Re: Hooligans: Storm Over Europe

Posted on 2021-02-12, 16:37

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by duga3

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Search for "DxWnd " on YouTube and you will see how others are using it to run old games on new Windows. Then the first link I posted should make more sense. You might or might not need a cracked version but you will want to run it through DxWnd in any case.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-12, 16:10

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by duga3

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That was a great buy. Makes me wonder if the Apple's $999 monitor stand will ever go for next to nothing.

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Re: Hooligans: Storm Over Europe

Posted on 2021-02-12, 16:02

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by duga3

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Try DxWnd : https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/1792347d/ So download a cracked version of it? Well if that's your cup of tea then there is this: https://archive.org/details/HooligansStormOverEuropeWindows10Compatible and a pirated FairLight (FLT) scene release, for which you …

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Re: Hooligans: Storm Over Europe

Posted on 2021-02-12, 15:18

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by duga3

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Try DxWnd : https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/ge … hread/1792347d/

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-12, 08:18

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by duga3

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Ouch. No... thankfully, it was much cheaper than that. :lol: Of course, VOGONs is a wonderful source of drivers. Most of those will come up in searches though. I mean the weird little dark corners of the internet that house large driver archives. Like these: https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/ …

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

Posted on 2021-02-12, 07:48

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by duga3

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Hopefully finalizing my 980 Ti benchmarks under Windows XP today for my build log. The numbers are all down. Now I need to go fight the spreadsheet boss fight... There is some before/after overclocking of CPU/GPU and various comparison to 960 and 1080 Ti. There will be results where it's very clear …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-12, 07:32

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by duga3

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I'm hopeful that the Falcon 64 makes this a fairly decent card. Compatibility for that chip seems decent based on what I found, and unless there is some issue with the implementation on this card, the performance is probably among the best on ISA, simply because it's a much newer chip. I've tried a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-12, 07:10

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by duga3

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Awesome news! Thank you! Hopefully some drivers show up. It was listed as "Open Box" and described as a "spare" but I have no idea if it comes with software. If it does, you can bet I'll be posting them here. :) Yours appears to be the AT3000 Rev D (Sierra Falcon 64 on-board VGA) whereas the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-12, 06:48

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by duga3

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I dont know where else to post this, I am not gonna bid on this, what do you guys think? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-GDM-FW900-CRT-Monitor/164685875289 Sooooo, yeah. Looks like this thing just sold for 35k $. Yikes! That's truly insane. You have to have so much disposable income to spend $35,000 …

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Re: New old build

Posted on 2021-02-08, 20:14

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by duga3

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Lamuse wrote on 2021-02-08, 20:06: And going total overkill putting it all in a Thermaltake Xaser III case. ...

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Re: Quake 2 /3 with NVidia GeForce FX 5700 on Win98SE

Posted on 2021-02-08, 20:04

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by duga3

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The following software allows me to create delta snapshots of any Windows (98 too) disk partition. That particular feature allows me to do relatively quick backups and at a minimum byte size. They call it "backup changes only" in the menu I think and should by available after you do the first full …

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Re: Quake 2 /3 with NVidia GeForce FX 5700 on Win98SE

Posted on 2021-02-08, 19:30

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by duga3

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As a general rule, I make full bare-metal backups BEFORE I start experimenting with practically anything on something as fragile as Windows 9x . This. A million times. It's like when having to quicksave a lot on some really hard game. Windows 98 is super fragile. The following software allows me to …

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

Posted on 2021-02-08, 17:05

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by duga3

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So.. I am finished with my LGA775 Win98/XP build. Avenger WIP 01.jpeg Except I hit an unexpected roadblock: The IDE DVD-ROM turned out to be dead. Avenger WIP 02.jpeg So now I arranged for picking up 2 SATA DVD-RWs as well as an E6600 to replace the E4600 I have in there right now. That small …

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Re: Can't set a custom resolution of 1680x1050, GeForce4 MX 440SE PCI

Posted on 2021-02-07, 07:44

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by duga3

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Great to hear that you got it working now! For completeness/inspiration, here is similar approach for WINDOWS XP : You can add custom resolution under the [nv_commonDisplayModes_addreg] section of the driver INF file. The INF file where you do that probably depends on the sub-brand of the NVIDIA …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-05, 14:31

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by duga3

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I don't think it's fair to these (kids) games that you expect to still laugh with them, deep into adulthood. I don't think I remember a single videogame I would consider really funny these days tbh. I definitely agree with the sentiment that videogame production has recently been literally invaded …

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Re: Famous computer slogans and quotes ?

Posted on 2021-02-05, 11:47

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by duga3

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Lenovo - “For those who do”. those sort of slogans never make sense and irritate me with their "join our exclusive club of hip in the know people of now, not like those other losers!", implying that non lenovo's are for those who don't while manipulating humans natural desire to 'belong' it's like …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-02-05, 01:01

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by duga3

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Feel free to talk to your plants if you think that may help !!

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Re: The Quest for Pixel Perfect DOS Emulation

Posted on 2021-02-04, 23:58

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by duga3

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Yeah it is, I don't think their production page even mentions this cool feature. About the limits, in my experience, once the analog signal is generated, the bottleneck inside CRT was always the "horizontal refresh rate" and not "pixel clock". "Horizontal refresh rate" formula is roughly "vertical …

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Re: F.E.A.R: Unable to eliminate random hitching despite ample performance and locked 120FPS V-Sync

Posted on 2021-02-04, 23:19

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by duga3

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in general though RTSS capping is supposed to give that flat line because it's quite precise compared to most engine limiters, which is the whole point to get even frametimes. and of course performance dips should still show up on a correctly configured graph. Yes, "not necessarily" is the key here …

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Re: F.E.A.R: Unable to eliminate random hitching despite ample performance and locked 120FPS V-Sync

Posted on 2021-02-03, 23:23

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by duga3

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Thanks for the link @auron, will give it a try later. @all Also beware of one thing. If you are using RTSS to draw frametimes chart and you see it flatline (perhaps because you framecapped) it does not necesarily mean your game is smooth. It is possible that in some cases of the -x framecap it is …

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