Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2016-03-20, 23:25
The one I was fond of was the "IBM" one with the switching CGA palettes and the screeching cicada pixelblob spider.
Re: 3D accelerated DOS gaming era?
Posted on 2016-03-20, 21:29
For DOS 6.22 there was a brief Matrox Impression period in 1994 when there was Sento and Creep Clash. Later cards were into the Win95/DOS 7 era at the earliest The majority of DOS gaming being in 1996 were more or less considering a few things: - slow Win95 adoption - many people absolutely hated …
Re: Voodoo2 for Glide & Geforce for Direct3D?
Posted on 2016-03-20, 17:36
3DCC probably won't be very useful though. The Voodoo2 is already a secondary device that doesn't take absolute priority. It's more useful dealing with PowerVR's hal though 😀
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2016-03-20, 13:17
Personally i've never played or even seen Alley Cat anywhere back then either. I only saw it popping up in the later 90's due to that lamer "oldwarez" scene pushing themselves about, where the regurgitation begins to the point where now you can't even find the original rips they blatantly flipped …
Re: Most taxing and/or feature-complete demos, intros, etc?
Posted on 2016-03-20, 01:09
Re: Half-Life overbright compatibility
Posted on 2016-03-20, 00:26
Pretty sure Half-Life does it with a combine operation (as opposed to jacking up the brightness or applying a modulation blend quad to the screen). This is one of the big things the current Steam version regressed with the current maintainers clueless on how to fix it
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2016-03-19, 17:11
Ultimate R@ce has issues with fast mouse polling. I've encountered this only in Windows Me because of it That "use the m3d" checkbox only applies to overriding the Direct3D HAL, which the old not-pro Ultimate R@ce does not use at all.
Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)
Posted on 2016-03-19, 15:00
Probably very rude and inappropriate... what about that Chicago-esque font in PC GEOS 1.x?
Re: FPS with fun, interesting storyline and good enough gameplay?
Posted on 2016-03-19, 14:54
I never liked RTCW :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) felt it was overrated then because the OKMG ITS A BRAND NEW WOLFENSTEIN!!! CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF WOLF FRANCHISE!! U MUST BUY TO HONER THE WOLFENSTEIN LEGACY!!!1 etc. was a bit overblown in hype from the brand and id OMFG THEY INVENTED FPS involvement alone, …
Re: Classic Doom vs Doom reboot. Side by side comparison
Posted on 2016-03-19, 01:15
Re: [EMULATOR]The Virtual Computer Collection
Posted on 2016-03-18, 14:19
PC-DOS is still present in this "copyright free" emulator 🙄.
Re: Soundfonts that mimic old hardware (SC-55, DX50XG, AWE64 Gold)
Posted on 2016-03-17, 17:43
I think that might be SNEmul, and the .mods it produced sounded very broken
Re: Soundfonts that mimic old hardware (SC-55, DX50XG, AWE64 Gold)
Posted on 2016-03-17, 15:01
...why the tracker format isn't a definitive for the sound itself. I've done .mods that sound like snes music (because they were snes music 😜) you probably want a ST-XX soundfont of all the most common samples used.
Re: Hidden and Dangerous crazy ai extreme rapid fire bug
Posted on 2016-03-17, 01:53
notindeed wrote: Haha isn't the H&D series the only WWII tactical shooter? Nope!
Re: Latest Arrival: PC Chips M919 + AM486 DX4-100
Posted on 2016-03-15, 17:04
mrau wrote: you could've just went on and installed a usb controller card ;p easier said than done, and it didn't work. (If anyone can get a VIA USB card going on a M919, with both usb storage and usb mice, i'd like to know what you did because i've lost my patience years ago)
Re: Games that are impossible to get running
Posted on 2016-03-15, 14:15
Off the top of my head I used to not be able to get the X-Wing Collectors ed to start in the day for some reason while the disk version worked fine. The original Xwing really stressed to use extended memory however System Shock was also hard to start for me, and Cybermage is hard to play without …
Re: Latest Arrival: PC Chips M919 + AM486 DX4-100
Posted on 2016-03-15, 14:07
You can usually make up for it by putting an AM5x86-P75 in and clocking that 40x4 and setting your memory wait states to 0 or 1 (which can cost you the ability to soft reset, so don't set that until your drivers are all installed :) ). At that point it's a 59.79 in speedsys, and Quake is definitely …
Re: Release of Serious Engine 1 source code
Posted on 2016-03-14, 17:06
What I really want to see is a libretro core 😀 would be hard though, sicne there's so much inline assembly it'd restrict its use for x86 platforms only. but the fact the game has 4 player splitscreen makes it most appropriate
Re: Suggestions for lightweight and free antivirus?
Posted on 2016-03-14, 13:50
cautiousness 😀 I'd second ClamAV. Lightweight and anti-virus is a rare mix nowadays; most of the antiviral genre is a marketing ploy to scare you into subscription plans
Re: Could anybody with a retail CD-ROM copy of Descent verify their hashes?
Posted on 2016-03-13, 22:54
Descent II happened. If there's any CD enhanced Descent version it's the Mac and PlayStation releases.
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