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Fellas, it's finally happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgNndtga3zY HRTF in HL1 using MetaAudio (probably not VAC friendly, use -insecure in the command line just to be safe) This is the closest we'll get to A3D. Not sure if it's the same one in the video, but the github link is a fork that uses Alure instead of OpenAL. Supports HRTF, occlusion, distance attenuation, and EFX all with a lower audio latency HolyKrap fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Nov 21, 2018 |
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That, uh, doesn't sound good. Some stuff is completely flat and other things have inexplicable reverb that goes on forever.
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# ? Nov 21, 2018 20:26 |
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TTerrible posted:That, uh, doesn't sound good. Some stuff is completely flat and other things have inexplicable reverb that goes on forever. Starting off with insane tin-can effect in an open space doesn't help.
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# ? Nov 21, 2018 20:51 |
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I'm sure reverb time will be fixed if not already, latest release was yesterday and that video's from September. I'll have to play around with it when I get the chance, but any progress in sound enhancement mods is great seeing as even EAX is broken in the steam version of HL
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# ? Nov 21, 2018 20:57 |
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The Kins posted:Here's a cool blog post about how Ion Maiden's artwork is created. The intentional aliasing on the final sprites is a touch of genius.
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# ? Nov 21, 2018 21:04 |
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Ularg posted:Are... are there map files online? I want to play them. Cream-of-Plenty posted:Oh yeah, I fondly remember the Starcraft levels where you were given a small squad of marines and had to slowly work your way through a map. Seriously, they're the worst. When I replayed the campaigns when SC:Remastered released, I just cheated to skip the indoor maps. Side note, while insurrection is reportedly bad, you can download the SC1 demo campaign which contains content that didn't ship with the original game. Just a few maps but kind of a neat bonus. I'm surprised they didn't include it in the full release.
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# ? Nov 21, 2018 21:07 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Holy poo poo the nostalgia ~feels~ Trying to load the CD front-end in DOS (usually pcgamer.exe I think?) is some of my earliest memories on the computer. The motivation to play new games was overwhelming even though I had no idea what I was doing.
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# ? Nov 21, 2018 21:11 |
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Scrimping for my first PC and cheaping out on games over $20 meant that my PC Gamer disc was like getting a present each month. Sure, half the games wouldn’t run on my crappy machine, but that just meant I could bring the disc to my friend’s house and play them there. I played the hell outta the demos for Rocket Jockey, Thief Gold, Hitman, and Interstate ‘76. Got to learn every square inch of ‘em, just glad to have a thing to play.
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# ? Nov 21, 2018 22:07 |
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Here's some of the demo discs I can get to right now, And this was the starcraft demo I played so drat much. I have one of those disc spindles somewhere that has more pc demo discs as well as like several years of Playstation 2 and Xbox magazine demo discs.
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# ? Nov 21, 2018 22:33 |
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https://twitter.com/dei_genetrix/status/1065345949394980871
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 00:33 |
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Ularg posted:Here's some of the demo discs I can get to right now, Holy poo poo the amount of memories I just got crushed with by looking at these pictures! This week I played and finished Star Wars Dark Forces 1 & 2. Trying to think of what the next classic FPS is that I want to play.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 00:39 |
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Serephina posted:Tanya mowing down hundreds of infantry is a staple! Tanya's laugh in RA2 is probably my favorite audio clip in all of gaming.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 00:51 |
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Ularg posted:Here's some of the demo discs I can get to right now, Seeing timeless classics back when they were new is neat, but my favorite thing about old game media is seeing all the hype for something that ended up being completely forgotten. For every Starcraft, there's a hundred M.A.X. 2s.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 01:32 |
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I loved Warzone 2100 and would probably like to play it again. Makes me wish I could have a windows 98/XP machine so I can easily reinstall these demo discs.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 01:39 |
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The best "demo disc" was, if I remember right, a Computer Gaming World disc that had full, older games. Few were related to the thread, but it had Duke Nukem 2, Alone in the Dark, Ultima Underworld, X-Com UFO Defense... I wish I could remember where I left it, it was awesome. I think it was CGW, that was the magazine my dad got, but every once in a while he'd grab a PC Gamer so it might have been from them.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 01:40 |
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I remember that one too, it was PC Gamer from the summer of 2000 or 2001. That disc introduced me to a ton of classics. They also had Duke3d a few years later.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 01:43 |
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The PC Gamer July 2000 disc had free copies of Alone in the Dark, Descent, Duke Nukem II, King’s Quest, Links: The Challenge of Golf, Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, The Secret of Monkey Island, Terminal Velocity, Ultima I, Ultima Underworld, and X-COM: UFO Defense. Plus...the Daikatana demo!
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 02:02 |
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Ularg posted:I loved Warzone 2100 and would probably like to play it again. Warzone 2100 went open source and has been kept up to date by the community. https://wz2100.net/
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Hogama posted:The PC Gamer July 2000 disc had free copies of Alone in the Dark, Descent, Duke Nukem II, King’s Quest, Links: The Challenge of Golf, Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, The Secret of Monkey Island, Terminal Velocity, Ultima I, Ultima Underworld, and X-COM: UFO Defense. Yeah, that's the one. I've ended up with most of the games on there that I was interested in, but I still wish I could find mine if for no other reason than to have Duke 2 Duke lying around. I kinda miss the magazines. I know they're still being published, but the internet has really hurt that exciting quality of them.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 02:13 |
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It really would be quite the thing if those disc iso's were officially or unofficially hosted somewhere. I mean, at least in terms of PC Gamer, they're demos, right? What's the harm?
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 02:14 |
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Mordja posted:Warzone 2100 went open source and has been kept up to date by the community. https://wz2100.net/ oooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOH thank you!
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 02:14 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:It really would be quite the thing if those disc iso's were officially or unofficially hosted somewhere. I mean, at least in terms of PC Gamer, they're demos, right? What's the harm? Here you go. Probably not all of them but there's a few https://archive.org/details/pcgamer-cdroms
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 02:18 |
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They have a bunch of old shareware compilation discs too. https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive For the true experience, install Windows 3.11 inside DOSBox and browse the discs from there.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 02:26 |
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Ularg posted:I loved Warzone 2100 and would probably like to play it again. Do it dude. Windows 98SE machines aren't too expensive to put together and are way more functional than virtual machines/dosbox.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 02:38 |
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Fallom posted:Do it dude. Windows 98SE machines aren't too expensive to put together and are way more functional than virtual machines/dosbox. It's more about room and energy. I haven't even gotten my room set up since I moved here in october. Chronic pain erryday yall. But hell yea am I gonna do it one day. I miss CRTs.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 02:44 |
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Ularg posted:It's more about room and energy. I haven't even gotten my room set up since I moved here in october. Chronic pain erryday yall. Just buy an early-mid 2000s laptop then. It should still have full Windows 98 support but come equipped with all the hardware you need to play those games. Grab a mousse and you're set.
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HolyKrap posted:Fellas, it's finally happening. Question: What's the deal with those barrels at the start? I've seen them work (fly way up in the air) only back after release and then every time they either do what they do in the video or just jump a few feet then and come back? It does it today on the same disc install that didn't do it 20 years ago, is there something in the physics engine that doesn't like new hardware or high framerates? Same thing that messes with grenade physics?
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 02:58 |
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Flannelette posted:Question: That barrel is a func_pushable, and a trigger_push is supposed to shoot it up into the air. No idea why it doesn't work consistently though, could be framerate related
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 03:54 |
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That's from a wad where you kill a bunch of naked women though...
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 15:06 |
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Negrostrike posted:That's from a wad where you kill a bunch of naked women though... God loving drat it nevermind then
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Negrostrike posted:That's from a wad where you kill a bunch of naked women though... It’s 2018 and we’re now too performatively woke for that to matter.
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https://twitter.com/RealDerZocker/status/1065640047809056769?s=19Negrostrike posted:That's from a wad where you kill a bunch of naked women though...
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 17:58 |
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Shadow Hog posted:They're succubi, though. It's not like you're shooting innocent bystanders or acting out some sort of MRA "all women are evil" fantasies, they're literally demons from Hell like the rest.
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Shadow Hog posted:https://twitter.com/RealDerZocker/status/1065640047809056769?s=19 I get the intention of your post, but this will still absolutely happen, and this is what they'll say to defend it. So... let's not?
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 18:21 |
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Yeah, I guess so. The thought had crossed my mind, while posting it, at any rate.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 18:42 |
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That second screenshot is - IMO - typical of the people that fetishise CRT filters - they weren't around at the time and so don't realise that computer games, in particular, didn't look like that.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 19:08 |
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Ularg posted:Here's some of the demo discs I can get to right now, Does anyone remember one of these that was a Daggerfall demo? It took up the whole CD and wasn't downloadable anywhere, but it was pretty much a standalone game set on a large island that wasn't on the full game's map. I think I had more fun with that than the full game, it was a smaller, denser world.
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ookiimarukochan posted:That second screenshot is - IMO - typical of the people that fetishise CRT filters - they weren't around at the time and so don't realise that computer games, in particular, didn't look like that. Jeez everyone knows the only kinds of CRT monitor that ever existed were "1960s mono mainframe display in an EMP test site" and "Grandma's cheap TV from 1973 which is on fire".
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 19:32 |
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I want a filter that simulates the two thin horizontal lines Trinitron monitors had.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 19:37 |
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I want, and I am not joking, a degaussing simulator. Complete with audio effects.
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