Serious Sam TFE bots or spawn monsters?

Posted on 2024-05-16, 08:09

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Hi. In original Serious Sam The first encounter, multiplayer map: If there is no one to play with, is it possible to add bots? Or at least spawn enemies/monsters using console command or some other way? Anything is better that an empty map.

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Re: Covox and win98se

Posted on 2024-05-08, 06:04

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I just had a look at some code for PCM playback via PC Speaker and Covox... There shouldn't be significant difference in CPU load between those two devices: - timer interrupt frequency is the same - for Covox, the interrupt routine simply outputs a Byte to the LPT port - for PC Speaker, the …

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Re: Covox and win98se

Posted on 2024-05-07, 10:53

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The problem with pc speaker is that it is 1-bit device, or something. So I am pretty sure that it will be very demanding. But covox is 8-bit device. So I want to know if it is possible to use it as a sound device with games like quake3.

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Covox and win98se

Posted on 2024-05-07, 06:58

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Hello. There are drivers around for covox on windows98se. I wanted to know, has anyone tried covox in windows98se for games, say quake3. Do these drivers really work and how much performance hit will one get? Can one use covox on win98se and play quake3 on pentium2 at 400mhz for example? (say at …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 17:20

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I don't consider p4 as retro. (Can list 10 reasons for this) But I still like socket 478 northwood. Have built one for myself. I like it because of the special mobo which has a retro feel and characteristics to it.

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Doom not starting from ramdisk without L2 chips

Posted on 2024-05-03, 06:46

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Hi. Recently I had a wish to run doom from ramdisk on a 486 mobo without L2 cache chips. (Case4 below) The mobo is Chaintech 4ULD0 with umc chipset. (Similar to this one https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/chaintech-4uld1) Here is what happens: Case1: L2 present + hdd = doom works Case2: L2 …

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Re: How to make a better ramdrive

Posted on 2024-05-02, 13:23

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rasz_pl wrote on 2024-05-02, 13:14: >486 > And it worked. >16mb seems to be missing […] Show full quote >486 > And it worked. >16mb seems to be missing source of your problems might be: > edo ram. What problem can be? Both amounts of ram (16mb stick, and, 16+16mb) are recognized in POST. And like I …

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How to make a better ramdrive

Posted on 2024-05-02, 11:56

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Hello I made ramdisk 11mb using dos5. I tried 32mb edo ram. When I check ram using mem.exe it reports that: 31mb extended memory exist, 4.2mb available XMS memory (as normal ram). And my ramdisk is 10.8mb. 31mb - 10.8mb - 4.2mb available = 16mb seems to be missing. What hapened to remaining 16mb ram …

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Need graphics driver for Intel Atom D2500

Posted on 2024-04-28, 08:40

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Hi. Looking fot graphics driver for win7 64bit. Looks like it could be GMA 3150. But can't find the driver. Where can I download it from? Thanks. (The motherboard is: Intel desktop board D2500HN)

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Usb as a floppy

Posted on 2024-04-23, 11:37

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I have this thin client with non standard 64mb flash drive. I want to install ms-dos on it using usb and be able to boot flash hdd. Using rufus doesnt work because usb is seen as drive1 and flash hdd seen as drive2, so I cant set flash hdd active in fdisk. Using unetbootin also did not work. …

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Re: ISA vga card works only in 8-bit mode

Posted on 2024-04-11, 13:55

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I want it to work in 16bit mode for a more decent frame rate. Now it is very bad, around 11-12fps when used in either socket7 or socket3 systems. Take a closer look at the photos you posted of your card - there is literally no traces going to the 16-bit pins, and I imagine it will be the same on …

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Re: ISA vga card works only in 8-bit mode

Posted on 2024-04-08, 13:40

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8bit mode (assuming an XT), would get penalized both by the datapath being half that of the 16bit mode, AND from the bus speed being ~25% slower than the 6mhz rate of the 6mhz 16bit AT bus. Assuming 0 waitstates its even worse, XT 8 bit ISA had no NOWS pin on the slot so no 0 waitstates fastest …

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Re: ISA vga card works only in 8-bit mode

Posted on 2024-04-08, 07:45

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Well there clearly is a performance hit in 8bit mode. For example I had this slower et4000 isa vga in past, looking at results when used on socket 7 and pentium 200 (isa vga is bottleneck): 8bit mode: 12.8 fps 16bit mode: 22.4 fps Anyway. So nothing can be done for this hmc card then right. It is …

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Re: ISA vga card works only in 8-bit mode

Posted on 2024-04-07, 16:16

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Doesn't DOOM use only 8-bit writes in the first place? I think it would be better to use a real video memory benchmark to test this behavior. I am very sure that it uses 16bit writes. I have tested doom with many other cards, both in 16bit and 8bit isa modes, 8bit mode speed is considerably slower …

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ISA vga card works only in 8-bit mode

Posted on 2024-04-07, 06:38

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Hi. I have this HMC isa vga card. Initially I thought that it is simply a slow card, like those oak ones. But then it seemed really slow. So I had a suspicion and tried it in 8bit mode, with 16bit pins covered with paper. And it yielded same slow result in doom benchmark. So I think it works in 8 …

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Easier Doom Benchmark - Doomfps

Posted on 2024-03-22, 20:13

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Hi ! One of my main interests in retro pc is doom benchmark. Sure this was done a lot, but no reason not to do it more. I made this minimalistic doom shareware benchmark pack which includes a simple but useful program that shows the result directly as frames per second. No more multiplying-dividing …

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Alternatives to file transfer in retro

Posted on 2024-03-05, 08:49

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Hi ! Are there any easy-to-make alternative file transfer methods that work under dos? Like for example: LPT-to-USB perhaps, or COM-to-USB. (to work with proper program or driver) To copy files/folders from/to USB flash drive to pc with no usb port. (LPT has 8 pins for easy control, and usb has 4 …

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Who has MSI P4 mobo (socket 478)

Posted on 2024-02-28, 11:08

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Hi, Does anyone here has an MSI p4 mobo model: MS-6728 (865PE Neo2-P)? Would like to ask them something about it. Please let me know ! Thanks!

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Retro intel x86 cpu generations

Posted on 2024-02-12, 09:54

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Hi. I have been thinking about this for a few days. I was trying to group retro mainstream x86 intel cpus (and close clones), by generations. My current thinking is this: Generation1 (16bit): 8086, 80186, 286 Generation2 (early 32bit): 386, 486, p1 Generation3 (p6 architecture): ppro, p2, p3 {and if …

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Covington 266 or 300

Posted on 2024-02-10, 09:27

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Hi. I have covington 300 slot1 cpu and ga-bx2000 mobo. Using them together, the pc sometimes starts as 266mhz and sometimes 300mhz (same bus 66.66mhz, no overclocking, I am not changing anything in bios or jumpers). Any idea whats going on? Isn't this cpu have locked ratio? How can I control the …

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