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Unfortunately I don't remember. But I also checked in game and didnt see any medal named like that.

Thank you. Hope it wss helpful 🙂

Yeah, there are multiple ways to make use of it. Due to the lack of time pressure in JA3 you can heavily abuse training operations. If you really want to.

Yep true. Not sure if was there at release already (I made the video slightly before release) but it probably was. That said, I find it even more tedious to handle than just using the sector inventory but ofc it is an option.

You mean the accmulated Training Points which can be used via Learning by Doing? There is no display for that in the game. However you can make them visible by using some mods. I think audakira included that in one of her mods.

You do get some XP from combat though it's not substantial. But I guess that's the case with most cases which aren't about grind. I don't remember exactly how it was in the first game, like if you got totally 0 zero. Definitely not the case in QW2. Just tested again and gor some XP from the first kill in combat. You can also check at 8:36 in the video where you see that the Party got some XP by killing a rat. But it also depends on your level vs the enemy level.

hey, thanks the the reply. I think Ill bite the bullet and give it a try. Im always trying to replicate the heaps of fun I had with Avernum Escape, but so far its elusive 😆

@@carpii Yeah, I think Avernum Escape from the Pit is still unreached by his newer titles. But I'd recommend most of them. The first Geneforge remaster is actually the only game I wouldn't recommend, but that might also be because I the issues there manifest stronger on higher difficulties I always play on.

Oh, thats very cool. :D Would be interesting though what the functionality is behind that. Afaik with some newer machines you just disabled the cache with the turbo button, and ofc you could do that just normally with the bios anyways.

Yeah, it's a bit of trial and error and "gaming" the system.

Yeah, definitely not realistic distances plus video game logic :D

Oh, very cool! Best of Luck! Hope it helped! :)

The Soundcard chart you mean is probably this (not created by myself): docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o0_u-MyIOJFaPZ0MdAPcj-ff7MI4YXLim3GuobVNvaY/edit?gid=1663779470#gid=1663779470 The Doc for graphics cards compatibility is here (also not created by myself): gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/ The chart for Graphics cards I created myself and can be downloaded here: drive.google.com/file/d/1GJ8BmQLn-9C_42d01oscZXvkOjX-aJoy/view

Yeah, exactly. I tried to make that point at 8:05 showing all the games of 2000 which still don't use more than 128MB. But going below 128MB also doesn't make much sense. Ofc you don't lose much when playing a game from 1997. But you also don't gain anything.

I don't know how this would be possible with dip switches. And removing them could potentially be a pain. Once you use the method I use with bistable relais however, nothing would stop you from making it being remotely activated. I am not sure what the easiest way would be, but in theory you could use the same option with the bistable relays and then combine that with a arduino for example. That way you could even remote comtrol every jumper individually if you wanted.

@@KordanorsGamingLair Thanks for suggestion, considering a risk damaging a board during debugging, since it's quite rare here, I think I have to stick to the cpuspeed option, like philscomputerlab suggested in some of his videos.

Yeah, though there are cases, even at the very beginning, when it acted differently. Really depends on machine to machine. But I think in the last ages of it's existence it was mostly to slow down the PC rather than to accenerate it. There is a nice video about it by VWestlife, where he is talking 18 Minutes about the history and uses of turbo buttons :D

Cool, yeah. I mean in the end these types of "Time Machines" are all about flexibility, so every bit helps. I checked the mainboard but all pics I saw had dip switches. You plan to work around and replace these? That's certainly possible ofc also requires quite a bit more tinkering.

@@KordanorsGamingLair No, I only need to worry about the bus speed which is thankfully controlled by jumpers. DIP switches only control the multiplier (I have a K-6-iii+) and voltage.

@@achaycock Aaah, alrighty! :)

Thank you! :)

Heyho! Yeah, you can see a list at 33:20 where I did list a couple of settings where just the external cache is different. You basically need to keep in Mind that the K6 2+ CPU has it's own L2 Cache. That means that the external Cache becomes L3 basically. But as soon as you disable one cache of the CPU it moves "up" and as it's slower as the integreated L1/L2 cache, the CPU also becomes slower if it needs to use the External Cache as L1/L2. So disabling "just" the external cache does almost nothing. But Disabling L1, L2 and then also disabling the external cache halves the effective speed and makes a massive difference.

Oh, that's because I am using 2 SD Cards. One card for DOS: 16GB capacity, but as DOS only handles 8GB drive and 2GB partitions, that's how its set up. The Second SD ist for Windows. That one is 128gb, with full 128gb used as a single partition.

Hah, I actually already exchanged my ESS for the Orpheus 2 LT now. But in terms of the setup not much changed. Unfortunately the Orpheus 2 LT is not great in windows, as it's too silent and once you increase volume in windows this results in heavy clipping. So I still need that SB Live for Windows.

Back then I disregarded Lands of Lore 2 right away as being ugly. I wanted tome proper continuation of Lands of Lore 1. But after I did a Lets Play on Lands of Lore 1 and had lots of comments of viewers praising Lands of Lore 2, and I looked into it, also for this video, I got to say, it's better than I thought. Will probably do a playthrough at some point in the near future. So I am very glad I got it working here. ^^

Haha, thanks! :D

Yeah....crazy :)))

Thank you! It's hand crafted and was actually rather easy to do, but involved some planning. Made a separate video about it if you are interested :)

Haha, thanks! First I only wanted to check performances, and then I stumbled over so many compatibility issues, which one after another I was able to solve (though not all of them) and thought that this could be interesting for others as well. Some ofc are somewhat document, others like Lands of Lore 2 are not and I only found the solution by accident and lots of testing, same goes with Screamer 2. I actually had to limit myself to not add more and more games. ^^

Thanks a lot! :)

Haha, thanks a lot! :)

@@KordanorsGamingLair ;)

Thanks a lot! :)

Yeah, it's also what I show on that "Diagram" around that timestamp (can also be downloaded separately, link in descripton). There you can nicely see how PCI is vanishing, then AGP is taking over, and then PCI is reappearing. And that "new" PCI should only be bought for PCs of that time, unless you are absolutely sure that it will work on your older system (like if you have someone who already tested that specific model), but assume it wont work.

Yep, pretty much. Next Sunday I also plan to release a video which will also somewhat "disenchant" the Voodoo 3. While it is a great card, it's also definitely not one which let's you live carefree, and without compatibility issues.

@@KordanorsGamingLair I am using AvP 1999 and NFS5 as a test, if these 2 games work fine, then everything will probably run fine. For some reason, DX6 and DX7 games have the worst compatibility problems and when you use even older hardware, you will realize that HW from that time of the game doesn't have performance to actually run it properly, everything was developed for future HW, but back in the day, nobody cared about some 60+ FPS, it was just does it run? If yes, then it was everything fine. 😀 Just a little tip for people who are trying to build computer with the best possible performance and still good compatibility with DX7 and DX6 games - it works pretty fine on Radeons x1000 series under Win 2000 with alternative omega drivers. One would expect that Win 2000 and XP are pretty much the same because of similar core, but there is a pretty huge difference when it comes to problematical 90s games. Ofcourse you can run them fine in Win 98, but you can't use later HW because of non existing drivers. Many years ago, we were throwing GPUs like MX440 out of Windows, these common and cheap GPUs are also pretty good for 90s gaming in these days, but ofcourse it's not for people who want time precise machine with actual 90s HW. I was always nvidia boy back in the day, but now I realize that ATI card were mostly better for compatibility and performance, GPUs like Radeon 9600 can be easily found now, it's nothing rare, but it has good value for me becuase it has exactly that mix of compatibility, performance and support for old operating systems I need. 3dfx is like completely new undiscovered galaxy for me, I hope one day I will get there. 😀 The worst thing about all those compatibility problems is that you will finally solve it, then you forgot about retro HW for some time and then you can start again because you don't remember what exact drivers you used before.....I hate it. 😀

Thanks! Yeah, that's reasonable. Also consider using a Mister FPGA for DOS, which you could then maybe also use to solve the C64 problem :D I think a PC with high performance components fom around the years 2002-2004 should yield pretty much the best results for most games, except of DOS and ofc the early 3dfx stuff. Also instead of swapping between DOS and WIN98 as I did, you could swap between WIN98 and XP if that should ever be necessary. Though I am not sure if a SD-Card would still offer optimal speed for that era, but ofc there are also alternatives. :)

Thanks a lot! :)

Thanks a lot! Needed to make the most out of the very limited available depth. :)

I am not aware of a physical version. They didnt even it as kickstarter reward back then. Pretty sure this doesnt exist.

@@KordanorsGamingLair That figures. Thanks a ton (and have a sub) for the answer.

@@Quazi-Moto Thank you! :)

Thanks a lot! Much appreciated! :)

Haha, thanks a lot! :D

Oh, interesting. But no, not familiar with it. I only tried around with different DosBox releases. PCem might already yield better results than DosBox, but I didnt tinker around with that either. In fact I didnt even know of it until I was already deep into getting all parts together (a bit later there was also a Linus Tech Tips video on PCem). Seems like 86 is based on PCem, so I don't doubt it will give better results. But personally, I rather stick to the original now.

86Box is great! It is based on PCem, but this fork focus on emulation accuracy instead of speed.

Haha, yeah I have heard of people basically having a PC for every 2 years of games, so that everything is time accurate, and surely, in lots of cases you do avoid issues. Especially the Voodoo 3 was actually a total pain to work with. Most stuff can be made so that it works, but it's lots of work and troubleshooding and "modern knowledge" and options you wouldn't have had back then. More on that in the next video :D

@@KordanorsGamingLair Well I also need to justify my gigantic hardware piles, somehow. XD

Thanks a lot! Yeah, Noctua is definitely my go-to for cooling solutions :D What would have been really great is a PCI Slot cooling option, but I only found and bought a single one, and that was terrible unfortunately (much too loud and fan couldnt be replaced)

Thanks a lot! Did my best to also make this video helpful for people interested in building their own machine. :)

Yeah, by the time the PCs were that powerful, "Desktop PCs" were already rather unpopular. I think their time was mostly in the late 90s, popularized by the original IBM PCs for example. It's kinda funny though that this specific case, which was made in the early 90s, and which I bought on ebay, was used in a company which back in the day, already put a AMD K6 into it.

Wait, what? :D

@@KordanorsGamingLair 🥰

Thanks for watching! 🙂

Thanks for checking out so many of my reviews!

Thanks, hope you enjoyed 🙂

thanks again! 🙂

thank you!

that one was truly brutal 😁