I've got a suitcase full of old jewelcases I saved since childhood stored at my dad's place, from memory in there's stuff like The Magic Death, Mad Dog McCree, Dragon's Lair, Lure of the Temptress, Fire & Ice, Inca, Blue Force, Flash Traffic, Ringworld.. and I've got a couple I can't remember atm …

If you're developing a game/program that needs direct3d you can probably use those functions to check if it works, to give an error if it fails, or to even make your own check to see if a card or system supports DirectX12/11/10/etc

I've been working on a specific dosbox vm for a while, and managed to cram 2 x 2gb hdd images with demos of these games with room to spare: (Random Order) Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Half-life: Uplink, Half-life Day One, Jedi Knight, Alien vs Predator, Turok, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, …

I had a great experience with my cheapo Powercolor 16MB TNT-card on a k6-2 500 when the TNT2 was just out and unaffordable for kids, it ran most games up to Nocturne, MDK2 and Medal of Honor Allied Assault but I kept my Voodoo2 for compatibility with older games. The Voodoo3 will take care of that, …

Ditto here, my guess is since the main goal and focus from the start was not just emulation, but getting every dos game running, there's a lot of cheating and cycle stealing going on, in the good way 😉

I guess that means you'd have to write your own patch and compile the sources with your emulated hardware accelerator included (like it has been done for S3/Paradise/ET3000/ET4000 chipsets)

No, seriously.. up to now PC's with more than a single core have been severely bottlenecked for GPU rendering. Everything before DX12 could only allocate a single thread to handle draw calls. They should've implemented that way back when the Pentium D came out. Check out "a boy and his kite" tech …

Also, even though it's completely unsupported, using cputype=pentium_mmx in windows (95?)/98SE makes sound crackle horribly beyond recognition. Switching back to cputype=pentium fixes the issue. No clue if it's a directx, sb16 driver or emulation bug.

Well, you could also translate that to today's cpu's being 60% more efficient per cycle/instruction since clock speeds haven't been gaining too much ground.. my q6600 ran on 3,2ghz in 2007.. still a very small increase for such a long time. I was hoping inverse HT would change that in a bigger way, …

Basically.. 90% of "Hackers" from 1995.. the only real(istic) things in that movie were Angelina Jolie's nipples..still an awesome movie though 😁

So, the touted "inverse hyperthreading" gimmick doesn't lead to 4x performance on single-threaded apps likes dosbox yet 🙁 that's a shame.