Re: vintage open world games

Posted on Yesterday, 14:35

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I want to say such a huge part of the modern open world game is how modifiable the environments are from a first person perspective. It's something that never really existed 15 years ago. But there were definitely games that evoked a lot of the same feelings of exploring a world. I remember Quest …

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Re: Games that you remember the most from 1990's thru mid 2000's

Posted on Yesterday, 12:39

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I think it might have been 94 or 95 when I was in middle school, a friend down the street showed me Doom for the first time. After that, I was a total PC Gamer. Began totally obsessed with anything based on the Doom engine. Doom, Heretic, Hexen, even Strife. My friend actually tried to get me …

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Re: List of Real Mode games that utilize MT-32/GM (for AWE emulation)

Posted on Yesterday, 00:04

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Don't mean to necro, but this seems the best place for it. I'm going through krcroft's list of games from the 1st page, not that I own many of them, and while I've had some luck, some just freeze. Notably Might & Magic III and Populous. Meanwhile Civilization, Bard's Tale 3 and X-Wing were great. …

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Re: Riva 128 PCI on Socket 3, GLQuake performance.

Posted on 2021-07-23, 19:44

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I believe the registry entry you are looking for is MaxPCITexHeapSize, although I can't recall where it is in the registry. I think if it's set to a truly wonky value, the advanced settings panel refuses to open.

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Re: Riva 128 PCI on Socket 3, GLQuake performance.

Posted on 2021-07-23, 19:03

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Funny to see this come up. I was having the same issue once upon a time in Win98SE with a PCI Riva128, MVP3 motherboard and a P233 MMX. Just massive stuttering at fixed points in the game, presumably when the memory was constantly thrashing. It was very strange. D3D had a system memory setting too, …

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Re: Riva 128 PCI on Socket 3, GLQuake performance.

Posted on 2021-07-23, 12:45

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Funny to see this come up. I was having the same issue once upon a time in Win98SE with a PCI Riva128, MVP3 motherboard and a P233 MMX. Just massive stuttering at fixed points in the game, presumably when the memory was constantly thrashing. It was very strange. D3D had a system memory setting too, …

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Re: What game made you upgrade to Windows 95 back in the day?

Posted on 2021-07-22, 19:47

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I recall starting off on a 486/66 and DOS/Win 3.1, but then at some point having the family computer upgraded to a Pentium that could run Win 95. I remember loathing Win 95 just because it took so much longer to boot up and let me play my games. Although my sister and I had a blast goofing off with …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-21, 17:43

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Ok. So after much effort with Populous, well, no. I didn't beat the level. I hacked the game. Brushing up on x86 assembly and DOSBOX's debug tools, I figured out the bytes that set if you are in Conquest mode or Custom mode. I then found the checks that prevent you from altering the enemies …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-19, 14:18

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Still slowly making my way through Populous. Hit another difficulty wall around world 120 or so. The first difficulty wall around world 30 or so was just learning to hit the AI early and often. It seems to me once one side or the other gets going, it just snowballs too much. So the best way to deal …

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Re: A "broad spectrum" 90s build?

Posted on 2021-07-16, 14:34

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You seem a bit overwhelmed with the cornucopia of options you've been given. I can tell you what worked for me. My current 90's box is: Motherboard: PC Partner MVP3BS7 (Via MVP3 Chipset) CPU: K6-2+ 500 RAM: 256 MB 100 Mhz SDRAM Graphics: Geforce 2 MX 400 DOS Sound: AWE64 Value (CT 4500) Win98 Sound: …

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Re: Xwing Collectors CD with AWE64 - Midi is silent?!

Posted on 2021-07-16, 03:09

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Necroing this thread again to add my own experience. Just got an AWE64 Value, plugged it in, initialized with UNISOUND, everything is going great. Try to play X-Wing Collectors CD-ROM, and I either get no audio at all, or horrible screeching. Probably down to some unpredictable state the sound card …

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-07-15, 12:54

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You know, let me reframe my argument about DOSBOX killing DOS. Because it's not that DOSBOX is better. It has trade offs. It's that DOSBOX let the industry off the hook of supporting DOS. Even after Windows no longer had a "DOS mode", if people needed DOS, some hardware somewhere would have …

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Re: Unease feelings on other forums visited ?

Posted on 2021-07-14, 12:32

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I will say, the only reason I finally bit the bullet and began tinkering with some retro hardware I had a longing for was from visiting here so long. And it's generally been a good experience. It can be remarkable though. You are having an issue, and you try your best to do your due diligence, …

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Re: Looking for advice: How to begin fixing a dead ISA sound card

Posted on 2021-07-13, 14:42

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It's kind of blurry, but are two of the pins in the 2x3 array at JP1 bent to the point of shorting? Also, I think below that is a diagram showing that the pins need to be configured with jumpers for either Line Out or Speaker Out? Also, yeah, plastic parts in the upper right corner look melty. Edit: …

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-07-13, 00:56

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Not sure I saw this stated before but... DOSBOX killed DOS. Double checking it's initial release of 2002 definitely overlaps my LAN party days when people were clinging to Win9X just to keep playing their beloved DOS game collections. I definitely recall early days around 2003 and 2004 in college of …

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.49 for Live, v1.01 for Audigy

Posted on 2021-07-11, 02:07

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Yesterday I've run 0.49 version on my old Pentium-2 i440. The EMS volume was 8192-32768 and no problems, no decreases. Later I will recheck it on "hub" chipsets. What config do you using? In fact, running emm386 with just NOEMS caused my computer to reboot as well. Which is a new one to me. It is …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.76b

Posted on 2021-07-11, 01:46

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I have a possibly stupid question, but I'm just trying to get my ducks in a row before some hardware gets here. I have a system with an SBLive, who's dos performance I'm underwhelmed by. The fact that the dos driver requires EMS throws a wrench into playing a smattering of old Origin games. The OPL3 …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-09, 03:41

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Doom 2016's heart was in the right place. Maybe it blew me away because my expectations were so low. I thought it's E3 trailer looked horrible, goofy and forced. It's review embargo did not bode well for their confidence in it. And the multiplayer beta did not interest me in the slightest. Then I …

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Re: A troubleshooting guide for Caluser2000.

Posted on 2021-07-08, 18:05

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Is it really a lie that everyone who tries to keep a computer working ends up quietly weeping?

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-06, 00:00

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Doom II is finished, with my customary time capsule like trophy photo. First one at the new house, with the new monitor. Weirdly, The Spirit World began hitching a bit on my rig. I feel inclined to blame the SBLive's SB16 emulation. A notion of building a P233 MMX machine with a proper ISA sound …

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