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- Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:25 pm
- Forum: General Gaming
- Topic: Formula to make good games? Please post your ideas here.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 63491
Formula to make good games? Please post your ideas here.
An interesting article , along with examples of excellent (old) games and why modern game publishers won't bother to make such games. However, this thread is not about "zomg nuu gamez suckz" or "old games rule!". Instead, I hope this could be something positive: ideas to make goo...
- Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:08 pm
- Forum: Game Help, Hints and Tips
- Topic: Battlehawks 1942: dive bombing tips
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20036
Battlehawks 1942: dive bombing tips
Battlehawks 1942: Dive Bombing Tips by Lieutenant Kreshna "Iceheart" of Imperial Japan Navy. Or US Navy, depending on mood. Well, like I said in this thread, I purchased Lucasfilm Games' Air Combat Classic , and I started the package with Battlehawks 1942 . Despite lousy graphics and PC s...
- Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:07 pm
- Forum: General Gaming
- Topic: Recent acquisition thread (old games)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 37404
- Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:05 pm
- Forum: General Gaming
- Topic: Recent acquisition thread (old games)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 37404
Recent acquisition thread (old games)
Post the (old) games you've just acquired lately. Pictures are most welcome. :-)
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:34 am
- Forum: General Gaming
- Topic: What is your favorite DOS game?
- Replies: 253
- Views: 464127
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:29 am
- Forum: General Gaming
- Topic: Dosbox just got killed.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 18624
- Sun Jul 09, 2006 1:07 pm
- Forum: General Gaming
- Topic: Abandoned Games Campaign
- Replies: 28
- Views: 26258
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:20 am
- Forum: General Off-Topic
- Topic: Cats or dogs, which do you prefer?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 51778
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:47 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Help me building a legacy system - dual video card, etc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11057
Help me building a legacy system - dual video card, etc
I plan to built a legacy system where I could shoehorn everything into it; a system where I can boot in DOS (to play DOS GLide games like Archimedean Dynasty ), but can still play "newer" games (like WarCraft III ) with reasonable performance. Here's the plan for my system: - Soyo SY845PE ...
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:40 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: What's the fastest video card for DOS games?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20200
I think that on a 486, the CPU will bottleneck more than the video card. True. For high-res, texture mapped DOS games like Jane's ATF , Privateer 2 , or Duke Nukem 3D (in high res), CPU matters more than video card. It's better for you to replace your motherboard and CPU into an Intel 400BX and Pen...
- Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:24 pm
- Forum: Get Games to Work
- Topic: Strike Commander CD & Thrustmaster: Runtime Overflow Err
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2318
Strike Commander CD & Thrustmaster: Runtime Overflow Err
Well, I've tried a used Thrustmaster FLCS / WCS II /RCS on my DOS 6.2 Pentium 100 to play Strike Commander (CD version). I use the Strike Commander FLCS script included with the Thrustmaster DOS software I've downloaded from the Thrusmaster Website, as well as the RT200 patch (for Pentium II and abo...