Re: The Apple iBook G3/300 Original Clamshell Project

Posted on 2013-10-15, 08:46

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Bungie's main schtick before they were bought by Microsoft was Mac gaming, ironically. 😉 In fact, Halo was originally going to be released on the Mac, PS2, and Gamecube. As well, I think it was also originally going to be an RTS.

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2013-10-15, 07:08

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dandandelan Topic 37095 Q: user deleted

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Re: Am I the only one that gets pissed off about...

Posted on 2013-10-12, 06:26

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I tried installing a Soundblaster PCI 128 in an Nforce 3-based Athlon 64 box a while back to see if it would work in MSDOS. It didn't. XD Win9x support on that system was rather poor anyhow. But yeah, talk about a useless piece of crap; it runs XP and Windows 2000 slowly, it has issues with DOS and …

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Re: OPL3 synth programs

Posted on 2013-10-11, 03:30

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This isn't exactly a synthesis "program", but someone found a way to take an OPL3 and turn it into a full-blown hardware synth. 😁 This is really cool. http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_fm.html

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Re: Am I the only one that gets pissed off about...

Posted on 2013-10-11, 02:41

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The funny thing is, at the organizations my dad has worked at, usually their old PCs get auctioned off, after having their hard drives wiped. I once got a whole crapload of decent quality Dell CRT monitors and other stuff this way. 😁

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Re: Technically impressive FM synth music

Posted on 2013-10-11, 02:37

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On a pure FM synthesis level, between the OPL3 and the Sega Genesis/Megadrive sound chip, which one is more powerful? The reason why I specify FM specifically is because I know that the Genesis sound chip has one sampling channel, along with a PSG with three square wave channels and a noise channel …

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Re: AGP graphics card for pentium dos system

Posted on 2013-10-10, 06:57

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I used to have one of those cards (specifically an ASUS 3DExplorer of some kind), but an idiot "friend" of mine destroyed it. 😜

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Re: Game launcher/commander like utility for DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2013-10-10, 01:52

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DOSShell was indeed introduced in MS-DOS 5; for MS-DOS 6, you need to get the MS Supplemental disk; it's also included in OLDDOS.EXE, a supplemental archive of utilities intended for Windows 95. In any case, it is not really the optimal choice, as it takes up a good chunk of conventional memory and …

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Re: The Apple iBook G3/300 Original Clamshell Project

Posted on 2013-10-09, 12:11

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You should install the Marathon games on there. Granted, nowadays the second and third ones aren't Mac exclusive, and there's a TC for Marathon 2 that's supposed to recreate the first game, but I don't believe that there was an official release of the original game on the PC.

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Re: List of DOS games that requires old PC. Such a thing?

Posted on 2013-10-09, 05:38

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Well, Tyrian is infamous for returning some type of a runtime error if it's run on anything faster than a 200MHz CPU. Also, a lot of the old PC booter games were optimized for the IBM PC's clockspeed of 4.77MHz, and they run way too fast on anything faster than that. OK, so the PC booter games …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-10-09, 05:35

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Well, you did mention that AW/OoTW has an iOS release. Perhaps a bunch of people who are familiar with it from playing it on iOS decided to watch your review for that reason.

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Re: N64 modding

Posted on 2013-10-08, 23:16

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There's a lot of oilfield work where I live, so I might become an instrument mechanic instead depending on what's available. Apparently, oilfield instrument mechanics work a lot more with smaller electronics.

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Re: Game launcher/commander like utility for DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2013-10-08, 23:13

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AFAIK Dosshell is an optional component in version 6.22. You may or may not have it installed if that's what you're running. Curiously, I think it's installed in version 5 by default.

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Re: Are there any free progams that can add title cards to videos?

Posted on 2013-10-08, 05:36

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Just curious, but how much would I expect to pay for a used Mac Mini, nothing recent, but just something that I could use to screw around with OSX?

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Re: Which DOSBox build(s) is fastest?

Posted on 2013-10-08, 05:35

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DOSBox is fast enough that a Pentium-class machine (5th generation that is) can use DOSbox for some early CGA games. This is necessary for some of them that don't throttle. What would be the minimum for running something like Alley Cat? I have no doubt that game would have timing issues when run …

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Re: Bonkheads

Posted on 2013-10-08, 05:30

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Hey, that looks like a clone of the old Mario Bros arcade game. 🤣

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Re: Anyone ever played Eradicator?

Posted on 2013-10-08, 05:29

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I just looked it up and it may be possible for Canadians to order from Amazon.com, since they listed average shipping prices to Canada, though if that's the case I'm not sure why there would be a separate .ca site. 😜

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Re: Problems of running Castle of the Winds

Posted on 2013-10-08, 05:27

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leileilol wrote: Simple: Castle of the Winds is not a DOS game. It requires Windows. This. It's DOSbox people, NOT Winbox. Get it right. 🤣

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Re: Command and Conquer DOS Online

Posted on 2013-10-08, 05:26

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Only the Win95 release distributed by EA as part of a promotion for Command & Conquer 3 is freeware. It has no DOS executables. It does not grant retroactive freeware distribution rights to earlier releases (especially one published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and not EA) You're best off …

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Re: [SOLVED] I've got a problem with my Xbox 360 controller

Posted on 2013-10-08, 05:18

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You might be interested to know that the triggers on a 360 controller are treated as a single axis when not using Windows' XInput support to read their states, and that by default, one trigger rests at -1.0 and the other at 1.0, which naturally cancels out to 0.0. ...seriously. x_x; When you're …

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