Re: Pentium 4 and retro gaming

Posted on 2016-02-12, 14:48

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The only reason I'm using a P4 is because the board I'm using to test a buttload of graphics cards and games has AGP and PCIe and is socket 478. It's a 3.2GHz HT CPU so it can handle most things of that era and was my main gaming machine for a long time (until DX10 happened). Which board is that? I …

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Re: Pentium 4 RDRAM systems

Posted on 2016-02-12, 14:43

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I've got some OEM Pentium4/RDRAM system sitting in my basement. I haven't looked at it in awhile. When I first acquired it, I cracked it open (it's one of those cases that opens like a suitcase) and looked around to see what it was made of. So I know there is RDRAM but beyond that I haven't …

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Re: X-Wing Intro Music General MIDI Samples--Santa Cruz vs SBLive!

Posted on 2016-02-10, 15:46

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There are two horns harmonizing between about :48 and :52 and on the 8MB SBLive! one of the horns abruptly drops out at :50. Interestingly, it does not drop out on the 2MB SBLive! sample.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-02-10, 15:38

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Finally beat Rostov mission 1 on Wing Commander after about a dozen efforts, but my wingman Iceman ended up dying. I went on to the next mission and realized I will not be reassigned a new wingman! So the next mission was even harder flying solo. LOL. Now I am considering: a) going back to the …

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Re: X-Wing Intro Music General MIDI Samples--Santa Cruz vs SBLive!

Posted on 2016-02-10, 14:20

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Hmm, the Santa Cruz bank sounds good I suppose. I am curious how other games would sound on that card, too. When I get time, I'll will make some more recordings. The only other GOG games I currently have that support General MIDI are Strike Commander and (I think) Wing Commander 3. I don't know for …

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Re: X-Wing Intro Music General MIDI Samples--Santa Cruz vs SBLive!

Posted on 2016-02-10, 12:04

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gdjacobs wrote: The Santa Cruz sounds more austere, but I like that. The SB Live renderings have much more sibilance which I find distracting. To my ear the Santa Cruz had more authentic-sounding instruments in this composition.

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X-Wing Intro Music General MIDI Samples--Santa Cruz vs SBLive!

Posted on 2016-02-09, 22:04

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After building my XP Retro PC with a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI for the purpose of playing GOG.com games, I tried X-Wing Collector's CD. The Santa Cruz has an 8MB MIDI DLS which I was curious to hear in action. After hearing the Star Wars theme from the X-Wing intro for the first time, I thought it …

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DOS games that support both MT-32 and General MIDI?

Posted on 2016-02-09, 19:02

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It seems that the floppy version of X-Wing supported MT-32 while the CD version supports General MIDI. I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDkDMQvQgjA which is the MT-32 intro of X-Wing and to my ear the instruments sound a bit less authentic than the various General MIDI versions I've heard. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-02-09, 15:51

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Last night I burned a Strike Commander install CD from my GOG.com install, then installed and tested it on my DOS PC. Worked perfectly. Nice :) Quite a few GOG DOS games actually provide the full installation CD. Not all unfortunately, but quite a few :) Some should start a database :blush: Yeah, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-02-09, 15:31

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Last night I burned a Strike Commander install CD from my GOG.com install, then installed and tested it on my DOS PC. Worked perfectly.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2016-02-05, 22:34

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I'm currently stuck on mission 15 on Wing Commander 1. I've played it about 10 times now without success. It's getting a bit aggravating, as the mission is pretty long and I typically die close to the end of it. And yes, I've watched YouTube videos of the mission and read strategy guides. I guess my …

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Re: Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?

Posted on 2016-02-05, 22:25

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A few posts seem almost angry that I would consider Win7 a retro OS. I was not. The question "Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?" implies a future when Win7 will eventually be considered retro. :) I suppose if you asked in 2005 if you'd ever build a Windows 95 retro PC you might get similar …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2016-02-04, 21:25

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Thanks, Phil. That was fun. There was a period during this time that my brother let me use his MT-32 and I fondly remember the music from WC2 and Strike Commander in your video. The Ultima Underworld series also had excellent MT-32 support. Cheers!

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2016-02-04, 17:09

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I've been quite tempted to rebuild my 2004\2007 computer that was based on a Athlon XP 2700+ and a Asus A7N8X-X. I still have all the original parts aside from the case and hard drive. That computer gave me some really good gaming\mIRC\msn\teamspeak\HI5 times. Today i don't even have facebook.. I'm …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-03, 22:25

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Interesting that the 8800 GTX isn't that easy to find anymore :) What about a 8800 Ultra? Likely even harder to find... I got mine a couple of years ago on ebay from someone selling a boatload of ones that were pulled from off lease Dells. I'm not sure what Dell PC actually included such a high end …

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Re: Are there any programs or ways to do these two things?

Posted on 2016-02-03, 21:31

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If the error box that pops up does not allow copy/paste, you can take a screenshot with the PrtScrn key and paste into Paint. Save as JPG for posting.

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Re: Dos gaming with 233mmx rig?

Posted on 2016-02-03, 21:20

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Decided to ratchet down my P3 rig to play DOS games from 94 on up. Planning to use a 233mmx Pentium on a SE440BX board with a Starfighter 3D 8MB AGP, 64MB ram, 40GB hard drive, SB 32pnp. Still will run win98SE for early 98 games and such. My question is will I still have speed problems with the DOS …

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Re: L2 Cache problem on 486 mainboard

Posted on 2016-02-02, 13:21

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Great! Glad you got it solved. These experiences not only help you but all of us who read along. I think mistakes likes this are wonderful learning opportunities. 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-02, 02:55

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Have you considered the skt 771 into skt 775 mod? I'm not familiar with that. Tell me more. :) Basically if you flip two pins on a socket 771 CPU it will run in a socket 775 motherboard - assuming it has one of the chipsets that can handle it. They created this little stick-on adapter thing that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-01, 22:46

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PCBONEZ wrote: Have you considered the skt 771 into skt 775 mod? I'm not familiar with that. Tell me more. 😀

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