Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2015-01-01, 16:03

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Cheap as chips Cooler mod for Voodoo 3 cards! Video guide: 3dfx Voodoo 3 Cooler Why? Voodoo 3 cards are known to run very hot and come with a passive cooler only Benefits? - Cheap - Card remains intact / resell value What do I need? - 80mm fan - 1 thin cable tie - 2 rubber bands For those who don't …

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Re: Ultima II PC: special PCjr version

Posted on 2014-12-31, 19:11

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Did the PCjr. programmer take inspiration from the Wizard of Oz with the yellow bricks, or was red unavailable to him? There is no red in the PCjr's composite output when using the four-color CGA palette with white in it (#1). I entirely forgot about that! I took that from a thread on this site, …

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Re: Did System Shock supported MT-32?

Posted on 2014-12-31, 16:01

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System Shock does not directly support MT-32, so you will need to transmit a MID file to the unit before playing the game to rearrange the music patches to ones appropriate for General MIDI Get it here : http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=35632 Also, if System Shock uses MIDI channels 1 or 9 ( …

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Re: Ultima II PC: special PCjr version

Posted on 2014-12-30, 06:23

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For the longest time, it was understood generally that Sierra's contribution to the library of PCjr. software was the AGI engine which allowed for King's Quest and the later games, a cartridge version of Crossfire, a cartridge version of Mine Shaft, and PCjr. graphics support for BC's Quest for …

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Re: AWE32 better than AWE64?

Posted on 2014-12-23, 16:21

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If you are using a system for playing games of the mid to late 1990s, then you probably will not be using OPL that much and should use an AWE64.

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Re: Copy Protection & Image Formats

Posted on 2014-12-23, 13:24

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This is wholly incorrect. A patent allows the holder a 20-year right to exploit the invention covered by the patent, and reverse engineering a patent does not negate the right of the patent holder to enforce his patent. A trade secret is protected so long as it remains a secret. Reverse engineering …

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Re: Anyone Taking Advantage of Youtube's New 60FPS Support?

Posted on 2014-12-23, 03:44

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My monitor can support 50Hz using the custom resolutions feature, and can support 70Hz up to 1920x1080. However, my monitor is a native 1920x1200 panel, so I cannot get an ideal mode, at least with the Intel HD Graphics I am using. Maybe a discrete card would help.

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Re: Copy Protection & Image Formats

Posted on 2014-12-23, 02:29

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Also, file formats are rarely if ever patented. They are usually placed under trade secret protection instead. A trade secret, as long as the holder doesn't release the information themselves, is protected indefinitely. As a matter of fact, I've never heard of a file format actually being patented, …

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Re: Copy Protection & Image Formats

Posted on 2014-12-19, 18:40

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All the Sierra games non-booter protected AGI games, and Thexder and 3-D Helicopter Simulator, have their encryption keys made available. With the key, the loader can be cracked. Its usually the odd game or the odd version that cannot be cracked with information from textfiles or the standard …

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2014-12-10, 21:34

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All Gold Box engine games will work with Tandy Graphics except for Unlimited Adventures, which is VGA only. You are right about Eye of the Beholder

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Re: Covox Sound Master Reverse Engineering / Replica

Posted on 2014-12-08, 15:17

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I took a look at how the joystick ports are wired, and I am puzzled. On the underside of the PCB, I see that pins 1-5 and 9 of each DE-9 connector are connected to the 74HC365 line drivers. Pin 8 seems to be the common ground pin, as one trace goes to the pin of each connector. I understood that …

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Re: Multimedia SuperTandy TL/2

Posted on 2014-12-03, 01:41

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Almost all Tandy 1000s, including his, cannot use extended memory. No extended memory, no High Memory Area, which means that the bulk of DOS must reside in conventional memory.

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Re: Anyone Taking Advantage of Youtube's New 60FPS Support?

Posted on 2014-11-29, 07:52

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I'm probably gonna stick with 30 FPS for now, at least until Blip updates their system to also support 60 FPS encoding. I'll do a test at some point and if it fails I'll poke them with a feature request. :B Clint's already taking advantage of 60 FPS with LGR. :) When you mix live action and in-game …

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Re: Anyone Taking Advantage of Youtube's New 60FPS Support?

Posted on 2014-11-29, 06:31

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kolano wrote: Yeah, unfortunately I encoded my videos at 30. So I need to regenerate many of them to take advantage of 60FPS (also presuming DOSBox can produce framerates that high for things). It does.

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Anyone Taking Advantage of Youtube's New 60FPS Support?

Posted on 2014-11-29, 05:25

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This "news" is almost a month old, but Youtube supports 60fps (and 50fps) for HD videos. I believe it it makes a great improvement for just about any kind of video that shows gameplay footage. I wonder if anybody is actively planning to take advantage of this, for example by including native 60fps …

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Re: 2600 cartridge buried for 30 years runs again.

Posted on 2014-11-27, 21:31

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I received the impression that mainstream coverage made it seem like some great discovery was being made, an urban legend being proven true. It was more interesting to see what they put in that dump. Unfortunately, it appears to be mostly common games, nothing exciting like some undiscovered …

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Re: 2600 cartridge buried for 30 years runs again.

Posted on 2014-11-26, 06:44

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My issue with these is how can you tell the difference between a cartridge that came from Alamogordo and a cart someone crushed with a steamroller today?

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Re: NEC V20 processor speed recommendation.

Posted on 2014-11-23, 06:27

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The NTSC frequency was the key to the base frequency. There was room to play with everything else, such as the CPU and PIT clocks, but no 3.58MHz signal, no NTSC color. Without NTSC color, IBM would have been hard pressed to have been able to release a Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter. Many people …

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Re: mt-32 rev.0 (old) vs rev.1 (new)

Posted on 2014-11-19, 14:59

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I'm confused... Are we talking about the MT-32 old with the rev1 PCB (with serial numbers 851400 - 950499) or the MT-32 new with added headphone jack (serial numbers 950500 and up)? We are talking about "the MT-32 new with added headphone jack (serial numbers 950500 and up". That has extra ROM for …

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Re: Nerdly Pleasures - My Vintage Computer/Gaming Blog

Posted on 2014-11-15, 06:56

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In addition to lots of posts about consoles, I have four new posts since my last update that are directly on topic to this forum : 1. Three Flight Simulator Joysticks for DOS http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/10/three-flight-simulator-joysticks-for-dos.html Not so much of a collection, but …

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