Re: Screen Resolution Doesn't Exist? Make It Up! :D

Posted on 2011-10-20, 03:15

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by Mau1wurf1977

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I did something similar when I had a 19" 1280 x 1024 LCD and FEAR came out. It was a very demanding game and in order to improve the performance I created a custom resolution of 1280 x 720 through the Nvidia driver. Now I had a nice Widescreen image and better performance 😀

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Re: Videos grabbed from real Retro PCs.

Posted on 2011-10-18, 13:04

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Beautiful! Ever since 3D Mark 2001 and 2003 their benchmarks have gotten worse and worse. 2001 is my absolute favourite though...

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Re: Best hard-drive testing software

Posted on 2011-10-18, 08:23

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Well we kinda assumed that one would remove that hard drive and test it in a more capable system 😀 Before CDs, these tools were available as floppy versions. But I don't think you can get these anymore.

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Re: Best hard-drive testing software

Posted on 2011-10-18, 00:37

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Ultimate Boot CD. Comes with plenty of HDD test tools including the ones from Seagate, WD... But yes, WD, Seagate, Samsung all have utilities for download that test your HDD for errors.

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Re: My Covox (Stereo-On-1) LPT Stereo DAC - home made sound card

Posted on 2011-10-16, 16:58

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Very cool! Wish these DIY guides were available when I was a kid... Any chance you could record a few DOS games?

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Re: The ALS4000 PCI Sound Card - PCI SB Compatibility in Newer Systems

Posted on 2011-10-16, 06:17

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by Mau1wurf1977

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No worries 😀

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Re: The ALS4000 PCI Sound Card - PCI SB Compatibility in Newer Systems

Posted on 2011-10-15, 18:17

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there is no need, doom and duke have their timing mechanism and won't go out of speed control. and even using the -timedemo benchmark, i have never been able to go much faster than 200fps in doom, on multiple computers. the fastest result i got was on an athlon64+nforce3+geforce2ultra, with the …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-10-15, 18:02

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Hehe at least now a few more people know about this. Correcting the pronunciation of German words is a bit of a hobby for me. Living overseas you are always an ambassador of your culture to some extend. Same thing with UBER which is über or ueber and pronounced differently. I think someone in the …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-10-15, 05:21

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How to pronounce Wolfenstein: http://www.forvo.com/word/wolfenstein/

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Re: Is AMD Bulldozer already out?

Posted on 2011-10-14, 19:26

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It hits home when you look at the transistor count. 1100T has ~ 900M transistors. Bulldozer has ~2B! Intels Gulftown has only 1.17B transistors and wipes the floor with Bulldozer. A shame for us customers as Intel will now sit back and slow down with new products. I was hoping that AMD would keep …

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Re: Myst (original) quicktime help

Posted on 2011-10-14, 07:35

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Might be easier to purchase the GOG.com version and keep the original box tucked away?

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Re: The ALS4000 PCI Sound Card - PCI SB Compatibility in Newer Systems

Posted on 2011-10-14, 07:32

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Herculean effort there Malik! Couple of things I'm wondering: 1. Does it send Midi signals through the game port? 2. Have you tried the card on an even newer board? Modern boards allow you to switch of cores, reduce the FSB and lower the CPU multiplier. On an Asrock socket 1156 board I had an i5 …

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Re: pci sound card with FM synthesize?

Posted on 2011-10-14, 07:25

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There are heaps of threads in the archive, just a bit tricky to find them :D If you are dealing with a PCI system, it's likely quite modern (in retro terms) with a Pentium 3/4 or an AMD Athlon... So I would use this machine to focus on the later DOS games that used General Midi for music and Sound …

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Re: Is AMD Bulldozer already out?

Posted on 2011-10-14, 07:15

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Something I find interesting is that all the reviews kinda use the same benchmarks. Nobody does something unique, thinks outside the box or attempts to come up with some more real-life like testing. E.g. I used to have a Phenom II X4 CPU but then upgraded to an i5 2400. I could really feel the …

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Re: Organizing DOS games on your hard drive

Posted on 2011-10-14, 07:05

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by Mau1wurf1977

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You could have all the big developers use a subfolder. That alone should reduce your list by quite a bit! Splitting it up in genres isn't my cup of tea because some games are hybrids and then you aren't sure where to put them.

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Re: OPL PLAYBACK is a bit slower than real

Posted on 2011-10-13, 18:27

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Fascinating and one of the things I enjoy about this hobby. You always discover something new and interesting! Here is a VGA capture of my 486DX-25 Retro machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao6IgHh4wqI I happen to try Monkey Island at 13:10 So you can use this video as reference if you like. …

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Re: Transcend IDE flash modules

Posted on 2011-10-12, 18:35

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Yea with my DOS machine it's just adding a few save games here and there and that's it 😀 It's mostly just reading...

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Re: Transcend IDE flash modules

Posted on 2011-10-12, 16:57

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I'm more into DOS, but AFAIK CF aren't that suited for W98 because they can wear out or something like that. But there are heaps of W98 experts here, I'm sure someone knows the answer!

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Re: Transcend IDE flash modules

Posted on 2011-10-12, 00:19

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IDE>CF adapter + CF card is better value IMO. But this is a very neat / clean / minimalistic solution which has it's benefits.

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Re: AMD Bulldozer

Posted on 2011-10-11, 11:35

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Can't wait for the reviews tomorrow. New CPU launches are always an exciting event. In general I tend to never buy the very first product though. Especially interested to see how the Bulldozer 6 core (or 3 modules) compares with to the 1100T!

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