how often do GOG and steam put lucasarts games on special

Posted on 2022-10-31, 06:10

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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had a look at GOG and not one of their games are on special... with their adventure games ranging from $8.50 to $14.50, which is a bit steep for me especially considering im going to play all of it on original hardware and am not interested in any of their "updates" and "remastering".. $14.50 for …

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Re: first games to feature the bathurst racing track

Posted on 2022-10-31, 02:07

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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i found this "game" from 1997.. it only takes 3 seconds to realize it is a beyond a joke possibly the worst racing game i have seen.. so i suppose i should add "earliest game that doesnt make you want to burn it".. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEpp6KH_YiQ looks pretty awesome in the screenshot …

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Re: first games to feature the bathurst racing track

Posted on 2022-10-31, 01:29

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If you are willing to consider 3rd-party add-ons, Grand Prix Legends got a Mt. Panorama track over twenty years ago: http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=180 I haven't compared these files with what I got back in the day, so it might be a different creation. I got the following files back in 2003: …

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first games to feature the bathurst racing track

Posted on 2022-10-30, 17:16

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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as title says, im wondering what were some of the earliest games to feature the australian bathurst track? the first time i remember it was on xbox v8 supercars 2 (which was a spin off of TOCA Race Driver 2 ) from 2004.. anyone know of an earlier game?

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Re: Socket 7 200MHz test

Posted on 2022-10-29, 15:06

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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wow great post .. as for the cyrix mII, this disproves the usual rhetoric that they are useless because of weak FPU.. look at the 200 tests: only 1 fps behind the k6's (in 640x400 quake mode) and 5 behind the mmx.. not a dud at all especially considering they were cheapest chip at the time

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2022-10-20, 15:00

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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ah ok .. not sure about a few things you are refering to .. "the update-rollup I recommend in my guide" ... im not sure what update-rollup is and i havent read your guide nor do i know of it..

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2022-10-20, 09:24

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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leonardo wrote on 2022-10-20, 07:34: The last one I downloaded was version 7.20 and that runs on my system without major issues. Which version are you trying to run? v7.31-4885

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2022-10-20, 03:47

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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I've also attached said files to this message for your convenience. These are direct from my OSR2 install CD. thanks for that .. ive put the win95b WININET AND SHLWAPI you supplied in the same folder as hwinfo32, but it still doing the same thing (nothing except accessing the HDD for 30 seconds)..

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2022-10-19, 02:03

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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got WININET.DLL from a a win98se cd.. now it says it needs : SHLWAPI.DLL (update) installed SHLWAPI.DLL now it says : "the WININET.DLL file is linked to missing export ADVAPI32.DLL:CryptGetProvParam." also says "a device attached to the system is not functioning" added ADVAPI32.DLL to the same …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2022-10-18, 22:05

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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oh yes hello red-ray.. i didnt realise there were separate HWinfo dos and windows threads .. thanks for picking up my post in the other thread .. ill just post my original post here for others wondering what you are responding to.. : downloaded HWiNFO32.exe .. it wont run, get an error when i click …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2022-10-18, 16:35

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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downloaded HWiNFO32.exe .. it wont run, get an error when i click on it (go to run it) in windows 95 on my p166 machine I get "Error Starting Program" "A required .DLL file, WININET.DLL, was not found".. this new version doesnt work on win 95 4.00.950a is there an old original version that does? …

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Re: over clocking a P166 to 200... chance of success?

Posted on 2022-10-18, 14:17

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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I highly doubt you are having trouble with a heatsinked pmmx at 2.8v at 166-200mhz Perhaps your issue is elsewhere? Pmmx doesn’t have a internal temp sensor. Some boards had a sensor in the socket center. yeah i doubt it too .. this is a new cpu (the first one that i tested) that i acquired last …

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Re: P1 CPU temperature monitoring

Posted on 2022-10-18, 09:32

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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Ydee wrote on 2022-10-18, 08:57: There were also flat external temperature monitoring sensors with a panel that went between the radiator or its ribs like this one: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=76928 thatd be cool ... but even cooler to use a gauge out of an old car.. keep it period 🤣

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Re: over clocking a P166 to 200... chance of success?

Posted on 2022-10-18, 07:05

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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report 3.. i reduced the cpu down to 166 and i actually had it crash again.. this cpu is questionable... even at its default speed.. next i ran cpu 1 = su072 1996 week 34.. this one has been running well for so far at 200mhz .. no crashes .. i have been running it with the case open.. havent tried …

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P1 CPU temperature monitoring

Posted on 2022-10-18, 05:34

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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hey guys, ive been doing a bit of overeclocking of a P166 and i am wondering what temp it is getting up to. Is there a way to measure the temperature internally, ie without using a probe (like a DMM style).. i remember checking temps years ago using a program of some sort in win98.. but im not sure …

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Re: over clocking a P166 to 200... chance of success?

Posted on 2022-10-16, 12:00

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report 2. long gaming session has resulted in a couple of crashes for this overclocked cpu.. about 45 mins into a Nascar racing session it freezes or produces garbage on the screen.. this is with the standard little fan cooler on it.. so to me i consider this a fail.. i havent begun to thoroughly …

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Re: over clocking a P166 to 200... chance of success?

Posted on 2022-10-15, 06:24

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-10-15, 06:06: What does cpu-z or memtest say? Speedsys? speedsys says 66.4 x 3.0 199.1mhz .. dont have cpu-z installed

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Re: over clocking a P166 to 200... chance of success?

Posted on 2022-10-15, 06:17

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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and you know what is pretty wrong ... jumping in on someone else's thread with your own post and contributing nothing to this one whaaattt??? i was talking about jnemo2004 .. the guy u were answering about the metal strip to .. his first post ever is a thread bomb .. should be totally ignored

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Re: over clocking a P166 to 200... chance of success?

Posted on 2022-10-15, 06:00

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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and you know what is pretty wrong ... jumping in on someone else's thread with your own post and contributing nothing to this one

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Re: over clocking a P166 to 200... chance of success?

Posted on 2022-10-15, 05:59

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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ok im back with my first test report.. this is for cpu 2 = su072 1997 week 07 it seems to run stable at 3x66 (200)... POST's and will run basic bench marks and brief windows session ran fine .. ran the phils benchmark pack.. all stable.. now the main issue is it doesnt show up as 200Mhz, it shows …

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