Re: GOG.com games that work in Win9x/ME with no fuss

Posted on 2023-11-04, 07:52

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Thief 2 - Failure. Same as Thief Gold The first two Thief games come with fan-made patches integrated on GOG and Steam. These were meant to fix some compatibility issues on modern systems and likely won't work correctly on period-correct hardware. For all the good that GOG does, I really wish they …

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My optical drive-apocalypse (and how I partially fixed it)

Posted on 2023-11-04, 07:23

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So, almost all of my optical drives at this point were refusing to eject. Some would eject properly if there was a disk inside. Only one Sony CD-RW was fine and a Compaq slot-driven 24x CD-ROM from the Deskpro 2000 that people claim has a 100% failure rate. Every failed optical drive had the wheel- …

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Re: GOG.com games that work in Win9x/ME with no fuss

Posted on 2023-11-04, 05:58

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Another update: Planescape: Torment - Success Thief 2 - Failure. Same as Thief Gold Blood Omen 2 - Success Baldur's Gate - Success Baldur's Gate 2 - Success To test further: Icewind Dale Icewind Dale 2 Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Soul Reaver 2 Legacy of Kain: Defiance Vampire the Masquerade: …

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Re: GOG.com games that work in Win9x/ME with no fuss

Posted on 2023-11-04, 05:05

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Progress so far: Deus Ex GOTY- Success Quake 2 - Success Thief Gold - Failure - requires MSVCR90.DLL, which is part of Visual C++ 2008 Redist. The latest version of VC++ redist compatible with W98 is 2005. But, as far as I know, 2008 has been unofficially back ported, so will need to check that …

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Re: GOG.com games that work in Win9x/ME with no fuss

Posted on 2023-11-03, 17:29

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I don't know if they use the UAP or not and I can't remember if the UAP works on 9x or not.You can try downloading it and messing around if you don't have the original ver of the game. You can also try KernelEX. If you do have the original ver of the game or someone else does then a windiff …

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Re: GOG.com games that work in Win9x/ME with no fuss

Posted on 2023-11-03, 17:29

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I have to confirm that OGL wrapper for Blood Omen: Legacy of Rain did nothing to fix the game. Technically, the game runs, but the videos are a mess of glitches and the menus are off, and the game is... weird. Not in the way it's supposed to be, though. Testing next: Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 ( …

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Re: GOG.com games that work in Win9x/ME with no fuss

Posted on 2023-11-03, 16:21

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Interesting. I can't get Arcanum to work (The ARCANUM.EXE file is linked to missing export DDRAW.DLL:CompleteCreateSystemSurface) on Win98. Check if there is a DDRAW.DLL file in the game directory and delete it. DLLs are hidden by default in Windows 98 and this can be changed in the Folder Options. …

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Re: GOG.com games that work in Win9x/ME with no fuss

Posted on 2023-11-03, 14:34

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I've been working on this for awhile and have compiled a small list of games that I'll put here. If there's enough interest, I'll keep this list updated in the OP especially if others add to the thread. I'm limiting this list to Win9x/ME native games. DOS games that use DOSBox or ScummVM should go …

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Re: A very strange Yamaha XG YMF744B-R sound card

Posted on 2023-10-31, 18:57

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Is there reason to believe the counterfeiters actually cloned the hardware functionality to that degree, that original Yamaha YMF drivers would work with it? And then they did that again with an ESS chip? Such was done with the OPL3, but a chip like YMF744 is much more complicated. Though maybe not …

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Re: A very strange Yamaha XG YMF744B-R sound card

Posted on 2023-10-31, 18:56

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At this point I'm tempted to send this card to Phil's Computer Lab or Clint at LGR and have it properly tested and examined :)) I don't think my experience and setup will do it justice, especially if it's really a rare card. With all due respect to Clint and Phil, they don't have the expertise, or …

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Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)

Posted on 2023-10-31, 04:16

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Virge is, in fact, a hardware accelerator which is about 3x faster than software rendering on high-end Pentium MMX. It was just not enough to suddenly render 4x times more pixels with linear filtering. And S3 didn't really improved performance significantly after DX variation. Virge was an …

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Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)

Posted on 2023-10-31, 04:13

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leileilol wrote on 2023-10-31, 03:35: Rage 128 was also often part of "128-bit graphics" OEM euphemisms Yeah, that card is like a cockroach - no matter what box of old gear I open, there seems to be a couple inside. I tried gaming on those. It was... discouraging. ATI really got good after Radeon.

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Re: A very strange Yamaha XG YMF744B-R sound card

Posted on 2023-10-31, 04:09

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This topic https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=48133 Has identification tips in section "1.9. Fake "Yamahas"" I'm talking about x-ray analysis. Real methods. Is there reason to believe the counterfeiters actually cloned the hardware functionality to that degree, that original Yamaha YMF drivers …

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Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)

Posted on 2023-10-30, 22:19

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At the time when agp first came out, everyone who owned a pc prior to agp only had pci (myself included). I think that’s a big reason cards were still made for pci, a lot of people still had pci machines. Many people never had AGP. A lot of systems from big OEMs may have used AGP internally to a …

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Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)

Posted on 2023-10-30, 22:16

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But having an AGP Virge and a PCI Voodoo is kind of funny. But Voodoo had to be PCI, if only because they probably wanted to also be compatible with all the large-OEM systems that had soldered-on-motherboard graphics. Lots of real IBMs, IBMs-nee-Acer, Packard Hells, Compaqs, etc without AGP slots. …

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Re: A very strange Yamaha XG YMF744B-R sound card

Posted on 2023-10-30, 22:14

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It's not rare. It's a new 'Chinese' card made incredibly cheaply with overstock old chips. Similar cards are churned out in massive numbers with various old chips on them, frequently relabeled too (i.e. with something written on the chips that does not correspond to the actual chip itself). You can …

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Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)

Posted on 2023-10-30, 13:45

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[...] Well, I think you might find something better than a Virge if you were rich :)) SLI came with Voodoo2, and by that time, I don't think Virge was a go-to option anymore. I would expect it to be a budget OEM option, because Virge was quite cheap and OEM builders liked stuff that was cheap and …

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Re: A very strange Yamaha XG YMF744B-R sound card

Posted on 2023-10-30, 13:35

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It's not rare. It's a new 'Chinese' card made incredibly cheaply with overstock old chips. Similar cards are churned out in massive numbers with various old chips on them, frequently relabeled too (i.e. with something written on the chips that does not correspond to the actual chip itself). You can …

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Re: A very strange Yamaha XG YMF744B-R sound card

Posted on 2023-10-30, 12:21

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It's not rare. It's a new 'Chinese' card made incredibly cheaply with overstock old chips. Similar cards are churned out in massive numbers with various old chips on them, frequently relabeled too (i.e. with something written on the chips that does not correspond to the actual chip itself). You can …

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Re: A very strange Yamaha XG YMF744B-R sound card

Posted on 2023-10-30, 12:17

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by songoffall

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It's not rare. It's a new 'Chinese' card made incredibly cheaply with overstock old chips. Similar cards are churned out in massive numbers with various old chips on them, frequently relabeled too (i.e. with something written on the chips that does not correspond to the actual chip itself). You can …

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