Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 09:24

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I finished MM3 back in the days and wanted to play it again. I am struggling a bit: could not beat the Rat Overlord and then decided to try the first cave at the exit of Fountain Head and here again I can't quite beat the zombies 🙁 That game is harder than what I remembered!

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

Posted on 2024-05-04, 15:58

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Today I went to a local flea-market to try to find some vintage computer stuff but did not find anything interesting. It's not even possible to find a DIN keyboard these days, all the beige keyboards I spotted were PS/2 :-( Anyway to end the day on a high note I decided to take a closer look at my …

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Re: Bringing back to life a Compaq LTE Lite 25

Posted on 2024-05-04, 15:49

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It even has a licensed copy of McAfee :-) although the virus definition files are slightly outdated (1997)... I am amazed to see that Windows 3.1 is able to guess that "24" means 2024... 20240504_160631.jpg Nothing really interesting on the disk. Most of the files are dated of 1993/94, and …

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Re: Bringing back to life a Compaq LTE Lite 25

Posted on 2024-05-04, 15:41

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Ok so thanks to this excellent video from i80386sx I was able to bring that little machine back to life !! 20240504_163646.jpg The design of the machine is actually quite clever, it's just a pity that to access the coin cell battery man needs to disassemble the whole thing! 20240504_150528.jpg …

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Re: [Win98SE] Cannot restart in MS-DOS mode - computer freezes

Posted on 2024-05-04, 15:29

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So it turns out that my problem has something to do with the SB Live! drivers I have installed... If I manually kill the process "Devldr16" then the computer reboots in MS-DOS mode right away. I need to find out which version of the driver works on my machine.

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Re: Recommended PCI sound cards for Win98?

Posted on 2024-05-02, 08:42

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I have a Live! (SB0220 I think) and it works well under Windows 98SE but I am a bit disappointed with that card. I could not get the right VXD drivers for it and could not get it to work well under DOS for now. There are many variants of the Live! and compatibility will vary depending on the exact …

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

Posted on 2024-05-01, 20:57

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Not sure if that counts as a retro activity but today I successfully installed (on an external drive) and tested MacOS Sonoma on my 10 years old MacBook Air. That little thing is really well built and in those 10 years I never had a problem with it besides replacing the battery once and a ripped …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-27, 19:22

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I'm still trickle-playing Might & Magic 3. That's funny I also playing MM3 on the side. I find the beginning is a bit too challenging, but I did finish it once back then and I know it is a very nice experience so it is worth the efforts ! I agree that it's difficult to keep track of the differences …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-27, 13:10

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I have started an other game of Lands of Lore... I love that game, pretty casual dungeon crawler with some really nice cinematics.

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

Posted on 2024-04-27, 12:59

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After buying my Roland Sound Canvas SC-55ST, I was missing a pair of good speakers to really enjoy its sound quality. I decided to retrieve from my stock of old junk a Phillips FR731 Hi-Fi amplifier (50 W) and connected it to 2 x Pioneer full size speakers (under the table, not visible on the …

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Re: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Sound Blaster Live! cards (version 3.0)

Posted on 2024-04-26, 14:55

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Listen to the this playlist to check how games sound on a SBLive using this SC-55 soundfont. For comparison, here's how the games sound on a real Roland Sound Canvas. Do you confirm that there is a minimum RAM requirement to use the SC-55 soundfont ? I read in an earlier message on this thread that …

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Re: Weren't sound artists frustrated to know that very few players would be hearing the true sound of their creations?

Posted on 2024-04-26, 07:31

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fxgogo wrote on 2024-04-26, 07:04: Arturia make some amazing soft synths and have a free version nowadays if anyone wants to play around with them. Still blows my mind how good they sound. Thank you, I'll check this out !

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2024-04-25, 12:55

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Sorry for the stupid question, I am new to that topic. Is the Extron DVS 304 RGB Scaler a suitable solution to do scaling from 320x200 to a VGA-connected monitor ?

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

Posted on 2024-04-25, 08:07

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revolstar wrote on 2024-04-25, 06:13: Also, your avatar looks familiar, are you a member of the foreverdelayed.org.uk forum by any chance? 😉 Thanks for the picture, interesting setup. And I'm not a member of that forum sorry.

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Re: Weren't sound artists frustrated to know that very few players would be hearing the true sound of their creations?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 21:08

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Shponglefan wrote on 2024-04-24, 20:59: What's fascinating to me is that this is the period in computer music history when audio devices were actually synthesizing the music directly. Absolutely. Indeed quite amazing when you think about it. But soon after came the CD-ROM drives and recorded music …

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Weren't sound artists frustrated to know that very few players would be hearing the true sound of their creations?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 20:17

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Hi all, I am still pretty new to the retro computing world and lately I realized that the music of most DOS game I knew was NOT actually what the artists had created, because in the old days I was listening to it through my good old Sound Blaster Pro II and later SB16 Value. It's only recently that …

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Re: 1997 period correct retro PC build

Posted on 2024-04-24, 19:50

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drone16 wrote on 2024-04-24, 13:16: With FTP, what FTP client I use on win95? I find Filezilla still works well and can do SFTP. https://download.filezilla-project.org/client/

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

Posted on 2024-04-24, 19:45

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revolstar wrote on 2024-04-24, 19:31: This is borderline modern/retro: I bought a PS3 with the sole intention of hooking it up to my CRT TV and running RetroArch. I've been setting this up all day today. Fun, fun, fun! Pictures or this does not exist 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-24, 19:44

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BitWrangler wrote on 2024-04-24, 19:41: I think you are seeing the COAST module. You are right, thank you. https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/coast.php

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-24, 19:39

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rav85 wrote on 2024-04-24, 19:24: I got one like this, it starts and works Pentium 200 MMX 128MB Edo MATROX 590 05 […] Show full quote I got one like this, it starts and works Pentium 200 MMX 128MB Edo MATROX 590 05 What motherboard is this ? Do you have a mix of EDO and SD-RAM? EIDT: Ha no I …

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