Re: Has anyone ran Privateer 2 on a real system?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 01:26

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by ElectricMonk

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Did a demo of it ever come out (like with PC Gamer)? I know I only owned the first one, but i wanna say I played a few minutes of the sequel on my old pentium overdrive. Between that, and not being able play to Curse of Monkey Island, I knew I had to upgrade asap. The demo was mostly cinematics, …

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Re: Replacing the MIDI music in Sierra adventure games with soundtracks from QuestStudios

Posted on 2014-08-04, 21:02

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by ElectricMonk

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Can someone run a quick sanity check for me? I went ahead and downloaded the custom soundtracks from QuestStudios, along with SendSX. For an example, I extracted the SQ3-GS zip file, opened up SendSX, selected the SQ3-GS file, hit Send, then chose "Bass Midi A" for MIDI out (I use the SC-55 …

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Re: IPX Internet Troubles

Posted on 2014-08-04, 18:43

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by ElectricMonk

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Everyony with a Router has 2 IP-Adresses: A private IP (192.168.x.x) and a Public IP (for Example 55.66.55.77) You musst Forward the Port 213 in UDP Mode to the privte IP where the DOSBOX IPX Server is Runnning. For Example Router is 192.168.1.1 and PC is 192.168.1.5, so Forward Port 213 to 192.168 …

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Re: IPX Internet Troubles

Posted on 2014-08-04, 18:18

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by ElectricMonk

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Sammy wrote: Dosbox transfer IPX Traffic over TCP/IP. So it encapsulates IPX within IP frames? Good to know. Does that result in "giant frames" ala ISL trunking?

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Re: IPX Internet Troubles

Posted on 2014-08-04, 17:50

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by ElectricMonk

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ElecticMonk: What does that contribute to the question ? pyzaist: if your router forwards port 213 to your PC then it should work in theory. Because the OP stated that "no one can connect to anyone's server if they aren't on the LAN". That's because IPX/SPX was designed with LANs in mind. When I …

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Re: Voodoo graphics cards, what's so special?

Posted on 2014-08-04, 17:38

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by ElectricMonk

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And the infamous "decelerators" used the CPU for most of the grunt work, especially the operations that weren't implemented (or were implemented improperly), so those tasks got shunted off to the CPU. Seriously, go dig up articles that interview Scott Sellers, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Ross …

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Re: Best Virtual Machine software to use for a Win98SE install on Win7

Posted on 2014-08-04, 03:15

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by ElectricMonk

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Wiping out the entire TEMP folder nuked my paid/licensed copy of ProfSIMs 6, so I had to beg their support to re-license it ($78 for a year subscription). Kinda annoying. I hope when you begged them that you told them what happened. No program should store important data in the TEMP folder. Maybe I …

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Re: IPX Internet Troubles

Posted on 2014-08-04, 03:10

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by ElectricMonk

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IPX/SPX was designed primarily for LANs. It could talk across IP networks with a IP/IPX translation router, or thru tunneling services like Khali. IIRC, if you dialed another PCs analog modem, and you were both using IPX/SPX, that would work. There are a litany of reasons why IPX/SPX fell out of …

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Re: Voodoo graphics cards, what's so special?

Posted on 2014-08-04, 00:52

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by ElectricMonk

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archsan wrote: The classic 3Dfx logo is special. I've always been fond of the Dreamcast Swirl. Simple, understated, yet immediately recognizable. Whatever graphic designer came up with that probably got a bonus. 😜

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Re: Replacing the MIDI music in Sierra adventure games with soundtracks from QuestStudios

Posted on 2014-08-04, 00:50

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by ElectricMonk

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What type of hardware would I need to connect them to my modern PC? My mobo is an Asus P8Z68V-GEN3 Is this for DOSBox? http://youtu.be/kGxEgw4TE58?list=PL20C65EBEFE6CB109 And possibly ScummVM. I've got plenty of dos games that only work with DOSBox, so I really need it to work with both. I'm …

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Re: Voodoo graphics cards, what's so special?

Posted on 2014-08-03, 19:42

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by ElectricMonk

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Still digging up High Quality shots Atari 3DFX coin-op games vs the Naomi series. GIS tends to turn up N64/XBL screenshots. so frustrating. System16 has plenty of screens, but they are of low quality.

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Re: Replacing the MIDI music in Sierra adventure games with soundtracks from QuestStudios

Posted on 2014-08-03, 16:23

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by ElectricMonk

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: People had luck in Japan and also with music stores. Like Amazon or ebay japan? I called the local music stores, and they only carry used SC-55s at $450. 😮 Nobody local carries MT-32s. What type of hardware would I need to connect them to my modern PC? My mobo is an Asus P8Z68V- …

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Re: Best Virtual Machine software to use for a Win98SE install on Win7

Posted on 2014-08-03, 16:10

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by ElectricMonk

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Regarding The Last Express, Steam is currently offering a "Gold edition" that may yet be superior. Yeah, but I own the original disks. I was hoping to not have to repurchase it. And regarding the MSI error, have you seen http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd= …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2014-08-02, 18:32

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by ElectricMonk

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I'm a neophyte when it comes to this, but I heard multiple friends rave about their Hauppage cards.

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Re: Best Virtual Machine software to use for a Win98SE install on Win7

Posted on 2014-08-02, 18:30

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by ElectricMonk

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VirtualPC 2007? For me, VirtualBox wouldn't even be a thought for any Win9X OS. Also what games would these be? Just off the top of my head: Blade Runner, Longest Journey, Toonstruck, Grim Fandango, Beavis and Butthead Virtual Stupidity, Curse and Escape of Monkey Island ( I own EVERY MI game made, …

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Re: Voodoo graphics cards, what's so special?

Posted on 2014-08-02, 18:07

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by ElectricMonk

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I wouldn't consider an ASSEMBLERGames thread and a wiki very serious sources. Besides, the first source says "while Sega probably had their own set of requirements for the hardware one could speculate that the end result would have been something similar to the Voodoo 2". On your previous post, …

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Re: Best Virtual Machine software to use for a Win98SE install on Win7

Posted on 2014-08-02, 17:14

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by ElectricMonk

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DANG IT! I still get that MSI fault error, even after wiping out the older version.

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Re: Voodoo graphics cards, what's so special?

Posted on 2014-08-02, 16:57

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by ElectricMonk

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It wasn't necessarily the Voodoo 2 that would be going in the Dreamcast. It is probable though. But, probably a custom design like the Banshee/Voodoo3 (Avenger) like swaaye said in the above post. I can't say the console would have been better off with a 3Dfx chip, SEGA was a sinking ship and …

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Re: Voodoo graphics cards, what's so special?

Posted on 2014-08-02, 16:53

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by ElectricMonk

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That answer is a bit too ambiguous. Many people came from companies like SGI, following the proven path, not just 3dfx engineers. Also I haven't met yet actual decelerator. The features are in the hardware, just made weaker. Problem was many developers cranked up the hardware accelerated resolution …

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Re: Voodoo graphics cards, what's so special?

Posted on 2014-08-02, 15:40

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by ElectricMonk

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F355 Challenge is much better than anything a Voodoo2 based solution could ever do pps and IQ wise and it still runs at 60 frames per second. It was even better with three arcade boards, each slaved to a monitor. That was an awesom atwe /Still looking for HQ pics. All the one's im seeing top out …

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