Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-21, 17:43

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Ok. So after much effort with Populous, well, no. I didn't beat the level. I hacked the game. Brushing up on x86 assembly and DOSBOX's debug tools, I figured out the bytes that set if you are in Conquest mode or Custom mode. I then found the checks that prevent you from altering the enemies …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-19, 14:18

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Still slowly making my way through Populous. Hit another difficulty wall around world 120 or so. The first difficulty wall around world 30 or so was just learning to hit the AI early and often. It seems to me once one side or the other gets going, it just snowballs too much. So the best way to deal …

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Re: A "broad spectrum" 90s build?

Posted on 2021-07-16, 14:34

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You seem a bit overwhelmed with the cornucopia of options you've been given. I can tell you what worked for me. My current 90's box is: Motherboard: PC Partner MVP3BS7 (Via MVP3 Chipset) CPU: K6-2+ 500 RAM: 256 MB 100 Mhz SDRAM Graphics: Geforce 2 MX 400 DOS Sound: AWE64 Value (CT 4500) Win98 Sound: …

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Re: Xwing Collectors CD with AWE64 - Midi is silent?!

Posted on 2021-07-16, 03:09

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Necroing this thread again to add my own experience. Just got an AWE64 Value, plugged it in, initialized with UNISOUND, everything is going great. Try to play X-Wing Collectors CD-ROM, and I either get no audio at all, or horrible screeching. Probably down to some unpredictable state the sound card …

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-07-15, 12:54

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You know, let me reframe my argument about DOSBOX killing DOS. Because it's not that DOSBOX is better. It has trade offs. It's that DOSBOX let the industry off the hook of supporting DOS. Even after Windows no longer had a "DOS mode", if people needed DOS, some hardware somewhere would have …

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Re: Unease feelings on other forums visited ?

Posted on 2021-07-14, 12:32

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I will say, the only reason I finally bit the bullet and began tinkering with some retro hardware I had a longing for was from visiting here so long. And it's generally been a good experience. It can be remarkable though. You are having an issue, and you try your best to do your due diligence, …

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Re: Looking for advice: How to begin fixing a dead ISA sound card

Posted on 2021-07-13, 14:42

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It's kind of blurry, but are two of the pins in the 2x3 array at JP1 bent to the point of shorting? Also, I think below that is a diagram showing that the pins need to be configured with jumpers for either Line Out or Speaker Out? Also, yeah, plastic parts in the upper right corner look melty. Edit: …

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-07-13, 00:56

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Not sure I saw this stated before but... DOSBOX killed DOS. Double checking it's initial release of 2002 definitely overlaps my LAN party days when people were clinging to Win9X just to keep playing their beloved DOS game collections. I definitely recall early days around 2003 and 2004 in college of …

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.49 for Live, v1.01 for Audigy

Posted on 2021-07-11, 02:07

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Yesterday I've run 0.49 version on my old Pentium-2 i440. The EMS volume was 8192-32768 and no problems, no decreases. Later I will recheck it on "hub" chipsets. What config do you using? In fact, running emm386 with just NOEMS caused my computer to reboot as well. Which is a new one to me. It is …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.76b

Posted on 2021-07-11, 01:46

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I have a possibly stupid question, but I'm just trying to get my ducks in a row before some hardware gets here. I have a system with an SBLive, who's dos performance I'm underwhelmed by. The fact that the dos driver requires EMS throws a wrench into playing a smattering of old Origin games. The OPL3 …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-09, 03:41

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Doom 2016's heart was in the right place. Maybe it blew me away because my expectations were so low. I thought it's E3 trailer looked horrible, goofy and forced. It's review embargo did not bode well for their confidence in it. And the multiplayer beta did not interest me in the slightest. Then I …

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Re: A troubleshooting guide for Caluser2000.

Posted on 2021-07-08, 18:05

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Is it really a lie that everyone who tries to keep a computer working ends up quietly weeping?

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-06, 00:00

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Doom II is finished, with my customary time capsule like trophy photo. First one at the new house, with the new monitor. Weirdly, The Spirit World began hitching a bit on my rig. I feel inclined to blame the SBLive's SB16 emulation. A notion of building a P233 MMX machine with a proper ISA sound …

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Re: Ports better than original.

Posted on 2021-07-04, 22:46

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I seem to recall a Japanese SNES version of Wizardry 1-3 that is leaps and bounds better than the original, or any version, published here. Let you switch between wire frame or textured graphics. Also let you back up your save data if I remember correctly. At some point through means I can't recall …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-04, 12:26

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Too bad he cut off at 1995. IMHO 1997 was a banner year for PCs. It was the year I targeted for own retro build. Pentium chips were proliferating, with 233 MMXs becoming "affordable" due to the super new and super pricy Pentium II's. Plus the dawn of the first real 3D cards like the Voodoo and the …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-04, 11:54

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I'm continuing my trek through Doom 2. I'm not sure I've played this game in earnest since 1995. And I have no memory of ever having beaten it besides being 12 years old and cheating my whole way through. Now Doom on the other hand, I've played that fairly regularly over the many years, and left my …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-04, 04:06

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I'm continuing my trek through Doom 2. I'm not sure I've played this game in earnest since 1995. And I have no memory of ever having beaten it besides being 12 years old and cheating my whole way through. Now Doom on the other hand, I've played that fairly regularly over the many years, and left my …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-06-25, 02:39

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So I moved. Finally got out of the 1200 sq ft town home my wife and kid were stacked into, and got out into the country in a 2500 sq ft SFH on 4 acres. Bills are even cheaper to boot. Plus I get to work from home. My "home office" expanded from an extremely cramped guest "bedroom" into a quite …

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Re: Building an XP gaming PC for early 2000's games

Posted on 2021-06-14, 13:13

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The thing about early 2000's era is you are getting stuck in the transition from AGP to PCIe. I built an Athlon 64, Geforce 6800 GT build last year, targeting 2004 and the first computer I had some real money in my pocket to buy back then. I had a real sentimental attachment to that specific combo …

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Re: PCem v17

Posted on 2021-06-14, 01:04

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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. …

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