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Re: What DOS games are there that support two simultaneous joysticks?

Posted on 2023-11-17, 02:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The fact is that one DA15 pc gameport connector has only 8 inputs, four analog, and four digital. Yes that is accurate in terms of describing the science behind the gameport, though such a statement doesn't translate well to the noobs/laymen/console retro gamers coming into the Dos scene who might …

Re: What DOS games are there that support two simultaneous joysticks?

Posted on 2023-11-17, 00:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just because left and right, up and down are implemented as buttons. doesn't mean nor imply that they are read as buttons. Play street fighter 2 turbo or megaman X with a 6button pad and say that again for the 5th and 6th buttons. Given the analog nature of the X & Y axis inputs, a nice amount of …

Re: What DOS games are there that support two simultaneous joysticks?

Posted on 2023-11-16, 23:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Of course it doesn't handle more than 4 "fire buttons"... Look, if you get a 1991 Gravis gamepad and open it up, what do you see underneath the directional pad? 4 digital switches, exactly like the switches underneath the 4 face buttons, so you will call this trickery of the 1st and 2nd axis in the …

Re: What DOS games are there that support two simultaneous joysticks?

Posted on 2023-11-16, 23:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is the difference between using two dedicated ports versus a Y cable? How can try joysticks work off of the same port? Most games used a Y splitter if it supported 2 joysticks. Instead of trying to track down a Y splitter, try looking for the Quickshot J-link, it functions as a 2p Y-splitter, …

Re: What DOS games are there that support two simultaneous joysticks?

Posted on 2023-11-16, 23:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Of course it doesn't handle more than 4 "fire buttons"... Look, if you get a 1991 Gravis gamepad and open it up, what do you see underneath the directional pad? 4 digital switches, exactly like the switches underneath the 4 face buttons, so you will call this trickery of the 1st and 2nd axis in the …

Re: What DOS games are there that support two simultaneous joysticks?

Posted on 2023-11-16, 20:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On later gamepads such as the 6button ones designed for ssf2 and megaman X, those 4 axis analogue inputs are translated to digital keys so buttons 5-8 are compatible with any game that supports a second joystick connected via splitter. In short, analogue inputs don't have to be analogue, they can be …

Re: What DOS games are there that support two simultaneous joysticks?

Posted on 2023-11-16, 05:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Whaaat? Does anyone know if it's possible to use 2 6-button controllers in games like Super Street Fighter II? Unfortunately I don't think it will. The joyport of the pc supports a maximum of 12 inputs without midi hacks and such. The 12 inputs are: Joy1 left Joy1 right Joy1 up Joy1 down Joy1 …

Re: What DOS games are there that support two simultaneous joysticks?

Posted on 2023-11-15, 06:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does anyone know if it's possible to use 2 6-button controllers in games like Super Street Fighter II? Unfortunately I don't think it will. The joyport of the pc supports a maximum of 12 inputs without midi hacks and such. The 12 inputs are: Joy1 left Joy1 right Joy1 up Joy1 down Joy1 button 1 Joy1 …

Re: What DOS games are there that support two simultaneous joysticks?

Posted on 2023-10-29, 00:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is the difference between using two dedicated ports versus a Y cable? How can try joysticks work off of the same port? I believe Y-cable limits the joysticks to two buttons only. My source of info is the Gravis Gamepad Pro, which comes with a Y-cable. When you set it to use it (2 player mode) …

Re: Windows 3.1 / 9x games that require Quicktime

Posted on 2023-10-29, 00:45

in Deep Thought

in Deep Thought

I'm certain that Gadget (1993) used QuickTime for both win16/mac editions. Alice: interactive museum may of been another early adopter of Cinepak/QuickTime. Horror Tour (1997) most likely used it. - One game that definitely does NOT use QuickTime is Burn:Cycle. Anyone confirm if the windows version …

Re: Why can't I format Floppies to 720K?

Posted on 2023-10-25, 20:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did you check the BIOS settings? I hope the following will help you. I was running win98 on a Fujitsu Siemens scaleo400 pentium 4 and I couldn't format 720k disks or taped-over 1.44mb disks that I wanted to prepare for my atari st. Turns out that I have to manually change the drive type in the BIOS …

Re: Video card for a Pentium 60

Posted on 2023-10-25, 10:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For something really special for a socket4, go for a "number 9 ticket to ride" real early pci card that was aimed at the wintel workstation market of early 1994. Failing that, cornerstone did a pci version of the cirrus 5402 aimed at the DTP market, thus real crisp, sharp image guaranteed.

What is this thing? A motion sensing joypad for Dos games?

Posted on 2023-10-25, 09:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thought this might be quite interesting to the gamers on vogons... Video of it in action, the video description covers some tech/info that I've scraped together in the past year https://youtu.be/cW7fqGYG51g Another clip of the joypad itself: https://youtube.com/shorts/sEz_EBRVHqk?si=OD0MdfohB05rRgaQ …

Re: List of Windows 3.x games that use gameport joysticks?

Posted on 2023-10-09, 22:38

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I remember that comix zone and ecco pc had 4button joystick support, so maybe all the early sega pc line did. Toy story might be another, since that was on the mega drive as well. Try searching for all the WinG games, since WinG was much like DirectX it might have some kind of "DirectInput" protocol …

Re: Old games that specifically rely on high clock speeds for performance?

Posted on 2023-08-15, 20:58

in Milliways

in Milliways

I seem to remember reading that some NFS games had issues with running on Hyperthreaded processors without patches - I don't know if those would perhaps run faster on single-core chips

Re: Best Graphic Cards for a 486DX4-133 System

Posted on 2023-08-15, 20:37

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'd go for any PCI video card made between 1994-1997 for a 486 The best balance between price/performance will include chips from S3, Cirrus, Trident. those with cash to (literally) burn can go for the ATi, Tseng, Matrox, Hercules and the very 1st gen nVidia chips in that time gap. ATI Rage is dirt …

I solved the mystery of a no-name CD-ROM drive

Posted on 2023-08-15, 20:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Somewhere in late 2013 or early 2014 i bought my first CD-ROM drive, it as for my first ever PC - a Toshiba T2110 laptop It's a PCMCIA unit, which seemed to be the common standard for laptops before the advent of USB. it works "out of the box" under windows 95 but DOS users will need to load the …

Re: Best Graphic Cards for a 486DX4-133 System

Posted on 2023-08-15, 20:07

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'd go for any PCI video card made between 1994-1997 for a 486 The best balance between price/performance will include chips from S3, Cirrus, Trident. those with cash to (literally) burn can go for the ATi, Tseng, Matrox, Hercules and the very 1st gen nVidia chips in that time gap.

Re: What's the best LCD of DOS gaming? (re: 21" CRT is too big!)

Posted on 2023-03-04, 08:02

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

good makes of lcd monitors from 1998-2004 are philips, benq, taxan, fujitsu siemens, liteon, goodmans and samsung. look into them

Re: Japanese retro computers - do you own any?

Posted on 2023-03-04, 04:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

anyone checked out this cool homesite? http://www.cybergarage.org/ that FMtowns on the far right - love those early cd-rom loaders!

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