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Marijn Kentie
Personal blog · kentie.net/articlehardwareprogramming
Marijn Kentie's personal blog at kentie.net covers hardware and programming. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Marijn Kentie's site hosts guides and fan patches for old PC games, including the Deus Exe launcher for Deus Ex and a D3D10 renderer for the original Unreal. Commenters link it when discussing those games.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Marijn Kentie
What Hacker News says?
> Deus Ex (Super old but quite good, I started it recently. I had best results in Proton selecting the software renderer in the first launch dialog instead of DX9) I recommend Deus Exe [0] for playing Deus Ex. And yes, it's still an awesome game. [0] https://kentie.net/article/dxguide/
Comment linking /article/dxguide/
on “Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far”Submitted Case Conversion: IBM PS/2 Model 95 to ATX (2006) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDefinitely don't do this for your first playthrough thoug, play the original instead with only simple fixpacks like Kentie's Deus Exe launcher [0]. Opinionated mods should not be recommended as the default experience. https://kentie.net/article/dxguide/
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on “SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99”The missing part in that story is that the system was an IBM PS/2 Model 9595. They were a complete tank. Here is 3 random pages with info: http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/alf/ps2_95t3/ http://kentie.net/article/ps2/index.htm http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/alf/ps2_95t4_586/ I had one running as a fileserver for years (OS/2). There was even a hack for the type 4 CPU complex that allowed you to put in a Pent…
Comment linking /article/ps2/index.htm
on “Bash IRC Quote Database”There are even third party renderer plugins for Unreal 1, like https://kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/
Comment linking /article/d3d10drv/
on “Nvidia emulation journey, part 1: RIVA 128/NV3 architecture history and overview”Fan patches for various games can go pretty far in this direction too. For example here is one guy making a D3D10 renderer for Unreal (the original one): http://kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/ Sure they usually do not employ emulators, but still often afaik they place themselves between the game and the API, translating it to something more modern in passing.
Comment linking /article/d3d10drv/
on “Show HN: Emulator-Backed Remakes, a new way to make classic game remakes”Deus Ex: Human Revolution (prequel to the original Deus Ex) that came out the other year also had a story that sucked you in wanting more and if you like stealth games, it was geared towards that. I somehow missed playing the original Deus Ex, but it's almost better that way, as the story becomes more intriguing as it unfolds without you knowing the Deus Ex Universe ahead of time. I'm currently playing the first Deu…
Comment linking /article/dxguide/index.htm
on “J.J. Abrams, Valve in talks for game and Half-Life or Portal film”