From what I think to understand by reading through the code of other .fx effects is that you need a vertex part and a fragment part with the vertex part determining the location(s) and the fragment part what should be done with the color of said location(s) (in this case: make it red, white or …

Hi there! There are several DOS shooters which would benefit from a "crosshair", even if it's only for psychological reasons for the modern player. One way to achieve this would be an overlay, but there's no way to run DOSBox in borderless fullscreen mode. I thought the easiest way to achieve this …

There're some games that were very ambitious for the time (or poorly programmed) that were never intended to be played at 30 FPS (or more). For example the original Mechwarrior becomes almost unplayable if you go beyond 15 frames because you are probably expected to be an IBM XT user. Enemys will …

I was wondering about that. Wikipedia doesn't like Blackthorne as an MT-32 game, but Mobygames does. As a result, I'm confused that Blizzard would configure it to use the default Windows softsynth unless the game has been patched for General MIDI support? I don't know about the new version, but in …

This version from blizzard reminds me how terrible the default MIDI sounds in this game! Seriously: Blackthorne gains HUGELY from MT-32. Setting up Munt maybe involve quite alot of tinkering but it's really worth it alone for this game!

So I would like to play the original Mechwarrior with Roland sound. Problem: There's a bug in the game/DosBox: The game will crash after each mission when MPU401 is set to "intelligent" ( http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=397&letter=M ) Usually this is a non-issue because you can use adlib …

I've got a problem with The Elder Scrolls Chapter One: Arena (CD Version) This game is quite resorce demanding - when I want to play with maximal view distance I need cycles == max (or at least ~50.000) for smooth gameplay But when I play above 12.000 cycles (12.000 cycles == 486DX 33 Mhz according …

@akula65 thank you very much!

generally 3dfx had less colors (16-bit only), and was more blur. Some people may consider more blur a better quality. Smoke may look better when it is more blur. back in 1997 you only had 16 bit anyway. I have some other very old games with glide and directX options and glide generally looks better …

@robertmo: Do you mean in this particular game or generally? I'll try directX though.

I would like to play Ubi Soft's F1 Racing Simulation from 1997 again. Also I would like to play it with a glide wrapper as 3DFX looked 100 times better in those days. But there is one problem: The CD setup does not recognize a 3DFX card on my computer (which is of course true, as I just have a …

F1 '97 from Bizarre Creations/Psygonis works nice under Windows XP in D3D mode. But I'd like to play it with dgvoodoo in glide-mode because of the better resolution I could "hack" in. I applied the official Voodoo-Patch from the developers and use dgvoodoo 1.40. Anyway: The 3DFX Version works in the …

I had the same problem with this game. Probably it don't likes your CPU but I found the solution somewhere in the web: Just start the .exe with -nocputest Now it works fine with all options maximized.

I have no mouse currently (and for th next time) but working with "keyboard-only" in Windows 2000 works better than expected (I'm already used to it). There is a problem with DosBox 'though: When starting dosbox, it complaints for about 0,1 seconds, that it couldn't intialize DirectInput and shuts …