Re: Terminator Skynet problem

Posted on 2019-12-04, 00:35

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I've only just now learned about the Unofficial Patch from 2017, so clearly I'm necroing this thread. But I've got a question... So SkyNET allows you to play Future Shock in hi-rez, but it's had a bug in it since release. In Future Shock, there's an NPC at the end of a level you have to kill to …

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Re: What was the first DOS game that required a hard drive?

Posted on 2018-09-13, 16:51

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That was quite common for early CD games although rarely with swapping. But I've never seen such a thing for floppy games. Makes sense considering the typical hard drive had a few hundred MB at the time games span multiple floppies. Also DOS and Windows only took a few MB, thus plenty of space for …

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Re: Bugs Bunny: Lost In Time installer not running on Windows 7?

Posted on 2018-09-08, 20:23

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Have you tried running it in Windows 98 compatibility mode? You might try enabling all of the other compatibility options, as well.

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Re: No digital sound in System Shock 1 with AWE64

Posted on 2018-09-04, 23:03

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should be correct for my AWE64, but still no digital audio plays. The readme refers to listing the digi_io in hex instead of decimal though, so I'm a little confused. Maybe the fact I'm using external midi instead of the internal is an issue? 220 in hex is DC, so try: digi_io DC It's also possible …

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Re: No digital sound in System Shock 1 with AWE64

Posted on 2018-09-04, 20:23

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Have you tried setting it to SB16, instead? If I recall correctly, the AWE32 was basically just an SB16 + MIDI, so you probably wouldn't be losing any quality. Don't forget to also try setting the IRQ/IO/DMA values again.

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Re: What was the first DOS game that required a hard drive?

Posted on 2018-09-01, 18:46

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i don't think dos games require a hard disk; a big enough floppy will almost always do; You may as well argue that even today's 50GB games don't require a hard drive, since a big enough floppy disk would suffice. He's not asking for a technical, hypothetical answer like that. He's simply asking …

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Re: Star Trek: 25th Anniversary freezes after Interplay screen

Posted on 2018-08-30, 14:39

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I just installed the GOG version, ran Launch Settings, selected Roland LAPC-1/MT-32 for music and Sound Blaster Pro for digital sound and loaded it up. It initially seemed like it froze on the Interplay screen, but continued after about 10 seconds. It doesn't do that when using Sound Blaster for …

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Re: Need tips on Dark Forces graphics config

Posted on 2018-08-26, 09:29

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DarkXL isn't suggested or recommended because it was never finished no thanks to scope-creep and so many years of being closed-source and unfulfilled promises. I'm suggesting and recommending it. The cons are significant, but, as I said, I think that the pros outweigh them. Everyone should decide …

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Re: Need tips on Dark Forces graphics config

Posted on 2018-08-26, 04:18

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Have you heard about and considered DarkXL, the reverse engineered clone? It solves the "roughness" problems with the original game by supporting high resolutions, texture filtering, mouse look and more. It's not perfect, since it's unfinished and has bugs and only half-working cutscenes, but the …

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Re: indirect sound

Posted on 2018-08-23, 08:34

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Davros wrote: theres more but does the amount change dependant on environment size? It's hard for me to tell. The games that I'm testing have environments that sound different even when EAX is turned off.

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Re: indirect sound

Posted on 2018-08-15, 15:29

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Hi folks. I know that some of you here use dsoal. It is not updated since 2011, but user IDrinkLava on YT shared with me version with ready HRTF tables to set, and probably something on OpenAL library side is updated. Anyway, I give you all in one package with instruction. Result effect is really …

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Re: Star Wars Jedi Knight

Posted on 2018-07-23, 13:35

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That's the Jedi Knight Enhanced mod that make everything sharper? He's referring to the High Detail Mod. It forces the game to use its highest quality textures and models at all times, rather than use lower quality versions at medium and long distances. Naturally, this also eliminates "popping" …

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Re: New Outlaws Installer

Posted on 2018-07-20, 20:28

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'cause links are dead, i can't try. Does any of the mentioned solutions work under win95/98? Cause i want to make Outlaws works via DosBox+Win9x on all platforms(It works perfectly now for me but without music). If so, can you reupload downloads of Outlaws no-cd music patches. Thanks! The download …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2018-07-20, 20:03

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Dege, if I may, I'd like to suggest making the password for the archives more noticeable on the website. I think that notice at the top of the main page could do with being put at the top of the downloads page, as well, since some people may click on the link to the downloads page before reading the …

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Re: Skynet won't install.

Posted on 2018-03-02, 22:27

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An easy way to install the game is to simply copy the entire Skynet folder from the CD and then apply the unofficial patch. That will bypass the game's installation program that is giving you the problem. https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file … ial-patch-2017/

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Re: Need help with Full Screen

Posted on 2018-03-02, 21:59

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That's just how the games were designed. They're running in fullscreen; they're just not using all of it, at least not all of the time. By using only a portion of the screen, games could use less memory, artists didn't have to draw as much and it gave a widescreen cinematic look. That was especially …

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Re: Unreal A3D?

Posted on 2018-01-16, 06:23

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Putting the 3 Ospray files (a3d.dll, a3dapi.dll, a3dsnd.dll - I've updated to IS 0.14 the last one) in Unreal System dir seems to have no effect (in Blood 2 it works). Unreal.log shows no A3D related entries, only DirectSound. Putting the files in the game folder won't work. A3D games don't look in …

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Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - 3D acceleration in XP?

Posted on 2018-01-04, 04:13

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teleguy wrote: No, it patches the exe itself. I meant that it seems to achieve the same visual result, but I appreciate learning that it does patch the executable, itself. Thanks. Does it affect just the textures, though, or textures and model complexity (like my mod)?

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Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - 3D acceleration in XP?

Posted on 2018-01-03, 19:12

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http://shinyquagsire23.github.io/dk2-mots/ Ah, yeah, I've seen that one, too. I believe that it ultimately does the same thing as my mod (though I haven't actually used it). It just doesn't have any documentation on how to use it. That fix was originally uploaded by me for Windows 7. You can't use …

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Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - 3D acceleration in XP?

Posted on 2018-01-03, 16:28

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I tried enabling the texture hack option. No difference. I don't see an AMD fix option. The "AMD fix" isn't an option in DxWnd. It's a DLL that you download separately, like the DirectDraw DLLs. It's never made a difference to me, but it might've been originally created for XP and only useful on …

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