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Re: PCem v17

Posted on 2021-06-14, 01:04

We are talking about a personal project shared FOR FREE. If the creator don’t think the effort is worth it, so be it. Oh sure, if it was the author's choice, then so be it. I am not complaining, but at the same time blame no one for its downfall. The source code has been made available from GitHub. …

Re: PCem v17

Posted on 2021-06-10, 13:54

I have one problem with PCem. I have a Pentium with Voodoo 2 setup on one and it does not play cd audio worth a crap. It stutters. If I use a cd image, it works fine. This is annoying because many old games use cd audio. I don't know if this is still the case, but I think around PCem v15 or v16 I …

Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 18:24

I think a lot of what muddles the waters of WInXP's "vintage"ness is the fact that it was used for so very long. I checked an article about Steams 2010 hardware survey, and about 1/3 of it's users still had WinXP 32-bit. I primarily have fond memories of WinXP from my highschool lan party days circa …

Re: No Upper Memory?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 02:13

After device=c:\windows\himem.sys, put dos=high,umb. Without dos=umb somewhere after you've loaded himem.sys, you don't get upper memory blocks. You only need emm386 if you need ems or xms memory. My experience has tended to be that a game either needs lots of conventional memory, or it has …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-06-05, 16:24

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As a long time fan of role playing games who's only dabbled with (and not really understood) isometric turn based games, I suspect I'm missing out on some great experiences. I need something modern to get me going so I'm trying my hand at Pillars of Eternity II (PoE 1 sounded great too but I liked …

Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-04, 23:46

I would consider WinXP retro just on the basis of it having the baggage of being retro. Like the fact that legitimately activating it is somewhere between difficult to impossible. And if it's not impossible yet, you can see it from here. Thinking about when Vista came out, I'm not sure there is …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-05-28, 20:15

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Wizardry 6 on MS-DOS 6.22 (k6 3+ @500 with setmul@ min) I'd be interested in hearing your experiences with this! I got halfway through the game a couple years ago, but got busy with other stuff and never completed it. I gotta get back into it one of these days, I really liked what I played. I think …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-05-24, 14:24

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So I did in fact start playing Settlers II. Got to the end of the first level and then it crashed. And I hadn't saved. I suppose on the bright side, the first level is kind of just a tutorial, and it always had the option for me to start on the second level. Still, if the game crashes whenever I …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-05-22, 17:54

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So I wrapped up Dawn of War yesterday. I don't think I'd beaten the campaign since I first played it in college around 2004 or so? My customary photo trophy. 20210521_Dawn_of_War.jpg I remember at the time, when the campaign ended after only 11 missions, I had a very "That's it?" attitude. I kept …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-05-16, 22:33

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Not using any of the NPCs in Baldur's Gate is missing out on half the game though.. It's weird thinking about it now, but I recall at the time a bunch of Gold Box veterans played almost exclusively that way. It was considered a minor knock against the game that you couldn't natively roll your own …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 13:40

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AD&D Curse of the Azure Bonds (PC DOS) Finished! Overall, I enjoyed the game, but felt it was quite a step down from Pool of Radiance. I'll get the bad out of the way first. The structure of the game is actually pretty lame. It's "nonlinear" in that you can tackle the middle portion of the game in …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-05-07, 04:03

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Well, I finally pulled myself away from some C64 assembly and binging Jojo's Bizarre Adventure long enough to finish Doom. With my customary trophy photo. Perhaps not finished , I didn't do Episode 4 which was added later. But that always felt a bit too masochistic for me. Besides, the ending of …

Re: Chia cryptocurrency - Mining on HDD and SSD

Posted on 2021-05-06, 18:27

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Blockchain is one part of a series of interlocking pieces that are attempting to democratize core parts of our society. Namely those pieces are blockchain, proof of work, and a system of rules that encourages competitive enforcement of the networks rules. So to pick off the blockchain, it's a …

Re: What game series did you stop getting and why?

Posted on 2021-05-06, 13:14

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It's easy to blame Activision for Blizzard losing it's way. But I think it might be more accurate to blame WoW. Once that was making all the money and basically monopolized the MMO space for a decade, it was going to be Games as a Service forever more. With or without Activision. No more returning …

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