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How's everyone doing?I'm currently posting from my Windows XP machine in case anyone's wondering.I'll try to be around in the IRC channel for as much as I can, just to be sure.Stay safe.Picrel is a nod to my time on MS Comic Chat taken in Quake 3 (one of my favorite games), as I use a Hsien-Ko avatar on Comic Chat and a model of her on Quake 3. If you know, you know.
Posting from my printer. Do you have any other quake things?
>>345I do know how to strafe-jump, in case.Maybe one day I may learn how to do Quake mapping, and create a map dedicated to World2ch. Wouldn't that be a good idea?
That would be really cool. I would play it and try to add on to it.
What hardware is your XP machine using? I am currently in the process of setting up a multiboot machine ranging from 98SE to XP.
>>355I'm using an AM3+ motherboard with an FX-8150, 32 gigs of RAM (even if only 3.5 GB is used without patches), a 2 gig video card, and a Sound Blaster X-Fi. I'd say something older than that could be good for a 98SE to XP machine, I'd say.
>>356Why do you have so much RAM?
>>350Oh, while I'm thinking about it: Use NT. Any machine that can run Windows XP will not play nice with any DOS based Windows. The reason for that is because Windows requires at least 512 megabytes of RAM, but DOS-based Windows struggles to deal with more than 256 megabytes(I think above 16 for Windows 3.1, 128 for 95, and it was 256 for 98/ME.) You can run Windows 98 with 512, but it will be slower and more importantly more unstable. It's a flaw in the memory manager. There was a supposed fix out there at some point but by the time I went looking, it was gone and the website that hosted it was never archived properly.
>>357Mainly for future-proofing, in case I put a 64-bit OS in there, albeit only half of the RAM is usable.
>>356>>358Thank you for the heads-up, I did already encounter this issue and worked around it by using PATCHMEM. If that is the fix you were referring to, it should be relatively easy to find it under that name. I can't tell if it's running any worse than when I used it with 256 MB, but it does run and allows me to keep my 2 GB in for use with XP. I might split the project into dedicated systems at some point, right now the intention is to have an all-in-one box that allows me to simulate different times by changing the environment, hence I'm trying for the hardware to be as good as possible while at the same time not running into any major incompatibility issues. Testing has been fun and learning a bit about older hardware is an interesting bonus.
who here /defrag/?
I defrag-ment my hard drive