Re: Disney Interactive's Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow Patch

Posted on 2020-09-04, 10:07

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by xcomcmdr

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If you have this game installed on Windows 3.11 (edit: or 9X), this utility I wrote a few years ago starts the game and sets it to fullscreen on startup. Because unless the game is in fullscreen a) the default window is TINY b) the scrolling isn't smooth at all. It also stops the game from always …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-09-03, 18:51

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by xcomcmdr

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There's got to be a better source than eBay scalpers...

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-31, 08:34

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 (blows away any GF2MX) good job on getting the cpu working, but I seriously doubt that ^^ I vividly remember upgrading from my TNT2 ultra that I paid way too much money for to a cheap GeForce2 MX back in the day :p and any benchmarks I can find show a nice performance …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-27, 06:22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Speaking of, I always have huge game manuals to scan... Those that are so big that by the time you approach the middle of it, the pages are hard to make flat enough for the scanner. I do it rarely because it takes all day, and because I do not want to damage them at all. If only there was a faster …

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Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-25, 17:32

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by xcomcmdr

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maybe a new mode "--half-potato" ?

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Re: The Need for Speed Special Edition for Windows doesn't work

Posted on 2020-08-25, 07:29

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by xcomcmdr

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QEMU is a fine option, but like PCem it really needs a PC that can accept the huge performance hit. Most people don't own such a PC. Besides, Windows 9X tends to be very fragile.

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Re: dgVoodoo 2.7.x and related WIP versions

Posted on 2020-08-25, 07:20

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by xcomcmdr

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in dgVoodoo General

Windows outputs only 32 bpp since Windows 8...

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-24, 15:24

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by xcomcmdr

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd use Windows ME on a machine where DOS sound compatibility doesn't exist. But then again, usually Windows XP works fine on such a machine. So I never use it. Maybe one day...

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2020-08-24, 08:44

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by xcomcmdr

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

I use Microsoft Visual C++ version 4.0 (available on... well Google) when I want to do some C code that uses Win32 and targets Win32S. It's the last version that supports it. Any new project will be compatible with Win32S out of the box. It runs perfectly on Windows 10, but of course it's so old …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-08-23, 07:12

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in Milliways

I can't stop to play and replay Dune II with Dune Dynasty. It's so addictive (partially because it loads so fast. :D ). Finally won again with the Atreides. By chance, the Fremen were not as useless. Maybe the enemy AI ignored them after a while ? I don't know, but when I finally sent a large group …

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Re: Rayman M

Posted on 2020-08-14, 20:37

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in dgVoodoo General

Fixed: I had to manually enter 1920x1080 or any other widescreen resolution in c:\windows\ubisoft\ubi.ini The widescreen fix'd exe won't work with the 4:3 resolutions the Rayman M setup utility displays.

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Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-13, 20:19

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in Release Announcements

ViTi95 wrote: Fixed AWE32 music. I finally brought back online my PIII desktop retro PC a few weeks ago, and it has an AWE64 value inside it. Perfect timing !

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-13, 05:59

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tried to compile Dune Dynasty for WASM, so I can play Dune II in Chrome/Firefox with all the QoL improvements of OpenDUNE / Dune Dynasty. Sadly, Allegro 5 doesn't seem to have an emscripten port...

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-08-13, 05:54

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by xcomcmdr

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in Milliways

Quake was always better anyway.

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2020-08-09, 12:07

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by xcomcmdr

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

I was about to say it, in fact. I have a lot of experience about trying to run games inside Windows 3.11 inside DOSBox. cputype=pentium_slow fixes a lot of bugs, when they happen. core=normal can help sometimes too (but it's way more rare). 99% of games want 8 BPP, some want 24 BPP (but it's very …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2020-08-08, 08:59

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Oh nice, an absolute classic ! :) Did you try CorsixTH ? It fixes a lot of issues. Edit : Ha ! The manual actually makes fun of first time players who didn't read the manual / didn't grasp the game at first. Edit 2 : My CD has both a DOS and a Windows 9X (Win32 + DirectX) executable on it. It's the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-02, 19:39

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by xcomcmdr

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BenQ makes OLED monitors? My bad, that's a LED monitor, not OLED. The widescreen stretch doesn't bother me at all. If I want pixel-perfect, I have DOSBox with pixel-perfect and/or CRT like GL shaders. Maybe it's possible indeed. The buttons on the side are stiff as hell, so I don't use them. Why …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-02, 16:22

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by xcomcmdr

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally setup my retro rig again. I didn't suspect that Glide and MS-DOS games would look this good on a modern OLED monitor with VGA input !

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-02, 08:47

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by xcomcmdr

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Amiga Forever ! <3

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2020-08-01, 08:44

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by xcomcmdr

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in Milliways

Nah, .NET 1.1 and 2.0 had ANSI (that means Windows 98SE and later compatible) runtimes variants available. It's not distributed by Microsoft anymore, but DOTNETFX20 can still be found. You could run it on Windows 9X I guess. Maybe inside PCem or DOSBox-X or QEMU ? Meh, I'm still surprised that Wine …

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