Re: Videos grabbed from real Retro PCs.
Posted on 2011-11-13, 02:07
For YT it's best to upload videos with 720 or 1080 horizontal lines. If your footage is 640 x 480 just use your encoding program and resize is to 1440 x 1080.
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2011-11-11, 13:31
The thing is.... Ebay IS the market. There is not much you can't get. If you want that fancy UMC 486 board with PS/2 and all the goodies you can get it from Germany no problem 😀
Re: Normality: Scaler not working in "3D" part
Posted on 2011-11-09, 22:41
I know that's not hard evidence, but I think this is one 320x200/320x400 game that really is meant to display at 16:10. Gremlin Interactive, the company that is listed as developer on GOG.com, was really heavy into developing games for the Amiga. Maybe that's the reason? The reason why so many …
Re: what is your computer "plan"
Posted on 2011-11-09, 14:56
Tetrium wrote: And anyway, it's too cold in the attic now to work in it properly. Time to build a few P4 Prescott machines 🤣
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2011-11-09, 04:59
If you're in the US (or don't mind shipping) I can recommend these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Unisys-Cwd4002-mini-DeskTop-PC-/250603646156?pt=Desktop_PCs&hash=item3a59242ccc They only have 1 ISA slot and it's short, but come with PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, Ethernet and are compatible with …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2011-11-09, 04:34
The BIOS had far fewer options than yours and the motherboard had far fewer jumpers - although it still has the 4mb onboard RAM. Anyway the PSU crapped out after a couple of hours and it's sitting in the shed now, hopefully ashamed of itself. Well the Acer OEM BIOS has basically zero options. You …
Re: Gateway 2: Homeworld
Posted on 2011-11-09, 03:52
Fantastic game! But just saying... games can't "not like" front-ends. They don't discriminate 😀
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2011-11-09, 03:49
Ah that was from that guy in Vic Park? I got my Acer 486 from him 😀 I saw the auction but didn't. Happy to see it goes to a good home 😀
Re: Patch installation dilema
Posted on 2011-11-08, 16:47
When you are at C: How do you go to your game? If you are typing CD REMORSE Then you start the patch with CRUPATCH C:\REMORSE If you are typing CD GAMES and then CD REMORSE Then you start the patch with CRUPATCH C:\GAMES\REMORSE
Re: what is your computer "plan"
Posted on 2011-11-08, 06:41
My computer plan was really focused on a specific time period. Basically the days of 386 up until 486DX4. Pure DOS, nothing with 3D cards and W98. Having never owned a Roland MT-32 I wanted to see what it's like and get a few of these modules. Now I have everything and can relax and enjoy playing …
Re: 486 motherboard
Posted on 2011-11-07, 21:27
That board reminds me of my Acer 486: Mau1wurf1977's first 486 PC - Lot's of pics - Tell me what I can do with it Thing is I got the complete PC for 50 bucks...
Re: Looking for an Intel Z68 based mainboard with floppy and IDE support
Posted on 2011-11-07, 07:39
I have a USB floppy drive and it works quite well. Booting from it works just fine. PCI IDE controllers are also readily available, so one just needs to find a board with PCI slots which shouldn't be hard. And then there are also USB to IDE adapters for HDDs. Not sure if there are any USB 3 versions …
Re: Correct monitor size for the authentic experience
Posted on 2011-11-06, 23:44
I'm happy to go with LCDs. Unlike with consoles or Amiga, it seems all the LCD screens do support the DOS refresh rate of (whatever it is... 75Hz or something like that). So in games that have scrolling you get that smooth scrolling just like back in the day. The same can't be said for hooking up a …
Re: Videos grabbed from real Retro PCs.
Posted on 2011-11-04, 09:47
http://www.avermedia.com/avertv/Product/Produ … ail.aspx?Id=561 Has VGA input! Won't work for DOS I believe, but SVGA and higher it should do the job just fine. I think it's a new product.
Re: PortableApps
Posted on 2011-11-04, 08:40
Here is is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RirN1oXla9g Almost an hour 😵
Re: PortableApps
Posted on 2011-11-04, 07:17
Funny :dead: Just did another video. A forum member on GOG.com told me that D-Fend reloaded has a portable mode. So I made another tutorial based around that and how to integrate it into PortableApps. I also demonstrate how to add games from GOG.com to the USB stick using Wing Commander and …
Re: PortableApps
Posted on 2011-11-03, 14:11
Well I couldn't help it and made a little tutorial :) I know you don't really need PortableApps to run DOSBox from a USB memory flash drive, but there are lots of other benefits as well. This is a short tutorial which teaches you to set-up a portable DOSBox on a USB Flash drive using PortableApps. …
Re: Vintage (sort-of) Hybrid PC
Posted on 2011-11-02, 11:43
the iram only supports 4gb you need a hyperdrive 5 http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/ That's intersting... Some things that makes me look further into it: - Is there a DDR3 version? - Sustained Read Rate of 175 MB/s isn't that fast compared to SSD - Boots XP in 4 seconds? IMO not possible because of …
Re: Games that you would not want to see remake?
Posted on 2011-11-02, 10:48
I purchased the two Monkey Island Special Editions as soon as they came out. And as silly as it sounds I found the new graphics absolutely terrible. So I played both games with the old graphics :) The second game had improved music and also speech while still featuring VGA graphics. In a way a …
Re: Games that you would not want to see remake?
Posted on 2011-10-31, 13:45
To be honest I don't want remakes. I like the classics just how they are. I wouldn't mind a continuation of various franchises though!
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