Re: well-hated geforce2 GTS rocking 3dmark99max?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 20:04

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by HunterZ

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

GPU computing is not the future of games, though, but rather an attempt to widen the market for their hardware. Using proprietary APIs to gain advantage over competitors always annoys me greatly, because it's a cheap attempt to lock software developers into your platform. It also never works out in …

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Re: Dropped partials in MT-32 games?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 19:23

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by HunterZ

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

Does it sound significantly different when the partials don't get dropped? Maybe it was just sloppy transcribing from some sheet music or another MIDI device that was rearranged for MT-32 without worrying about polyphony?

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Re: Doom 2 IPX Error Vector 0x60

Posted on 2012-06-07, 19:16

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by HunterZ

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Are you sure you're both using the same version of Doom 2? You may want to try using a modern Doom engine like Skulltag / ZDoom / GZDoom. Some of them can even be configured to look/feel/behave almost identical to the original engine if you really want to.

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Re: Getting new USB gamepad to work on an old rig

Posted on 2012-06-07, 19:10

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by HunterZ

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

It's almost a shame to use a USB controller with an old rig, where DB-15 joysticks were king. Windows 2000 and newer have much better built-in support for USB controllers. Hearing that Win98 is giving you a headache is not a surprise unfortunately.

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Re: Which VLB card for DOS games: Paradise WD90c33 or Cirrus Logic GD5428...?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 19:07

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by HunterZ

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Most VESA SVGA games will work without LFB support, but will run noticeably slower as a result. 14MB of RAM is probably enough for most late DOS games that will run playably on a 486, although it may be a bit tight for Windows 95 if you run that. Is it the physical presence of the RAM that causes …

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Re: How to set up midi support in dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 19:02

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by HunterZ

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I'm glad to hear that the OP's issue has been solved. I'm going to go ahead and lock this thread to avoid further controversy on the abandonware topic.

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Re: well-hated geforce2 GTS rocking 3dmark99max?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 19:00

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by HunterZ

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Agreed... 3DFX really got screwed on my angles!! The STB purchase...the SEGA Dreamcast fallout.....the executives running it into the ground.....the building technology sideways.... 3dfx rested on their laurels, overconfident in the developer lock-in power of their proprietary Glide API. They also …

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Re: The Two Guys from Andromeda's latest SpaceVenture to be Kickstarted soon!

Posted on 2012-06-07, 18:50

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by HunterZ

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in Milliways

Not sure about this versus Tex, but I think in general people are going to start losing interest in funding kickstarter games until some of the bigger ones actually ship. I'd really like to back this one, but I'm already waiting on the pledges I've made towards FTL, Wasteland 2 and Shadowrun to come …

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Re: Power Supplies And Age?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 17:46

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by HunterZ

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Most of the time I judge a power supply on it's weight. If it's as light as a feather then it go's in the scrap pile. The heaver ones I set aside and look at later. Someone once told me that's a good quick way to judge the build quitly . Maybe, but technology is changing to where quality things can …

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Re: How to set up midi support in dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 17:05

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by HunterZ

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

What synthesizer are you using in your DOS machine? What port is it on?

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Re: How to set up midi support in dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 16:32

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by HunterZ

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

You seem to be lacking some critical knowledge of DOS sound hardware, but you're at a point that you really need to understand these things. Unfortunately I don't currently have time to dig up some good educational material. This might help a little bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_card

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Re: LASTDRIVE help

Posted on 2012-06-07, 16:06

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by HunterZ

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Yeah, maybe just having a dummy config.sys in your virtual c:\ path with that LASTDRIVE setting will be enough to satisfy the program.

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Re: Unreal 2 on Intel GMA 3000? Graphical glitches!

Posted on 2012-06-07, 15:46

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by HunterZ

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in Windows

I wouldn't try any 3D gaming on Intel GPUs, except maybe old games on the Intel HD ones. Have you tried locating Intel GPU drivers?

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Re: How to set up midi support in dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 15:40

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by HunterZ

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

robertmo wrote: btw midi and music is not the same. read sth about it. In the context of old games, I think it's safe to assume that music is the common application of MIDI. At least, I'm not aware of any games that use MIDI for other hardware automation 😀

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Re: How to set up midi support in dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 15:33

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by HunterZ

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

As a moderator, I should lock this thread. Instead, I will give some guidance first: Please be aware that asking for support for abandonware is against VOGONS forum policy. Despite our personal opinions on the matter, abandonware is a legal grey area; it is expected that forum members will respect …

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Re: Power Supplies And Age?

Posted on 2012-06-06, 22:55

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by HunterZ

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They're definitely making them cheaper these days. There's a range of quality to choose from. What really sucks is that the wattages don't mean much, since sometimes they're referring to peak wattage and sometimes sustainable wattage.

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Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-06, 22:49

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by HunterZ

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

As long as it is documented, the confusion concern is not really any more warranted than it is for any of DOSBox's other confusing features that already exist. I think NRS' proposal is very reasonable. You'd probably want a "monitor=auto" so that just switching from, say, machine=cga to machine= …

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Re: Power Supplies And Age?

Posted on 2012-06-06, 22:42

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by HunterZ

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As with cars it's less about the age and more about the mileage. Keeping dust out of the fans will help too, as dust will wear out the fans and potentially allow the PSU to overheat. I've had multiple PSUs fail over the years, and they rarely damage the computers they're connected to. This is …

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Re: Resolution problem

Posted on 2012-06-06, 21:26

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by HunterZ

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Try using output=openglnb and keeping scaler=none to avoid blurring. This will still fill the screen with an aspect-correct image without black areas around all 4 sides. The downside is that it may be more obvious that some emulated pixels have different sizes from others. I prefer the blurring …

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Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-06, 21:23

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by HunterZ

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

@NRS: That works for me. @ripsaw: I think you could easily handle invalid combinations by falling back to using the default monitor= setting for the chosen machine= setting, and spitting a warning message on the DOSBox status console. As for selecting an emulated monitor type by running a fake DOS …

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