[Dark Age Iron Savior]

What is the ideal OS to have installed if you want to run late-90s DOS and Windows (specifically 98) games? Stuff that's too intensive for DOSBox and perhaps too finicky for virtual machines.

In particular, what if you also want to be running something to capture video/audio, like FRAPs?

(I understand that FRAPs doesn't do a lot of stuff from that era, but you know what I mean)

[Rud31]

[Mikey]

Somebody tell me quick if these are worth it:

http://www.gog.com/en/promo/activision_rpg

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

At that price, I'd pretty much say they are definitely worth it, but it depends on how big a CRPG fan you are.

[Mikey]

I guess at that price I could buy them and find out.

[Ronnoc]

I just bought them, so I guess that's my answer :P

[Takashi]

[Sniper Honeyviper]

In Blue Dragon (360), the title screen's suddenly started displaying "New Game+", even though I'm nowhere near the end of the game and haven't even finished Disc 1. It also informed me for the first time that "downloadable content was detected," although I got the DLC weeks ago.

The save file seems to be okay, but some freaky stuff's been happening in the game itself since, like normally aggressive enemies refusing to ever attack in battles, and monsters running up against walls non-stop in the field. Is my 360 eating itself, or are these normal glitches, and the title screen is supposed to change once you reach a certain point (the Dullahan boss)? If it makes a difference, I have the disc installed.

[Felix]

I wouldn't give up on the virtual machines, DAIS. I've never tried to install Win98 in VMware, but it's doubtless easier than any other options available to you.

[CubaLibre]

You could always build a 486.
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[Lynchburg]

Are there any clever ways to free-up HDD space outside of uninstalling programs and deleting files? Because I cannot understand why my laptop is bloated with so much invisible/unknown guff.

Cheers.
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[Mr Peckerston]

Download spacemonger (old versions are free) to get a good idea of what's taking up space on your disk. The last time I used it I found loads of stuff I could get rid of.

[Takashi]

[Ghost Dinosaur]

[Lynchburg]

[firenze]

[T.]

well, you'd be better off playing most of the gold box games on an amiga emulator. i think maybe a few of the later/vga ones (pod, dqk, totsf) looked better on dos but all of them run flawlessly in dosbox
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[Teflon]

[T.]

when copying and uploading a pc game, is it alright to just copy all of the contents of the cd and throw it in a rar and upload that instead of making an iso? what's the disadvantage of it? that i'll need a nocd crack? is there any way for someone who doesn't have a physical copy of the game to make a working iso out of those rar'd files?
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[Teflon]

[T.]

thanks! though that's the answer i was fearing

what's the best software for making a disc image?
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[BotageL]

ImgBurn will do what you need and it's free. Hard to beat that.
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[Teflon]

In Perfect Dark XBLA I can only set up 4 simulants in the combat simulator as opposed to 8 on the N64. Is this it or do I need to unlock the rest somehow?

[Loki Laufeyson]

is there an easy way of ripping pages out of .pdf files?
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[Takashi]

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[Loki Laufeyson]

what i really wanted was to be able to save them as images
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[Takashi]

Same thing but use Image Printer instead.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

does anyone know of any utilities that scan old (DOS-era) games for different types of image files, such as might be used for full-screen cutscenes?

I think I read about a Japanese utility that did something like this, with plugins being made, but I'm pretty sure it was made for the exclusive use of extracting the graphics from Windows porn games.

[Takashi]

[gooktime]

So what's the best way of obtaining & playing Diablo 2 on a modern system? Are there any fancy new renderers or hotfixes one needs, as with Deus Ex?

[CubaLibre]

Doesn't the new battle.net sell a downloadable Diablo 2 now? I'd imagine that came with everything you need.
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[another god]

Yes you can download D2x from battle.net (I did it for my gf), but it doesn't come with fancy new things. But, technically, you don't need them. Some people like playing with increased resolutions, and there are mods for that, but they're not b.net playable, and what the fuck is the point. If you really want to play D2x how it is intended, get a hold of a good community (I used to play w/ somethingawful goons, but even they've been shitty lately), and leech their gear. Once you get enough midlevel gear you can MF find high level gear. Once you have high level gear you can trade on sites like D2jsp for your-build-specific gear. It should take ~20 hrs to do the whole thing if you're cool.

But! Solo D2x is a really shitty game. Good drops don't drop enough. You can get through normal without too much trouble, and nightmare, too, if you pick a standard build. But hell is hell unless you play online.
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[Sketch]

I'm playing Knights of Xentar, CD-rom version, on DOSbox, and it runs fine, apart from some hideous keyboard lag.

I push a direction button, and the guy moves one square, but then even if I hold the button down, he pauses for about a second before starting a steady walk in that direction.

I can't find any info on the net, but is this supposed to happen? Isn't he meant to move smoothly like in other RPGs? It's a real pain when wanting to switch directions, since if you hold right, then switch and hold left, he'll only move one square to the left and then just freeze, and I need to hit left AGAIN for him to resume walking.

I've tried fiddling with DB's CPU cycles but this does nothing. Whether 500 or 25000 cycles, he still pauses after I hold a button down.

I just want him to move and continue moving in whatever direction I order him.

Any ideas?

[Takashi]

[Sketch]

Thank you Takashi - that will probably prove useful for more things than just DOSbox games!

EDIT:
Where exactly can I find this fabled Turbokey program? Hours of googling have yielded nothing, only forum topics talking about it.

EDIT 2:
Never mind, it's actually on the forum linked to. But damn, it took while of screwing around in DOSbox's DOS prompt before I got it to work.

Thanks again!

[Pijaibros]

[bleak]

So... can you play UMD games on the PS3 using remote play, or what?

I just wanna use the big screen for Peace Walker.
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[another god]

[bleak]

I actually wanted the first option. Thanks!
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[CubaLibre]

I'll be getting a new computer in the next couple weeks. Is there some way to make Steam have all my saves and settings for my games in the cloud so I can redownload them on the new PC, or do I have to do it by hand?
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[another coma]

pretty sure steam cloud only works for games that use it (mostly valve stuff and some newer third party releases here and there). 'fraid you're going to have to track down the saves in all of the wacky paths on your hard drive that the developers of the games you own told them to exist :(
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