Re: GOG.com Removing Several Dozen Titles

Posted on 2014-09-01, 16:58

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Laukku wrote: Speaking of ScummVM and OPL, they mentioned in their news feed that they apparently have a new AdLib emulator or something. Does anybody know any details? Nothing's leaping out at me. Maybe those games needed testing for some other reason? https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/tree/ …

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Re: Radeon 8500 x4 PCI-X???

Posted on 2014-08-31, 16:11

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Beyond3D has. http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=1262 Apparently known as CAE Tropos. http://web.archive.org/web/20040807003853/http://www.cae.com/en/visuals/tropos.shtml techPowerUp has an interesting thread about rare/unreleased GPUs here: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/rare- …

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Re: Voodoo 2 Cards Show Lines Everywhere (not SLI black lines)

Posted on 2014-08-31, 14:01

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Oh, and something I didn't mention. I know that Tomb Raider has a 3DFX logo appear right before the menu, but for some reason it doesn't appear when I'm using the real thing. Is this the work of emulators and there shouldn't be any splash logo? Nope, it's dependent on your driver pack. You need …

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Re: Windows NT 4.0

Posted on 2014-08-31, 13:57

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Callahan wrote: I haven't tested but there also is somekind a driver from scitech "snap graphics". They supports even gf6600 and radeon x850,as they wrote. Posted here: ftp://alter.org.ua/incoming/soft/vbe/snap318/snapfaq.htm#p3 It's accelerated, but 2D only, IIRC.

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Re: [solved] Microsoft Security Essentials - Slow icon and thumbnail loading

Posted on 2014-08-30, 03:46

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Ehh... there's always something. Then again I was considering getting a system-wide ad blocker (Ad Muncher or something like that) rather than using adblock plus on my browser. Hopefully that will take care of it (and the gigantic ads in Skype...) Tried a modified hosts file? A lot lighter than yet …

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Re: Windows NT 4.0

Posted on 2014-08-29, 19:50

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It's all just a little bit of history repeating...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-08-29, 02:17

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jwt27 wrote: Someone found this for $50 (not me): http://imgur.com/a/LCRC3 *shakes fist* damn it all!

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Re: The New Creative Labs Sound Blaster Drivers Collection. (Updated 6th Jan. 2014)

Posted on 2014-08-29, 02:15

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Holering wrote: It's asking me to login. I don't even see anywhere to make credentials. You PM SquallStrife, that's how you get an account there.

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Re: Covox Sound Master Reverse Engineering / Replica

Posted on 2014-08-29, 02:11

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If it's like PALs, it could be possibly be dumped by someone with a PAL dumping rig. Usually this is a few members of the crew known as "The Dumping Union" who specialize in MAME/MESS dumps. That's who I'd contact for help, anyways.

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Re: The stupidity of the moon hoax theory

Posted on 2014-08-28, 10:25

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My post, I've yet to hear explained by someone willing to toy with conspiracy theories. Where do you draw the line? Re: The stupidity of the moon hoax theory

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Re: How to get Realmagic EM8300 Mpeg decoder to work?

Posted on 2014-08-28, 09:24

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I've a REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD/MPEG-2 Playback card. Here's a brief excerpt from the installation manual: Note: If you are installing a DVD-ROM drive at the same time as the REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD/MPEG-2 Playback Card, remember to attach the CD-Audio cable from the DVD-ROM drive to your …

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Re: Rise of the Robots crash?

Posted on 2014-08-28, 07:33

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The prototype arcade version was dumped and emulated November 2012. It's... something. Some info on the hardware: http://git.redump.net/mame/tree/src/mame/drivers/rastersp.c http://philwip.mameworld.info/ http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=296709 Videos: Attract - https://www. …

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Re: PCI Cards that support VBE 2.0 with 15bpp?

Posted on 2014-08-28, 06:58

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Hmmmm... always wished Gona had done more testing with actual demoscene demos... http://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/

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Re: Covox Sound Master Reverse Engineering / Replica

Posted on 2014-08-27, 00:41

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Printing on the "Sound Master(R) Users Manual - Version 1.0 - February, 1990" in the picture that Cloudschatze embedded: Sound Master(R) Users Manual Version 1.0 February, 1990 Manual - Brad Stewart Kent Patterson Hardware - Brad Stewart Carl Shepherd John Bartik? Software - Robert Horndel? Brad …

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Re: ALI1487 / 1489 dma support win95 + dos udma enabler

Posted on 2014-08-26, 18:47

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But i found some goodness after all, and of course like to share with all of you with ALI M1487/M1489 chipsets. It has drivers for DOS-win311 i presume and win95 and nt3.5 I will have to try when i get home after work this evening, and let you know succes or not. Looks like you found it then, and …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2014-08-26, 18:27

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Out of curiosity, it's been mentioned in this thread already, but is this replica "The Entertainer" compatible (with a jumper setting or something)? That would be a very cool (and probably easy) modification. http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?40872-quot-The-Entertainer-quot- …

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Re: ALI1487 / 1489 dma support win95 + dos udma enabler

Posted on 2014-08-25, 17:51

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I found a M5219 driver that should install the M1489 IDE interface also, but it asks for a idehdd.mpd which is sadly not included. If anyone could help me get the idehdd.mpd file i would appreciate it. Looked inside a bunch of DriverGuide archives that had ALi IDE drivers, but no such luck. :( It …

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Re: ASUS PCI/I-P54SP4 complete manual

Posted on 2014-08-25, 17:22

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Looking great, nice board also with 40mhz capable. But why did everyone made holes in their manuals back then?? seems popular. Because you'd keep them in your binder of computer documentation, of course :) Even my Micron Millennia XRU 266 (which I still have somewhere) came with spiral-bound …

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Re: ASUS PCI/I-P54SP4 complete manual

Posted on 2014-08-25, 17:03

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Good job!

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Re: Gravis UltraSound Files Archive

Posted on 2014-08-25, 16:50

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Great job! Someone should tell Gona that his archive is looking a little outdated now 😀 http://gona.mactar.hu/GRAVIS/ Might want to ping these guys to sync up 😉 http://www.gravisultrasound.com/

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