Re: Flashback - Incorrect aspect ratio?

Posted on 2022-04-08, 16:24

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Flashback's a good example because at 4:3 ratio the Mega Drive/Genesis version looks like the top picture. The problem is that there are some parts of the art, such as that blue thing around the selected item in the top right corner and some fans in the background of the second level, that look …

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Re: VME Broken on AMD Ryzen

Posted on 2021-05-28, 11:14

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Hi again! Is the VME bug finally fixed? I've found contradicting information. Wikipedia says it got fixed with Ryzen 2000, other sources say Ryzen 3000.. Also an user in a Ryzen 3700 focused thread at Reddit said: [..] The only showstopper is if you want to run Windows 98 in a VM. The VME bug has …

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Re: Why do some old games has no in-game music in it?

Posted on 2021-05-12, 09:25

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As has already been said, the games mentioned are flight sims and the lack of in-game music was likely a conscious choice by the developers to lean towards realism. Not sure why everyone's talking about the PC speaker and floppy disks given that the games mentioned were on CDROM in the late '90s. …

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Re: Just got a Roland SC-155 and I have some questions

Posted on 2021-02-07, 16:29

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That said, if the devices that these PSUs are meant to power run the received DC current through a linear regulator to begin with, I imagine that ripple would be taken care for everything that is fed by the said regulator . Please correct me on this if necessary. i've seen a generic SMPS cause …

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Re: Ruined memory of an old game by playing it!

Posted on 2021-01-16, 02:32

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I've actively avoided replaying some games that I really enjoyed on 8-bit home computers. This is especially true for simulators where the gameplay might hold up if their performance didn't render them virtually unplayable now. They didn't run badly in my memories, and I don't want to spoil those.

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Re: Finally, someone is testing GPU power usage with VSYNC enabled

Posted on 2020-12-31, 14:26

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I think this is an interesting thing to measure purely as a reference for building a generally power efficient system, but I wouldn't use it as a guide for choosing GPUs for a lower power PSU. In addition to what canthearu said, the average power draw is going to vary wildly from game to game. I …

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Re: Finally, someone is testing GPU power usage with VSYNC enabled

Posted on 2020-12-30, 19:42

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I think this is an interesting thing to measure purely as a reference for building a generally power efficient system, but I wouldn't use it as a guide for choosing GPUs for a lower power PSU. In addition to what canthearu said, the average power draw is going to vary wildly from game to game. I …

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Re: "Video not available, cannot find 'vids:IV32' decompressor" error for Pitfall The Mayan Adventure

Posted on 2020-12-29, 11:19

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AFAIK Indeo is blocked as a security risk on Windows 10. It can be worked around but I'm on my phone at work and don't have the details to hand.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-12-07, 15:33

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Contrary to popular belief, it's very stable, provided you don't install weird crap and/or bad drivers. Yeah, that was my experience too. I had one issue where system restore malfunctioned and ate all my free drive space, but other than that I had a better time with it than 98. Using it on …

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Re: What is good puzzle design in adventure games?

Posted on 2020-12-04, 17:27

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I agree with the above. Good puzzle design should make sense but not be so trivial that no thought is required. Requiring moon logic is usually bad unless it clearly makes sense within the universe of the game, and easily missed hunt the pixel puzzles are always bad in my book. Another example of …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-23, 23:29

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Anyone else watching Retro Recipes? It's more style than substance sometimes but he does some fun projects and regularly makes me lol: https://www.youtube.com/user/Perifractic Their videos keep getting recommended to me, but I haven't watched many. This might sound a little strange, but parts of …

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Re: Flashback - Incorrect aspect ratio?

Posted on 2020-10-08, 13:12

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This is something I've wondered about too. This kind of thing even causes debate within console fandom about what's the "correct" way to display things, because while it can be demonstrated what aspect ratio was displayed on TVs of the time, there can be the question of what aspect ratio the art in …

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Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it

Posted on 2020-10-01, 19:48

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Here we go with people in the comments doing a 180 and giving him all the loyal love. Is it that surprising? The video is unlisted, and thus mainly going to be seen by Patreons, who by this point will be the majority of people who won't care, because he's still their idol and they'll still spent …

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Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it

Posted on 2020-09-28, 23:06

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I like the 8-Bit Guy's videos, so this one is really disappointing, and perhaps eye opening in all the wrong ways. It was unnecessary too; he could still have done a video showing the system, the internals, etc, and just said he wasn't going to attempt a repair because he didn't want to risk further …

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2020-07-27, 13:16

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Speaking of vinyl, what annoys me is those hipsters who adopt the format not because of its sonic quality, but because it's 'retro' and 'cool' Tapes suffer the same fate. Because of nostalgia, cheap boomboxes with tapedecks started to reappear in stores - they all use the same tape mechanism, …

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Re: Problem with DosBox Flickering screen

Posted on 2020-07-06, 12:19

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It could be a whole bunch of things, but bear in mind that a lot of games output at more than 60Hz so juddering is only natural.

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Re: DOSBox speed vs real DOS PC?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 11:49

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ripsaw8080 wrote on 2020-05-30, 07:40: Silanda wrote on 2020-05-30, 07:15: I've got half a suspicion that NBA Jam TE's problems might be related too. If you refer to flickering at higher cycles, that issue should be resolved in SVN. Cool! I'll admit that I haven't tried playing it in ages.

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 07:30

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This is something that bugs the hell out of me with some modern games that have physical releases way after their initial release. Take Ion Fury: the collectors edition was DRM free on a USB key, the GoG version is of course DRM free, so why the hell does the upcoming DVD release require Steam? It …

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Re: DOSBox speed vs real DOS PC?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 07:15

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It seems it isn’t only the CPU emulation that determines the performance of DOSBox. Some VGA operations seem to be much quicker than a real system. For example, the TOPBENCH video score is a few micro seconds, way less than any real video card I have can do. Also DOOM seems to run very fast for the …

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 15:24

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Less remastered and more completely remade, but Deus Ex - Invisible War. The overall concept was decent, but the combination of an engine that ran badly at the time and an insulting amount of oversimplification to cater to what they thought the Xbox audience wanted kind of killed it. The PS2 version …

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