Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2021-03-31, 14:22

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I'm fairly certain DXWnd can do this, as I use that program for a bunch of old Win9x and even a couple WinXP games on my Windows 10 system. :B Well yes, sure. But I'm specifically mentioning that driver setup programs don't even offer a ways to tune that. It's always having to deal with a third- …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2021-03-29, 16:21

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Heretic II does not play nice with a lot of modern hardware because of the dated OpenGL renderer and the fact that the GL_EXTENSIONS string reader is still using a fixed-length buffer rather than something dynamically allocated on the fly, so it will buffer overflow immediately on anything newer …

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Re: Did you create maps for games?

Posted on 2021-03-15, 21:05

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I used to make a lot of really stupidly designed serverside maps for Tribes 1, sometimes even Starsiege. But, I currently focus on Unreal.

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Re: Looking for a full install of "Legends: The Game", a Tribes 2 clone

Posted on 2021-03-14, 20:33

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I think there's some older versions that had the music in MP3 and the sounds in WAV, the 0.4.1.43 has everything in Ogg Vorbis for some strange reason. (even the sounds) Would of been great if the Tribes 2 source code wasn't "lost", considering the Torque 3D engine is MIT licensed I would of loved …

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Re: the signs that a forum is dying

Posted on 2021-03-13, 18:49

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I'd like discord more if it wasn't such a managed, ban-happy privacy nightmare that monitors and moderates private servers. Yeah, I had to ultimately give up Discord because they started cracking down on people using "third-party clients" when that's a victimless crime and, to them, it should be …

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Re: Looking for a full install of "Legends: The Game", a Tribes 2 clone

Posted on 2021-03-12, 20:15

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Alright cool, this seems to have had what I was looking for. A shame that 0.4.2.0 or 0.4.2.4 are missing in action though, thanks though.

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Re: Looking for a full install of "Legends: The Game", a Tribes 2 clone

Posted on 2021-03-12, 19:08

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liqmat wrote on 2021-03-12, 18:59: Is there something about version 0.4.1.43 that is not acceptable? That is archived. I'm willing to give that a shot to see if it has the content I was looking for. Where is that archived though? And is it a "full installer" not a "web installer"?

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Looking for a full install of "Legends: The Game", a Tribes 2 clone

Posted on 2021-03-12, 17:19

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Wayback Machine may have preserved some of the pages, but they sure didn't preserve the downloads. And of course, Google is giving me dozens of unrelated or dead (link rot) results. Has anyone archived the "full installer" for Legends 0.4.2.0? That was the very last version of the game that was …

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Re: Games that sound best with GUS?

Posted on 2021-03-11, 18:46

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But the opposite is also possible. DOOM for example does just mix all sounds together in software and streams the result just in time to the GUS sample RAM. Really convoluted and it sounds worse than a real SoundBlaster in my opinion. At some point DMX apparently had the ability to just, upload all …

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Re: Games that sound best with GUS?

Posted on 2021-03-10, 19:32

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One of the tell tale signs a game is using MikMod, other than it using tracker music, is if there are .UNI files located either loosely or inside of a binary blob of files. .UNI is the internal representation of a tracker module within MikMod's own API. You normally don't need to "convert" modules …

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Re: Games that sound best with GUS?

Posted on 2021-03-10, 19:02

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Thanks for the info! Is there a list of such games, or an easy way to identify those? Don't really have a list, I just go by if "MikMod" is mentioned in the credits, or the sound is broken and seemingly only fixed by switching to GUS emulation. Three games I have off hand currently that use MikMod: …

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Re: Games that sound best with GUS?

Posted on 2021-03-10, 14:44

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Probably worth mentioning, any MS-DOS game that uses MikMod for it's entire sound handling is going to be better on the GUS, especially if using DosBOX because for some reason DosBOX's Soundblaster Emulation really underruns in MikMod based games in most cases. MikMod doesn't do any kind of …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-03-06, 19:39

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... and all of this "combat loop" mumbo jumbo people seem to rave about makes it really repetitive. I know there were instances in Doom 1/2 (and even 3) where enemies would pop up near you after picking up certain items, but in general the enemy placements were pretty well integrated to the flow of …

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Re: Anyone here on Mastodon/the Fediverse?

Posted on 2021-02-28, 02:05

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I don't even like social media so decentralizing it like this is not likely going to make me want to participate in the concept any better. I just hang out on forums and IRC channels.

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Re: What made you join VOGONS?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 23:18

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I came here primarily to muse about old hardware and software, and look for and share fixes for older games. I still remember one of my early posts was about how Fury³ and Hellbender's sound sampling rate were hardcoded in the EXE, so you'd have to hex edit a few bytes to get 22050 to work.

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Re: Ultimate Music Tracker Base

Posted on 2021-02-17, 12:31

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project is terminated to permanent g ban. Hope you've catched the moment. You should probably demand a valid reason why they terminated your hosted site. I also recommend, if you've been keeping backups locally yourself, to setup a self-host if you're not behind a ISP that blocks TCP port 80 …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2021-02-06, 03:51

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As such, this has absolutely become the best way to play Daggerfall, not just because of its features but for a whole slew of reasons! Yeah, especially hilarious that they directly use the heightmap data because it was almost entirely disregarded in the original FALL.EXE "due to bugs". If you apply …

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Re: Unreal graphics glitching (black rectangles) with OpenGL and S3TC textures

Posted on 2021-01-27, 13:29

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this also works with DXT1 textures as long as those still properly have the masked flag set and contain sensible alpha values. Well, evidently that's not working as planned since none of the UTGLR's seem to obey that mechanic, even with blatantly "Masked" flagged level surfaces. Which is why I …

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Re: Unreal graphics glitching (black rectangles) with OpenGL and S3TC textures

Posted on 2021-01-27, 12:15

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That sounds super informative if I only understood what you are saying. I guess pretending I do, I'll ask why do Unreal Tournament S3TC textures not have this problem when the ones from the UnrealTexture-site do? Are the regular textures or the UT S3TC textures using some other image format - or …

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Re: Unreal graphics glitching (black rectangles) with OpenGL and S3TC textures

Posted on 2021-01-26, 20:15

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I don't think there's any actual way to fix the problem because DXT1 isn't paletted and STY_Masked (and the "Masked" surface flag in Texture) only functions properly with paletted textures where index 0 pixels in the texture is what not to draw of that texture. Unreal doesn't have a concept of 1-bit …

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