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Re: Inconsistent Speeds drive me nuts.

Posted on 2005-12-03, 08:24

If I understand what you are saying, that would be wrong solution anyway. The real system did not change CPU speed either. Coincidentally, do you have CPU with SpeedStep? I know, HT and SpeedStep is not the most common combination but these days you never know. Also, what's your video card? By any …

MT-32 vs Adlib/Soundblaster

Posted on 2005-12-03, 08:09

in MT-32 General
Just out of curiosity: if you want to show how good MT-32 can be against Adlib/SB/SB16, which DOS game would you use? I know that most games sound better on MT-32 (I have MT-32) but which ones show the biggest difference? The answer is subjective but anyway...

Easter Egg in Eric the Unready

Posted on 2005-12-03, 08:02

in Milliways
Of all Legend's games, Eric the Unready is my favorite. I am sure there are a few fans here as well. Maybe somebody can help me answer one question that bothered me for years. The maximum number of points in the game is 1000. However, at the very end of the hintbook (and Legend's hintbooks were …

Re: Overscan border patch

Posted on 2005-12-03, 07:48

Quick comment, just in case if anybody tries it. This patch is incompatible with scaler optimization patch by Kronuz (see separate thread). Don't even try merging them, there are too just too many conflicts. The optimization patch definitely has the priority at this point and it is in active …

Re: Commercial games released as freeware

Posted on 2005-11-29, 22:16

in Milliways
I don't find it particularly weird after seeing all these cases of "collections." It feels like more often than not that the older or broken versions get to the "collection" packages. I've seen that with Activision (Infocom collections), Sierra (just all over the place), and with Legend …

Re: Commercial games released as freeware

Posted on 2005-11-29, 20:59

in Milliways
Arena is definitely free download and the license does not seem to restrict distribution, so it is freeware (but not PD). This applies to the floppy version only. Bethesda did not make CD version available (most likely, to save bandwidth), technically this means that CD version is not free yet :sad: …

Re: Commercial games released as freeware

Posted on 2005-11-29, 19:30

in Milliways
Public domain or freeware? Two different things. A few years ago Activision released the first three Zork games as free downloads. These is yet another category. If you've downloaded them then, it's fine; otherwise those are not PD or freeware... I have Roberta Williams Anthology but I've missed …

Re: Giebler MIDI Utilities

Posted on 2005-11-29, 18:25

You may want to try Microsoft VirtualPC or VMWare, both have full-featured trial versions. On one occasion I had disk utility that refused to work on the host Win2000 machine but did not have any problems running under Win98/DOS inside VirtualPC on the same machine. Of course, that depends on the …

Re: Commercial games released as freeware

Posted on 2005-11-29, 09:41

in Milliways
Of the listed websites, only Liberated Games can really be used as reliable source of information. Anybody who thinks that HOTU is completely legal must be delusional. The site operator makes an effort not to get into trouble but there is a lot of grey stuff there. I'd like to believe that …

Re: Using General MIDI for Doom

Posted on 2005-11-29, 09:13

in DOS
Yeah, that device was definitely not General MIDI compatible in that respect. The manual actually did not refer to General MIDI. Similar NanoBass unit was not marked as General MIDI (I vaguely noticing that in store as an oddity), maybe they fixed that mistake in the later models. Could be also …

Re: Using General MIDI for Doom

Posted on 2005-11-29, 04:25

in DOS
That should work but it is very likely that the music will sound rather odd. In many cases "General MIDI" refers only to physical implementation and protocol but not to the patch set. I have Alesis Nano Piano synth that has "General MIDI" written all over it but it maps all 128 patches to different …

Re: Linux on XBox 360

Posted on 2005-11-28, 19:37

in Milliways
The only time I tried Linux on console was that infamous Linux kit on PS2. The entire experience can be summarized in one word: lame. However, it could be just me, I have odd relations with Linux on desktop either -- I always seem to use some hardware that is not (and not likely to be) supported and …

Re: Retro gaming (especially graphics)

Posted on 2005-11-28, 18:50

in Milliways
Those "mass-market" games were always there. Treat them as "noise." I am still seeing fairly big selection of strategy games, currently dominated by Civ4 and Age of Empires III. There are a few new RPGs, although I don't remember anything really big in that section recently. The adventure gaming is …

Re: Graphics performance boost

Posted on 2005-11-28, 18:28

I wonder how it affects performance of higher resolutions. Dawn Patrol could really use some boost. Win3.x is quite likely to benefit from it. I did not try using this patch with my SVGA patch but seeing that most of the patch is local to scalers I don't think merging will be hard. Quake actually …

Re: Retro gaming (especially graphics)

Posted on 2005-11-27, 22:59

in Milliways
There are two targets most game developers are shooting for. One is low target of 20 hours of game time and the other is high target of 50 hours or more. The first is the most suitable for mass market, the second is for hardcore audience. That's the theory. In practice, it just does not work. Half- …

Re: Does Mortal Kombat 3 runs in DOSBox

Posted on 2005-11-24, 08:14

Also, don't push CPU cycles to the max from the beginning. At some point it may cause some adverse effects. Start at some reasonable value (8000-10000 should work on your system) and increase only if you find that it needs it. Side note: 256MB of RAM is rather low if you are running Windows XP. The …

Re: XBOX 360 problems

Posted on 2005-11-23, 10:14

in Milliways
Typical for the first round. There were a lot of units sold today, shortages or not, so you can expect big wave of complains and problems, real or otherwise. Some people will discover that wireless is not going to work for them thanks to some other device, some will finally find that their power …

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