Re: Mechwarrior 2 DOS Version under DosBox - No CD
Posted on 2013-12-18, 12:43
So strange how a pressed CD degrades so fast in a modern PC. Maybe you should get a replacement off ebay, or clean the gunk that got smeared all over it.
Re: DosBox TIE FIGHTER Collector's Edition Joystick Problem
Posted on 2013-12-18, 12:33
I've had this same problem! Timed doesn't do a thing either. I gave up on it years ago. In the meantime Xwing still works all well... Some FYIs: Xwing Collector's CD-ROM (1994) is still 320x200, but has a few graphical improvements with dithered shading, and some sound changes/improvements like …
Re: Half-Life vs. Unreal
Posted on 2013-12-18, 01:50
Re: Looking for a old game.
Posted on 2013-12-18, 00:04
I don't like GOG period for their stunt of getting their big publicity through referrals on warez sites and their marketing practices on them "fixing" the games and selling on the fixes (implying there's no way of playing it on modern systems unless you buy it from GOG), and as such I don't have a …
Re: Simple XP rig
Posted on 2013-12-17, 23:25
(SB16 Value,CT2770,uses OPL chip) not much point when it's on XP... overall this is one of the worst 'xp' machines i've seen, even the Radeon 7000 is very prohibitive for gaming potential, and we know this "runs fast" is all bluffing. Give it a month of use and it won't. 512MB RAM won't save it, no …
Re: id tech 3 settings
Posted on 2013-12-17, 00:18
I think that argument was over the misinformation of classifying GL games as Glide games because of the ICD/MCDs involved.
Re: Installing DOS games using DOSbox
Posted on 2013-12-17, 00:08
This would be much simpler if you owned the game, then you'd have a much simple and easy way to just have to mount your actual disc drive, and actually physically insert the discs when asked... DOSBox mounting ISOs are for those who image their own CDs for preparation of a disc-less machine or just …
Re: Half-Life vs. Unreal
Posted on 2013-12-16, 23:19
Re: id tech 3 settings
Posted on 2013-12-16, 22:15
Setting "Voodoo" will set r_gldriver to 3dfxvgl (ICD included with more recent V1/V2 drivers). It's meant for selecting the Voodoo Graphics/Voodoo2. It will use this first if it detects a Voodoo1/2 card (on the assumption that host card is 2D only). If you have a Voodoo Banshee and up this setting …
Re: MechWarrior 2 | 3D card conversion files
Posted on 2013-12-16, 01:16
Tecras had Virges?!
Re: Looking for the MIDI to Cyberbykes.
Posted on 2013-12-15, 12:00
They're probably in the LVL files in a compressed form. It did take a while to load a level on a 486...
Re: Is VMWare a good solution for Window gaming?
Posted on 2013-12-15, 04:50
Warlords III shouldn't be confused with Warlords Battlecry III. Battlecry is a spinoff.
Re: Retro gaming: truth or fiction? :-)
Posted on 2013-12-15, 03:54
It's usually the serial and PS/2 mice I have that discourage me. So I stop this retro ball mouse crap and just cut to the chase with an optical...
Re: Half-Life vs. Unreal
Posted on 2013-12-15, 01:42
I also liked Klingon Honor Guard at the time. In some bits it's kind of more ambitious than Unreal (cameras, physics on items and particle effects and decals) but it fails a bit in the art and animation department and some of the combat is a bit of a luck shoot, and the music is just CD audio and …
Re: Half-Life vs. Unreal
Posted on 2013-12-15, 01:04
but 3Dfx was the only hardware acceleration you could use initially *cough*PowerVR SGL*cough* Unreal did influence Half-Life a bit late in the development though. There wasn't flares until much much later in 98. Eventually down the road (2003-04ish Steam updates) it gained detail texture support :)
Re: Retro gaming: truth or fiction? :-)
Posted on 2013-12-15, 00:59
I do more things involving development than gaming on my things...
Re: Guess the track
Posted on 2013-12-14, 22:24
Re: Total conversions/mods that became standalone games
Posted on 2013-12-14, 22:23
Re: Half-Life vs. Unreal
Posted on 2013-12-14, 22:17
Unreal didn't make me reload my glock an excess amount of times or have a corrupt menu screen buffer bug that was annoying to work around..... also HL's mouse movement's bad as well - you'll have to add the -noforcemparms parameter. There's also the coding to mention - Unrealscript didn't REQUIRE AN …
Re: Guess the track
Posted on 2013-12-14, 12:25
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