Re: Unreal Fullscreen Crash

Posted on 2013-10-20, 19:12

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by Great Hierophant

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Testing with the first release of the drivers, 4.06.2000 showed no improvement. I removed the Voodoo 3 3000 card and inserted an AGP Dell OEM TNT2 Model 64. After upgrading to v226 final for Direct3D support, I tried the game and while it ran a little slower, I encountered no freezes. Unfortunately …

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Re: Unreal Fullscreen Crash

Posted on 2013-10-20, 14:55

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by Great Hierophant

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I tried removing the network card and moving the MX300 to a different slot. This morning I ran the game and it got through the flyby and most of the first level before freezing. It did freeze and hang the system , the second time taking the system with it. I shut the system off and touched the …

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Re: Unreal Fullscreen Crash

Posted on 2013-10-20, 05:58

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by Great Hierophant

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in Windows

Missing info : Motherboard - Intel SE440BX-3 Gateway OEM Variant I tried 2.041 and 2.048 Aureal AU8830 drivers and both exhibit the freezing. If I remove the drivers, but not the card, the game will behave with a Sound Blaster 16 (although the sound quality is poor). There is no specific function …

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Re: Unreal 1 and A3D cards.

Posted on 2013-10-20, 02:37

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by Great Hierophant

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I have a firm opinion that Unreal supports A3D 2.0 is a myth. As of version 224, this is among the known issues : If you enable "Advanced Options / Audio / Use3DHardware" through the menus and you have a 3D sound card with Aureal A3D 2.0 drivers, you won't get any sound acceleration. A3D 2.0 ( …

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Unreal Fullscreen Crash

Posted on 2013-10-20, 00:45

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by Great Hierophant

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I am trying to run Unreal, and while it seems to play well in in a window, it will freeze in full screen. Here are the relevant system specs : Unreal (original release, similar problems with Unreal Gold) Windows 98SE w/Unofficial Service Pack 3 & DirectX 7.0 Sound Card - Diamond Monster Sound MX300 …

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Re: Apogee / 3D Realms - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-10-19, 20:04

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by Great Hierophant

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I'm not sure if anoyone else posted this, but in the goodies\midi subdirectory of my Duke Nukem 3D CD (v1.3), all the MIDI tracks are available in MID format. A text file accompanying the midi files tells you whether Lee Jackson or Robert Prince composed the track. When playing Prince's tracks on a …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2013-10-18, 12:18

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by Great Hierophant

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The FB-01 does display a dump/protected! message! when I play. You need to set the memory protect to off on the module. Press the System Setup button on the FB-01 until you see #1 Protect ON on the module's front panel, then press the Data Entry -1/NO button and you will see ON become OFF. You …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2013-10-18, 12:11

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by Great Hierophant

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I will try to have a look at Jones tomorrow. I could already dig out my old floppy version late tonight but also loaned a CDROM version with redbook audio tracks for tomorrow for cross checking. I do not believe a word of MobyGames any more; maybe, in the meantime, a hard-core Sierra fan can verify …

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Re: A gallery of strange sound devices

Posted on 2013-10-14, 01:32

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by Great Hierophant

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

A few weeks ago I stumbled across an ET4000/Sound Blaster Pro combo. Anyone ever seen one of those before? Found it here: http://www.planet3dnow.de/vbulletin/showthread.php/281764-Zeigt-Her-Eure-GraKa%C2%B4s/page39 http://www.abload.de/img/dscf3542xjusm.jpg A very nice card, two of the best ISA …

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Re: Most ridiculous thing I have seen recently

Posted on 2013-10-13, 15:15

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by Great Hierophant

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in Milliways

So, will I get photo-realistic graphics at last? Only one of the videos attached to the auction give actual graphics footage, and that's of a benchmark. Footage from real games would have been more impressive.

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Re: Apogee / 3D Realms - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-10-12, 19:13

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by Great Hierophant

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in DOS

Wouldn't there be a Fl. Key Click/Breath Noise issue for any DOS game Robert Prince composed music for and supported General MIDI devices? This includes DOOM (inc. Ultimate DOOM), DOOM 2, Duke Nukem 3D (inc. Atomic Edition), Rise of the Triad, Raptor : Call of the Shadows, Pickle Wars, Zorro, Realms …

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Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2013-10-11, 03:32

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by Great Hierophant

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I did the test with my GM/GS SC-55, and I got a Ver 2.00 ROM with a '92 date. I checked inside and the three sample ROMs match Keropi's, but IC30 on mine is R15199799 and the control ROM is marked R15209387, 9224D. I wonder if Keropi's 1.21 unit will respond to a GM System ON command, or if it just …

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Re: What sound card is this and does any one have the drivers for Win 98 and Dos/Win3.11?? Uses crystal cs4231-kl chipset

Posted on 2013-10-09, 04:50

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by Great Hierophant

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry to resurrect an old post, but I found a very similar-looking Packard Bell card as shown in the original post, recently. After peeling back the Packard Bell labels, I discovered the AZT1605 chip, and this card is identical for all intents and purposes to the Aztech Labs Sound Galaxy Nova Pro16 …

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Re: The Demise of MobyGames

Posted on 2013-10-07, 02:23

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by Great Hierophant

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in Milliways

I don't see MG ever returning to way it was. The Wayback Machine will preserve what was as in amber. If the site's popularity continues to decline, gamefly may simply pull the plug.

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-10-05, 14:40

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by Great Hierophant

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Good job reviewing AW/OotW. The Adlib does work on a real PC, but the audio output is quiet and very noisy since the Adlib was not designed to output digitized sound. The game actually does not support the MT-32, it supports the LAPC-I, CM-32L and any other MIDI device supporting the extra 33 sound …

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Re: Gateway from 2000

Posted on 2013-10-05, 04:38

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by Great Hierophant

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Nothing more taxing than a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI and a bunch of typical PCI cards.

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Gateway from 1999

Posted on 2013-10-05, 02:59

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by Great Hierophant

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I found this Gateway from 2000 in my friend's basement, so I decided to take it home with me to check it out. The CPU is an Intel 600E Pentium III, it has 320MB of RAM, and came with no drives. The case is sturdy and can fit full length cards. On the downside it seems to have room for only for one …

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Re: My Windows 98 SE Project Build Diary

Posted on 2013-10-02, 15:52

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by Great Hierophant

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I found that the Intel motherboards of that era were too inflexible to be of much use. The Super I/O chip used in this series only supports 1 floppy drive, whereas most mainboards of the period still supported two. The 133MHz bus speed only really overclocked the AGP port on the BX chipset, so using …

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Re: The Demise of MobyGames

Posted on 2013-09-27, 22:18

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by Great Hierophant

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The other day I visited the site, and the names of two out of three of the top contributors (the only names you can see on the main page) were : YID YANG Has Left In Protest MobyGames was killed by GameFly Guess they are busy counting the money they got from Gamefly.. bast... I don't think it took …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-09-24, 20:13

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by Great Hierophant

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in Release Announcements

The font in Kiloblaster looks like it was taken directly from Jill of the Jungle. After viewing the episode, I would definitely say that this game was hardly one of Epic's eponymous moments.

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