Re: What era of computers do you draw the line at collecting and/or using?

Posted on 2022-10-18, 16:53

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Personally, my line starts the era when the personal computer market began. A lot of different architectures, vendors, hardware were created at the time and some became standards still used today. This is also valid for game consoles. Then my line ends at around earlier 2000's when graphics/sound …

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-10-15, 19:17

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That is the game streaming services. I'm not sure how popular they are but I hear the Xbox one is fairly so. Nah, a game streaming service gives you the games and the processing power required to run them. Why have one game streaming service if you can split it into a lot of other services and …

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-10-15, 18:55

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If this is good or bad, thats obviously another question. You mean everything becoming a service? In theory that would be wonderful, but in practice the tech industry already made it very clear that the reason behind it is just to find more ways to take money from people so they can keep what they …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-10-15, 18:05

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Recently finished playing Hexen. Finished as the cleric the first time using a real DOS PC, then played with the fighter and mage using GZDoom. Then finally finished the Deathkings of the Dark Citadel expansion with the fighter on GZDoom (not feeling like playing with the other classes, so I guess …

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-10-14, 15:30

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I didn't want to throw in the 1650 because it wasn't bottom of the rung and re-launched during 2020 (from 2019). But since you mentioned it, it was $150; Inflation of 2020 would make the MX $144.00. I agree with you that a GPU today is much more cost effective than back then. My only point was that …

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-10-14, 14:52

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I don’t disagree with the masses and lower end GPUs getting the job (adequately give or take). Maybe I missed your point? I’m reading your take as the value is no longer present. It doesn’t matter if the Ti4200 was actually a higher end card underclocked; it was targeted and marketed to the mid- …

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-10-14, 13:48

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Another factor not being taken into consideration is that the practical gains for using high end cards are becoming less and less noticeable. In the 90s/2000s you could clearly see the difference between 320x200 and 640x480, not only that, but the color depth also increased. It was night and day …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-10-14, 13:08

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Just started on Age of Empires, well I say just started I've actually finished the Egypt campaign so in reality I'm more like a quarter of the way through but that's just nit picking. That's the demo campaign I believe, at least the first maps of it. One of my favorite games of all time, but never …

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Re: Windows 11 22H2 has been released

Posted on 2022-10-11, 19:19

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Used their own memory diagnostic program and it accused my hardware for being bad. Then I used memtest86 and after running it overnight the result was that my memory was fine. Well that is strange. Isn't their memory diagnostic program run at boot time? It should not be affected by any drivers or …

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Re: Year 2038 bug?

Posted on 2022-10-02, 12:18

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WolverineDK wrote on 2022-10-02, 10:32: What will the year 2038 bug do in Linux ? That seems more interesting, if you ask me. If I understood correctly, the issue can happen per software. So it depends on how each application stores and handles dates.

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Re: Year 2038 bug?

Posted on 2022-09-30, 11:30

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Calendars repeat. 2027 matches 2038, so you can throw the system time back 11 years and still have all the days line up. That's actually a very good idea. Hope I remember your post in 2038. It seems this bug cannot be solved with a simple fix or update as depends on how each software uses/stores …

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Re: Year 2038 bug?

Posted on 2022-09-26, 18:31

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In the 2000s, many devs were all excited to switch to 64-Bit computing on Windows. I was one of them. Devs always love any kind of new 'standard' that will cause old products to be discarded and new ones to be bought. The motivation could not be more obvious. (And their portrayal of themselves in …

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Re: Windows 11 22H2 has been released

Posted on 2022-09-23, 13:59

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Was using Windows 10 until last week, then some blue screens started to show up (the error code being different each time). Used their own memory diagnostic program and it accused my hardware for being bad. Then I used memtest86 and after running it overnight the result was that my memory was fine. …

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Re: Soccer Kid - Wrong colors ingame

Posted on 2022-09-15, 17:53

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Replying to my own post here as I found the problem. The corrupted colors had nothing to do with the game, it was a problem while transferring the files to my old PC via FTP. I used filezilla and forgot to set it to force binary transfer (it was set to AUTO). Funny, though. Instead of the game …

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Re: Duke 3d awe32 mode why sounds like this?.

Posted on 2022-09-09, 17:07

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Hey, Mine is a value CT4500. You might not have ran any games prior to Duke 3D, but just by running the Setup program and selecting a sound card may trigger the issue. Basically anything initializing/using the sound card may leave it in a state which may cause issues depending on how the program …

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Re: Duke 3d awe32 mode why sounds like this?.

Posted on 2022-09-09, 15:37

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Oh, ok. I listened to the Duke 3D AWE32 intro song from another youtube video (a good one) and now I hear the difference, sounds a bit off indeed. Thought there were loud cracks or something like that... This kind of issue also happens on my AWE64, difference is that for me it sounds even worse and …

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Re: Duke 3d awe32 mode why sounds like this?.

Posted on 2022-09-09, 12:01

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My hearing is not perfect but, I'm not hearing any cracking on the video you sent. I also have an AWE64 value and don't have any cracking sounds in Duke 3D either (at least none that I could identify). The only issue I have with this card is that sometimes if I open a game which uses the AWE32 after …

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Re: What is a genuine PC?

Posted on 2022-09-06, 19:43

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Maybe the focus of technology should be on allowing everyone to have a good real life instead?

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Re: can anyone recommend a cologne?

Posted on 2022-09-06, 12:47

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Just use the "tooty fruity Polo" you have around and be happy, don't worry so much about other what people will think. You gender is hard-wired to your brain and no amount of "for-men/for-women" clothes or fragrances can change it. I think its a very outdated concept labeling products by gender as …

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Re: Primal Rage - Running without the CD

Posted on 2022-09-01, 18:15

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I would have thought GameCopyWorld would have something, but no. Just google 'primal rage nocd' and try your luck against viruses I guess? Tried that, only thing I could find was a txt file describing which bytes to change using an hex editor. Changed it but it didn't work. Also tried downloading …

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