Re: Duke Nukem 3D - Which music card is best? (re: Adlib/OPL3, MT-32, or SC-55?)

Posted on 2021-07-19, 20:15

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MAZter wrote on 2021-07-19, 19:40: Roland SC-55, no choice With Duke I prefer the SC-88 (Pro). The guitars on there sound just a bit more metal.

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Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?

Posted on 2021-05-15, 11:17

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I got another one to add to the list: The Koshan Conspiracy main_001.png main_002.png main_000.png main_004.png Never played it before today but the art is really good. The CD version adds some animations to the 2D art with some 3D pre-rendered space ships, they don't look bad either. And it even …

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Re: Xcom : UFO Defense on CD (CD-i)

Posted on 2021-04-08, 10:18

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I've played the game on an Amiga 500 so there must be a non-AGA version of it, too.

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2021-02-24, 12:28

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Very cool, and it looks much better than aaquake(2). Looking forward to see it in action on a CRT 😀

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2021-02-15, 00:31

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by HandOfFate

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Full Throttle (1.0) and Little Big Adventure. Is there any known bugs with them? I’m trying LBA on 2805 and 5205 under Windows 98 and after intro video game just closes. In native DOS it works fine. Full Throttle works fine both in Windows and native DOS, but it sometimes freezes for a 3~5 seconds. …

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

Posted on 2021-01-31, 12:48

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I finally got my elaborate setup working to "dial" to a TCP connection. Now I can connect to telnet BBS'es and such from real hardware by using a standard modem. Hearing the modem sound again after all these years was definitely a special moment :D It was quite a hassle to get everything working …

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Re: Compaq N600c: hangs on playing audio in DOS, music works

Posted on 2021-01-31, 12:38

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Nice to see that my efforts are useful to others :) Bit of an update: Music isn't actually working in Doom, only sound effects work. Also, Ultima Underworld isn't installing at all. After choosing the IRQ/DMA/etc settings for the Sound Blaster and pressing 'Y' to install, the installer hangs. It has …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-10-30, 21:02

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I got the numbers. Ultimate Doom v1.9 in the same environment (no TSR, real mode, with audio): demo1: 1753 realtics demo2: 2249 demo3: 3467 That means that FastDoom is 16~17% faster on this machine. Very impressive 😀

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-10-26, 08:14

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by HandOfFate

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Sure, no problem. v1.9 of non-ultimate Doom?

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Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2020-10-25, 21:02

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As promised, the Python script that I made for updating the LAUNCHBX.TXT database. I'm happy with how much it is finding but it has been completely designed for my purposes, so I wouldn't be surprised if you run into a dozen problems. But I will see what I can do in that case :) What's required: * …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-10-25, 12:13

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I ran a series of timedemos again, and they've improved quite a bit since v0.6 . It's running above 40FPS now! I never tested 0.666 so I don't know which release gave the biggest speed boost. If you want to know, I can test 0.666 as well. System: Am486 DX4 120MHz, no L2, 16MB, Tseng ET4000/W32 1MB …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-10-24, 11:36

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Sounds promising! I'll do some benchmarks with the same system again 😀

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Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2020-10-21, 10:21

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It seems DBGL uses a '100% Java' database engine called hsqldb. Making an external conversion tool for it shouldn't be difficult, but integrating it into a Visual Basic for DOS program would be... challenging. I'll try to wrap up the tool I made somewhere this week, so you can use it or use it as a …

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

Posted on 2020-10-18, 12:20

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I finally found a working PC Card wireless adapter and software combination that works with WPA-PSK on Windows 98 SE. The winning combination is a 3Com 3CRWE154G72 with McAfee Wireless Security 4.1. 3Com's own wireless monitor refused to find my access points, even though it found the ones of my …

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Re: Adventure games for beginners

Posted on 2020-10-13, 10:53

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I remember Flight of the Amazon Queen and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis being very comfortable to play. Full Throttle was also okay, except you have to remember that the real time action sequences are also puzzles. Those gave me the biggest problems. I never played them seriously but the …

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Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2020-10-12, 17:26

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I made a Python script to populate the Launchbox.txt file. I can polish it a bit and share it. It works by comparing what's already in the file and the contents of a games directory (C:\Games in my case) and guesses what the game and setup executables are (which works better than I expected). Then …

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Re: HP Jornada 680E: opening up the bottom / accessing the system board

Posted on 2020-10-12, 17:05

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Well, I found a small strip of copper-looking tape under the keyboard and below it I there seems to be the bottom of a screw. My guess is that it is the other end of the 'VCI logo screw' because it's in the same position of the device. I will wait a bit longer in the hope someone with experience …

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Re: HP Jornada 680E: opening up the bottom / accessing the system board

Posted on 2020-10-12, 08:19

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by HandOfFate

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Thanks! There seems to be a screw hole around the place of the 'VCI' logo but I'm not sure how he got to that screw, and if there was a screw or if it's just a hole. But I can take look under the keyboard to see if I can see anything and below the plastic cover under the keyboard. Maybe the screw is …

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HP Jornada 680E: opening up the bottom / accessing the system board

Posted on 2020-10-10, 13:12

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I recently got a hold of 2 HP Jornada 680Es. They both work but on one of them some pins on the PC card connector are bent. I'm trying to get it open in an attempt to straighten the pins. I got the entire edge loose (wasn't easy) but it's like there is one more screw in the middle of the device …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2020-10-07, 09:40

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They are. Although the Sony's anti-reflective coating is a bit scratched. Not much of an issue when you use it. That coating had "gone off" in a NOS Sony screen I found a while back - darkened the whole image. I painstakingly cleaned it all off and the image was nice and bright, but the tube was …

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