/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5251142
Oh yeah, that Diablodat.mpq or whatever file is massive and the real driving factor behind the game. Curiously, I couldn't get the typical NoCD fixes to work in 98SE, so I went for the software N O S T A L G I A and used Daemon Tools. Alcohol 120% didn't quite work so I had to rip the CD on my laptop. I'll have to see what the fuss was with that, because even the uninstaller shit the bed.

I think the real issue is the video card. It's from Cirrus Logic, but an ISA card with 1MB of RAM is still a massive bottleneck. The game speed is fine, but the screen tearing is pretty abysmal. I installed the Scitech video patching software, but I'm not sure it's doing too much actual tweaking on my behalf. Warcraft II battle.Net Edition ran just fine though. Still need to try Starcraft, but DOOM is running great and Princess Maker 2 is super smooth. MPU-401 clone card has zero issues, MT-32 is working great, and tricking that thing into general MIDI mode for DOOM and Duke 3D is awesome, even though it sounds a little weird. All these little hardware/software tricks are awesome. I can live with running Diablo on a different machine since this box was mostly meant for older and speed sensitive DOS stuff. Duke 3D runs like ass at anything above 320x200 but it's smooth at classic DOOM resolution, so that's fine too.

Next up is trying more stuff with the vanilla DOOM exe. Looks like I need to use DeuTex if I want to use the sprite correcting patch. Already got and patched NOVERT to get rid of vertical mouse movement. I also scored a software revision 1.20 SC-55 off eBay. Fuck yeah for finding the most compatible version, but fuck no at the fact that all this old hardware has sneaky buggy shit with random pieces of hardware.

I feel like pic related even though I was a kid with partially luddite parents when most of this shit was relevant.

>>4989112
They were great times. I'll be watching old footage from early 2000s LAN parties now.