Re: Is my CRT not dithering?

Posted on 2012-07-11, 12:46

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by Mau1wurf1977

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I don't miss them to be honest. On the PSX (I used a RGB Scart cable into an Amiga monitor) I had to adjust the geometry for almost every game. My 21" back-breaking heavy Compaq CRT took ~ 30 minutes to warm up and the image shift a little to the left. Only after that was it properly ready to go... …

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Re: The Ultimate GOG.com DOSBox Video Tutorial

Posted on 2012-07-10, 16:46

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Thank you for the kind words! There are quite a few topics I would like to add to the playlist. Soon the tutorial will be ~ two hours long 😀

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Re: is a 486 really worth it

Posted on 2012-07-10, 16:44

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I can highly recommend going for a modern ATX Super Socket 7 board / machine instead. Disable the cache and you have a 386 without dramas.

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Re: Is my CRT not dithering?

Posted on 2012-07-10, 00:48

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Yea RGB to Component is to way to go for TVs in Australia for example. Europe was quite blessed but we got punished with PAL 50Hz which gaves us games that ran slower and vertically stunted.

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Re: Very demanding 3D games to run on a 486

Posted on 2012-07-09, 22:30

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by Mau1wurf1977

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My memories aren't that fresh but for me a basic 486DX struggled with 3D games. It was only with a DX2 that 3D was getting smooth enough. So ideally for 3D you really want a DX4 bur personally I would go with a Pentium 😀

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Re: Is my CRT not dithering?

Posted on 2012-07-09, 22:27

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Compared to the console and home computer machines, PC Monitors always had razor sharp pixels. I have to Giggle when retro console gamers just now discover Scart RGB, scalers and whatnot to get a good image. We had all of this at 70Hz flicker free and with no interlacing. Under Windows 85Hz+ for …

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Re: Is my CRT not dithering?

Posted on 2012-07-09, 22:27

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Compared to the console and home computer machines, PC Monitors always had razor sharp pixels. I have to Giggle when retro console gamers just now discover Scart RGB, scalers and whatnot to get a good image. We had all of this at 70Hz flicker free and with no interlacing. Under Windows 85Hz+ for …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2012-07-09, 22:13

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Google docs is quite simple but it's great with permissions and quickly letting people change things. Microsofts online apps are more advanced but I wasn't sure if people could make changes without signing in...

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2012-07-09, 21:28

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by Mau1wurf1977

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The sorting works just like in any spreadsheet. You highlight the data and then tell it to sort by a certain column (benchmarks score). I will sort it out later 😀

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2012-07-09, 13:52

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I apologise for not looking after this project more than I did. I was pretty good initially but then life does its thing and you don't have the time anymore :blah: So I put my latest copy of the spreadsheet on Google docs. I hope I got the permissions right. Anyone with this link below should be …

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Re: anyone remember tape backup?

Posted on 2012-07-08, 16:42

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Yes me and a few friends had these to swap games :) I went with one from IOMEGA and also got some sort of turbo floppy controller which doubles the speed. I remember the noise it made. It also had to go back and read a section again so I never really trusted this technology. Soon after that I …

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The Ultimate GOG.com DOSBox Video Tutorial

Posted on 2012-07-08, 13:40

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Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL20C65EBEFE6CB109 Just finished uploading 13 videos (many contain several short videos) and I put them all in a playlist. I;m a big fan of GOG.com and DOSBox. However many games come pre-set with non-optimal settings and this is what this tutorial is …

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Re: Mount a .bin CD image in DOS?

Posted on 2012-07-08, 01:36

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I tried burning a few cue/bin images from GOG.com games with limited success. I bought 10 CD-RW discs as you can just erase them if something goes wrong 😀

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Re: Best/optimal computer to play Comanche Maximum Overkill. ( FOUND IT! )

Posted on 2012-07-07, 04:03

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Well on a 386 people tune the ISA clock speed for better performance. There might also be other timing settings in the BIOS. So that's where I would look.

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Re: Best/optimal computer to play Comanche Maximum Overkill. ( FOUND IT! )

Posted on 2012-07-07, 01:03

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Good point about the 30 fps / slow gameplay. I also think that this is what they game is meant to look like. With the music and night mission suspense is a big part of this game and I guess that's what they tried to achieve :) The ISA card solution is interesting. This could potentially work for …

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Re: Picking the right soundcards

Posted on 2012-07-05, 10:13

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Another vote for the Sound Blaster Pro 2 😀 For me my retro PC just HAS TO HAVE a Creative Sound Blaster. No matter what. My first sound card was a Sound Blaster 1.5 and Creative has such a huge meaning for my personal nostalgia experience!

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Re: Best/optimal computer to play Comanche Maximum Overkill.

Posted on 2012-07-04, 06:58

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Sounds like Wing Commander 😀 That game is also either too fast or too slow.

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Re: [retro swim] - An episodic video tour of SquallStrife's retro junk

Posted on 2012-07-04, 06:56

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Woa Scart RGB conversion? Do you have any 15KHz multisync monitors? Looking forward to seeing how you go and what plans you have 😀

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Re: Best/optimal computer to play Comanche Maximum Overkill.

Posted on 2012-07-03, 07:56

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Is this the 320 x 200 resolution Commance with voxel graphics? I am surprised your Pentium 90 doesn't handle it well that chip should beat the 486 133 quite easily. AMD itself branded that cheap as a P-75 meaning it performs at the level of a 75MHz Pentium so a 90MHz model should be faster. Maybe …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-07-03, 05:15

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by Mau1wurf1977

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A Roland MIDI module from Wagga Wagga. Now that's something you don't see every day 😁

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