Re: Cinematic Platformers (Prince of Persia, Another World style games) list
Posted on 2013-07-12, 23:43
Would Assassins Creed count? Devil May Cry? Metal Gear?
Re: AMD K7 Slot A
Posted on 2013-07-12, 18:54
I always mix Slot 1 and Slot A :lol: So it is better performance wise, but the board is an pain to get eh? Kinda hoped it would work in my Dell Optiplex GX 1. I have two GX1's with Powerleap adapters in them. You have to use the Tualeron chips because the GX1 only recognizes 100mhz fsb. If you try …
Re: AMD K7 Slot 1
Posted on 2013-07-11, 23:37
K7 is in between Katmai and Coppermine in raw performance. The weak link, though, is the chipset. Neither AMD nor VIA ever really got it quite right. It wouldn't be until Socket A that Athlon chipsets started to get better.
Re: Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded
Posted on 2013-07-11, 23:29
badmofo wrote: Larry's back! I must admit I've never played the original Try to find the game SoftPorn Adventure. It's very nearly a 100% identical text version of LSL In the Land of the Lounge Lizards. For more kinky text adventure goodness you could also try Infocom's Leather Goddesses of Phobos. …
Re: Doom on Commodore Vic-20?
Posted on 2013-07-11, 23:22
Sol_HSA wrote: m1so wrote: Look at Hard Drivin on the C64 to see how "real 3D" ran on the 8-bits. C64 basics: there's no multiply operation. Good luck with 3d. An old time trick was to replace multiply ops with adds that produce the same result because they are faster.
Re: Which sites still render properly on retro PCs?
Posted on 2013-07-11, 22:43
Opera maintained Windows 9x support longer than any other browser I know of. It's possible older versions of Opera may run on Windows 3.x, though I honestly have no idea; I'm just guessing. Last year I signed up for a Yahoo group related to the topic of Windows 3.1 and there really aren't any …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2013-07-11, 22:38
Used copies of Skyrim finally got cheap enough for me to break down and buy it, so playing that now.
Re: What old game would you like to see remade?
Posted on 2013-07-11, 22:34
Shagittarius wrote: Incubation : Time is Running Out SSI Gold box games Magic Carpet Betrayal at Krondor […] Show full quote Incubation : Time is Running Out SSI Gold box games Magic Carpet Betrayal at Krondor Betrayal At Krondor would be great if they used the either the Oblivion or Skyrim engine. …
Re: S3 Virge / Gx2 advice
Posted on 2013-07-10, 21:56
It was not so popular because other 3D cards were far more powerful at the time GX2 came out. But there are games that only support the S3 Virge for 3D acceleration and GX2 runs them smooth (unlike say the Virge 325 which frequently got 5-15 fps in 3D mode even on games supposedly made for it), …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-07-10, 21:21
SquallStrife wrote: OK, so not retro computer hardware, but still hardware, and still very retro! Set your brains to "Radical, man!" And ordered this: I think I have you beat in the retro laserdisc player department. I have one of these.
Re: Best cpu/mobo chipsets of each era/history trivia
Posted on 2013-07-10, 21:14
Anonymous Coward wrote: P5 Era: Definitive - Intel Pentium 133 or 166 (non MMX) Best - AMD K6 III+ 450MHz (they may have gone faster, not sure) AMD K6 was sixth generation, not fifth. AMD K5 was fifth gen. Best fifth gen would have been either Pentium MMX 233 or Tillamook.
Re: Windows XP is now "old". What are you doing?
Posted on 2013-07-09, 22:37
I myself keep XP alive in MS VirtualPC and VMware images, as well as dual-boot my main rig to WinXP. I don't know how you're keeping XP alive for gaming in MS VPC because VPC only supports an emulated S3 Trio video card with no 3D functionality. If the games you are playing don't require 3d …
Re: Powerleap iP3/T Guide...
Posted on 2013-07-09, 22:25
You have to be careful to match the CPU that you put in these with the motherboard that you are using. In a motherboard that only supports 100mhz FSB, you would be better off to use a Tualeron because they have higher multipliers. Putting a 133mhz FSB P-III in one of these and then putting the …
Re: Ebay Insanity, acutal selling prices.
Posted on 2013-07-09, 22:17
If it's a regular auction then you can't really blame the seller for the high price, blame the bidders for driving it up. If the seller has a ridiculously high BIN or reserve on items that aren't worth that price, then you can kind of hang the blame on the seller but not really because someone was …
Re: "cheating and the ancient art of hex editing"
Posted on 2013-07-07, 02:39
I used to HATE hex editing. I didn't do it to cheat at games, though, I used to do it to recover data from bad floppies. I would copy over all the sectors that were easily recoverable to a backup floppy then have to go in and try to get the drive to read the bad sectors and write down by hand the …
Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2013-07-07, 02:31
m1919 wrote: I posted this a while back. I think the original price was $999.99 Price went up. 🤣. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/SPL-EDN-Win98SE-GAMING … z-/360679930189 That's because its more vintagey now, or something....
Re: Where to find old retro/vintage PC parts ?!
Posted on 2013-07-07, 02:25
Just a bit of advice before you catch auction fever and go broke buying vintage parts. If there is a particular part that you have decided on, observe what the prices are that they are actually selling for. Just because someone lists something for a high price, doesn't mean that it is worth that …
Re: 3dfx Rampage alive
Posted on 2013-06-27, 22:39
That's also the lowest configuration of Rampage. The full blown version was to have had two GPU's and a separate T&L unit. That's why Rampage would have been doomed to failure even if it came out on time. It would have been far too expensive to build and would have been power hungry. The low end …
Re: Request for model name
Posted on 2013-06-26, 12:18
Pretty sure that would be this one. http://www.welook4things.com/VTech%20Laser%20486.html There's a pic of the keyboard when you scroll down.
Re: Doom on Commodore Vic-20?
Posted on 2013-06-23, 21:25
Here's the direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7h3H-_8N_o I had no complaints from my virus scanner, but maybe whatever caused yours to act up was blocked by noscript & adblock plus on my side ;) I didn't want to post a direct link to the video because the last time I did that …
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