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Virtua Fighter PC - Speed Issues on Athlon

Posted on 2022-05-04, 02:51

Hi, Lately I bought quite a few classic Sega PC games while they are still affordable: -Sonic CD (The “rare” dino2D release, which is the most common one here in Brazil) -Virtua Fighter PC -Virtua Fighter 2 Believe it or not, Sonic CD ran well on my Slot A Athlon 750mhz (thunderbird) with Windows 98 …

Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2022-03-30, 23:10

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DOOM: Eternal. The mechanics of DOOM 2016 were just perfect. For the new game they changed the keyboard layout and introduced this damn pick-up mechanic and you absolutely have to use the chainsaw all the time to progress. It just feels like too much at once. The first game was a challenge, the …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-03-23, 00:42

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Finished playing Powerslave Exhumed, this is not the original PC game but a new port of the console versions (it contains content from both the Saturn and Playstation versions, making it the "definitive edition"). Playing through it was much nicer than playing it on the Saturn due to mouse/keyboard …

Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-19, 20:02

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Compatibility layers will always have an overhead. That's just not true at all, mostly because "compatibility layer" is a very loosely defined thing. Technically I could even argue than any Win32 application runs under a "compatibility layer" even in Windows. You should not think that it's adding …

Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-19, 15:45

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My problem in using proton is that some games run a bit slower. Considering my hardware is low end, I need every fps I can get for the newer stuff. Overall running windows games under linux is very good, specially older titles. But for newer games it is still not as good as running under native …

Re: Other hobbies?

Posted on 2022-03-19, 15:09

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Jogging and boxing. Too bad pandemic came and I had to stop training at the gym, but I still kept training at home and plan to be back soon.

Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-19, 02:53

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I don't think that it is fair to blame capitalism. It is the modern world of connectivity and the perils that come with having so much information readily available because of that. Operating systems can't remain static because NOTHING is static at this point. How often does code have to be patched …

Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-18, 12:49

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It is as rushed as everything else nowadays, software became more of a service than a product for a while now. This by itself is not a bad thing as it allows for more maintainable an secure software, but of course this isn’t the case. Thanks to capitalism, the focus on anything produced by men must …

Re: IBM Aptiva with AMD K6-2@300mhz.

Posted on 2022-03-12, 23:49

Hi, I have an Aptiva E2N 2153 that I’ve upgraded to K6-2 500 mhz. Just be warned these computers really don’t like to work with Nvidia cards. I had trouble getting any TNT, Geforce2, or GeForce4’s working. 3DFX is probably the best bet but I don’t have any. I settled on a Radeon 7000 but ultimately …

Re: Questions on startup menu for Windows 95

Posted on 2022-03-12, 22:53

Do you have any file in your root directory named WINBOOT.INI by any chance? This file overrides msdos.sys if present, so if you have this file you can either rename it or add bootgui=0 there. If nothing else works, as a workaround, you may try pressing F8 as soon as you see the “Starting Windows 95 …

Re: Questions on startup menu for Windows 95

Posted on 2022-03-12, 20:24

I think the first step would be to post your autoexec.bat, config.sys and msdos.sys. Usually setting bootGUI=0 in msdos.sys will be enough to prevent win95 to load automatically. My guesses for it not working for you would be: 1-Did you remove the read-only attribute on msdos.sys before changing? …

Suggestions for "finicky" DOS games to test

Posted on 2022-03-04, 18:49

Hey everyone. Recently I've been messing around with my (only) MSDOS PC and thanks to setmul, throttle and ramdisk I am being able to set it speed from an Athlon 750mhz down to a PC XT (according to benchmarks, at least). Now I want to put this machine to the test by running the most annoying games …

Re: Help with BSOD in 98SE on 200MMX

Posted on 2022-02-12, 16:01

It could be some incompatibility with the hard drive. Usually there is a jumper setting in the hdd to limit it to 32gb, you might want to try setting that and repartition/reformat/reinstall win98. I had a similar problem (protection faults and unstable system) and limiting the HDD to 32gb solved it …

Re: Casual game tips

Posted on 2022-02-11, 13:25

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Here are some DOS ones I enjoy and are easy to get in/out: -Raptor: Call of the Shadows -Stargunner -FPSs like Doom/Heretic/Descent/Quake, etc... not a lot of commands to learn, and you can quicksave/quickload and play in short bursts -Death Rally -Mortal Kombat -The Incredible Machine

Re: DOS Shareware Collection CD

Posted on 2022-01-28, 00:49

shan2752 wrote on 2021-10-31, 22:04: Hi, FYI, the freeware cd installation of Blackthorne doesn’t include the setup.exe and is unusable. Thanks! I used the version provided as freeware by Blizzard. They removed the setup.exe for some dumb reason… Didn’t add the original version because it’s …

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