Re: VGA games with only 16 colors

Posted on 2020-01-24, 21:44

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by shiva2004

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Also, DOS/V games often used 640x400 view port..: Marble Cooking Rusty Seasons of Sakura Runaway City (I assume, that the "mode" behind was 640x480 still.) That's because they're straight ports of PC-98 games and these machines used a weird "letterboxed" mode of 640x400 square pixels in standard …

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Re: Jewel cases for 3.5" Floppies? This is weird.

Posted on 2019-12-06, 23:34

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by shiva2004

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In the 16-bit era (amiga, atari st, 286 pc) sometimes games came in cases like these, although the typical cardboard boxes of all different sizes were fare more common.

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Re: LGA1156 boards with IDE ZIP/LS120 support (+ "old" PCI)

Posted on 2019-11-17, 22:09

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by shiva2004

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Ivy Bridge is socket 1155, not 1156. Apart from that, a good mobo for what you want is the Asus P8H67, it has 3 PCI, PS2 keyboard and mouse and IDE together with USB 3 and SATA 3, a very unusual combination, and you can reuse your i7 3770. What I don't know is if you can use a ZIP/LS120 unit, but …

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Re: I don't need to upgrade: Modern Gaming on a 10 Year Old Platform

Posted on 2019-11-16, 23:00

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My main PC uses a 1366 Xeon X5650 overclocked to 4Ghz with an Asus P6T SE motherboard and 12GB of RAM, in my case the bottleneck in games is the GPU, a Geforce 660, but I don't play enough modern, GPU-heavy games to justify changing it. Someday, when I have the money, I will replace this system with …

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Re: Is there a DOS-compatible handheld gamepad with analog stick?

Posted on 2019-10-12, 21:57

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by shiva2004

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I spotted this out thrifting a few days ago and thought of this thread. No idea about DOS compatibility, but it might be worth looking into. It almost certainly needs the driver package for full functionality (it has trigger buttons on the front too, so too many buttons.) The driver package isn't …

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Re: I have ISA slots on my circa 1999 motherboard. I need a card that will work with both Windows 98 as well as "DOS mode"

Posted on 2019-10-12, 21:40

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by shiva2004

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With an ISA slot available I'll put a SB16 and be done, it's not the best option quality wise but the combination of compatibility, good enough sound and availability is very hard to beat.

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Re: help to replace PSU

Posted on 2019-08-16, 21:39

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by shiva2004

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300w psu isnt enough according to psu calulators where it nearing 400w - 450w most of the psu i looking at are in the states, not the uk and hoping not to have to import and pay customs tax and high shipping Don't trust online PSU calculators, they're nearly always related to PSU sellers and they …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-14, 21:40

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retropol wrote: how do you find this 2001' dvd by Pioneer. Bought it for my 2000'PC ATHLON setup. […] Show full quote how do you find this 2001' dvd by Pioneer. Bought it for my 2000'PC ATHLON setup. I love slot-in optical drives.

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Re: Exploring the MiSTer & DE-10 Nano FPGA - Is this the future of Retro?

Posted on 2019-07-27, 00:04

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by shiva2004

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Honestly curious: what’s the advantage over DOSBox? It's not software emulation, it's functioning as the original hardware. That's the best I can describe. I don't agree with that, perhaps if you have a 100% confirmed equivalent of all components in VHDL, if not it's emulation all the same, just …

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Re: Sony Vaio is back ?

Posted on 2019-07-16, 21:44

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It's not "Sony Vaio" anymore, just "Vaio". Sony sold the brand some time ago, I don't know who's behind it now.

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Re: Help identifying this AGP card?

Posted on 2019-07-05, 21:36

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by shiva2004

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A run of the mill generic nvidia geforce fx 5200 with 128mb of 64 bit memory.

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Re: Newer (P4+) Horizontal ATX Desktop cases suitable for vintage builds

Posted on 2019-06-20, 22:09

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by shiva2004

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Yes, it will acomodate a mATX motherboard without problem, I used one for some time, it's a very sturdy case and I love how it looks. You'll have to rewire the front panel connectors, the front USBs cord is very short and and you'll have to either modify the rear i/o shield or dremel the case a bit …

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Re: Socket 370 mATX with AGP and ISA

Posted on 2019-04-16, 21:44

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by shiva2004

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If you want a mATX board with AGP and ISA that supports a tualatin your best option is a Chaintech 6via5t, I've used one for some time and is a nice board.

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Re: Windows 95 Japanese games?

Posted on 2019-03-26, 23:57

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by shiva2004

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If you're refering to obscure games from small developers that never had official releases in the west there's a lot of them, mostly in the shooting, fighting, visual novel and action platformer genres (and not a small amount of them with erotic content); the Touhou series of shooters is probably …

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Re: Old Intel CPUs prices

Posted on 2019-03-26, 23:49

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Never use the defaut ebay search, it (nearly)always direct you to the more expensive items in your area first, remember that ebay earns money by comissions so they're interested in you buying the expensive items; do a customs search ordering the items from less to more expensive.

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Re: Drunk'en eBay'ing

Posted on 2019-03-15, 22:55

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Last time I engaged in Drunk'en eBay'ing I ended up with another laserdisc player. And the Dark Crystal on CED, a format I wasn't even aware of until it came in the mail. Seller called it a videodisc... grumble grumble . Well, it's a videodisc for sure, just not a laserdisc :-D (videodisc was the …

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Re: 3d accelerators on other platforms not PC

Posted on 2019-02-23, 23:09

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by shiva2004

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I just read that the Namco System 23 board used "multiple PowerVR" chips. I've read conflicting things about that, though, so I'm not sure what to believe. One thing that doesn't make sense about that is that the System 23 doesn't have texture filtering - which you would expect it would have if it …

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Re: MARS 3D - Community-Campaign

Posted on 2019-02-23, 22:53

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by shiva2004

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Nearly 40€ plus shipping for a weird, mostly hacked old chinese game and you're surprised that the forum isn't ablaze with excitement? Honestly, I'm surprised that there are already 54 copies sold.

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2019-02-17, 23:16

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by shiva2004

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Ozzuneoj wrote: evoportals wrote: Please add TempleOS. It has 3d games built into it. Everything was written by a mad man who committed suicide. No joke. Were the games 3d accelerated? No, they're not. Using a 3D API is not the same as being hardware accelerated.

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Re: What will we do when IPv6 is fully adopted?

Posted on 2019-02-17, 23:06

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retardware wrote: Never heard of abandoning the IP4 internet base until this thread. Do there exist actual plans of doing that in the near future (say, 20 years)? As far as I know there's not a defined timetable but yes, at some point in the future IPv4 will be entirely substituted by IPv6.

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