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Re: Fastest CPU Descent 1 can handle?

Posted on 2018-02-01, 10:24

amino glycine wrote: I know about the dxx rebirth source port but that's for windows 7 and up It used to run on Win9x. I take it GCC and SDL2 decides what platform they should run on for them

Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2018-02-01, 08:03

by leileilol

in Milliways

DINGDINGDING (that was the very first turn of that game. it was a lost cause)

Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2018-02-01, 01:14

by leileilol

in Milliways

OK

Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2018-01-31, 20:32

by leileilol

in Milliways

Tubular Worlds

Re: As of 2018... any Img mounting soft with CDDA support?

Posted on 2018-01-31, 19:29

by leileilol

in PC Emulation

I use Virtual CloneDrive with my CCDs and the CD audio works in 7 x64.

Re: Shadow Warrior 3D black screen

Posted on 2018-01-29, 23:09

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Software

Arbys Guy wrote: I can get Shadow warrior to work with a Gigabyte GA-622 32C(TNT2 Model 64) but when near water the FPS drop dramatically, its playable but highly undesired Welcome to the wonderful world of software renderers with lookup table translucency.

Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2018-01-29, 20:49

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

you'd find more powervr worshippers on revisionistnostalgia-fueled dreamcast fan forums though... the kind that believe the PVR2 is some sort of RSX

Re: Can someone help identify this music?

Posted on 2018-01-29, 11:15

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Sound

It's the MJ12 facility actually.

Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2018-01-29, 01:47

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

a P4 or a P3. PowerVR's not that great with slow non-intel CPUs.

Re: Unofficial Commander Keen games

Posted on 2018-01-28, 19:43

by leileilol

in Milliways

Biomenace 😁

Re: GOG.com wishlists

Posted on 2018-01-28, 18:22

by leileilol

in DOS

No. Diversions officially made it freeware 14 years ago to promote One Must Fall Battlegrounds. It didn't premiere on an "abandonware" site.

Re: Old computers for daily tasks?

Posted on 2018-01-27, 21:52

by leileilol

in Milliways

is 3d asset profiling a daily task? 😁

Re: Minor (or major) injuries from gaming or building/using computer...?

Posted on 2018-01-27, 21:15

by leileilol

in Milliways

My nails usually get the worst of it.

Re: AC97 codecs and DOS mixers

Posted on 2018-01-26, 22:29

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AC'97 compliancy doesn't guarantee DOS support. That's up to the company making the AC'97 compliant card to provide some "legacy TSR" for it, or some VXD driver that provides dos sound through Windows 9x. I know VIA's AC'97 chips for several Compaq computers in 1999-2000 had a very buggy legacy TSR …

Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2018-01-26, 20:48

by leileilol

in Milliways

DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING finally. (specifically this is the bowdlerized CD talkie version released later)

Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2018-01-25, 18:18

by leileilol

in Milliways

OK Hint: it's probably the most well-known PC98->DOS port ever. Even this mere hint without looking back on the previous page for the picture would be enough

Re: Shadows of the Empire on OLD PC = headache

Posted on 2018-01-24, 18:16

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Software

I'd say it's more of an oversight and a combination of early generation 3d card drivers varying in quality too much. There's many old games that visually break on better drivers. to give another example of this,, Quake3 had skybox edge clamp issues on ATI Radeon cards because Nvidia and 3dfx's GL …