Re: Show off your servers!
Posted on 2014-01-28, 04:23
Workstations are far more interesting 😀
Re: Know of any doom/doom 2 WAD torrents?
Posted on 2014-01-28, 01:11
That would be stupid since many wads are designed for different source ports. Just go browse the best by the "## years of Doom" features on Doomworld.
Re: The essential 386 list
Posted on 2014-01-27, 23:18
My experience with 386s are around the 16mhz mark, WC1/2 and TD3 ran okay on that.
Re: Decent retro gaming laptops
Posted on 2014-01-27, 23:15
I personally have bad experiences with 3d cards in a dock.... PowerVR PCX2 through a IBM Dock was an interesting but slow experience and is the only choice for 3D on the internal LCD...besides a Canopus Pure3D maybe
Re: The essential 386 list
Posted on 2014-01-27, 23:07
A crapload of flight simulators will work if you don't mind your cutoff point being Strike Commander. X-Wing and Falcon 3.0 included. Star Trek 25th Anniversary will also work fine. Looking back, it's pretty impressive they pulled off bilinear filtering on sprites back in '92...
Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix
Posted on 2014-01-27, 05:06
FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL = 0 and SST_VSYNC = 0?
Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.
Posted on 2014-01-27, 00:25
It's at idle in a questionable "Win98se" that appears to be given the 98lite Micro treatment - hardly "mid-90s", especially with WinChip which is late 90s. Don't you just love misinformation?
Re: "overkill" system for original half-life
Posted on 2014-01-26, 23:05
I believe this thread is referring to the original WON-based Half-Life, not some hacked one or some suspicious 'xash' one. Increasing map size through 'hax' also affects the network protocol and is prohibitly expensive without a total rewrite. Half-Life's Direct3D does something its OpenGL doesn't …
Re: Best browser for Win95?
Posted on 2014-01-26, 23:02
I used to use OffByOne for quick broken browsing today's internet on a 486. Not the best browser, but it can be an option.....or probably less of an option with all those regressive sites out there. It can download, but it's pretty raw and lacks a progress indicator.
Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer
Posted on 2014-01-26, 22:58
This midi. There's a hanging note in there somewhere, only tested in Media Player Classic Home Cinema so i'm not sure if it's the midi's end, mpc's end or the synth's end. Also it sounds hilarious with the 2x2 driver.
Re: "overkill" system for original half-life
Posted on 2014-01-26, 22:51
The only way I can see Half-Life "still lags" on newer machines is the software renderer's poor handling of the expanded surfacecache at a higher res. On the other hand OpenGL and Direct3D should be 'perfect' for anything above 700MHz with a competent 3d accelerator. Also be aware Half-Life is still …
Re: debating between two retro rigs - SSE in win98 games
Posted on 2014-01-25, 23:52
Hardwar has a hardcoded low framerate cap. It's designed to "run bad" - but more on with keeping the parity of the game with the lower system specs. It's just as playable on a lower-end P5 (with a Voodoo2 of course)...
Re: Games where the PC (OPL2) had it better than Amiga (Paula)
Posted on 2014-01-25, 06:55
I guess CyberSphere doesn't count. OPL3... but also had a previous Amiga incarnation.
Re: Games where the PC (OPL2) had it better than Amiga (Paula)
Posted on 2014-01-25, 05:29
EGA and PC Speaker only on the PC. Not much you can about these. Yes you can!!! UltimaPatcher.exe UltimaPatcher, Ultima 1 to Ultima 9, Savage Empire, Martian Dreams, Ultima Uderworld, Ultima Uderworld 2, and Serpant Isle. It does. "256 VGA Colors and MIDI sound for Ultima3. 1 - Vidio: VGA (256- …
Re: Games where the PC (OPL2) had it better than Amiga (Paula)
Posted on 2014-01-24, 10:43
Re: VGA Capture Thread
Posted on 2014-01-22, 16:04
Rayman 2 is actually optimized as hell. Try it on a plain P5!
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2014-01-22, 13:33
TED?
Re: So I made a legacy 98SE PC, nothing too special...
Posted on 2014-01-22, 13:31
I honestly didn't think the ATI card could do a wrapper-emulated 3dfx (very well anyway) The more modern wrappers, starting from Zeckenseck's would demand a pixel shader-supporting card anyway. At least there's that slew of immature UltraHLE-era (1999) wrappers that would work on the R128, XGL-200 …
Re: How I Would Have Ended BioShock (brilliant!)
Posted on 2014-01-22, 02:00
It's more of a publisher thing as I see it. Saints Row The Third and 4 are finally getting modding tools after a publisher switch from THQ to Deep Silver for example, and unlike many recent games, the developers are keeping in touch with the community...
Re: So I made a legacy 98SE PC, nothing too special...
Posted on 2014-01-21, 23:54
That's a nice TV. Since it's a TV PC I would throw in a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 in there.... that has Svideo out and has sharper TV output than the Rage128 and the compatibility is much larger (at the expense of 32-bit color and high textures - both which aren't THAT discernable on a 480i display). …
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