Re: WinDVD... Macrovision... GeForce 3... urgh.

Posted on 2003-04-13, 03:31

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Originally posted by Snover why doesn't anyone respond to my threads Well, what do you want me to say? "No idea why it's doing that" ? Seriously, I'm using PowerDVD (for the best of all possible reasons...it came free with the drive) and I've never seen this kind of symptom. All I can think of is …

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Re: Sound cards to stay away from?

Posted on 2003-04-12, 18:15

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Originally posted by KHORG i was trying to get a AWE64 pci, as my mate had one and he said he got good dos sound out of it, but gave up, too hard to track one down atm i've got a AW840 and my mate has a AW744 any opinions on these? the AW840 is fickle about a number of games in win98 mind you, had …

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Re: win 2000 duke

Posted on 2003-04-12, 17:51

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Originally posted by andrea tagliasacchi the game runs normally if i deselect the sound. i have dos 6.0 too so if someone have some tip it would be a great thing. Well the first tip would be, use the quick search box at the top of the page. Type Duke3D and hit return, and you'll see that Duke3d has …

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Re: This @#$% &^#@ Registration Scheme

Posted on 2003-04-12, 17:05

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Originally posted by AntiSnipe It's rendered it useless to me and anyone who tinkers with PC's at all, and I dare say that would be just about anyone trying to run Tomb Raider on an NT based PC. An exaggeration. It just makes it an annoyance as you have to contact Paul for a replacement code each …

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Re: Win9x + VDMSound **ALPHA**

Posted on 2003-04-12, 16:47

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Originally posted by Kyl3 No real problems here, the only game which complains is Secret of monkey island 2 (1 runs fine, newer lucasarts titles run fine to, really strange.. might be just me) which messes up midi timing. http://www.scummvm.org ScummVM is 95% compatible with MI2 and has MIDI …

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Re: Age of Rifles video

Posted on 2003-04-12, 16:15

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Originally posted by Snover That card is not faulty if it works correctly in true DOS. Well, I was treating it as a "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" kind of thing. If they were willing to replace the card, I would let them without asking question. It's a moot point since they won't be doing …

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Re: VDMSound LaunchPad with UW2

Posted on 2003-04-12, 16:07

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Originally posted by TagZrael vhd it is. So you are talking about installing a bootable OS in "Virtual PC". The documentation that comes with VPC should describe it, but it's basically the same as installing on a "real" PC. Basically, you create a virtual drive with the program (use the "Virtual …

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Re: Vdm Sound doesn't work

Posted on 2003-04-11, 05:04

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Just to be sure, you installed VDMSound from a file named VDMSound-2.0.4-WinNT-i386.msi, right?

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D Source Code

Posted on 2003-04-11, 04:55

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Originally posted by HunterZ No, he's plainly suggesting that the Freak buy into FilePlanet's (GameSpy's) evil scheme... Ok, I see now that you're responding to Col.J.P., whereas I originally thought you were responding to DosFreak's post. In any case, the solution for not paying is fairly simple.

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Re: Duke3d Source Code Released!

Posted on 2003-04-11, 04:39

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Originally posted by truth5678 But now it's time to put down your RAD tools and "it's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all outa gum!" You know, I'm starting to get the impression that truth5678 is a big Duke3D fan...

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Re: Flight of the Amazon Queen

Posted on 2003-04-11, 04:36

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Originally posted by vladr The "bug" is in VDMServices.dll, not LaunchPad. OK, was going on memory. I remember that it was related to one part having the fix for PopF being enabled, while the other part had it disabled. I'll try to release a new LaucnhPad soon, though, which (unless I will forget) …

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Re: Flight of the Amazon Queen

Posted on 2003-04-10, 01:35

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Originally posted by L3onheart That did the trick ...and there was much rejoicing....yea. Vlad, could you please release an All-in-one-with-GUI updated VDMSound? Please? This FixPopF bug is driving me up the wall.

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Re: VDMSound LaunchPad with UW2

Posted on 2003-04-10, 01:32

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Originally posted by TagZrael see i dont understand that... Referring to: Actually i have virtual pc... just cannot figure out the part about how to get the boot file... i think it was vdm file extension. What "boot file" are you talking about? A virtual drive? "VDM" is "Virtual Dos Machine", the …

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Re: Full Throttle sound setup

Posted on 2003-04-10, 01:22

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Originally posted by bgbennyboy This is a quick summary I wrote when it first came out. Ok, that was the comparison I had referred to earlier...

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Re: Blood Sound FX

Posted on 2003-04-10, 01:17

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Originally posted by SpyFox i can not find out what irqs and Dma that sound card is on or even know what it is since i was given this computer from a friend Since knowing what soundcard you have and it's IRQ/DMA/etc... are critically important. I highly recommend you put forth some effort into …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D Source Code

Posted on 2003-04-10, 01:12

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Originally posted by HunterZ There's no way in hell I'd ever give money to Fileplanet or any other part of Gamespy. No. I think he means that he registered for basic downloads, not that he paid for services.

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Re: Flight of the Amazon Queen

Posted on 2003-04-09, 17:57

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Originally posted by L3onheart Well, I disabled EMS, but now the game just freezes up after the main titles... That sounds like the "FixPopF" bug. Try right-clicking on the game's executable and choose the non-GUI version of VDMSound (the "Run with VDMS" that doesn't have the little musical note). …

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Re: Age of Rifles video

Posted on 2003-04-09, 15:38

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Originally posted by gatticus Well, I found out the warranty on my Dell is expired so I am going to get another card. I was looking at a 3D FORCE B-16. Whoops. Well, as long as you're buying, I implore you to at least get a basic GeForce...preferably a GeForce3. The "3D FORCE B-16" is a "nVIDIA …

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Re: Win9x + VDMSound **ALPHA**

Posted on 2003-04-09, 15:29

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Originally posted by MajorGrubert Surprise: the drivers added two virtual devices called "Legacy Emulation" and "MPU Emulation", that actually was providing SoundBlaster and MPU-401 emulation for MS-DOS programs, but they did not seem to be stable. Sounds about right. The VxD's are usually more …

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Re: Sound cards to stay away from?

Posted on 2003-04-09, 15:11

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Originally posted by psz Actually, that was a new shipment of them Then you must've been the recipients of the last shipments. Seriously, I haven't seen a new ISA SoundBlaster for years...

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