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Re: Remembering games from our childhood/youth

Posted on 2024-01-15, 20:29

My "childhood" was excessively stupid. Apart from the games everybody already knows about by now (Doom, Wolf3D, Descent, etc) here's some of the crap I grew up with: I've played the "TC" games, that I'm sure leileilol knows exactly which ones. I'll give you all a hint: Welcome. I've played the …

Re: What other online communities are you all a part of?

Posted on 2024-01-14, 01:16

I hang around the "Twitch Retro Community", other than that and VOGONS I don't really have any other place I regular at. ArtyomHavok and FractalMindMike are at the "epicentre" of this as far as I can tell. I was part of DOSember 2023 last year. I was trying to get involved with the "Doom Community", …

Re: So ebay sent me an email today....

Posted on 2024-01-03, 00:21

Well, I wonder when I'll eventually get a email like this out of nowhere. Though I have a feeling my eBay account was already deleted or whatever for not having used it for years anyways. Though this makes me wonder, if this is the result of "mass reporting/flagging" and eBay's staff just thinking " …

Re: State of Intel graphics drivers?

Posted on 2023-12-12, 00:55

which will be replacing their old unified i915 driver, at least for their newer generation GPUs: integrated GPUs Tiger Lake (Gen 12) and up, as well as their recently released discrete ARC GPUs. I'm still on Intel Iris Pro 580 (Gen9) because my desktop is a Intel NUC (NUC6i7kyk), I hope this major …

Re: 3D games you would like to see in high resolution

Posted on 2023-11-20, 15:14

You might want to give this a shot! Someone made a recreation of the engine in Unity and it supports VR. Still in very early stages but I just a chance to play it on my Valve Index and it's quite cool! Well, I don't have VR and Unity Engine things don't play very nice on my system; but it's still a …

Re: 3D games you would like to see in high resolution

Posted on 2023-11-18, 20:29

I hoped that Night Dive would also do a remake of Terra Nova after they did System Shock.. so far nothing, sadly. TN:SFC likely has to be rigorously reverse engineered before something like this could even happen. I don't think any actual source code for the game exists as far as I know Night Dive …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-10-17, 20:24

That's the older attempt. This is the new one and it apparently works pretty well. https://www.moddb.com/mods/avp2-cooperative Huh, interesting. I'll keep that in mind if I ever manage to get the game installed and working again, I have a friend or two that'd probably be interested in trying it out …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-10-16, 22:48

I heard a mod team was working on implementing that some time ago, but I don't know the current status. It was a very glitchy, buggy mess of a mod, about as buggy as the attempt of giving Shogo: Mobile Armor Division a "co-op", sadly. I came across it years ago, it was called "XCoop" or something …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-10-11, 19:27

In fact, if I remeber I read on other threads that both Unreal and Half-Life were heavy for the hardware of the time. Unreal Engine 1.x was very inefficient at a lot of things and thrashed VRAM quite a lot. I have to take a lot of considerations when I make custom content so I don't end up with …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-10-11, 19:10

(maybe frame drops, but I'm not sure they depend on the unpatched retail CD version). Framedrops are normal, if there are a lot of "animated" lights in the map and you have enough of them visible, it'll really tank the framerate. Same with those "procedural textures" provided via Fire.dll, like the …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-10-11, 18:34

Yep, tried 225f but it crashes on start. In the end, I'm doing fine with the CD version so I'll leave it as it is. That makes no sense to me, it's the same version I used on a SLI Voodoo 2 PC my late father managed to get working again some years ago. I'm willing to blame whatever drivers you're …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-10-10, 00:04

Only bad thing: it crashes when I access the Advanced Settings menu (tried to apply a patch but then the game would crash on start 😅). That's always been a problem with 3dfx drivers. Because you can't run Glide in a window, Unreal has to switch to the software renderer when this happens, but most …

Re: Classic RTS games that can be used in modern Windows.

Posted on 2023-10-02, 06:10

Have you tried "7th Legion", "Dark Colony", "Dark Reign 1", and "Earth 2140"? Though I think Earth 2140 was MS-DOS only, I don't remember if it had a native 32-bit Windows executable. I think "KKND: Krush Kill 'n Destroy" is also a "bitmap RTS" as well, but I'm not sure if that was MS-DOS or 32-bit …

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