Re: Windows 98 SE - CD rom doesn't refresh?
Posted on Today, 00:52
Do you have a real-mode CD-ROM TSR enabled before booting? REM out that mscdex..
Re: Microsoft is finally taking PC gamers seriously, and it’s already paying off
Posted on Today, 00:50
PSO2 as a W10 exclusive store app has already proven disastrous (as expected and feared since 2019's announcement)...
Re: Planet X3 by 8-Bit Guy nearing completion! New teaser & music
Posted on 2020-07-09, 23:36
I'd be surprised if this game starts outputting to the Voodoo1/2's buffer without using Glide...
Re: 486 vs Pentium for a Retro build
Posted on 2020-07-09, 12:37
If you want an "easy" 486 you'll probably want one of those later 95-96 boards with all the onboard IDEs and FDCs. Still won't mitigate jumper hell though. You're going to learn to love jumpers. There's also cache politics too :) It's definitely got nostalgia/period appeal with the heavy association …
Re: Voodoo 1 vs. Voodoo 2 on a 486
Posted on 2020-07-05, 22:48
but I believe this game can use hardware T&L. it doesn't. Every lighting and transform in Q3 is strictly software calculated. Any T&L that happens are likely more simple things coming from the OpenGL driver's end, and Q3's renderer doesn't offload any of the transform / lighting work to it. A lot …
Re: Voodoo 1 vs. Voodoo 2 on a 486
Posted on 2020-07-05, 12:43
There's also the fact most of the early HWT&L requiring games use DX8 for their API backend, which is a DirectX that cannot be installed on 486s whatsoever, and still eat at the CPU anyway (hungry for that GHz) to make 4th gen PCs a non-starter. I believe feipoa already benchmarked a Geforce2MX in a …
Re: How to disable MMX in Quake 3?
Posted on 2020-07-03, 09:32
Allegedly there's MMX in 1.27g (an alternative 'nommx' binary exists) so maybe they've had issues. The released source references MMX only on two memory copy functions, MMX possibly only used for the linux builds.
Re: virus on vogondrivers
Posted on 2020-07-03, 00:53
From my experience with Savage4 and 2000 hardware, the instability can feel like a virus....
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-07-01, 09:38
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-07-01, 00:10
I think the whole GP2X push from a decade and a half ago has already prepared enough hobbyist developers for ARM (word-of-mouth RasPi gaming hype certainly benefited from older GP2X software), so I don't think there will be anything significantly lossy, except when it's Apple's shifting policies and …
Re: FastDoom 0.3. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2020-06-30, 21:30
It's clean-roomed enough over the decades that doing that won't ever be necessary. (and DMX itself isn't legally compatible anyway)
Re: FastDoom 0.3. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2020-06-30, 08:37
I'm assuming NukeYKT reverse-engineered their own DMX-like given their prior work on the Doom OPL3 Windows MIDI driver.
Re: Benchmarking PowerVR PCX2 with Games DOS/Windows 95 - HowTo?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 23:23
Final Reality may work better than 3DMark99 here. FR's got some considerations for PCX2 so stuff 'blends' 'correctly'. 3DMark99's designed for 1999's stuff which long deprecated the generation-of-the-lacking-in-blending-functions of 3d hardware. Unreal is a VERY hungry CPU eater and will show a …
Re: entry level sound card from year 1993 or early
Posted on 2020-06-27, 04:03
I think anything entry level from around that time had to have been CS4231 based WSS clone cards, but that's probably bleeding into 1994.
Re: What font did PC Magazine use?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 23:37
jheronimus wrote on 2020-06-26, 23:33: but maybe there's some online tool these days that can do that. WhatTheFont and FontSquirrel does try at least. I'm assuming this thread is referring to the old Impact-looking font
Re: DOSBox SVN RPi4 with Dynarec Support
Posted on 2020-06-26, 00:39
If you type: core dynamic while running and it doesn't display an error, then it should be working. The Pi's video drivers are still quite bottlenecky...
Re: FastDoom 0.3. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2020-06-24, 13:17
xcomcmdr wrote on 2020-06-24, 09:04: I would love to hear all the details and tradeoffs about all the new optimizations. No F11 gamma correction seems to be one i've noticed.
Re: FastDoom 0.3. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2020-06-24, 00:12
my god. if only my old 486 had that -potato option in 1994... the 8fps I was suffering with could've been a nice 25 😳
Re: Eco-warriors to the rescue!
Posted on 2020-06-21, 23:28
As you can tell, Vogons does suffer from GSF #4 . Some can't handle the (literal) hot topics despite 2020 having probably the best Earth day ever thanks to the stay-at-home orders keeping the vehicle emissions down. and i'm sure there's also car analogies and parallels about this place vs. vintage …
Re: Final Fantasy VII on Windows 98SE, trying to get hardware acceleration
Posted on 2020-06-20, 11:46
ff7 didn't use glide
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