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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 08:43

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Here's what I think of display resolutions: the higher, the better. It's crazy how far PCs have not come in this area, especially when it comes to gaming. Back in 2002, people bought $400 video cards for 1080p . Now, they buy $400 video cards for... 1080p. Hm. I guess they've settled on 1080p, but …

Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 16:37

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Well, strictly speaking both EMS boards and those 8-Bit "ISA" UMB cards with SRAM did exist back then. The c't Magazine had published some schematics. I've got one, really works: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=796810#p796810 But yes, to the majority of people, memory managers were the …

Re: Covox and win98se

Posted on 2024-05-07, 07:13

Hi, I think you can try out using speaker.drv from Windows 3.1 era and see how far things go. To my understanding both Covox and PC Speaker are being CPU-driven, there's no dedicated hardware, no DMA. Interrupts might might be supported, depending on the driver version, so the mouse cursor doesn't …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-06, 18:08

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i'm fine with a DVD, sure bluray looks better but DVD is fine by me Hi there! To me, it depends on type of film, also. A hand draw animation can be scaled better, because of outlines etc. These films also don't depend on interlacing so much. There's no movement in-between, as there is with a real …

Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?

Posted on 2024-05-06, 04:25

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Here's Digger, a DOS game that uses 640x480 16c and runs smoothly on a 286. Played it many times way back in the 90s on my 286-12. Originates from KC85 platform? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37BA-uh31ro I had to look up what you meant by this, because that is not classic digger for sure. This is …

Re: Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 22:48

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Hi, I'm no lawyer, but I think there be could be exceptions. For example, if the platform has a couple of physical copies (originals) of a game in their HQ. Then, users could play those copies online. The physical copies (originals) are basically being assigned to a given number of users. Maybe even …

Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 20:01

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The memory management side of DOS became back in the day of DOS primetime, a matter of availability and obscurantism: Only a few options were locally known and available. You must consider that the internet was not as widespread and common as it is today. We had mostly Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) …

Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 21:17

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@Jo22: Sounds like that stuff would run slow as heck on such systems. :-) It depends, I suppose. CAD programs really want to see an x87 or Weitek co-processor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGCUErENKBA But generally speaking, a 286 isn't that bad of a proccesor. I've ran already ran my copy of …

Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 18:50

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I don't really have much to add other than the fact it surprises me there's anyhting at all that uses SVGA and still works on a 286. Why are you looking specifically for stuff for a 286? btw: While not a game, Deluxe Paint should work on a 286 and support SVGA. Why is that ? OS/2 1.1 to 1.3 support …

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