Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2021-07-07, 20:31

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by mirh

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Thank you lowenz for the tip off. That's exactly what people have been longing after for over a decade. (though it's technically just openal focused for the moment, I'm not exactly sure about its interplay with dsoal) Of course being a replacement for some creative-made software, you have an inane …

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Re: Gears of War PC (2007, DX10) 5.1 via HDMI?

Posted on 2021-06-21, 12:08

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by mirh

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Of course you have to use the right DeviceName for Rapture3D or openal-soft. Or just ditch away wrap_oal.dll in both your system and game folder, and the game will be obliged to use your fully fledged renderer.

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Re: Mass Effect 1 Activation

Posted on 2021-02-21, 03:45

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by mirh

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I haven't noticed any performance issues. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18522#p133300 https://web.archive.org/web/20080510093146/http://masseffect.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=628375&forum=125&sp=45 Ehrm.. I don't want to be that guy, but you got more stuff wrong than right. …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-02-17, 23:18

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by mirh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

All the Ageia PhysX PPU supported games, demos, benchmarks, drivers and mods that is OK to upload are now available on Vogonsdrivers: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/index.php?catid=70&menustate=32,0 It's taken a while to acquire everything, but enjoying your PPU card should be a tad easier. You are …

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Re: Vmware DX11 support

Posted on 2020-07-03, 02:01

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by mirh

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I'm not sure what you are thinking to. If you want to run W98, then you sure aren't going to get newer directx (or any kind of acceleration that is). If you want to run dgvoodoo2 with normal new windowses.. Then what's even the point with respect to bare metal? As for star trek games, there are …

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Re: 64bit replacement of ntvdm

Posted on 2020-06-10, 03:04

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by mirh

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"Running 16 bit code" is just a subset of what you need for actual fully fledged DOS programs. In 64-bit mode, the only possible way to run some kind of real mode "on bare metal" is virtualization. Now, I would guess performance isn't really going to be 100% of "native vm86".. But close enough …

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Re: 64bit replacement of ntvdm

Posted on 2020-06-09, 21:55

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by mirh

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As noted in the winevdm documentation, 64 bit windows simply won't let you change the Local Descriptor Table. There's no way around it, so you can just hope for somebody to develop a fast enough recompiler, or use a VM (HAXM in ntvdmx64 ?). On the other hand.. Linux has no such limitation. If your …

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Re: Vmware DX11 support

Posted on 2020-06-05, 11:03

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by mirh

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Lolwat, a Core 2 Quad can still play all but the very latest games (and usually not even for "strict performance" reasons, but just because some smartass thought it was smart to optimize for SSE4.2). And vice versa, if XP can even still run on baremetal.. With GPT and straight from UEFI, I don't see …

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Re: Vmware DX11 support

Posted on 2020-06-05, 02:37

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by mirh

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DX12 is also available in W7 as of the last year, and it never had any link whatsoever with UWP. If any, it's a shame that this requires the latest and greatest version of Workstation (on top of the latest tools), thus leaving out <2010 hardware. I can just hope VirGL will work one day in windows.

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Re: Wings Of Destiny (Psygnosis)

Posted on 2020-06-05, 00:43

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by mirh

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So.. Like, putting aside I have spent far too much time trying to find what the actual developer ever did (and I could not even find a website eventually) Their slightly older game should be playable with dgVoodoo, at least in W7.

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Re: Mortal Kombat Trilogy WinXP fix

Posted on 2020-04-08, 21:07

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by mirh

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Splitting threads just makes people finding the old one on google remain clueless. .. I don't see the intrinsic problem with necroing if I'm actually completing the original discussion (rather than just "monkey asking for help"). EDIT: the message below this, on the other hand...

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Mortal Kombat Trilogy WinXP fix

Posted on 2020-03-07, 13:55

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by mirh

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Re: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1741 So.. I hope I'm not doing the mother of all necroposting, but thanks to the Abandonia friends I found out still working links of the aforementioned Application Compatibility Toolkit patch. You can find it here or here . They are slightly different …

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Re: ASP403 - The Neverending Project

Posted on 2020-01-31, 14:33

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by mirh

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in Marvin \ Sound

I wonder how this compares with the original https://github.com/LAGonauta/SARooms Also this. Btw, how in the hell has ZanQuance youtube channel been emptied of all the nice A3D recordings?

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2020-01-31, 14:22

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by mirh

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Half-Life on 3dfx Voodoo Banshee on a Super Socket 7 retro gaming PC DFI SS7 motherboard, K6-III+ 550 MHz, 128 MB RAM, ELSA Victory II 3dfx Voodoo Banshee and a Aureal Vortex 2 sound card. Listen to this video with headphones for that awesome A3D 3D sound over headphones experience. I recorded the …

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Re: Glover won't install on Windows 7 64-bit

Posted on 2020-01-21, 20:10

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by mirh

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The registry key is called "whereami" btw https://skychase.zone/gloveres/pcfix.html

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-10-26, 19:47

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by mirh

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Probably not the usual kind of "hardware", but a dumpster is a dumpster. http://imgur.com/sACxaVLm.jpg http://imgur.com/zAbXLwQm.jpg Is there anybody that know this ~2 decades old speakers manufacturer ? Bump. If it can help, the power connector is a C13/C14 "pass-through" that goes between the …

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Re: Possiblility for optical drive emulator (hardware DTLite)?

Posted on 2019-01-05, 14:02

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by mirh

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Redump should be using DiscImageCreator tbf. With the exception of Alcohol and Daemon though, I'm not aware of any "generic OS-wide" mounting software that would support most of pc DRM. Cdemu on linux super-maybe.

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Re: What is "AMD only" DDR2 RAM?

Posted on 2018-09-25, 19:25

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by mirh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

"Official", or even tested? Because if I learnt something here, is that datasheets are just "minimum advertised features", not "all that is actually there". And I could see how some overzealous vendor, on a 2 slot motherboard and thinking the biggest single sticks could ever be is 2GB, might have …

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Re: What is "AMD only" DDR2 RAM?

Posted on 2018-09-20, 17:29

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by mirh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, K8 started the on-die memory controller tradition But they never had any limitation to speak of, at least since switching to DDR2 with "Rev F" cpus (and especially sensible considering the IMC seems to be shared with the server socket, which could possibly also explain the "extended …

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Re: What is "AMD only" DDR2 RAM?

Posted on 2018-09-20, 00:34

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by mirh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

and there's been a lot of hate-mongering in the last couple years over people necroing old threads looking for an answer. So, what's up with this? Would a set of 4x4gb of this "AMD only" RAM work in my setup? Would it work with any DDR2 motherboard? I, for one, am in the opposite situation. I have …

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