Re: games that are better on a Macintosh

Posted on Today, 07:46

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by dr.zeissler

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

AGI and SCI Games are horrible on Mac. You have to deal with several bugs. Timing Bug, only window-mode, no black background, not all have mt-32 soundsupport (like some pc-pendants). The very old AGI suffer from 32Bit-Quickdraw bug that impacts 16color and monochrome-versions. So you have to use an …

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Re: SBVGM (DOS) VGM Player

Posted on Today, 06:20

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by dr.zeissler

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

https://www.flickr.com/photos/94839221@N05/37749408916/in/album-72157687526598300/ Aaaah ! I remember now; we were talking about this last year. The VGMs in that the screenshot you kindly provided support the SN76489 chip which is 3 square wave and one noise channel. SBVGM will playback SN76489 …

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Re: Build for Matrox G400 Max (EMBM) and A3D games?

Posted on Yesterday, 15:12

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by dr.zeissler

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am relatively sure that Intel IGP 845gv has also EMBM...

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Re: Crystal Caves & Dangerous Dave have issues with ET4000/1MB?

Posted on Yesterday, 06:46

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by dr.zeissler

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Thx for these informations. I'll make additional tests and perhaps a video next weekend. As you said, the CrystalCaves-patch linked above does not fix anything for me, but the patcher runs fine with win98se. BioMenace is not usable on that A2286, because it requires "stacks=9,256" in the config.sys …

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Re: Crystal Caves & Dangerous Dave have issues with ET4000/1MB?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 06:49

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by dr.zeissler

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I thought I did tell you exactly what the issues are, but it's gone...so I'll do it again. The A2286 is a REAL 286/8Mhz and afaik it behaves like a real machine. The "patcher" requires Win9x so it refused to work on the A2286 Dos5 and also on my main PC 486/DX2/66 Win95a, so I need to setup a …

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Re: Running Dangerous Dave / Commander Keen games with smooth scrolling... how?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 14:06

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by dr.zeissler

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in Marvin \ Software

I have a trident card but the image-quality is REALLY bad. fuzzeling lines on spaces with the same color on tft..bah! et4000 from diamond (SpeedstarVGA) is superbe against that trident-card. In another thread I found a patch. I'll check this. Old ATI should also be fine, but ATI-Wonder does not work …

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Re: Fix Display Problems in Crystal Caves and Secret Agent

Posted on 2020-06-02, 13:04

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by dr.zeissler

in Deep Thought

in Deep Thought

What exactly fixes this patch of CrystalCaves and Secret Agent? The stuttering HUD or the stuttering screen? Does your ET4000 work with dangerous-dave correctly? I get strange text-characters or a shadow if I make only one jump and it stay's until I quit the games.

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Crystal Caves & Dangerous Dave have issues with ET4000/1MB?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 06:46

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by dr.zeissler

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in Marvin \ Software

on my setup keen seems to be OK but crystalcaves&dangerous dave have issues with ET4000/1MB. I see no way to fix this. Is there any patch for et4000 known?

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Re: Tseng Labs ET4000/W32P PCI Rev. A - a good card for late dos gaming?

Posted on 2020-05-31, 10:00

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by dr.zeissler

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Et4000/w32 has two main issues: - Image Quality is not perfect on areas of the same color. - If Textmode 80x25 is centered on your tft then LowresVGA is about 0,5cm off right. I would go for a S3-Card.

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Re: Halo Combat Evolved

Posted on 2020-05-31, 08:14

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by dr.zeissler

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

Are the shaders "universal"? So can I copy them from the PC to the Mac-Version? I did some additional testing for the MacVersion: Core2Duo MacMini Nvidia9400m shared gfx. Mac OS 10.6.8 with Halo Mac Universal DVD-Version 2.0 - Vsync is broken. Activating Vsync leads to strange fps and hickups. 30fps …

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 14:25

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by dr.zeissler

in Windows

in Windows

Is there a way to get the reflecting roof of the hl2-demo back in the game?

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 08:10

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by dr.zeissler

in Windows

in Windows

what we need is a crack that kicks the steam-drm out of the executables. for pc and mac. i really would love to play and install the games i bought on my retro-machines the way I like it, not that shitty steam that always moves to the next os after a view years. the old days were great..cd/dvd in, …

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Re: Expendable (by Rage) bump mapping issue

Posted on 2020-05-28, 06:16

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by dr.zeissler

in Windows

in Windows

embm should also work on old intel igp like i815/845 or am I worng here?

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Re: Halo Combat Evolved

Posted on 2020-05-27, 18:19

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by dr.zeissler

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

Mac Versions suffer from different glitches in lightning and shaders too. Radeon 2600 seems to be fine, rest has several different glitches.

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Re: Monitor alignment

Posted on 2020-05-20, 06:21

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by dr.zeissler

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What gfx-card are you using? how about vga-lowres 320x200 and ega lowres 320x200? is the image centered and fully displayed?

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-05-19, 14:37

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by dr.zeissler

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in Marvin \ Software

I have tested several switches...none worked, but I had it working a longer time ago, but I can't remember it.

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-05-19, 09:25

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by dr.zeissler

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in Marvin \ Software

What is the hercules-switch of the cga version of defender of the crown? I do not get the game in native hercues-mode, but there is one that I remembered...

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Re: games that are better on a Macintosh

Posted on 2020-05-16, 17:32

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by dr.zeissler

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

I am pretty sure that's the issue of the same compatibility problems with 32bit quickdraw.

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Re: games that are better on a Macintosh

Posted on 2020-05-16, 07:01

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by dr.zeissler

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

btw. the Mac-Versions of the very early Sierra AGI-Adventures suffer from a never fixed bug. It's an issue with the switch from the 24Bit to 32Bit quickdraw routines in the roms of the machines. It was never fixed. So only the very early machines up to the Macintosh IIcx do play these games …

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Re: 9800 / X800 (and variants perhaps) DOS compatibility

Posted on 2020-05-13, 11:44

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by dr.zeissler

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

TableFog an Palettized Textures are up to Rage AFAIK, which means Radeon 7xxxx and upwards it's broken, BUT some features can be reactivated with the rage/radeon-tweaker-tool, which also runs on older radeon-cards. other thing is s3tc. the radeon 7000 supports UT99 directly where R92xxx does require …

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