Re: New GOG.com DOS releases
Posted on 2014-06-21, 07:04
True 😊
Re: TNT 16mb too fast for early 90's?
Posted on 2014-06-21, 04:26
The CPU will defiantly be too fast for early Sierra games and you will run into timing bugs. You can disable the cache in the BIOS which will slow down your machine, but it will be super slow. Like a 386SX. Better suited is a Pentium machine. Here you get a 386DX when you disable the cache.
Re: New GOG.com DOS releases
Posted on 2014-06-21, 04:21
Even using Alchemy? For the Splinter Cell release, no. They hacked the game to simply not support EAX anymore. For the other games Alchemy should work, but you still won't be able to enable it in the menu and the EAX logo won't show up. This is all part of the retro experience :) In general I found …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-06-21, 04:17
Solarstorm wrote: It was very impromptu and spontaneous. Like i was opening the case of the card and suddenly "hm, i can record this and upload it" 😁 I do the same. Life is too busy to do fancy editing and voice overs 😀 Raw is good!
Re: Defective Game Blaster Chips?
Posted on 2014-06-20, 18:38
The 2.0 Sound Blaster needs a PSU with -5V. Just saying in case someone forgot :blush: I got a bunch of Philips chips many years ago and the 1.5 cards have always worked. I do have a 2.0 with original Create chips (all three from an upgrade kit), but because I use ATX PSUs with ATX to AT adapters I …
Re: New GOG.com DOS releases
Posted on 2014-06-20, 18:23
Ok so I had some time and tried Hitman and Hitman 2 on my Pentium 4 with Ti4800SE, XP, Audigy 2 and both work fine. You can select EAX, which is disabled when you try it on a Vista/7/8/8.1 PC :) Ti4200 seems too be far to weak for this game maxed out at 1600 x 1200. And the first game supports DX, …
Re: New GOG.com DOS releases
Posted on 2014-06-20, 12:24
Often with all the vital files ripped out that would allow clean / legacy installation...... Yea that's true. Many games give you the full installation image. But not all. I once started making a list but it just ended up being to much work. For early Windows games I ended up buying originals. …
Re: nvidia cards doom performance, am i the only one noticed?
Posted on 2014-06-20, 05:18
Newer Nvidia cards limit DOS performance. Not much you can do about this apart from using AMD.
Re: New GOG.com DOS releases
Posted on 2014-06-20, 05:07
But you never know what you will get with a GOG windows release. So true... The very early 3D accelerated Windows games are the worst. Hacked to death more or less and not much left of the original game :( DX9 games for XP should be perfect and will be awesome once XP / DX9 gaming becomes retro. I …
Re: what cards to keep for 486, p1 and ss7 k6-2
Posted on 2014-06-19, 19:54
Have good experiences with Nviida card in SS7 machines. Matrox also work fine and have a very good image quality. The savage could also be interesting. With the older cards I would try them out, run 3dbench and check the image quality.
Re: Socket 754 Curiosity Build
Posted on 2014-06-19, 19:51
That initial build must have been a classic combination back in the day. So many had a 6600GT, what a great card.
Re: An oddball thought experiment - alternate PC universe
Posted on 2014-06-19, 19:49
snorg wrote: Supposedly these nano vacuum tubes have 10x the performance of transistors, but it may not be possible to make them as small yet. But what heat would they produce? A CPU has billions of transistors.
Re: Can DOSBox replace a real DOS machine?
Posted on 2014-06-19, 19:48
Well I remember in Battlefield 3 or some other game that I couldn't run forward, sprint, jump and melee at the same time. That was with a MS basic USB keyboard. However an older MS PS/2 keyboard worked fine. There is a word for it. "Key ghosting", I believe, and the more expensive gaming keyboards …
Re: Can DOSBox replace a real DOS machine?
Posted on 2014-06-19, 18:43
I found that basic PS/2 keyboards can handle more key inputs at a time. I used this trick as a cheap gaming keyboard many years ago 😀 Real hardware becomes interesting when you are the type of person who notices little things and cares enough.
Re: An oddball thought experiment - alternate PC universe
Posted on 2014-06-19, 18:40
I don't see an alternative to the transistor in terms of performance per watt. Tubes would fail all the time and we all know that one failed transistor / tube will change the output. Without transistors Maths skills would be more valuable. All of this is before my time but doing calculations was a …
Re: New GOG.com DOS releases
Posted on 2014-06-19, 05:55
One issue is that GOG.com likes to mod / hack / patch many of their games to offer higher compatibility on modern PCs. For example Splinter Cell has EAX totally disabled. Even on a Windows XP machine it cannot be enabled. The Steam version and disc versions work fine however...
Re: New GOG.com DOS releases
Posted on 2014-06-18, 23:27
I got 6 games yesterday for $11. The Hitman and Thief pack 😀 While I have many games on Steam already, at these prices I'm buying them again because they are DRM free. This will become very important when people start building Windows XP boxes and want to stay offline 😀
Re: New GOG.com DOS releases
Posted on 2014-06-18, 13:59
GOG.com has a massive sale. If you haven't got all the Wing Commanders or other games, make sure you check it out: http://www.gog.com/ I'm not sure what you need to do to get DOSBox affiliate ID links. Maybe someone can help out here 😀
Re: Choice of GFX-Cards?
Posted on 2014-06-18, 07:37
brostenen wrote: 90's games and software. That's as vague as saying you can download something specific from "The Internet".
Re: Can DOSBox replace a real DOS machine?
Posted on 2014-06-18, 07:35
For old games I would say yes. It also makes your life a lot easier and cheaper. Less stressful. Most that build retro machines to play games hardly play games because you end up fixing you gaming machine all the time. You also worry about having the perfect CPU, motherboard, graphics card or Sound …
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