Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2019-08-25, 17:45

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After many years I started up "Vampire - The Masquerade: Redemption" again and played through it. My god, this game has one of the stupidest storylines I've ever experienced. I was interested in what happened in the predecessor of Bloodlines (one of the best RPG's), but the writer(s) of Redemption …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-22, 00:50

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I just got a Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel (USB) for 5 bucks. It's amazing: A very sturdy wheel with a solid build quality and it just works fine with my massive hands. I've tried some old games like Monster Truck Madness 2 or some NFS games and it's cool . But it really shines on modern games …

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Re: Link Between Depression and 'Collecting'?

Posted on 2018-12-11, 23:47

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It's pretty easy to become a hoarder and lose yourself in shiny toys when life around you is crumbling apart. I worked in a callcentre for a few years and it fucked me up in a very bad way. I was constantly yelled at by customers to the point where I had to take heart medication because of anxiety …

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Re: best windows 98 agp card

Posted on 2018-11-29, 15:16

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Der Kuenringer wrote: Hm, well maybe I should specify then. I would be happy if the card is able to play late space sim games, like Freespace Open, Independence War 2 & Freelancer at 1600x1200. I can confirm that at least I-War 2 runs very well on 1680x1050 with a GF4 4800. Don't know about the …

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Re: best windows 98 agp card

Posted on 2018-11-28, 23:04

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late win98 games from about 2000 to 2004, but running on a Tualatin 1400 That is a pretty big timeframe. We're talking about a range between No One Lives Forever 1 and The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. A lot of development happened in these few years. I think it won't be possible …

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Re: How stable is your Windows 98?

Posted on 2018-11-25, 21:12

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My system is PRETTY stable after tweaking around with drivers, memory managers and assigning DMA and IRQ manually in the BIOS. Out of the box, Windows 98SE is a heap of crap, though. On my system, I needed to keep a lot of things in mind to get it running. - I needed to get the correct VIA drivers …

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Re: VIA Apollo Pro bad AGP performance?

Posted on 2018-09-20, 18:31

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link wrote: I has AGP 4x enabled in BIOS by default, but Nvidia drivers (all versions) are showing AGP 2x. I don't know why. The chipset has problems with AGP 4x, so Nvidia disabled the support in their drivers.

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Re: Best AGP GPU for a 3GHz Pentium 4?

Posted on 2018-09-14, 13:02

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Atom Ant wrote: HIS HD 4670 IceQ 1GB AGP, but they littls still expensive And there are no drivers for 9x/ME.

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Re: Remembering 9/11

Posted on 2018-09-13, 12:55

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My birthday falls on that date and it certainly destroyed my mood in 2001. I still remember eagerly awaiting my presents ( I was 12 at the time, so I still got a LOT of presents ), when my parents called me into the living room with the old tube TV. First I thought, they were watching some kind of …

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Re: Looking for a special socket 370 motherboard

Posted on 2018-09-11, 23:13

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stamasd wrote: Abit VH6T (Apollo Pro 133T, supports Tualatin) A very good and convenient board. I recently acquired one and it's so easy to over- or underclock my Tualatin from 700MHz to 1.6GHz directly within the BIOS. Mine had a lot of leaking caps, though. I would NOT try to use one without …

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Re: Good PSU for Pentium 3 System

Posted on 2018-09-11, 23:06

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For an (at least moderately) period-correct PSU choice, some OEM power supply manufactured by Delta would be a good pick. Agreed. I have a Delta DPS-300PB-2 A power supply and it works very well and reliable. No bad caps. In Europe, you can get these guys between 15-30 Euros. :cool: Some no-go's I …

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Re: Scariest pc game you played

Posted on 2018-09-08, 13:10

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DonutKing wrote: Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines... playing the haunted house level late at night was unnerving. Grout's Mansion is a pretty good level, too. These creepy audio logs...

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

Posted on 2018-09-07, 23:35

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I successfully recapped my Abit VH6T motherboard with 51 new caps. A task that was a little bit frightening, since I had to replace some of the caps with polymer capacitors and I wasn't sure if their specs were correct. But no worries now - this thing runs extremely stable! Much more stable than my …

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Re: Scariest pc game you played

Posted on 2018-09-05, 21:31

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Quite a few games have given me "jump scares", but for overall creep out factor SOMA was almost panic inducing for me. How did I forget that? SOMA also is one of my favorites. Like most of the Amnesia games, it's from Frictional Games. They know their stuff. While we're at it, "The Thing" from 2002 …

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Re: Scariest pc game you played

Posted on 2018-09-05, 20:01

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Somewhat ordered in the amount of creepyness: 1. Cry of Fear 2. Outlast 3. SOMA (//EDIT) 4. Alien: Isolation 5. Observer 6. Clive Barker's Undying 7. System Shock 2 8. Nightmare House 2 Cry of Fear is my favorite horror game of all time. The enemies are extremely unforgiving, ammo is low and you're …

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

Posted on 2018-09-04, 22:18

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I removed all 51 capacitors on my Abit VH6T motherboard. Some of them were leaking, so I'm not taking any chances. Took me an hour to do it. I expected much worse, since I was working without a desoldering pump. Now I just need to wait for the new ones to arrive... 😒

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Re: New to windows 95/98 looking for good 3-d platformers

Posted on 2018-08-25, 20:41

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I played Shadowman when I was young. I still think it's a really cool and dark platformer for Windows 98. Gex 3D: Enter the Gecko is also very good. There also is a PC port of Jersey Devil and maybe Rayman 3 can run on your system, too.

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Re: Worst retrogaming regret

Posted on 2018-08-21, 22:42

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About 10 years ago my parents took me on a trip to Berlin to visit my sister. I explored the city and found a little computer store, with an overweight, but cool Turkish store owner. He had boxes full of retro hardware and sold them for absolutely nothing since he considered them junk. One big box …

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Re: Best video card for Windows 98SE (AGP)?

Posted on 2018-08-21, 21:49

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My absolute favorite is the Gainward Geforce 4 Ti 4800 SE. It is very overclock-friendly and can run at a higher clockspeed than a regular 4800 non-SE card: http://www.legitreviews.com/gainward-ti4800se_7

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Re: What retro hardware you killed today or it the past :( RIP.

Posted on 2018-08-21, 21:45

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I slowly killed a Voodoo Banshee by not putting a fan on it and running it on 110MHz overclocked for a long time. I was young and dumb at that time. When it started to freeze the machine and produce graphical glitches, it was too late. Now I have a new Banshee. With a fan.

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