Re: Anyone jaded by modern graphics?

Posted on 2013-09-07, 19:20

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A nice example? Saints Row The Third vs. Saints Row 2. The Third looks a whole lot better and runs fast, but they took out several gameplay features like some activities, and improvised combat. also a smaller less memorable map with less landmarks.

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Re: DOS / Win98SE troubleshooting

Posted on 2013-09-07, 17:16

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by leileilol

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Yeah the SBLive won't bring you nice DOS SB compatibility. Most will refuse to work with it, especially those Sierra games. Its FM emulation TSR is awful and slow as well :( If you really wanted to play Sam & Max on that system with the SBLive you'd probably have the best luck with ScummVM. You can …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-09-07, 17:13

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Links does digital PC speaker sound effects while having a game run in realtime.

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Re: Anyone jaded by modern graphics?

Posted on 2013-09-07, 15:35

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I think publishers are a bigger worry than graphics stuck at a standstill.... Microsoft making DLC production mandatory for their cut is the biggest detrimental influence. The "play it safe" regards to game design innovation, the publisher specific DRMs with REALLY BAD policies (GFWL, Origin and …

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Re: Engoo Quake 1 Port

Posted on 2013-09-07, 14:20

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Build of Revision 255 Fixes the normal lighting issues, adds low colored lighting mode (should be faster!), also midi is enabled in this one. should probably mention win9x and dos isn't supported in this build because MGL and DOS are a bitch to debug in Windows 7 🙁

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Re: Anyone jaded by modern graphics?

Posted on 2013-09-07, 14:09

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forgot this post DracoNihil wrote: Can I have that software renderer without the coloured lighting but keep the transparent water? There's 3 software engines that can do water translucency: Engoo Makaqu QbismSuper8

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Re: Anyone jaded by modern graphics?

Posted on 2013-09-06, 13:15

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Another thing to note about that particular generation is the lack of mirrors, water and hair.

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Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer

Posted on 2013-09-06, 12:32

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by leileilol

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I just use Media Player Classic.

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Re: S-Video capturing

Posted on 2013-09-05, 23:20

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I do my PowerVR videos through S-Video capture on a WinTV HVR-1250 w/ VirtualDub in Windows 7 x64 and I try to go for 0 flicker reduction and 720x480 when possible. Dealing with interlacing is annoying although Yadif can work that out in most cases.

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Re: Anyone jaded by modern graphics?

Posted on 2013-09-05, 11:18

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I don't like "HD" mods for older games either. The Quake steam community hub makes me weep. I might sound hypocritical when I coded this enhanced software renderer, but it's the screenshots that turn it into some awful bumpmapped crap with 'hd' photoshop filtering that make your eyes bleed.

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Re: Anyone jaded by modern graphics?

Posted on 2013-09-05, 11:14

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Everything post-Crysis pretty much has been the same thanks to consoles sucking and holding everything back. It's like 2006 HDR insanity graphics, but with added rather-outliney annoying screenspace ambient occlusion. Kinda like most PC games in 1998 were PSX ports, holding those mighty 440BX's back …

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Re: the trap of retro computing

Posted on 2013-09-04, 00:21

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Interesting, confusing the details of a conversion between my wife and I, How? Were you present during our conversation? Back in my time, when 486 was top model on the market, my company had a one million dollar budget to replace all 286 and 386 models within the company. It is only with future …

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Re: How Can I Install And Run Multi-CD Games With Dfend Reloaded v1.3.4

Posted on 2013-09-03, 23:17

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Effrafax of Wug wrote: There are very few games made in the 90's that required more than 2 or even 3 disks. Actually given the saturation of FMV madness in the market, there was quite a lot. A lot more than there were 486s with 256mb of RAM with the hard drive space exactly twice as that.

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Re: SATA IDE vs. AHCI

Posted on 2013-09-03, 21:03

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AHCI certainly gets around that damn UltraDMA PIO fallback problem with emulating SATA drives on ATA controllers.

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Re: CD or DVD for backup (or botth)

Posted on 2013-09-03, 21:00

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I'm still waiting for the day when age will claim the life of my first burnt CD... or earliest floppies. Like all those condescending slashdot posts claim

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2013-09-03, 01:53

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by leileilol

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1.06 is the latest shareware. However note that there's a Quake benchmark database out there based on the old 0.91 shareware that also has "mysteriously slower" 1.01 benchmarks. The only visual change 1.01 had (1.00 really) is 64 colormap levels for overbright. 1.07/1.08 ditched the brown menu …

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Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2013-09-03, 01:43

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That's because only certain retail keys are activatable. See this list for supported games that support the retail-to-Steam transfer.

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Re: the trap of retro computing

Posted on 2013-09-02, 23:46

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Yeah, my Slot 1 PC is pretty much an Intel-based recreation of my last Super Socket 7 PC that died due to bad motherboard design.

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Re: Help Installing Mario Teaches Typing on Widows 7

Posted on 2013-09-02, 23:27

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by leileilol

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You'll either need to: - Emulate Windows 95 in Virtual PC 2007 with your legal copy of Windows 95 (surely if you have this old game you have an old Windows disc somewhere too?) - Upgrade to Widows 7 Pro for that Virtual XP stuff for 16-bit

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Re: When did games start dropping support for XT systems?

Posted on 2013-09-02, 23:25

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Might be worth trying to emulate in PCem too, see if it happens there with specific 286 settings. 😜

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