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Help - how to keep a battery 'viable'

Posted on 2012-11-15, 17:12

in Milliways
Saw another post on this subject on another forum, that made me think as I'm in the same boat: I keep my laptop mostly plugged in, so the battery doesn't get used. So to keep the battery viable (not charged as such, just working so that I can charge it up beforehand if I'm going to take the laptop …

Are there still PC games that we can't run?

Posted on 2012-11-10, 23:53

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I was just wondering if there are any PC games that we still can't get to run on modern machines? Between DOSBox, official and fanmade patches, and virtual machines, I've managed to get everything I want to work to work great, but of course I've only tried a fraction of the PC's software range, so I …

Re: Good DOS first person shooter recommendations

Posted on 2012-09-14, 22:56

in Milliways
RoyBatty, thanks for all the suggestions. Yes, please list the Windows 95/98 games too please, especially the ones that are well worth hunting down and playing). BTW, you've no doubt played System Shock (since it's apparently so well known amongst DOS gamers), but on the extremely remote chance that …

Re: Good DOS first person shooter recommendations

Posted on 2012-09-13, 21:15

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****ing browser just crashes, losing the post I'd nearly completed :sad: Anyway, thanks for so many great answers. There were some great FPSs in those Youtube videos (I love No One Lives Forever 2, Timesplitters: Future Perfect (my favourite cross-platform game of the last console generation) and …

What game is this, please?

Posted on 2012-09-13, 18:45

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I'm trying to remember the name of a PC game I played years ago (and I mean years ago, probably about 1998, give or take a year, and it might have been two or three years old then). I don't remember much about it, but it ran on a Windows 95 PC, so it could have been either DOS or Windows, and it was …

Good DOS first person shooter recommendations

Posted on 2012-09-12, 23:14

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First of all, sorry if this is in the wrong forum, or if this is a common question with a thread already devoted to it (I've looked, but couldn't find it), but I'm curious to know of any good DOS first person shooters that I haven't played. See, for weeks I've been waiting for Carmageddon to be re- …

Re: Please explain about virtual machines

Posted on 2012-08-12, 11:14

Thanks for all of the answers. So a virtual machine is more or less useless for running old games, that explains why there's so little information on the subject available on Vogons. One other thing I was wondering about; I think DOSBox currently doesn't make use of multiple CPU cores (of the real, …

Please explain about virtual machines

Posted on 2012-08-11, 23:59

I'm fairly well experienced with DOSBox (which is a brilliant program, and I find it indespensible for running older games on my laptop), but of course DOSBox by it's nature, requires a lot of resources since it's purely emulation based. I have heard that using a 'virtual machine' you can run older …

Re: How do you fix the timing glitch on Unreal Tournament '99?

Posted on 2012-05-29, 21:32

in Windows
The same problem also occurs in Deus Ex, and other games that use the Unreal 1 engine, but it's easily fixed. It's caused by one or more problems (depending on the individual PC), such as a two or more core CPU, the power-saving settings on your PC (especially if it's a laptop), your PC being too …

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