Re: Chasm - The Rift

Posted on 2009-04-03, 09:04

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by leileilol

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Might you be running an ATI graphics card, by any chance? I've heard those seem to have speed issues when modifying palettes. You have them switched; that's an nvidia problem, not ATI but yeah, nvidia cards do suck at the 8-bit color, it'll be better if you use a output mode that requires 32-bit …

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Re: FileFront closing on 3/30/2009

Posted on 2009-04-03, 09:03

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by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

well, the inevitable would actually have had happened if they didn't snag it from ziff-deadis

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Re: Geforce 6200 in older systems...

Posted on 2009-04-02, 18:35

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You don't want a FX5200. Ever. It's as bad as everyone says (but I think it's even worse considering it's slower than gf2mx). It'll be the worst video card you'll ever purchase. Savage4 is more fun to play with than it.

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Re: P55c at Overclocked to 300mhz?

Posted on 2009-04-02, 10:12

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

T&L acceleration doesn't do jack for a K6 system. Trust me I've tried it all. It will still be too slow with those games. Quake 3 with a K6-III+ 600 and a GeForce FX 5600 is still laughable (and unstable). Q3A doesn't use HW T&L though, games must have explicit support for it to use it. It's not …

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Re: Unreal II crashes at the drop of a hat!

Posted on 2009-04-02, 09:57

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by leileilol

in Windows

in Windows

Rekrul wrote: I'd consider that, IF someone can tell me where to download a Windows 98SE compatible version of the latest DirectX9 redistributable package. The MS site only offers a web-install for 98, the redistributable package only works on 2K/XP/etc. http://www.oldversion.com/DirectX.html ?

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Re: Socket-A AMD Athlon/Sempron system

Posted on 2009-04-02, 09:53

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Hmm, only 13385 3DMarks'01 with a Geforce 7600 GS? My previous main rig was a socket 754 Sempron 2600+, Asus K8V-X mobo (VIA K8T800 chipset), 512 Mb DDR400, 80 Gb WD and a GeForce 6200. Around 10500 3DMarks'01, AFAIR. Roughly ditto but a x850, got 18500 3dmarks01 Sempron64s can really be pushed to …

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Re: Underclocking Pentiums?

Posted on 2009-03-30, 18:18

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by leileilol

in DOS

in DOS

Toshiba laptops i've used have a 'low' processor setting in the BIOS which simply halves the MHz, which is actually quite convenient (But this is not automatic). That's the only good official underclocking for those I know 🙁

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Re: Unreal II crashes at the drop of a hat!

Posted on 2009-03-30, 18:17

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by leileilol

in Windows

in Windows

unreal 2 slows down alot on a faster system than what you have too btw, even with 4th gen Radeons on AMD XP 3200 processors.

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Re: Blood Internet Multi-player List

Posted on 2009-03-26, 17:53

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by leileilol

in DOS

in DOS

what, typing 'ipxnet connect ip.address.here.plz' is too hard for you?

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Re: Windows 3.11 for workgroup NIC installation HELP

Posted on 2009-03-25, 19:02

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by leileilol

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

It won't work. Not even with hal's build.

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Re: Getting X-Wing floppy disks to work

Posted on 2009-03-25, 18:40

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by leileilol

in DOS

in DOS

sounds like a corrupt disk, I was able to floppy install xwing without a snag. Best wishes 😒

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Re: Blood Internet Multi-player List

Posted on 2009-03-25, 18:39

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by leileilol

in DOS

in DOS

it's built right into dosbox i'm sure you already knew that. READMEs are great too.

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Re: Sparks just came out of my PSU

Posted on 2009-03-25, 18:35

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yeah well you should be glad it's just sparks and not a complete explosion with soot all stuck in your face. 😖 but yeah, sparks are still a very bad sign though. don't use it. i'm amazed your house didn't catch on electrical fire

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Re: Your most unreliable retro hardware?

Posted on 2009-03-24, 04:42

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

any dfi motherboard any 'mouse systems' mice and keyboards Jaton video cards Cyrix 6x86 MX Seagate '95 assd. drives Maxtor '00 assd. drives

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Re: Blood Internet Multi-player List

Posted on 2009-03-24, 04:41

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by leileilol

in DOS

in DOS

deoren wrote: 1 - DOSBox (XP/Vista, handle max 2 players because it's DOSBox) So DOSBox multi-player games are limited to 2 players max, or just Blood? That's a silly false rumor from know-it-all nubs

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Re: MS Space Sim (slow)

Posted on 2009-03-21, 15:21

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by leileilol

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

vectorg wrote: Any Space Sim players out there? I'm the only one left I think. finding dedicatied sim nuts for ANY vehicle theme these days is tough with glorified arcade shooters being the only ones around like Hawx. ew 🙁

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Re: VESA Games Performance - Guide?

Posted on 2009-03-21, 06:50

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by leileilol

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

so they prolly updated it themselves a bit. It should be noted that every BUILD engine licensee in the 90s never had access to the source code of the engine, ever. Not even 3D Realms. They worked from only .obj files and headers of the engine, though Xatrix got a head start by deriving off the game …

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Re: Various old games by Apogee, some with source

Posted on 2009-03-21, 04:43

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by leileilol

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in Release Announcements

Yay! Congratulations to DOSGuy for his efforts on convincing them making these freeware status.

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Re: Testing early 486-era games on a Pentium 100

Posted on 2009-03-21, 04:42

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bullfrog aren't a fan of speed throttling. Most of their games are pretty much designed for 486 DX4 100s it seems, but Pentium 133s if you hit R to pump it up to SVGA.

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Re: MS Space Sim (slow)

Posted on 2009-03-20, 08:22

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by leileilol

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

This is a real mode game, try typing core dynamic cycles max prior to the execution of space simulator IIRC there was a flicker problem with the graphics, haven't tried this since 0.65

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