Re: Problematic Windows games list

Posted on 2021-03-12, 14:21

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interstate 82 and old starwars games like starwars racer and jedi knight also requires windows xp unless there are fixes for jedi knight and starwars racer in the starwars thread mentioned earlier for modern windows openttd works just fine for that ttd fix nfs 3 and 4 have patches for both xp and …

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

Posted on 2021-03-12, 12:08

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I finished building and installing this XP computer: https://i.ibb.co/r3NKJjn/IMG-20210312-081852-547.jpg Dell Dimension 9200 Core2Duo ZE6700 at 2.6 GHz 2 GB DDR2 memory Radeon x600 256 MB PCI-E Firewire PCI 500 GB SATA HDD 250 GB SATA HDD 128 GB SATA SSD DVD-RW SATA DVD PATA USB 3.5" Floppy …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2021-03-10, 06:03

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in Marvin \ System Specs

sometime this year when the new dual garage in my summerhouse is ready and all my old stuff is sorted then I will post pictures of my new main retrolab that will be residing in that garage. I have around 25 old CRTs some video, some TVs, some monochrome, some vga, most are svga etc also two pentium …

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

Posted on 2021-03-10, 04:28

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not exactly today but a few days ago I put a ryzen 3 2200g in a old medion pc case originally occupied by a pentium 4 and a radeon card and mounted a spare amd apu cooler on the side of the case to take in air ... identical to the cooler on the actual apu its now running manjaro linux from a ssd and …

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Re: Good value PC for Win98 - evading the RETRO TAX

Posted on 2021-03-10, 04:14

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I have had a hard time finding windows 98 drivers for pentium 4 based systems I have a wide range of pentium 4 desktops and drivers are a problem so I had settled on building my 98 gaming rig around a pentium 2 and my riva tnt 2 agp card

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-09, 15:30

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I added a dell dimension 9200 to my array of older system yesterday that I got from a friend for sorting out his current win 10 desktop and laptop it has been upgraded from 1 to 2 GB DDR2 at some point and somebody installed win 10 on it needless to say this system is much better suited for windows …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-03-09, 15:18

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in Milliways

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currently some zdoom on an old 32 bit intel mac ... prboom on retropie and gzdoom on a laptop while testing various selfmade mods currently doing 3d models for a gzdoom mod from time to time also testing some unreleased personal mods for oblivion

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Re: my retro systems

Posted on 2019-10-21, 12:20

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Nice collection of stuff CBM. Thanks :) Just hope that most of it is still in working order :) A part from the odd dead hdd and low cmos batteries I'm sure they will. I guess I will find out, once I again get the room to have them ready for use :) Talk about a decent collection, that's something I …

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Re: screen artifacts / garbled with Dune2

Posted on 2019-10-16, 10:45

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SimonV wrote: The 16bit digitized speech, the possibility to mix soundblaster sound with MT32 sounds ... Although I am a BIG amigafan those possibilities surpass it. ah yes okay 😀

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Re: my retro systems

Posted on 2019-10-16, 10:43

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Caluser2000 wrote: Nice collection of stuff CBM. Thanks 😀 Just hope that most of it is still in working order 😀

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Re: NFS4 High Stakes IN WINDOWS XP

Posted on 2019-10-16, 09:06

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I remember using an "XP-Patch" made for need for speed 4 high stakes around 2005-ish I found out on this forum that there is also a windows 10 patch: Need For Speed 4 Modern Patch http://veg.by/en/projects/nfs4/ so that means that game will now run on : windows 9x windows xp windows 10 this patch …

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storage of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-10-16, 08:51

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I am worried about the vintage hardware I have in storage It is stored in woodensheds without heating i noticed that consoles like PlayStation 2 does not like being stored in that environment and a CRT monitor that I had stored on its own, had some weird picture issues... that might be fixable …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019

Posted on 2019-10-16, 08:26

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what about fallout 3 that game ONLY works with xp or vista whats the point of even getting that game on steam then I too was unable to run Fallout 3 on windows 10 using Steam... but when I decided to buy Fallout 3 on GOG, then it worked without any issues (the GOG version, the steam version has …

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Re: Pentium Power - My 'common' P166 machine

Posted on 2019-10-16, 08:23

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It is so nice to se a retro system running DOOM II and on a real CRT monitor I have a bunch of P4 based machines and 4 of them I have chosen to dedicate to a 4 player doom 2 setup in my vacation home at some point :) And it gives a very nice effect, the picture with dimmed light you just need one of …

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Re: S3D GLQuake - any real value in it?

Posted on 2019-10-16, 08:11

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So this guy here is running GLQuake on a P3 1ghz with Win98 and his S3 Virge GX is at 400x300: https://youtu.be/llYTUPUEPBE?t=805 He doesn't do a benchmark or anything but it seems playable. But yes, not sure why you would choose this over a software renderer - like WinQuake. nice! when I get some …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2019-10-16, 08:08

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Nice list.. it suddently occurs to me that I never actually played any 3D games with any of my S3 Virge cards.

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Re: S3 Virge DX and GX memory

Posted on 2019-10-16, 08:06

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I have both DX and GX versions that I used back in the 90s, I did not notice much difference between them, they were great for adding additional monitors to Windows98SE though.

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Re: Help identifying this EGA card

Posted on 2019-10-16, 07:51

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nice! I think I have that same EGA ISA card somewhere! I remember spending days messing with jumpers on all kinds of weird cards back in the day! 😀 Why I remember that as enjoyable, I will never know 😀

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Re: King's Quest V

Posted on 2019-10-16, 07:34

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Unless you are very enthusiastic about running the game on an old system, then I can recommend the remakes, some of them can be seen in the link below https://www.dosgamers.com/dos/dos-games/kings-quest on the other hand... the original DOS EGA versions also have a certain charm I guess 😀

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

Posted on 2019-10-16, 07:32

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am still pushing forward with GZDoom mods 😁 Back in the late 90s I remember creating levels (wads) and dreaming about the modding potential of GZDoom... We did have DeHacked back then though... That did allow for SOME funny experiments atleast, like a rocket launcher that shoots barrels 😁

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