Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

Posted on 2016-01-22, 16:45

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Oh yeah: on the IBM front, still missing are verified dumps of the character generator + kanji ROMs off the IBM JX. The MESS project has images for those, but they're flagged as bad dumps (and the fonts look like they may be generic), so I suspect those to be placeholders. errr yeah I remember that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-01-22, 16:20

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It always pleases me immensely to see that a forum has traffic not just from nations that are so-called "allies" but also those that differ ideologically, as well as even seeing effort from people to write in the forum's adopted language just so that they can contribute. Russians, Japanese, Koreans, …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2016-01-22, 05:02

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I *think* I found uploading to be a little slower, but I never took any measurements of the old FTP server to compare. 🙁

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Re: pong60 - AY-3-8500 simulator

Posted on 2016-01-22, 03:20

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Interestingly this has been documented at dosbox.com since 2013. http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=4022&letter=P I've talked to the Pong-Story guy before, I can easily ask if he got a cease&desist from Atari lawyers. It's pretty unlikely Sam Greenaum cares, he probably wanted it to spread. …

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Re: Re:

Posted on 2016-01-22, 03:05

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Dateline 2009: That's very interesting in light of the fact that Strom Thurmond died in 2003. You guys are silly. Nicht Sehr Gut hasn't posted here in a decade. When he made that post making a joke news story from 2009, Strom Thurmond was still alive and serving in Congress. Did you even read the …

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Re: Another Retro Project Intel PR440FX Board

Posted on 2016-01-22, 03:00

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Example of a well-done necro I approved of: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=470867#p470867 One I was furious about: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=46329&p=469912#p469912 Necro's just to be silly are dumb. :D Necro's not done by the OP after many years I also tend to think are dumb. …

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Re: DirectDraw Wrapper

Posted on 2016-01-22, 02:35

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Myloch wrote: aqrit wrote: DxWnd now features compatibility stuff, I believe it has eclipsed my ddwrapper project. Believe me, I fixed at least 1 game not working on win7 x64 thanks to your fantastic dll, that latest dxwnd is not even able to run (crash to desktop) Maybe you should say what that …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-01-22, 02:30

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HighTreason wrote: What a peculiar device. Deserving of its own thread methinks. 😁

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Re: x86 MUL and IMUL flags affected?

Posted on 2016-01-22, 02:16

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peterferrie wrote: I was working on a research project over a decade ago (intended to be a conference talk that wasn't accepted), which led to questions which required a pact with the devil (NDA) for the answers. Peter Ferrie, one of my favorite Internet people 😁

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Re: Strange question regarding resource intensive games.

Posted on 2016-01-20, 22:51

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RaVeN-05 wrote: after applying latest patch for game and patch for fixing runtime error 200 take here you need translater from russian We have our own thread about Runtime Error 200 and the tools needed to fix it: Fix "Error 200" (Divide by zero) - by Snover and Stiletto (updated!) Plus a few …

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Re: recommended drivers for w98SE

Posted on 2016-01-20, 04:49

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Moved to Marvin.

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2016-01-20, 04:02

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On a side note, I'm not terribly familiar with Glide, or what it entails in its entirety. My only experience with the name is dealing with Glide 'Wrappers', to emulate older GPU features that don't exist in newer hardware. Ah. Think of it as "Direct3D or OpenGL, but only compatible with one family …

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Re: Looking for a video card for Pentium 200 mmx

Posted on 2016-01-20, 03:50

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It would be easier if Vogons supported linking to posts rather than whole pages but they don't. Yes they do :D This link links to the middle of page 7 to one of my own posts. It is a little bit of a hassle though, I just copied the name of the topic above my own reply (it's actually the link to my …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2016-01-19, 05:11

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Talthos wrote: ATI? No. AMD? Yes. Man, I'll probably still be calling Radeons ATI cards until my dying day. 🤣

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Re: Looking for a video card for Pentium 200 mmx

Posted on 2016-01-18, 22:08

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ramiro77 wrote: Is any datasheet around the web or something like that for this 3DFX chips? Falconfly has some stuff: http://falconfly.de/reference.htm No pinouts that I can remember though.

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Re: Terminator Future Shock. Issues.

Posted on 2016-01-18, 21:54

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Count Knobula wrote: Hope I don't get in trouble for resurrecting such an old thread. I'm back to trying to get this game working well with Skynet. Speaking for moderators.... I'm okay with a ten-year bump when it's from the original poster returning back to report that he's solved the problem. 🤣

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Re: When did you first get acces to the Internet and what sites did you visit at your first time ?

Posted on 2016-01-18, 21:49

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Back around 1992-1993 I was permitted to use my father's computer for online services, we had PRODIGY (I still remember my assigned username). Once PRODIGY started actually offering Internet access (I don't remember exactly when this was but later in the mid-late 90's), my first website was probably …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-01-18, 03:40

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I'd rather install the drivers myself. Call me weird, but hunting drivers, manually trying different versions and setting things up is kindda fun. I hate one-click solutions - its like playing Final Fantasy XIII. For the most part I agree, but I don't always have the luxury of time. :) I still …

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Re: The Wrapper Collection Project

Posted on 2016-01-18, 03:37

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RoyBatty wrote: Ahh I didn't realize it was that old, sorry. 😀 It's no problem, please keep the ideas coming! 😀 (but please read over the thread first including the filelists if you want)

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Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

Posted on 2016-01-18, 03:35

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You rock. 😁

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