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Re: Should I update my laptop's BIOS?

Posted on 2019-06-26, 13:54

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Okay, here's another thing. It appears that I'm now unable to install a Linux version as a second OS because it invariably fails to install GRUB in UEFI mode. This even applies to that distro I had and had previously installed and then reinstalled on that laptop without any issue. Any idea what that …

Re: Should I update my laptop's BIOS?

Posted on 2019-06-11, 10:10

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Some laptop glitches are cured by removing all power for 30secs (battery and AC adapter). Try to isolate the issue, e.g. running without the battery. Tried both methods several times, to no effect. Switching to legacy mode BIOS caused some additional trouble because it reported no boot device and I …

Should I update my laptop's BIOS?

Posted on 2019-06-05, 18:39

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Hello guys, I wonder if someone here would advise me on the following issue. I have this Acer V3 laptop which has been in use for some five years already. A month ago it froze while running a Linux x64 distro, and had to be forcibly shut down by holding the power button. After that, it stopped …

Re: Why do people like FPS games so much ?

Posted on 2019-05-26, 17:03

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I remember the first time I played Heretic , Hexen , Wolfenstein 3-D , Duke Nukem 3D and Doom . I was about ten or eleven years old back then. The mere ability to walk around and explore the "3D" environments from the eyes-view perspective alone was incredibly amazing. It was literally nothing less …

Re: There is no successor to Warcraft II

Posted on 2019-04-27, 09:23

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So a while ago (precisely, in June 2017) I stumbled upon a game project called Loria at IndieDB which was clearly inspired by Warcraft II . The project was at an early stage and featured very pixelated "retro-ish" style graphics (more pixelised than actual Warcraft II ), nonexistent AI and a single …

Re: Warcraft Orcs & Humans CD

Posted on 2019-04-27, 09:13

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The Mac graphics for Warcraft 1 look like someone just took the low-res DOS graphics, and upsampled it with a nice interpolation filter. In reality it was probably the other way around - DOS graphics are downscaled Mac graphics, but I wonder if some graphical modes of DOSBox can mostly close that …

Warcraft 1 user-made maps

Posted on 2019-04-16, 11:08

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Now that the first Warcraft is sold again, I took a little interest in the user-made content created for the game. While Blizzard never released any development tools for Warcraft besides the unit stats editor, a certain BJ Pollard reverse-engineered the map format and in 1995 wrote and made public …

Preistorik 2 demo

Posted on 2019-03-20, 18:09

I found what appears to be a playable demo of Prehistorik 2 (at least, that's what the readme says) at cd.textfiles.com: pre2.zip However I can't make it run in DOSBox (0.74, Linux 64-bit). When I run PRE.COM it just shows the DOS command prompt cursor and nothing happens at all. I tried loadfix -25 …

Re: dune 2 mouse issue

Posted on 2019-03-16, 17:15

I think Dune: Battle for Arakkis on the Genesis/MD does allow the multi-unit selection Nope, you can only order units to follow one another around, so if you have multiple units following one leader you can "kind of" move the entire group in one click. This is actually in the PC version too, except …

Re: Late DOS/early Windows 3D 640x480 flight sims

Posted on 2019-03-09, 16:47

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I'm not sure wether Jetfighter Full Burn and F-16 Fighting Falcon are DOS games JetFighter Full Burn is for DOS just like JetFighter III (IIRC it started as a mission pack for JF3 ). Sandwarriors is also for DOS and supports 640x480 mode, and although it's a sci-fi thing it's pretty much an air …

Re: Diablo I on GOG!!!

Posted on 2019-03-08, 12:58

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Crank9000 wrote: From Blizzard's site: Q: Are other classic Blizzard games coming to GOG.COM? A: Yes! We have announced that we’re partnering with GOG.COM to release Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft II. We’ll reveal more information at a later date. This is like, absolutely awesome 😄

City Beneath the Surface

Posted on 2019-03-06, 19:10

I just discovered a formerly shareware turned freeware Finnish DOS RPG of the first-person party based dungeon crawling variety (also known as "blobber" as far as I know), with the original shareware available here and freeware version here . The game launches in DOSBox (I'm using v0.74, but not the …

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