Re: Old audio player from Windows 3.1 era that looked like a Hi-Fi system

Posted on 2021-12-05, 15:34

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Just to add to the confusion, my Media Vision MV2200 multimedia package included "Sound Impression for Media Vision." It's similar, but not identical to Grzyb's image above.

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Re: Windows versions of DOS games list

Posted on 2021-12-04, 11:36

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Jeff Vavasour wrote both the DOS/Win3.1 and Win95 releases of Williams Arcade Classics for Digital Eclipse. The application is an emulation of arcade games including Joust , Defender, Robotron, Sinistar, Stargate (Defender II) and Bubbles. The Windows 95 release has the distinction of being one of …

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Re: Discover / WinGauge

Posted on 2021-11-30, 01:35

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An older thread on Helix Software products: Helix Software Files

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SDL Future 3D API

Posted on 2021-11-14, 21:35

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Source: https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/future-3d-api/33485 So this is a long way off–design hasn’t even started yet–but I’ve got an Epic MegaGrant to add a 3D rendering API to SDL. The long-winded high-level whats and whys of it are explained here 9. I’ll be giving more concrete details later, but …

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Re: What are some must try game demos from the Windows 95/98 era?

Posted on 2021-11-09, 19:54

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The demos discussed in this thread may also be of interest: Demos /w "Extra Stuff" WARNING: Given the age of the posts, some of this stuff may be difficult to find these days.

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Re: What are some must try game demos from the Windows 95/98 era?

Posted on 2021-11-08, 18:53

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ZombieKohhi wrote on 2021-11-08, 13:10: I can't seem to find Crime Cities. At least not a clean download. Fileplanet's download get flagged by Microsoft Defender. Fileplanet seems to be using some kind of proprietary installer and I don't trust it 🤣 Try this: http://ftp.retroarchive.se/gamesdomain/ …

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Re: Viper Racing In-Game Performance vs Replay Performance

Posted on 2021-10-21, 14:32

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Patching the game might give some performance improvements: https://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/4674/7/

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Re: Viper Racing In-Game Performance vs Replay Performance

Posted on 2021-10-21, 09:55

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Basically, your results demonstrate the fact that Viper Racing is CPU-limited on your particular hardware configuration. In a sim like Viper Racing, there is a tug-of-war between the amount of resources devoted to rendering the action versus the resources devoted to generating the action. Viper …

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Re: Aleph One Version 1.3.1 2020-09-04 for Mac/Win/Linux/Android

Posted on 2021-10-19, 15:40

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The Version 0.2.0 Android Port is available. Release v0.2.0 Updates AlephOne to the latest version Fixes many bugs including the slow start for M2/MI Improved touch controls with some level of configuration in the game's preferences Multiplayer is now working Adds support for scenarios Plugins are …

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Re: Motorhead

Posted on 2021-10-10, 17:49

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The blitzbasic.com link: https://web.archive.org/web/20140727172041/ht … 77&post=1202630 Looks like PCGamingWiki has the Win8 DirectDraw FPS fix in the URL above: https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file … -ddraw-fps-fix/

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ScummVM 2.5.0

Posted on 2021-10-10, 15:47

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Source: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20211009/ Oct 9, 2021: Twenty years ago today... Posted by sev Twenty years ago today, on Tue Oct 9 16:30:12 2001, Ludvig Strigeus pushed the initial revision of the ScummVM code, which was version 0.0.1 of the project. Time flew quickly and, fast-forward to the …

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Re: NFS II SE Glide wrapper Win98

Posted on 2021-10-09, 09:46

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The Zeus Software page indicates that only Windows XP and later NT-kernel versions of Windows are supported by nGlide. Even the pre-Version 1.00 releases were targeted at Windows XP and later. So you really don't have any reason to expect that nGlide will work in Windows 9x at all. You are going to …

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Re: OLD NOT NEW List of Free Games

Posted on 2021-10-06, 10:44

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Ripsaw8080 (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=341459#p341459) and Crimson_Zero (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1006686#p1006686) have both recommended some of Daniel Remar's free Windows games, so his site would be a good addition to this list since these are long-term free: http://www. …

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Many Daniel Remar Game Packages Updated

Posted on 2021-10-04, 16:31

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I just noticed that many of Daniel Remar's games have been updated as of July 2021. Some of the archives now include multiple Game Maker compilations/builds for increased compatibility. Check it out: http://remar.se/daniel/games.php The MEGA update! 11 July 2021 The savefiles of all the games are …

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Re: The Wrapper Collection Project

Posted on 2021-10-04, 01:06

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Glidos mentioned (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1006586#p1006586) that all versions of Glidos from 1.32 onwards are available here: https://download.glidos.net/ You might want to add Versions 1.54 and 1.55 as these are missing on this page: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/wrappers/files/Glide/ …

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Re: Running TR using Glidos on Win 98

Posted on 2021-10-03, 18:28

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This Wayback Machine page has the Version 1.29 Glidos download for Win9x: https://web.archive.org/web/20041025085244/ht … ad.html?lang=en

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Re: Running Tomb Raider 1 on Win 98

Posted on 2021-10-01, 21:10

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If you look at the nGlide supported games page, it has specific instructions for Tomb Raider and Unfinished Business: http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide/compatibility To play you must install DOSBox with Gulikoza's patch. Read nGlide's FAQ for more details. Set 'cycles=75000' in 'dosbox. …

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Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release (Win/Mac/Linux)

Posted on 2021-09-30, 22:16

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Source: https://blog.supertuxkart.net/2021/09/supertuxkart-13-release.html September 28, 2021 SuperTuxKart 1.3 release The SuperTuxKart team is happy to announce the release of version 1.3. Online play is still compatible with the previous 1.x versions. Here are the changes compared to release …

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SDL 2 Version 2.0.16

Posted on 2021-09-18, 19:17

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Source: https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-2-0-16-released/32471 slouken Aug 10 Thanks to all the people who contributed code and feedback, SDL 2.0.16 is now available! https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php In addition to lots of bug fixes, here are the major changes in this release: General: …

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Re: Joystick + rudder = 1 or 2 game ports?

Posted on 2021-09-10, 16:40

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The CH Pro Pedals have a cable with three connectors: 1) An AUX. Port designed for connection to a re-addressable gamecard 2) a gameport connector 3) a joystick connector So you will connect the CH Pro Pedals (2) connector to your sound card and the (3) connector to your Virtual Pilot Pro yoke. …

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