gpl-dta - cross-platform asset extractor/converter for Grand Prix Legends

Posted on 2020-06-02, 16:47

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Extracts data from Grand Prix Legends's DAT files. Converts textures into PNG and 3D models into OBJ/MTL. Also works with track meshes (recursively converts all 3DO dependencies except for the horizon) but not with cars. The DAT extractor and texture converter are written in PHP7 and will run on the …

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Re: GTA V Premium Edition now free on Epic Games

Posted on 2020-06-01, 16:48

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Shame that with this Epic games put in the last nail into gta V's coffin, there are more modders than ever + servers are super unstable. Or Epic is financing GTA6 if Rockstar aren't pouring the money they got into GTA5 upkeep. But I'm enjoying the story mode so far despite having seen it let's …

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Re: RallySportED, the track editor for the DOS game Rally-Sport

Posted on 2020-05-24, 17:42

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The browser version of RallySportED is again up at https://www.tarpeeksihyvaesoft.com/rallysported/. A user guide is at https://www.tarpeeksihyvaesoft.com/rallysported/user-guide/. A temporary host for the DOS binaries (including the loader required to play modded tracks) is at https://github.com/ …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-05-21, 16:20

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A reminder to all. VCS, the third-party capture software for Datapath capture cards, is up to version 2.0 these days and has added support for Linux as well as implementing many other improvements over what was already a good version 1.0. Targeted especially toward analog retro capture. Free for …

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Re: GTA V Premium Edition now free on Epic Games

Posted on 2020-05-19, 01:34

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Bought this on christmas sale and got around to playing it now. Works decent in Linux with Proton and a GTX 980, everything on very high at 900p. The new Rockstar Launcher is quite annoying though.

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-18, 16:03

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I know, I may sound stupid, but how do I install the .patch file? It's only needed if you want to build a PCbi-compatible version of PCem yourself. In Linux, you can apply the patch with something like "$ patch -p1 < pcem_v16_for_pcbi.patch" if you're in e.g. ../pcem/16/ and the source code is in …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-18, 07:31

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Version 0.16.2: - Tweaks the UI here and there - Disallows connecting Super Socket 7 CPUs into Socket 7 sockets - Components: Adds a SiS 496 Socket 2 motherboard - Components: Adds a VIA MVP3 Super Socket 7 motherboard - Components: Tweaks the visuals of all motherboards - Components: Adds a number …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-16, 16:59

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This is REALLY cool. I'd love to have a frontend like this for MAME someday, especially for its computers. We don't quite have the configurability of PCem yet for PCs tho, but it's getting closer. It took about two weeks of work to have a working prototype of PCbi, which included setting up a …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-14, 03:59

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Version 0.16.1: - Uses the correct PCem CPU IDs across all of PCbi's supported motherboard models - Components: Adds a couple of WinChip CPUs - Components: Updates the visual style of the Intel Premiere/PCI motherboard - Renames monitor smoothing filters to "Smooth" and "Crisp" (and makes "Smooth" …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-09, 08:01

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- Removes a few CPUs that don't seem to be supported by PCem anymore I don't remember removing any. Which CPUs are causing problems? Actually that's on me, it's been a few years since I went through these and have forgotten a bunch. I took a quick look at cpu_tables.c, didn't see the WinChip 225 …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-09, 06:10

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Version 0.16.0 catches up with PCem 16: - Adopts PCem 16 - Warns the user if it can't find a component when loading a save file, rather than terminating with an assertion - Updates CPU components' PCem IDs - Removes a few CPUs that don't seem to be supported by PCem anymore Earlier, version 0.15.0: …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-08, 06:07

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Version 0.14.0 updates PCem support to v14 and fixes a few bugs from 0.13.0: - Adopts PCem 14 - Fixes drive image filename not getting reset when the drive is removed - Fixes activating PCem mouse grab via double-clicking on PCbi monitor - Uses * instead of *.* for "All files" in file selection …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-07, 07:26

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There's been growing interest in this program lately, so it's time for a new version. PCbi 0.13.0 brings in some tweaks here and there; most notably components (like video cards, CPUs, etc.) are now provided in a simple ASCII format, so you can create and add new ones more easily. Instructions and …

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Serlain - Internet Archive frontend with mock 1990s browers

Posted on 2020-05-03, 21:43

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A fun unofficial frontend for accessing the Internet Archive. Displays archived sites inside period-correct-looking mock browsers. IE4 shows pages from 1999, Navigator 4 from 1998, etc. Source code is at https://github.com/leikareipa/serlain. A video demonstration can be seen at https://www.youtube. …

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Re: Retro n-gon renderer - a JavaScript 3D software renderer for your retro projects

Posted on 2020-04-27, 17:08

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Simplest full app to render a triangle (3-gon): const triangle = Rngon.ngon([Rngon.vertex(-1, -1, 3), Rngon.vertex( 1, -1, 3), Rngon.vertex( 1, 1, 3)]); Rngon.render("canvas", [Rngon.mesh([triangle])]);

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Re: Retro n-gon renderer - a JavaScript 3D software renderer for your retro projects

Posted on 2020-04-25, 16:30

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Depends on what you're after. The goal of this renderer is the opposite of rendering without errors or inconsistencies - so long as the output looks like it's held together with tape, it's doing its thing in true 90s fashion. Only those render issues that get too glaringly in the way are a problem. …

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Re: Retro n-gon renderer - a JavaScript 3D software renderer for your retro projects

Posted on 2020-04-25, 08:29

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affine.jpg Nice implimentation of affine texturing. :) It's actually perspective corrected, don't know why that particular detail looks like that both in-game and in the renderer. But you can turn off perspective correction to get pure affine as well. The game lets you do it too, and since it uses …

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Retro n-gon renderer - a JavaScript 3D software renderer for your retro projects

Posted on 2020-04-25, 06:43

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A mid-90s style software 3D renderer for the HTML5 canvas. Need a clunky-looking, olden-style renderer for the browser? This is it. https://github.com/leikareipa/retro-ngon - Genuine obsolete software 3D rendering without WebGL - Renders n-sided convex polygons - Quite well documented, easy to set …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2020-04-22, 17:42

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A side effect of the new version of VCS implementing Linux support for capturing is that code talking to the capture hardware was put behind an abstract interface which the rest of the program interacts with - so in theory it should be fairly easy to add support for hardware other than Datapath's, …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2020-04-14, 16:21

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Version 2.0.0 is now out and as a temporary measure the binary's hosted on GitHub's relases page for VCS at https://github.com/leikareipa/vcs/releases - Added support for capturing under Linux (requires Datapath's Vision Linux driver and is limited to /dev/video0) - Added ability to configure …

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