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Re: Wow, Matrox is still around

Posted on 2014-03-13, 13:56

in Milliways
They're out of the game for consumer graphics now that picture quality is basically a moot point. Back in the day when people were still using analogue connections (D-SUB) and tube monitors, Matrox had a clear edge in picture quality. I remember when the Millennium G400, Voodoo3 and TNT2 were pretty …

Re: Confessions of a compulsive hoarder...

Posted on 2014-03-01, 13:58

in Milliways
I do seem to have some of the hoarding genes myself. I can't seem to let go of hardware once I acquire it, at least if it's still functional. I have diagnosed this and my own observations are that the hardware I hoard seems to be either be a) stuff that I always wish I had back when it was hot and …

Re: Phil's "Playing GOG.com games on your MS-DOS Gaming PC" Thread

Posted on 2014-02-26, 14:48

in DOS
Nevermind. Looks like the other burning app which shall remain anonymous screwed up the mp3-to-wav conversion somehow. After using ffmpeg to convert the mp3s and InfraRecorder to do the actual burning, the disk turned out not to be even half full. Strangely, installing the game on original hardware, …

Re: Phil's "Playing GOG.com games on your MS-DOS Gaming PC" Thread

Posted on 2014-02-24, 14:26

in DOS
I'm getting grey hairs over this. Mounted image in Daemon Tools, converted the MP3s to WAV files but apparently they don't fit on a 700 MB CD with the data. It seems GOG didn't use the original DOS Tomb Raider release but some screwed up re-release that has IE and a whole bunch of other crap on disk …

Re: Phil's "Playing GOG.com games on your MS-DOS Gaming PC" Thread

Posted on 2014-01-31, 09:38

in DOS
I was wondering if you knew how to deal with the original Tomb Raider from GOG? I bought it and the installed game directory contains the music tracks in mp3 format, a game.dat (my guess, this is the cue sheet) and game.gog (this must be the bin file). However I'm unable to mount these in standard …

Re: Windows 95 setup guide (late 2013)

Posted on 2013-09-14, 13:46

...BTW - have you ever gotten USB2 to work on W95? As for USB2, I think the point is sort of moot since there are hardly any USB devices with Win9x support to begin with. I did however once manage to get it working by using a PCI-to-PCMCIA (Cardbus) adapter and a generic Via chipset USB2 cardbus …

Re: Windows 95 setup guide (late 2013)

Posted on 2013-09-13, 11:09

Perhaps it should be noted that early versions of Win95 have known issues with CPUs released after it (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156492, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179897), AGP cards will be treated as PCI and SSE is not supported at all (not that important for games, but certain …

Re: Windows 95 setup guide (late 2013)

Posted on 2013-09-13, 10:51

Excellent primer and you list a couple of utilities I need to check out. I also include the following utilities in my base installs - versions are the latest I've found that install and run properly under W95: CCleaner v116 good for routine junk clear outs Daemon Tools v333 create virtual drives …

Re: Windows 95 setup guide (late 2013)

Posted on 2013-09-13, 10:14

I wonder, is there any reason to use Win95 OSR2 over say Win98SE? My guess is that for most people the answer is - not really. But there a *are* a number of early-mid 90's games, particularly flight sims in my experience, for which W95 3dfx upgrade patches were released and that only really work …

Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2013-09-12, 09:04

Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's! This is a refresh of my Windows 95 setup guide originally posted in late 2013. The goal is to help anyone wanting to run Windows 95 on period hardware achieve a functioning and stable setup with minimal effort. I define period hardware as a systems starting …

Re: Unreal 1 and A3D cards.

Posted on 2013-09-12, 07:14

in Windows
... Frankly the Win9x drivers aren't terribly stable either. Or finished for that matter, considering they kept adding unfinished features and making new bugs right up to the end. A3DAPI.dll likes to kill the Win9x kernel and cause BSODs with some games. I haven't had any stability issues on either …

Re: Anyone jaded by modern graphics?

Posted on 2013-09-06, 15:42

in Milliways
... Whoa there. Lot's of anger in your posts, are you sure it's just about the games sucking? Anyway, I do agree with you to an extent. New games don't wow me either but I don't think it has to do with graphics alone. I think it has to do with the fact that graphics are the only things that seem to …

Re: FreeSpace 2 woes

Posted on 2013-09-06, 07:18

in Windows
If you have a more modern pc you should be running freespace 2 open Yeah... if I did. Problem is all my newer computers are either Macs or run Linux. I tried Windows XP on one of my rigs and it was horrible. Found out de-checking Glide in the setup fixes the problem. Only... I have to run the game …

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