Re: Oldest PC you've visited VOGONs with?
Posted on 2016-05-17, 03:40
My old 486 I rebuilt in 2008 in a new case/PSU (and posted on then). (ok so it's an am5x86, it's still a 486 to me dammit!!)
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-05-17, 03:35
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-05-16, 23:58
Re: Possible Solution to Youtube and DOS Aspect Ratio Issues
Posted on 2016-05-16, 22:14
Often I double to 640x400 and then stretch that to some 960x720 (black areas expanded on 1280x720)
Re: Rise of the Robots 16 floppies!
Posted on 2016-05-16, 00:43
Tommaso72 wrote: Another thing, is this game unusual to have so many disks Star Wars Chess from the year before was infamous for its disk count (14 1.44M's iirc) and its apology for it, and that's just half of the install process - the other half was a lengthy sound decompression process.
Re: Over 1600+ HD Dosgaming videos!
Posted on 2016-05-16, 00:40
It's all dosbox captures with misrepresentative and incorrect aspect ratios
Re: Sent PM sits in outbox for a day
Posted on 2016-05-16, 00:36
I've got 2 in the outbox since February now. One of them was a very long message 🙁
Re: Norton Commander Anniversary
Posted on 2016-05-16, 00:33
Re: Old shareware compilation CDs - is anybody besides me interested in this?
Posted on 2016-05-15, 22:40
I am usually interested just to hunt a couple of obscure reclusives, but typuically they're the same laundry list of Apogee / Epic / Moraff / Soleau / MVP / Tommy's Toys stuff plus a load of <1995 Visualbasic Windows gaming filler. Also typically shareware cds ignore everything that came after 1996 …
Re: The most hardware demanding game, that support (General) MIDI music?
Posted on 2016-05-15, 12:08
I don't think it was implied to be exclusively dos though but I can't name much demanding Windows-based MIDI-supporting game either...but you could mention F-22 Raptor, which is more or less Lightning 2 with noisy software texture filtering.... and EverQuest.
Re: DOS Nostalgia youtube channel
Posted on 2016-05-15, 12:04
Have you looked into Taiwan and South Korea's fighting games? Some are very..... interesting *cough*Violent Vengeance The Universe Hero*cough*Real Fighter*cough*
Re: The most hardware demanding game, that support (General) MIDI music?
Posted on 2016-05-15, 11:54
I think Armored Fist 2 had GM support as well (excluding the menu music) and that's a svga voxel hell with loads of lookup translucencies. so that also qualifies Extreme Assault also deserves a mention for being high color and pretty while having midi 😀
Re: New York in 1993 in HD
Posted on 2016-05-15, 08:08
it was still very much a bbs-dialing/compuserving/aoling and beeper pagery time though
Re: The most hardware demanding game, that support (General) MIDI music?
Posted on 2016-05-15, 07:57
Jane's ATF probably, though its 1994 predecessor was also very hardware demanding
Re: Another World 3: The Way
Posted on 2016-05-12, 22:21
it never existed Eric make Another World 2 please!
Re: How accurate is the OPL emulation in dosbox?
Posted on 2016-05-12, 21:23
we'd need more than resampling though. A low-pass filter was a feature on many early computer speakers (as well as boomboxes with equalizers that could be routed to 😀, and some sound cards.)
Re: OPL3 emulator
Posted on 2016-05-12, 21:19
chipko wrote: Ok, thank you. I had been deceived by the similarity of the letters. Well almost 2 years later, Chocolate Doom has his core in the repository now. 😀
Re: Terrible framerate rendering the terrain in DarkStar engine games. (Starsiege and Tribes1)
Posted on 2016-05-12, 20:56
it's more due to Darkstar's lightmap uploads when a dlight gets fired on the terrain. They have a lowres lightmap all over the terrain, and when a dynamic light's gonna be placed they have to take a chunk, do a dirty upsample, and then render a higher res lightmap on top of the chunk and upload it …
Re: Another World 3: The Way
Posted on 2016-05-12, 11:03
But we haven't had 2 yet!!
Re: Unreal Engine 2 / Unreal 2 / UT2003 brightness & contrast
Posted on 2016-05-11, 00:06
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