Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-04-29, 02:19
Looking back, the design is ridiculously fragile. Not to take away from their achievements. Awesome, awesome processors, it was a very exciting time.
Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)
Posted on 2022-04-28, 07:00
This weeks scripted video was another Worthwhile DOS Game to add to the 100 list. This time it was two of them! Hell to Pay and Perdition's Gate! I'd love to give these maps a try someday. Kinda funny they were treading a legal gray area selling them as commercial products without a agreement with …
Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support
Posted on 2022-04-27, 11:37
The X2GS is great for listening to old video game music and playing games because of it's 81-voice polyphony and HQ soundbank, which makes it perfect for retro gaming builds with these "new soundcards". Those of us on modern systems with no soundcard rely on the VSTis, but what really baffles me …
Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support
Posted on 2022-04-27, 01:07
The X2GS is great for listening to old video game music and playing games because of it's 81-voice polyphony and HQ soundbank, which makes it perfect for retro gaming builds with these "new soundcards". Those of us on modern systems with no soundcard rely on the VSTis, but what really baffles me …
Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?
Posted on 2022-04-26, 21:37
I don't care for ANY sequel, unless that sequel re-proves itself in it's own right . Some do. Some don't. Doom 3 passed that test, because despite it's glaring flaws, people still routinely praise aspects of the game today. It's its own thing. For it's era, it set the high bar for certain things. …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-04-24, 11:52
^it's nuts, but and therefore I like it! The world's first dual-BIOS USB stick??
Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?
Posted on 2022-04-24, 02:32
It doesn't even have to be about war at all. Counter Strike (1999)'s quasi-military/guerilla style wasn't. Military stuff carries an inherent fascination.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-04-24, 02:18
Not a PC thing, but I'm not currently hanging on any specialist arcade forums, so y'all can hear it. Ordered a set of arcade controls for a new cabinet I plan to build. I'm excited because the buttons are Crown 202's, which come with a reputation for excellence that I have not yet experienced. …
Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?
Posted on 2022-04-24, 02:04
WW2 had already had it's first stint at owning the PC gaming genre, 6 years prior to Saving Private Ryan. It's not about who's on first but why a game existed. Private Ryan's undoubtedly a big driving force for the market. Great movies are influential, no doubt. So too are game styles. The FPS lent …
Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?
Posted on 2022-04-23, 21:23
We can't have a discussion about the video gaming/WW2 crossover without Wolf3D. WW2 had already had it's first stint at owning the PC gaming genre, 6 years prior to Saving Private Ryan.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-22, 23:10
Yep, the full towers are a logistical nightmare and tbh, I tend to fear for my back when moving them. But... as you've proven once more: They are much more likely to contain the good stuff. Like, really rare drives that are rare because when they appeared, they were advanced and expensive, or, same …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-22, 21:44
Yep, the full towers are a logistical nightmare and tbh, I tend to fear for my back when moving them. But... as you've proven once more: They are much more likely to contain the good stuff. Like, really rare drives that are rare because when they appeared, they were advanced and expensive, or, same …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-22, 00:05
Its my 3rd LGA 1366 board, snagging them while they are cheap. A few years (3?? 5??) ago, they were semi- a pain to get. The CPUs were a dime-a-dozen, cheap as potato chips, but for motherboards everyone wanted $50-100. Has the cycle moved around again since then ? No. Motherboards is still …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-21, 23:43
Not sure how retro this is, but just got in an ASUS Sabertooth X58 with i7-980x and 12GB DDR3-1333. Is the 870x better then equivalent 6 core XEONs? I saw that listing a few weeks back. I also got a Asus sabertooth x58 and paired it with a Xeon x5675 as a gaming system for my wife. I got 24 gigs of …
Re: Is a Roland SC-55 Okay or do I need a MT-32 ?
Posted on 2022-04-21, 22:39
But by that argument, why not just throw Dosbox on a modern computer? It can do so much more than a vintage machine! Anything else would be a downgrade. I never owned a real MT-32 in the 90's, so I don't have any personal nostalgia connection to that physical device and the micro details of it's …
Re: Is a Roland SC-55 Okay or do I need a MT-32 ?
Posted on 2022-04-21, 21:52
the MUNT emulator is nearly identical But better in some ways, e.g. cleaner sound, and ability to change on-demand between different versions of MT-32 and CM-32/64. I couldn't justify the price of a real one, even 1-2 years ago. So, when I built my own hardware mt32-pi instead, it felt like I was …
Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?
Posted on 2022-04-21, 21:37
Different strokes, makes the world go round. Totally. Also, what we read here, is a snapshot of a mainly PC-centric subset of gamers. If this same thread existed at a forum mainly crewed by Arcade people, or by Console people, there'd be a totally different set of equally-valid answers and …
Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?
Posted on 2022-04-21, 08:16
^ < suppresses urge to defend/explain his beloved Nintendo games > I played mostly PC + Arcade games for 3 decades, before I finally came full-circle (back to basics) and gained a love for Nintendo's creations. "Oh god, just thought of another one". The entire Grand Theft Auto thing. It was briefly …
Re: Is a Roland SC-55 Okay or do I need a MT-32 ?
Posted on 2022-04-21, 01:17
But, is it even worth the money for the handful of games that use the MT-32? The MT-32 goes for a few hundred now.... I think it's as I said here : Just go to Youtube, search for "best MT-32 soundtracks" or similar, and watch some relevant videos. If, after watching said videos, you're thinking I …
Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?
Posted on 2022-04-20, 22:58
Duke Nukem (any) : more personality* than gameplay. *(of the "annoying, toxic machismo" variety) Almost all FPS games , after the initial 1990's run of founding creativity. At what point did the gaming universe's massive, open, free imagination to creatively do everything and anything at all , get …
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