Re: Your favorite game music?

Posted on 2007-05-24, 17:40

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Dominus wrote: and don't forget QUAKE! I'm just a Trent Reznor fanboy but even though it's very much fitting into the atmosphere. Ah, speaking about atmosphere, anyone remember the original Dune soundtrack?

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Re: Microsoft lames it up against Linux

Posted on 2007-05-22, 17:25

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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MiniMax wrote: Shouldn't that be "I've never been thinking highly of the US Patent Office ..."? Ah, you're correct. I should have phrased it better.

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Re: Microsoft lames it up against Linux

Posted on 2007-05-22, 09:34

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The software maker, as you've no doubt heard, placed a terse article with the publication. In the piece, both Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and top lawyer Brad Smith go after the free/open source crowd, saying 235 Redmond patents have been violated - 42 of them in the Linux kernel, 65 in the GUI ( …

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Re: Some retro games on eBay if anyone's interested (Hexen, Ultima Underworld, etc.)

Posted on 2007-05-20, 18:56

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They are overrated terrible dos and windows games. The only descent game their is doom2 Actually, there are some decent games on the list. Examples are Ultima Underworld, Heavy Gear, and of course, Populous: The Beginning. but i already have doom 1 shareware version and the game is very repetitive …

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Re: New kind of PayPal fraud?

Posted on 2007-05-16, 16:54

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Why not mail her and ask? Update: she's actually an ebay seller, and she's been trying to sell the item in an "out-of-ebay" transaction after I inquiried her about the mobo. Apparently I missed her previous email (duh!), which offers me the mobo for US $100. However, I still think it's odd, because …

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New kind of PayPal fraud?

Posted on 2007-05-15, 10:18

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Hell, I just received an email from someone called Irina Rozvora (irozzora@rochester.rr.com), requesting me to send her US $100. Nonetheless, it seems she's a legitimate PayPal member, since her Money Request also showed up in my PayPal. Here's the full email header: X-Apparently-To: iceheart_at_ …

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Wankish previews are killing games?

Posted on 2007-05-14, 05:19

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Da linky . Feature: Blogging Down the House 314 Views By Wagner James Au The games writer for Salon and the embedded journalist in Second Life rallies Kotaku readers in a war to save games from their worse enemy—the gaming press. This is an expanded version of a talk delivered March 11 at South by …

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Why we haven't moved to 64 bit?

Posted on 2007-05-10, 10:58

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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I just wonder; why haven't we seen too many O/S, apps, and especially games, moving to 64 bit? Itanium was a failure, but the first time AMD64 came around, the transition was (supposed to be) smooth, because AMD64 is backward compatible with all 32 bit applications. Why the CPU, while was very …

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Re: What Need for ISA Slots in a 3GHz Machine?

Posted on 2007-05-10, 10:49

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Ultima VI (all of them:) Will not run with emm386.exe installed, yet Creative's driver absolutely "requires" that it is installed, so forget playing the game with sound. Again, the game plays just fine on faster machines. I've actually played it on a 1.x Ghz machine with an ISA Soundblaster card. …

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Re: UniCGA CGA emulator for Hercules

Posted on 2007-05-10, 10:41

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From memory Hercules had pretty broad support for many years. It was the defacto standard in publishing and corporate circles. Yes, but not in the context of backward compatibility leileilol was talking about. VGA (and SVGA) is only backward compatible with EGA and CGA, but not with Hercules. IIRC, …

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Re: Can't run Warcraft II

Posted on 2007-05-10, 04:25

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1.MOUNT C: C:\WAR2 2. C: 3. dir.exe 4 war2.exe You forgot to mount the CD-ROM drive. Here's how. Basic cdrom support: mount D D:\ -t cdrom SDL-cdrom support: mount D D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 Ioctl cdrom support: mount D D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl ASPI cdrom support: mount D D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 - …

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Re: dosbox on windows 2003

Posted on 2007-05-10, 04:03

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DosFreak wrote: Server dh4rm4 wrote: Files. djp wrote: Firewalls So how long until someone post a pic of joystick?

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Re: Need for a 16-bit digitized audio

Posted on 2007-05-09, 14:47

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Great Hierophant wrote: But I am seriously doubting that you really need a Sound Blaster 16 for games. ...except for putting a MIDI daughterboard, but still, SB16 is not the only sound card you can put a WaveBlaster-compatible daughterboard on.

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Re: Is it possible to force a Direct3D game to run at an unsupported resolution?

Posted on 2007-05-08, 10:03

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dh4rm4 wrote: So why don't you take the source from the DxtoGL wrapper that Dosfreak posted and apply your theory? Because I ain't no programmer --I'm merely discussing the possible mechanisms of scaling up the resolutoin, which happens to be the purpose of this thread.

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Re: Very new games on old systems

Posted on 2007-05-08, 06:02

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Heh. This thread makes me wonder: have you ever running new games on a very old video card? For example, have you ever run Quake 4 on an old Voodoo2 card?

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Re: Is it possible to force a Direct3D game to run at an unsupported resolution?

Posted on 2007-05-08, 04:48

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Actually no. In Windows when you scale resolution up, the fixed size objects made of bitmaps shrink down. This is what you refer to as 'zooming out'. Yes, hence the need of rescaling to keep the size fixed. Line Doublers do not increase resolution they just copy scanlines and multiply them across …

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Re: Is it possible to force a Direct3D game to run at an unsupported resolution?

Posted on 2007-05-08, 01:30

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Can't see the point. Would be simpler to decompile a D3D game exe to find out what calls it's making to which dlls and then hack them accordingly. Well I think the point is making a (relatively) game-independent solution, instead of decompiling each and every individual game. Also what you're …

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Re: Is it possible to force a Direct3D game to run at an unsupported resolution?

Posted on 2007-05-07, 16:12

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On the other hand, I think Cedega (WineX) works by translating DirectX calls into OpenGL. Bingo! Then I believe it is (at least theoritically) possible to treat a game's 2D screen as a big rectangular polygon, and then applying texture scaling/filtering to the 2D screen. Now, if only such thing is …

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Re: Tanks! not working: EMS memory issue

Posted on 2007-05-07, 15:41

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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eL_PuSHeR wrote: Some mainboard are unable by design to provide enough room for the EMS window, so you won't get any EMS at all using Windows NTVDM. Wait, this is a new thing to me, and it's actually interesting; how is, exactly, the room for NTVDM's EMS limited by mobo design?

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Re: Is it possible to force a Direct3D game to run at an unsupported resolution?

Posted on 2007-05-07, 15:31

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There are Direct3D wrappers, right? There are? What I already knew is MiniGL, which is (IIRC) a wrapper to translate OpenGL into GLide. But that's interesting; if we can wrap Direct3D --translating it into OpenGL or such, is it possible to wrap 2D DirectX graphic into Direct3D or OpenGL? You know, …

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