Re: Windows 2000 & Gaming Performance

Posted on 2013-11-14, 01:56

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by leileilol

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Me's complaints tend to be about - "Where are my programs?" feature backported from Windows 2000 - bugged System Restore - The removal of booting to MS-DOS as well as the stripping of SYS so you couldn't make bootable DOS floppies - The eating of the autoexec.bat/config.sys

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Re: Windows 2000 & Gaming Performance

Posted on 2013-11-14, 01:17

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by leileilol

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I've never seen Win2000 underperform on my machines (given over 64mb RAM of course - a 486 with 32mb won't cut it well). There's also a few rare cases of Win2000 being faster than Win98SE on PENTIUM systems, particularly ones with average video hardware such as C&T65550 that have better developed …

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Re: Games in pure DOS vs Win 3.1

Posted on 2013-11-13, 23:24

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by leileilol

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Doom and thus, Windows 95 was born.......

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Re: YouTube's Seriously Awful New Change

Posted on 2013-11-13, 23:23

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by leileilol

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Too bad necrocommenting didn't kick in earlier. This kid thought it would be nice to reply a year later.

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Re: Best Video Card for DirectX 7 and 8

Posted on 2013-11-13, 23:21

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by leileilol

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I looked at it like this. From what I understand: (feel free to correct me) DirectX 7 is compatible with anything 7.0 and older. So from a Windows 98 perspective, this covers everything going back to the beginning of Windows 95 gaming. Um...... there are some DX7 cards that regressed many legacy …

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Re: MS DOS graphical applications programming

Posted on 2013-11-13, 23:08

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by leileilol

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Duke II's also choppy.

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Re: Tomb Raider. Which version is he playing?

Posted on 2013-11-12, 21:32

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by leileilol

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I think I recall the PowerVR version being blue like the Rage/Virge/Voodoo. Can't be bothered to check right now though

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Re: DOSBox PC beeper and turbo off

Posted on 2013-11-12, 15:39

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by leileilol

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mr_bigmouth_502 wrote: If you're looking for something that better approximates the speed of a PC XT, I highly recommend this program. That's really old (2006) and has strange design decisions... a Tseng ET4000 bios required for a XT?!

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Re: Doom engine - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-11-12, 15:11

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by leileilol

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The Mirsoft midis were converted with DEU back in 1994, might want to try using a different MUS to MIDI converter if that makes any difference.

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Re: MS DOS graphical applications programming

Posted on 2013-11-11, 17:20

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by leileilol

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That answer's simple - NES had hardware for sprites and backgrounds. A DOS PC had to painstakingly blit everything in software. This of course was before 3D cards and DirectX... Carmack fought tooth and nail to get smooth scrolling going in Dave and Keen back in '91.

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Re: MS DOS graphical applications programming

Posted on 2013-11-11, 16:29

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by leileilol

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you didn't mention allegro 😳

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-11-11, 16:16

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by leileilol

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Those are real annoying if you happen to hover over a margin where it'll shuffle the page back and forth....

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Re: Tomb Raider. Which version is he playing?

Posted on 2013-11-11, 13:32

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by leileilol

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I hadn't watched the videos BTW (Avoiding terrible Youtube), my posts were in regard to the Tombraiderchronicles screenshot.

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Re: 3dfx filter shader!

Posted on 2013-11-11, 10:59

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by leileilol

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I don't have any VGA captures to work with and i'm going by staring at a CRT running a Voodoo2. Sadly I don't think I can do a shader to replicate the alpha blending artifacts given the limitations of eFX to be pure postprocessing (rather than allowing to alter blending functions) I'm not claiming …

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Re: Tomb Raider. Which version is he playing?

Posted on 2013-11-10, 20:40

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by leileilol

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It's not strange when you consider red pollution ruins turqoise and cyan on a CRT computer screen (leading to the coloring of blue which would look visually better instead), and the PSX version has the TV gamma ramps and has less problems with turqoise...

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Re: FM synth sounds different why?

Posted on 2013-11-10, 17:22

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by leileilol

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The Windows version (Doom95) is going through the MIDI Mapper which feeds into the OPL3 MIDI Synthesizer windows driver in this case. That has a different timbres set than the one Doom provides for its Adlib support (which goes directly to port 0x388 and not through a Windows driver). You can get …

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Re: Tomb Raider. Which version is he playing?

Posted on 2013-11-10, 16:54

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by leileilol

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3dfx version through a special DOSBox build with Glide support, passing through a Glide wrapper (allowing higher res and the hsot card features such as AA). Most likely the Steam release. BTW the PowerVR version officially had 1024x768x16 support

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Re: .mod files that push the limits

Posted on 2013-11-10, 09:09

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by leileilol

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Thanks guys. My point of this thread was to find mods that are advanced enough to break in most DOS players and to learn tricks from checking out their patterns :) Because i'm kinda stuck on this song that sounds very very off (only happy with the second half), which is 8 channels, uses 8 unique …

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Re: Suggestions for building a mid 90's PC

Posted on 2013-11-10, 03:41

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by leileilol

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: No, WAY too fast. Depends on which games he's planning to play. I've had okay stability with most of the 'runtime error' games on a 440LX 66mhz fsb P2 300 - which most definitely is 1997 period hardware. You can always disable the L2 for approximate 286 speeds 😀

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Re: Impressive videogame AI

Posted on 2013-11-10, 03:38

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by leileilol

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Gaming press claim Half-Life of having reaperbot AI too but they're just confusing Steve Bond with Steve Polge...

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