Re: DOS anti-virus programs
Posted on 2014-09-12, 00:29
Yeah FPROT had a neat database that described explicitly for many of what its known viruses could do.
Re: DOS anti-virus programs
Posted on 2014-09-11, 23:53
I also used FPROT then., and Mcafee Virusscan for a while, when it wasn't terrible. Michelangelo was very averted. Sneakernet boot sector'd viruses were very real 🙁
Re: QBasic game to automatically press shift+F5 to start
Posted on 2014-09-11, 23:27
Qbasic has a parameter for doing this, /r IIRC
Re: Doom in DOS: Original vs Source Ports
Posted on 2014-09-11, 22:57
to be honest, I really don't want to consdier its community. Most just use it to make some dynamic light shitting guns that 'require' gzdoom, and brutal doom wannabes (and brutal doom sucks)
Re: Doom in DOS: Original vs Source Ports
Posted on 2014-09-11, 22:20
What about Zdoom? Zdoom is full of assembly and optimization and I recall the Windows version of the 2.x branches ran smoothly, until they went to fmod/fmodex and then the sound system became the heavy bottleneck in later versions. There's also an old 1.x DOS version you should probably try. also, …
Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)
Posted on 2014-09-11, 08:42
GLQuake defaults to gl_flashblend 1 which means much less lightmap updates (none for dynamic lights), which could further be reduced by r_dynamic 0. GLQuake is far more playable on a 486 than the software renderer 😀
Re: Crazy system requirements for its time
Posted on 2014-09-11, 08:37
MDK2 was rather light compared to something like GIANTS: CITIZEN KABUTO in the same year. Also a K6 is fine for it.
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2014-09-11, 01:48
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2014-09-11, 00:40
There's also Knuckles Chaotix.... which I tracked two tunes from it to .mod once as accurately as I could with the knowledge I knew at the time. It's just Genesis hardware + 32X CPU playing back some form of compressed PCM, not much different than what the SegaCD could do.
Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)
Posted on 2014-09-11, 00:37
Try Battlezone and Interstate '76 Gold.
Re: Crazy system requirements for its time
Posted on 2014-09-10, 23:03
All this talk about Doom3's high requirement and no mention of the fact it could run okay on a Geforce2 with an Athlon. Playable on low with bumpmaps on for sure and it still looks distinctily Doom3 (And not DOOM3 ON VooDoo 2 SLi!!!), and I thought it was more optimal than Half- …
Re: Uninstalling DOSBox :(
Posted on 2014-09-10, 22:34
maybe it's one of those pointless "portable" versions
Re: Do you ever give false reviews because of some issue you didn't know about?
Posted on 2014-09-10, 22:27
Purchased product. Product not functioning. Gives a error about "not supported". In the process of returning product. 1/5 Do Not Buy This Non-Functional Software
Re: Warcraft 2 and Windows 7: Best Config
Posted on 2014-09-10, 03:18
Well of course, that's BNE. That's an entirely separate version which came out late 1999 and has nothing to do with the original DOS version.
Re: Crazy system requirements for its time
Posted on 2014-09-10, 03:11
That's in the case of Quake/Quake2 which had some rendering functionality lacking what its SW renderer had, like overbright lighting and gamma control. Also Quake2 had its lightmap shifted to half brightness in GL. (also Quake's SW renderer used pointcloud rendering for distance models making …
Re: Win95 vs. Win98 for pre-Pentium 200 games
Posted on 2014-09-10, 00:04
Windows ME also annoyingly tries to sweep general protection errors under the rug with a sudden shutdown, and not all games benefit from WinME's high mouse input rate. It was a struggle to navigate Ultim@te Race's menus on it... I did try 98Lite on ME but it crippled some system functionality which …
Re: Crazy system requirements for its time
Posted on 2014-09-09, 23:52
There wasn't MMX when it came out either, and MMX can't exactly apply to a indexed color software renderer with good results. It works best with sound processing. MMX for graphics is just hype. It can be done but it's not as beneficial as one would think it'd be.
Re: Crazy system requirements for its time
Posted on 2014-09-09, 23:33
Wing Commander III and US Navy Fighters were 1994's Pentium demanders. I recall Interstate '76 vaguely demanding for a Pentium 200-class machine when the demo out in early '97. It even had an ad campaign for TV news outlets which made the high requirement as a selling point, IIRC. There was no …
Re: Rage 128 vs TNT2 line compared?
Posted on 2014-09-09, 03:19
For Rage128, paletted texture comes as a 'last resort' option in the drivers actually. It's strongly discouraged to enable it. Also, the reviews of the cards against each other need to take into account that the Rage128 drivers were infamously immature.
Re: Suggestions for useful programs for Windows
Posted on 2014-09-09, 01:58
DOSBox - this program can allow dos games to run. Why isn't this on the lists?! DragUnPacker - Window-based game archive-focused viewing program, has a MRIP-like Hyperripper feature (for sounds/music deep in archives), nice for analysis and study. (and curiosity) Mypaint - Nice little free no- …
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