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

Posted on 2020-11-07, 19:02

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Had to reinstall Win10 (system began freezing after some seconds after login, quick look at event viewer didn't really help, and it probably was not caused by hardware (I disconnected my soundcard and a RAM stick, disabled overclocking and problem persisted). First, used "restore PC to factory …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-07, 13:51

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Any kind of heatsinks on IC components is a duct tape design for me. However it's ok for heavily heated power supply elements. I can sacrifice as much whole performance as it needed for normal operation of naked ICs even in chassis with no ventilation at all. Wonder if there ever was a design which …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-07, 11:48

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I'm still miffed how "DOS Games" are defined by mostly Apogee/Epic crap with a heavy FPS bias. It's a very ASP-revised history. Keen this, Duke that, "wow the gears war guy made rabbit sonic"...and of course "DOOM 95!!!! oooh dat nostalgia *Microsoft Synthesizer rendition of D_E1M1 plays*". and …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 21:47

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I confess I get mildly irritated when people call D_E1M1 music "Doom theme" -- when it's not. I don't really like 3dfx graphics because I think it's overrated API, which is inferior to OpenGL/D3D (even Wrappers can get the job done with better perfoemance) in most games (Windows -- not DOS). I mean …

Re: HL1 and A3D -- some sounds cutting off

Posted on 2020-05-24, 19:16

Thank you for your response! I've also seen that URL, yes -- but even after entering these "proper" values, deleting a3dapi.dll and installing A3D driver 2041 (the only one I shoud use, because later ones are buggy) I still have this issue: https://youtu.be/-gu_f-Q1mcI?t=5835 Looks like it will …

Aureal Vortex 2 Diagnostic/Testing Software

Posted on 2020-05-22, 09:39

I'm looking for a way to check if AU8830-based sound card is working properly. A3D Demos only show basic functionaity with 2-3 sound sources. If I remember, this card suports up to 96 streams. How to check if they all work without problems? Currently I came with temporary solution -- launch UnrealT …

Re: HL1 and A3D -- some sounds cutting off

Posted on 2020-05-21, 07:48

when i tried this game once on vortex2 with A3D everything just sounded very muffled, though i don't recall whether it had the cutting out issues you describe. what worked flawlessly for me was a live! card with liveware drivers, granted that just does EAX reverb as opposed to the A3D HRTF, but you …

HL1 and A3D -- some sounds cutting off

Posted on 2020-05-20, 09:16

Hello, I think I have a problem -- when you finish "Blast Pit" chapter (when the pipe breaks and you fall into the storeroom), as you remember, when the ceiling breaks, there's a lot of debris falling from it. As soon as they touch the floor (when they should play their sound), probably because the …

Re: 2001-2002 ASUS Tualatin build

Posted on 2020-05-12, 01:55

You’ve got a very nice setup there… If you ever get bored of switching the boot device in BIOS you can always setup multi-booting retro style using LiLo with a distro from back in the day. Thanks! I will definitely look into it when needed. Meanwhile, found overclocking mode I'll stick with for now …

Re: 2001-2002 ASUS Tualatin build

Posted on 2020-05-11, 02:02

foil_fresh wrote on 2020-05-11, 01:37: you dual booting 98 and xp? Not really -- each OS is installed on separate HDD, and WinXP is mostly used for maintenance of Win98 disk. Disk 1: Win98 OS, Win98 Software Disk 2: WinXP, Win98 Backups, CD image backups (for D-Tools in Win98) I switch boot device …

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