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

Posted on 2020-06-13, 18:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally found what seems to be a decent CRT from late 1997, all for €20. On scamBay, of all places ! https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/aEEAAOSwspRe3jS8/s-l1600.jpg Vendor blurb : "Dell D828L CRT vga 800 LS series" ("34.5 centimeters in diagonal, or 13.56 inches") https://www.cnet.com/products/dell- …

Re: best mouse

Posted on 2020-06-11, 14:57

in Milliways

in Milliways

I have one of those too. That's even more stupid. If I have to use an USB port anyway, what's the point ?

Re: best mouse

Posted on 2020-06-11, 14:20

in Milliways

in Milliways

wireless mice are heavier cause of the weight of the battery I agree. I don't like them on principle (wow you put a battery - which is going to have to be replaced eventually -, went through the hassle of using bluetooth, gave us a lot of work to pair it each time with a new computer instead of …

Re: 1024x768 or higher resolution in mw2 for windows

Posted on 2020-06-11, 08:46

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

kjliew wrote on 2020-06-11, 02:46: 3Dfx Glide version can scale resolution to anything on Windows with dgVoodoo2. I can't run it on Windows 10. How did you manage to do it ? MechVM and a lot of patience eventually got it working on Windows 7, but Win10 broke it.

Re: best mouse

Posted on 2020-06-11, 07:08

in Milliways

in Milliways

Logitech M535. On stupid machines with only two usb ports, a bluetooth mouse is a godsend. Plus it's cute and fits the hand quite nicely. It's not a stupid lump of ugly blackness that weights a ton and hurts to move around thanks to sharp edges like a "gamer" mouse. I hate every "gamer" stuff. It …

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

Posted on 2020-06-11, 06:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Very nice P2B setup ! :) I prefer the AZERTY layout over the QWERTY layout. I don't use Q/W/; and others as much, I don't need them cluterring the first two rows of letters. AZERTY is superior for writing French. That was the point, after all. Some say that QWERTY is better for programming. I do it …

Re: DOSBox Game Launcher (DOSBox Frontend)

Posted on 2020-06-10, 13:50

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Nice feature ! I wondered for ages if I should implement something like that in AmpShell. But I don't use it very often nowadays.

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

Posted on 2020-06-10, 12:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dune II is a mess compared to C&C. Dune Dynasty finally fixes it.

Re: best mouse

Posted on 2020-06-10, 08:53

in Milliways

in Milliways

Anything PS/2 but optical and a scroll wheel. That's a peak retro mouse.

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

Posted on 2020-06-10, 08:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good job : you didn't realize that I was comparing them for what they offer today, and for ignoring the second part of that comment. Peak VOGONS right there.

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

Posted on 2020-06-10, 07:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AITD didn't age well compared to RE. Its 3D was embarrassing compared to RE. It has a lot of very cheap deaths, too.

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

Posted on 2020-06-09, 18:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ah, now that's a proper source. Thank you !

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

Posted on 2020-06-09, 18:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I mean, I find it a bit strange to choose to believe in this despite the lack of evidence outside of mere coincidences in the games themselves, and yet to negate the quote above with a hand wave. I think that the technical limitations at the time lead to a similar set of solutions / game designs …

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

Posted on 2020-06-09, 17:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually it was on PC with Alone in the Dark, but that's irrelevant. Edit 2 : And I'm French, so if anyone in this thread would say "RE totally lifted everything for our AITD !" that would be me first. Yet, I don't. I'm not defending anything. But the two games are too far appart in their approaches …

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

Posted on 2020-06-09, 17:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So yes Resident Evil was a successor, or as I would call it, a rip-off. I'm not using that in a negative tone, just that they exactly copied the formula of the genre defining original. A rip-off that has nothing to do with it (no usage of Lovecraft anywhere) apart from some mechanics/gameplay …

Re: Rayman M

Posted on 2020-06-09, 07:36

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

Ah, I'll try that again. Thank you.

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

Posted on 2020-06-09, 06:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Resident evil is not a 3rd person shooter, I used the term FPS to specfically rule out pre-rendered 3rd person games. Also maybe you are too young to remember Alone in the Dark which is what Resident Evil was a rip off of. Actually, the designers of Resident Evil just used the same solution to the …

Re: Windows 3.1 / 9x games that require Quicktime

Posted on 2020-06-08, 19:51

in Deep Thought

in Deep Thought

Secrets of the Luxor. Uses QT VR and QT Movies. For Windows 3.X and 9X.

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

Posted on 2020-06-08, 15:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I played it when it came out and apart from the beautiful graphics at the time (only with the 3DFX patch) it did not retain my attention at all.

Re: Command & Conquer / Red Alert Remastered source GPL'd

Posted on 2020-06-08, 06:13

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Could you link to the source of those standalone versions pretty please ?

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