, google in particular, my complaint is that they ditched the "+" operator. So you can browse through dozens of irrelevant results, because it's apparently better than immediately been shown zero results.

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Re: Were CD-ROMs common on 386 computers?

Posted on 2020-07-24, 17:13

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When 386s were introduced, absolutely not common When people still used 386s (let's say roughly the win95 era in many countries) is was not unheard-of.

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Re: Games set in the future, on a date that is now in the past

Posted on 2020-07-24, 15:03

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Let's start with a rather unpopular Sierra AGI game from 1988 that was probably the first to ditch the text parser, contrary to common belief. Manhunter: New York Look what happened in 2002! sierra_000.png sierra_003.png A classic from 1991 is next, Duke Nukem (or Nukum to be correct) was sent from …

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Games set in the future, on a date that is now in the past

Posted on 2020-07-24, 15:03

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I hope the title is not too confusing, if so feel free to propose a better one. For a game to qualify for this list the only prerequisite is a concrete reference to a specific date in the future (relatively to the game's release date), but this date to be in the past now. Example: a game released in …

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