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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-08-07, 14:37

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

DracoNihil wrote: and worse some companies and websites make their ENTIRE index page a giant flash object. This trend has been going back to 1998 really. It doesn't cache well. Even worse with Scaleform this Flash-everything trend has been seeping into games for no reason other than to shutup the …

Re: Most recent DOS game releases, ever?

Posted on 2014-08-07, 13:08

in Milliways

in Milliways

WWII GI, NAM, Burnout (not THAT Burnout) and Elder Scrolls Redguard are the few real late DOS releases I can think of. Not surprising given the companies for their incompetent history 😀

Re: Emulation inside emulation: DOS-based emulators under DOSBox.

Posted on 2014-08-07, 00:03

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

The infamous UltraHLE, for the shiggles

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-08-06, 22:50

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I wish I could redirect all web video to Media Player Classic instead of the browser's own feeble attempts at playing video slowly tbh imo

Re: What are some great games for 8088 computers?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 20:15

in DOS

in DOS

ah. I never had a PCjr, topic title is a bit misleading. My experiences reflected in this thread have been mostly IBM 5160.

Re: Pentium 4 and retro gaming

Posted on 2014-08-06, 18:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

.....or use the very aforementioned Pentium 4 system. Going Tualatin is easier said than done.

Re: What are some great games for 8088 computers?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 16:54

in DOS

in DOS

Also Sierra's GAMEARTS releases have Tandy support IIRC, so Zeliard, Thexder/Firehawk and Silpheed should work.

Re: What are some great games for 8088 computers?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 16:39

in DOS

in DOS

Sopwith, Spacewar, Space Commanders II (actually a Space Invader clone), Spyder, Dig-Dug, Paratrooper, Striker and Xonix are a few I remember enjoying immensely on systems that old. Of these listed, Sopwith seems to age the best as far as fun factor goes. I was never a "ITS ALL ABOUT ALLEY CAT!!!" …

Re: Most recent DOS game releases, ever?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 15:19

in Milliways

in Milliways

it's a popular source of compressed binaries, and we all know compressed binaries are a big red flag to any virus scanner.

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-08-06, 13:28

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

PCem used to use Allegro. Engoo also used to use Allegro KEYWORD: Used to.

Re: Best freeware audio recording software for Pentium MMX or slower?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 12:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

or any old version of Cool Edit. Even 1.31 from 1994 can do. The limitations being you can either choose two sets features at once, and if you just want record, save, and amplify you can just do that.

Re: Does this annoy anyone else?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 12:23

in Milliways

in Milliways

Even worse is when these same videos provide warez links to the said images via their descriptions.

Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2014-08-05, 17:58

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

There is a OpenGL GLSL shader patch but it doesn't seem to be mature enough to be included 🙁 I love where DOSBox-X is going, I just don't like the whole stuck-in-a-640x480-window or a fixed-fullscreen-resolution thing part of it.

Re: Leaked Windows 9 screenshot

Posted on 2014-08-05, 14:58

in Milliways

in Milliways

audiodg.exe sure does something involving audio and having high cpu usage for it. I'm not imagining these things. I know because it did hinder tracking since Windows 7 would scale the volume up as I try to put in some quiet notes.... it did not do this with the same sound hardware on XP.

Re: Pentium 4 and retro gaming

Posted on 2014-08-05, 01:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also motherboards vary greatly. I do get DOS sound with my SBPC128 in mine.

Re: Replacing the MIDI music in Sierra adventure games with soundtracks from QuestStudios

Posted on 2014-08-04, 22:12

in DOS

in DOS

The QuestStudios midis are manually touched up and are intended for standalone playback on a module. There is no real purpose to reinject these back to their games. Also MT-32 wasn't a General MIDI standard, it will never sound like the Bassmidi driver :) The SC-55.sf2 font is suspect as well since …

Re: Quake, Strafing and free look?

Posted on 2014-08-04, 19:24

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

sv_aim 2 (or some other high number) should also be essential if you want to turn the autoaim off. This isn't an archived cvar, so stick that in autoexec.

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-08-04, 19:18

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Sticking it all on an atlas = big saving for gl calls, and also quite essential for GLES. I realized this the hard way 😒

Re: Pentium 4 and retro gaming

Posted on 2014-08-04, 19:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My P4 system feels much like a 1998 machine with an overkill processor, thanks to the video cards being reasonable bottlenecks. Speedy loading (and installing!) times are a nice advantage as well as stability (for non-HT processors).

Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2014-08-04, 14:52

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

That's by design. DOSBox uses a special scaler for doubleheight 'tweaked/Mode X' modes. A workaround is to use the Direct3D patch and a pixel shader as the scaler, main reaosn why I haven't bothered trying the new Dosbox-X since I only use DB in D3D with a shader these days 🙁

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