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Gemini000 wrote: mockingbird wrote: Also, can you please do a review of a game from the 80s called Street Fighting Man? I'll add it to my requests list. 😉 I hope it's literal....

Re: video card for original half

Posted on 2014-02-03, 13:18

by leileilol

in Milliways

No video card will get past the launcher trash bug. Half-Life originally targeted a 3dfx Voodoo Graphics regarding the technical limitations and capabilities, and a lot of it was designed for 4mb VRAM, so from that point, there's more "best" cards than there is "not best"; "Not best" being …

Re: Copy Protection problem

Posted on 2014-02-03, 00:55

by leileilol

in DOS

Pretty certain Prince of Persia went through Broderbund then Red Orb then Mindscape then Ubisoft. Never heard of an Acclaim publishing... but in most cases most budget compilations often provide the manual on-disc in PDF format (or in earlier cases, a series of PCXs/GIFs viewed with an included …

Re: Do these SST results look slow for this 5x86 160?

Posted on 2014-02-02, 00:11

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also my memory timings are extremely similar to yours. Notice that I lack L2 cache however. Once you disable the L2 you should see a similar dip after the peak.

Re: Problem with Win95 Installation into DOSBox

Posted on 2014-02-01, 23:37

by leileilol

in DOSBox General

Boot in safe mode and remove the "Plug and Play BIOS" system device in the device manager. Also, using the Pentium cpu type will help

Re: Dark Mod v2.01 released

Posted on 2014-02-01, 23:22

by leileilol

in Release Announcements

By the way in related taffer news Thievery UT had an update a while ago.

Re: Do these SST results look slow for this 5x86 160?

Posted on 2014-02-01, 23:19

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My AM5x86 @ 160mhz gets 59.79. In real world performance, having tighter memory timings improve Quake heavily but turns soft resets into a freeze.

Re: Maxed-out Socket 7 AT build (TX, K6-3+, PS/2, USB, SSD, LS120, GUS, XR385, 3DFX, PowerVR, S3D)

Posted on 2014-01-31, 02:52

by leileilol

in Marvin \ System Specs

Alternatively you could also replace the Virge card with a later Savage card so you can do S3 MeTaL and those other weird S3-only OEM S3TC-supporting game versions, in addition to having something for Direct3D 😀

Re: Your favorite shareware/freeware?

Posted on 2014-01-30, 23:00

by leileilol

in Milliways

WinRAR 😀

Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.

Posted on 2014-01-30, 02:19

by leileilol

in PC Emulation

i5-2k isn't even enough for AM5x86 P75 at full capacity with fast vlb/pci speed... Nice suspicously not updated Windows 7 btw.

Re: "overkill" system for original half-life

Posted on 2014-01-29, 22:43

by leileilol

in Milliways

That's more of a CPU issue. Half-Life was a real choker.

Re: Microsoft Windows 98

Posted on 2014-01-29, 22:41

by leileilol

in DOSBox Games/Apps

After that Longhorn thread (a favorite OS of aspiring pretentious beta kids), i'd say he "needs" it for stupid internet bragging rights. Maybe he also planned to run Longhorn in DOSBox. Kids these days.....