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Re: Game confession!

Posted on 2015-12-18, 14:10

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Oddly, I am still used to play DOOM (and other oldschool FPSes) with the keyboard only. Although I have been playing newer FPSs as well, so I am used to using the mouse in general. But I guess that in every game the scheme that feels the most natural to me is the one I used first, and for DOOM / …

Re: Game confession!

Posted on 2015-12-17, 18:39

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You have to shoot the rocket at a very precise spot - a bit before the elevator reaches the top. If you stand at the top of the elevator and shoot - it will miss. With modern source ports that allow freelook (changing the view angle up and down) it is possible to stand at the top and aim directly …

Re: DOS copy command

Posted on 2015-12-17, 10:36

using dos command "copy fileA -specialcommand :lpt1" to print a file to a postscript laser... does not work... any ideas.. Your syntax is incorrect. First of all, it should be lpt1: and not :lpt1. You can also use prn instead of lpt1: (stands for printer). Also, most special switches should be put …

Re: Game confession!

Posted on 2015-12-17, 07:54

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That was pretty much the only puzzle in the game. It doesn't help that you have to solve this puzzle while being assaulted by ever increasing hordes of monsters, but it does feel like a fitting end to the game. On lower difficulty settings there were invulnerability spheres around to make it easier. …

Re: Thermal pastes

Posted on 2015-12-16, 13:13

That analysis you posted of AS5 is interesting. The stuff tends to perform quite well in all testing I've seen elsewhere. It actually outperforms the Shin Etsu X23 ( here ) after curing! Maybe there is more to it. I can't tell if the study took the curing time into consideration. They also tested …

Re: Game confession!

Posted on 2015-12-15, 11:12

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It's nice to meet someone who became a fan of retro games / systems, without having been introduced to them when they were originally released. I find that most people can't appreciate "retro" stuff that was already "old" by the time they got to the "scene". For example, I myself have no special …

Re: Game confession!

Posted on 2015-12-14, 14:12

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Obviously there are many games that I never played and never will, because they are simply not my cup of tea, even if they are good games in someone else's eyes / in their respective categories. But there are indeed games that I, in principle, would like to finish, but never did. Let's see... Out of …

Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2015-12-13, 17:25

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Daikatana is a good game, at least in the sense that I enjoyed playing it more than I enjoyed some other games, which were generally considered "good games". Other than that, it's a game with quite a few interesting ideas and quite a few technical flaws which can make it very off-putting to someone …

Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2015-12-12, 15:45

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It also definitely goes without say that the presence of frogs and flies in a level makes it "epic terrible". No further explanation needed. Some people cannot separate the merits of the game from its development history, apparently. Or the actual gameplay from the silly "plot". Or even their …

Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2015-12-12, 11:38

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Anyone mention Daikatana? Back in the day I actually played a fair bit into the game until I got really frustrated. What's wrong with it? There were really only two things fundamentally wrong with Daikatana's original release - the sidekick AI and the limited saves. Of the two, I'd say the …

Re: How accurate is the OPL emulation in dosbox?

Posted on 2015-12-12, 09:32

Oh the CQM chip is very easy to tell apart. It's far more buzzier and bassier, and can get its polyphony wrecked in certain games completely butchering some songs. Try Doom E2M2. :) I just tried E2M2, and it does sound quite unsatisfactory with the AWE64, when played as OPL3. DOSBox sounds better. …

Re: What are some DOS games I might have been playing wrong?

Posted on 2015-12-09, 21:30

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Well, for example, I like the music in the floppy releases of Mortal Kombat (which consists of original MIDI tunes) better than the music in the CD version (which is identical to the Arcade). And in the DOS version of Lost Vikings II I cannot stand the graphics. I'd rather play the SNES version via …

Re: DOSBOX for Retro-PC with real old Hardware

Posted on 2015-12-02, 09:52

That sounds like a pretty convoluted and backwards solution. DOSBox is an emulator. If you have real hardware, that you don't need to emulate, why do you need DOSBox? It looks like you are essentially trying to use DOSBox as some sort of slowdown utility. There are far simpler and effective …

Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2015-12-01, 18:36

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-The Latest Ultratech Floppy version indeed has file integrity checks for many of its files. -The 'badmojo' version does not have such checks. Well, when I tried to use all my data files (final Ultratech release) with badmojo's executable, it refused to run claiming that STANCES.GRA is corrupt. So …

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