Re: Voodoo1 too dark / Gamma correction does not work

Posted on Today, 14:15

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I've tried it with NFS2SE (Glide) and NFS3 (Direct3D) so far. Pod Racer (Direct3D) was the same. NFS2SE even has a built in brightness control that doesn't work in 85 Hz either. After doing some more testing myself, I can confirm this. It seems that Voodoo1 gamma adjustments work fine at 60 Hz and …

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Re: Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (3DFX) in pure DOS

Posted on Today, 08:27

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I do not, which is also weird because they should be there, and the menu music works just fine. I dropped back in the software render exe and the ambience music plays as it should. Yeah, same experience here. For me, the only way to get CD audio in Glide mode was to install the base game from the …

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Re: Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (3DFX) in pure DOS

Posted on Today, 08:22

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by Joseph_Joestar

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You are having troubles with GLIDE2X.OVL. The version from the latest OEM or 3Dfx reference just don't support pure DOS but they work from Windows 98 DOS. Tomb Raider 1 base game worked because you must be using the earlier static link 3Dfx patch. If you had the later dynamic link Voodoo/Rush patch …

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Re: Yamaha XG with S/PDIF out ?

Posted on Today, 06:15

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by Joseph_Joestar

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My Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo (YMF744B-V) has optical out. It also has SPDIF in for digital CD audio. If anyone's interested, I have uploaded some music samples recorded via optical out here and also here.

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Re: Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (3DFX) in pure DOS

Posted on Today, 06:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Agent of the BSoD wrote on Today, 05:15: Looks like it wants Windows for whatever reason even though it's a DOS program. Very weird. Thanks for the confirmation. Do you also not get CD audio with the UB disc inserted? During the new levels I mean.

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Re: What Aztech sound card to buy

Posted on Yesterday, 19:51

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by Joseph_Joestar

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There's no real reason to use the MMSD802 (NXPro? layout is slightly different but active components the same) over the MMSN810, as the only significant difference is that WSS codec chip, AD1848 here. Still the 802 give you a backup in case the 810 turns out dead. I don't have any experience with …

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Re: Best graphics card for AMD K6-2 350 Mhz processor.

Posted on Yesterday, 19:04

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Interesting. I wonder why the TNT2 PRO goes from 23 FPS at 32-bit color with 2.08 drivers to just 9 FPS with 3.68 drivers. That's a huge difference! Talking about the results in ut99_03.png

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on Yesterday, 12:44

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by Joseph_Joestar

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My suggestion was that having a XP machine (capable of running DX7 games), you could have a less powerful w98 machine for DX6 games and below and design it a bit more "high end DOS game friendly". DX7 graphics cards (e.g. GeForce2) are no less DOS compatible than DX6 graphics cards (e.g. TNT2). …

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Re: Katmai 450MHz + Matrox G400 16MB - 1999 PC Remake

Posted on 2021-07-20, 16:17

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Well, it was the card i had in it. Makes sense. Like I said earlier, nostalgia trumps any other reason when it comes to retro gaming. In my case, despite now having a Roland Sound Canvas, there are still some games where I use OPL3 for music, since I grew up with that and it's what I most fondly …

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on 2021-07-20, 14:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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DirectX 7.0a was released in December 1999 and windows XP in October 2001. Wouldn't you agree with the idea that DX7 games should be played with XP ? How did you came to this conclusion based on those two dates? At the time DX7 was released, Windows 98 (and even Win95 OSR2.5) was still the main PC …

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Re: Katmai 450MHz + Matrox G400 16MB - 1999 PC Remake

Posted on 2021-07-20, 10:48

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Thanks man. I wont´use it for DOS gaming, so no problems with the PCI 128. I find it fairly decent for W98 gaming. Other than the craptastic FM synth emulation and the bland General MIDI, the SB128 also uses software emulated EAX, unlike the SBLive which has proper hardware EAX support. I used a …

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Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-07-20, 10:09

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Comb Raider (Tomb Raider) - an epic adventure where the main heroine needs to find three ancient combs of legendary power to tame her wild hair.

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Re: Voodoo3 Cooling

Posted on 2021-07-19, 21:58

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by Joseph_Joestar

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teclillass wrote on 2021-07-19, 21:51: A solution may be to use an old 56k modem card or something similar that is no longer in use and has good dimensions. Wouldn't it be easier to just buy a PCI fan bracket? You can fit two 90 mm fans into that for quiet and efficient cooling.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - Which music card is best? (re: Adlib/OPL3, MT-32, or SC-55?)

Posted on 2021-07-19, 20:00

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by Joseph_Joestar

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The soundtrack of Duke3D was composed by two people: Lee Jackson and Bobby Prince. Here's the track listing which shows who made what. According to this article Lee Jackson initially used a Roland RAP-10 and then, at some later point (possibly during his work on the expansion?) switched to a Roland …

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Re: Voodoo1 too dark / Gamma correction does not work

Posted on 2021-07-19, 16:55

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by Joseph_Joestar

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EDIT - Looks like my refresh rate was actually set to 75 Hz.

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Re: Katmai 450MHz + Matrox G400 16MB - 1999 PC Remake

Posted on 2021-07-19, 15:43

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by Joseph_Joestar

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That's some beautiful cable management. Kudos! I question the use of a SB128 PCI as that's a pretty terrible sound card overall. A SBLive would be a much better and still period correct choice. However, if you chose the SB128 for purely nostalgic reasons (i.e. you had it back in the day) then it is …

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Re: A "broad spectrum" 90s build?

Posted on 2021-07-19, 13:19

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Also, Phil recommended OPTi one as a very good solution? OPTi cards are nice, but I would rate their SBPro compatibility slightly below Yamaha and ESS cards. They also tend to be slightly more noisy. On the plus side, their WSS compatibility is excellent and they produce crystal clear 16-bit sound …

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Re: Which of these cards do you all recommend for 97-01 gaming?

Posted on 2021-07-19, 12:56

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by Joseph_Joestar

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in Marvin \ Video

Assuming you're running original Quake for DOS, and not WinQuake or GLQuake, you want to do the following to get proper benchmark results: Patch the game to v1.08 Only benchmark under pure DOS i.e. not while Windows is running Benchmark only using standard resolutions such as 320x200 and 640x480 Run …

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Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-07-19, 02:02

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by Joseph_Joestar

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in Milliways

WarCraft > CarCraft

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Re: Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (3DFX) in pure DOS

Posted on 2021-07-18, 07:01

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I also see a lot of those quirks on many old cd rom games. Like they need to be installed in a specific directory and sometimes the disk drive needs to be d: or it won't work. During my testing, I had installed the game into the default directory i.e. C:\TOMBRAID. Also, my CD drive is using the …

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