Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019
Posted on 2018-12-05, 05:26
“Copy my games” is amusing in my case, since I literally don’t own enough storage to install my entire library.
Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019
Posted on 2018-11-30, 06:24
At this point, I’d wholeheartedly recommend disconnecting any XP machine from the Internet anyway, since you’re never getting any further security patches or other support for the operating system. You couldn’t pay me enough to run it myself, or support anyone else doing so. I only just barely …
Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019
Posted on 2018-11-16, 06:39
ZellSF wrote: Yeah I'll be missing my horse armor while Steam users won't be able to play their games at all. The only way I see Steam failing in the next 10 or 15 years is if the entire PC platform goes the way of the dodo. Meanwhile, I can totally see the PS4 hardware or firmware failing inside …
Re: ScummVM support for
Posted on 2018-11-10, 08:13
Ah, interesting point. I can't say the same about most of the software I still maintain, since: 1) It's all compiled with UNICODE/_UNICODE defined, so it won't run on Win9x unless you've shoehorned some sort of Unicode supporting kernel and userspace onto it. 2) It's all compiled with MSVC 2017 …
Re: ScummVM support for
Posted on 2018-11-10, 07:20
Isn’t ScummVM more about getting old games working on new machines, and less about getting them to work on period machines with Windows shoehorned onto them?
Re: What does the Crystal Semiconductor CS4231 chip do?
Posted on 2018-11-10, 06:45
It is also partially Sound Blaster Pro compatible. Certain sound engines of yore will break on it, however. Build games and ROTT with Jim Dosé’s sound system will be limited to half the sample rate of the physical hardware, or about 11kHz stereo or about 22kHz mono. Sometimes you can lock up the …
Re: Windows Updates for Legacy Operating Systems SE (95-Vista)
Posted on 2018-11-08, 07:03
Huh, I only grabbed the CDROM sized image from there when it was linked on the PCem forum, and never inspected its contents, so I was unaware it was an unofficial resource with pirated software bundled. Pity there are updates that required a support agreement, but I guess, how else is a publisher …
Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019
Posted on 2018-11-08, 06:56
I’m not terribly worried at this point, after having distributed hundreds of dollaridoos at Steam, GOG, and Origin. They’re all hanging onto success, even if some may think it’s bad to say they’re “too big to fail”. I’m still waiting for the entire Windows operating system platform to switch their …
Re: Post your 'current' PC
Posted on 2018-11-08, 06:41
Welp, my RX 480 decided to show more signs of failure, and I didn’t read the early signs from Linux, no, I reinstalled Windows 10, and was greeted by the same GPU recovery events, and not even while overly stressing the card. Nothing happened the night before, while I was playing Destiny 2. Oh well, …
Re: What's your home/everyday PC?
Posted on 2018-10-22, 06:50
Are you finished? :) to "dramatically improve usability" it is needed to go for some older platforms instead which have smaller footprint, since winXP has the slowest USER INTERFACE and thats why I wont even bother. It is slow on whatever CPU and how much RAM it has and the SSD! Dont get me wrong! …
Re: Matrox Parhelia 512 AGP
Posted on 2018-10-19, 07:42
The only thing I remember about this brand name is the apt name, ParHEHEHElia.
Re: What's your home/everyday PC?
Posted on 2018-10-19, 07:09
Sorry to hear about you AMD display driver issues. Repeating my stats for shits and giggles: Daily driver desktop Core i7 3770 topped by a Noctua NH U12P SE2 MSI Z77A-GD65 4x8GB G.SKILL Sniper Series DDR3 1600 with the tacky heat spreader Asus Strix Radeon RX 480 O8G Samsung 850 Pro 512GB Kubuntu …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2018-10-10, 07:16
I recently downloaded and started Quantum Conundrum for the first time since I bought it back in 2014 or so. Cool game. Too bad I’m on Linux now, and the compatibility leaves most of the level an untextured black mess. I’ve since filed bug reports with both Steam Proton and WineHQ, since it affects …
Re: Mouse capture not working in Linux with Xorg 1.20.x
Posted on 2018-10-10, 07:09
Just fyi, the thing which makes newer AMDGPU driven cards work with HDMI audio is having DC or Display Code enabled. And further fyi, Display Code’s functionality was not feature complete compared to the older drivers, such as missing DVI-D Dual Link support, until that extra functionality was added …
Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!
Posted on 2018-10-10, 06:54
There is a Yamaha-Tyrus link in a post above, which directs to a Google search, which leads to a post, which links to a VKontakte forum dedicated to these instrument hacks. I cannot link it directly, and I surmise that merely directing you to that Google search will get that link deleted. The forum …
Re: On Mac, DOSBox ignoring the -conf command line argument
Posted on 2018-10-10, 06:45
You can also pass arguments to macOS GUI applications by running them with the “open” command from the Terminal. Read the “open” man page, or pass it a —help. That’s supposed to be two normal hyphens, but fracking iOS won’t let me type two hyphens without automatically merging them into an em dash. …
Re: This forum is very hard to use from a mobile device
Posted on 2018-10-10, 06:41
Just please don't make it worse for PC users. :) Yes, please. And don't use autodetection, I use a lot an android tablet with 10" screen and being redirected by default to mobile pages (that tend to be shitty as hell) is a real chore. Most properly coded “responsive” mobile/desktop design rely on …
Re: Which card to pair PCX2 with?
Posted on 2018-10-04, 05:27
My favorite, or should I say least favorite video card to pair a PCX2 card with is a Packard Bell onboard Cirrus Logic graphics chip, because the goddamn bios thinks the PCX2 is a standalone video card and disables the onboard graphics on every reboot.
Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!
Posted on 2018-09-29, 05:25
Are you using the latest? There are now three different revisions of the Tyrus sampler released. The third, which was the latest at the time I last checked, was reduced to a size of about 500MB, and even in its current unfinished state, it doesn’t use all of that data for samples, the plugin just …
Re: VNC for DOS?
Posted on 2018-09-23, 04:36
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