Re: what happened to the vintage hardware wallpaper thread?
Posted on 2023-09-21, 03:54
Last time I saw it, it was repeated mislicensing and non-wallpaper imagedumps unrelated to hardware
Re: Voodoo 2 and 3000 benchmark for windows XP
Posted on 2023-09-16, 12:26
There's no Direct3D HAL for Voodoo2 under XP. Also Voodoos are far from obscure.
Re: VGA custom character mode for Gameboy emulation
Posted on 2023-09-15, 23:40
For the 4-color issue, all I can think of are custom 8x8 textmode chars for 33%/66% dithered/filled in all possible 2x2 combinations per char for every 2x2 pixels of a GB buffer all on an extended text mode
Re: Is it worth recording your gameplay?
Posted on 2023-09-14, 00:50
yes I don't twitch but I have recorded a 1 credit clear of Night Striker recently (only posted on a couple discords, was a fun encoding experience to get 15 mins to 25mb).
Re: Can't install Jurassic Park CD-ROM
Posted on 2023-09-12, 00:20
There's redbook audio at least. Not the actual film score IIRC
Re: What was the first ever smooth 70 Hz hardware scrolling DOS game?
Posted on 2023-09-09, 21:59
My first thoughts were: - Tubular Worlds - the RSD Gamemaker games (smooth scrolling but.... everything else isn't) I'm quite certain they were 320x200 @70hz using VGA panning. I think Beverly Hills Cop had smooth scrolling too but that's more EGA. It used to have severe emulation problems for it
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2023-09-08, 23:01
I remember GMDX being buggy for being applied to a non-Steam non-GOTY version (aka the good version) and having maps with screwed up lighting.
Re: Glover original 1998 PC CD-ROM release... and the strict GPU compatibility it has.
Posted on 2023-09-08, 05:28
Of the cards on the list,the Rage Pro should be very available. But whether the variants work (Rage XL and newly produced Rage XL) I have no idea. Also no, Glover doesn't render properly on a Kyro II. It's probably a paletted-texture-exclusive game with no fallback.
Re: Why does Warcraft 3 list the Nvidia TNT, Ati Rage 128, Voodoo3, Intel i810 as minimum spec cards but requires D3D8?
Posted on 2023-09-08, 03:58
Some technical anecdote regarding a worse video card vs newer DX: Some of the screenshots in the PowerVR Fun Thread involve a "DirectX 3" 3d card (PCX2) running some DirectX7+ games. The card hasn't had seen drivers newer than May 1998 (just before the launch of DX6) so there's a lot of driver …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2023-09-07, 03:44
You need to play Real RTCW. It's RTCW, the way it was meant to be played. Critical helpful steam reviews say otherwise (i.e. drastically altering the gameplay balance neccessating the need for a 'classic mod'), which is a fair expectation of overambitious fan patches plugged around like the best …
Re: Does anyone remember the Digital (DEC) Starion Desktop line?
Posted on 2023-09-06, 04:06
All of DEC's x86 machines in the 90s kinda fell into a general memory hole to the internet and it's not just that line (there's a bit of a mandela effect like they only *ever* made Alphas and ancient mainframes/workstations). DEC's site being wayback excluded doesn't help either.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2023-09-05, 22:55
Compression tweaks. There's no redbook (it's all Interplay ACM) Also available hard drives at the time (4gb-13gb~) absolutely could install the whole thing and is recommended to do so for multiplayer.
Re: Dark Forces Remastered
Posted on 2023-09-03, 22:59
ZellSF wrote on 2023-09-03, 18:10: Now I'm wondering who gets to Outlaws first; Nightdive or Lucius. Giles
Re: Why does Warcraft 3 list the Nvidia TNT, Ati Rage 128, Voodoo3, Intel i810 as minimum spec cards but requires D3D8?
Posted on 2023-09-02, 07:38
Half-life 2 was a D3D9 game, but its early versions could run even on a TNT. Half-Life 2 launched with a DX6.1 backend! Running it on cards like Kyro would get you that. Okay. It would be interesting to know what features of d3d8 were used for WC3 and what would be cut if a d3d7 or older card was …
Re: Why does Warcraft 3 list the Nvidia TNT, Ati Rage 128, Voodoo3, Intel i810 as minimum spec cards but requires D3D8?
Posted on 2023-09-02, 06:06
Drivers supporting an API and hardware having that API's new capabilities are two different things.
Re: Streets of SimCity crashes on Windows 98 (VirtualBox)
Posted on 2023-09-02, 03:08
Streets only supports Glide on the Voodoo and Voodoo2 out of the box, and would require the Voodoo Rush patch for any other voodoo card. however Streets has other problems that virtualizing a CPU would be infinite pain for and only properly plays on slow CPUs. If your CPU's too fast then the …
Re: Q(uick)Basic Screen Modes
Posted on 2023-09-02, 02:34
Before anyone on the internet finds this and mistakes it for an officially supported mode list (as the thread title currently implies), QBASIC only supports up to mode 13. There is no 5 or 6. The following table summarizes screen modes: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄMDPA, CGA, Hercules, Olivetti, EGA, VGA, or MCGA …
Re: Dark Forces Remastered
Posted on 2023-08-29, 22:15
i don't know if my heart is ready for Star Wars Dark Forces Special Edition Remaster'd Vader isn't as moving, and I think fullbright colors and weapon lighting aren't implemented yet
Re: i cant install the phoenix s3 trio 32 driver on windows 3.11
Posted on 2023-08-27, 10:19
Yes. It's what Microsoft took away for a decade now.
Re: windows 98 SE - how big drive disks?
Posted on 2023-08-26, 00:25
You're asking for data loss imho. For accessing drives that big and NTFS, i'd use XP at a minimum
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