Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on Yesterday, 23:18

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I have OpenGL sort of working now, but I can't seem to get it to see openglide. Hmmm. Sort of working, let me guess: slowly, right? I think these old Windows versions had their own soft-rendered version of OpenGL which is what you're seeing here. If there are no messages on qemu console, that is …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on Yesterday, 21:23

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Great, I'll try that! I actually tried removing LOGOW.SYS, so I see I was half-way there already. But that didn't help on its own. EDIT: Got it fixed. This is a quite nice workaround actually, I was expecting the fix to require some win.com hacking or somesuch. My original Dec-13 post has also been …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on Yesterday, 17:42

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That was a (yet another) great tip, kjliew. Thx!! Now if I understood the purpose of this procedure correctly, it's so that everything is opened fullscreen by default. So as the final step the pif should edited so that the Fullscreen setting is enabled. This bit was missing in the recipe given in …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on Yesterday, 07:09

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Yes, I would be very interested in that too. Is there a specific version that should be used? And is vmware-svga the way to go, or maybe something else? I've only tested the bearwindows (VBEMP) drivers (2014.02.14) so far since this was kjliew's recommendation. They have their own set of problems, …

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Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

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Adding code to usb boot, tillamook updates, adding ability to boot to m.2 over pci to pcie adapter. Other neat updates I’m not aware of. Still in research stage. Also being proactive. I should have the board next week. Also may be getting a dual socket 7 board that I may need to update with the …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on Yesterday, 00:00

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I've also noticed that directdraw doesn't work at all. Even for simple games that don't use any 3dacceleration. You guys have any tips for workarounds for this? Normally I'd just use one of the newer implementations of WineD3D, but i'm having difficulty finding a ddraw.dll wrapper that'll work on …

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Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 23:52

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Cool! Yes those things sure don't sound very trivial. Is wimsbios still an option? They *used* to take customizing requests, but I'm out of the loop on what the situation is today.

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Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 23:15

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Can you elaborate a bit, what would you need customized? If it's something minor, with GUI tools it can be quite easy. Just clickety-click here and there and hey presto, you got yourself a custom BIOS. But ofc it depends heavily on what exactly needs to be altered (and also on the kind of BIOS you …

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Re: AMD K6 3+ software

Posted on 2021-01-15, 21:37

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Well looks like k6plus.com is up, it's just that stuff has moved around. Check the Downloads section. https://www.k6plus.com/phpBB3/app.php/dlext/index

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Re: Amount of old computer hardware produced ?

Posted on 2021-01-15, 19:52

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Realistically getting any numbers on survivors is unlikely, unless there is some online activity related to that particular piece of hardware. But then there is that Microsoft telemetry in some of their latest offerings...maybe they keep tabs on this sort of thing? And they are not alone in doing …

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Re: How bad do these caps look?

Posted on 2021-01-14, 16:41

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What is the history of the board? If you know it was working before, maybe it will work for another 5 mins more (or maybe not...) I actually haven't tested it yet, I'm still waiting for my CPU + HSF to arrive. History unknown as the ebay seller appears to be one of those big lot recyclers. Right. …

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Re: How bad do these caps look?

Posted on 2021-01-14, 15:19

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@dionb, that's very nice writeup, thank you! I'd add that if you're unsure, maybe spend some time reading badcaps.net to see what you're up against (they have some hints about tools etc there). What is the history of the board? If you know it was working before, maybe it will work for another 5 mins …

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Re: USB drives in PCEM

Posted on 2021-01-14, 12:58

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I usually just mount the img file directly to Linux's file system (using guestmount or whatever). Works for my casual use, but there's probably better ways to do it.

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Re: Many Socket 775 Benchmarks (including the CPUs no one cares about anymore)

Posted on 2021-01-14, 11:49

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Thanks. Sure it's pretty pointless if you want to buy something new to use, but sometimes it can *happen* that you just have a lot of these cpus and mobos readily available... So it's nice to have some reference points on their performance. Even if the end result is "clocks matter, who knew" :D Some …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on 2021-01-13, 23:55

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It won't work for any game that isn't using OpenGL to initialize fullscreen. Starcraft, Diablo, NFS 2, WinQuake, Quake II, etc... I'm trying this with the VMWare display and drivers, should I be trying with something else? Or is this expected behavior with this method. Which version of Diablo? …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on 2021-01-13, 21:35

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Here is some post where is writing about not Glide games, OpenGL preview.. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=832278#p832278 Thanks ruthan, but isn't that simply the MesaGL implementation that is now included with qemu-3dfx? Or was there some point that I missed? WineD3D handles the calls from …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on 2021-01-13, 19:50

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It won't work for any game that isn't using OpenGL to initialize fullscreen. Starcraft, Diablo, NFS 2, WinQuake, Quake II, etc... I'm trying this with the VMWare display and drivers, should I be trying with something else? Or is this expected behavior with this method. Ah ok thx, I see what you …

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Re: help extracting OPTi 82C931 DOS drivers from windows installer?

Posted on 2021-01-12, 16:52

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FWIW unshield doesn't like to open them either (just tried it) If you have access to a Linux machine, Wine can be used to run Setup.exe. But it most likely has to be launched with WINEARCH=win32 and perhaps the version must also be set to 3.1. The version can be set via winecfg or with the command " …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on 2021-01-11, 14:44

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I have OpenGL sort of working now, but I can't seem to get it to see openglide. On the linux side where does the qemu binary expect the openglide libraries to be (I'm using Debian buster)? The default location is /usr/local/lib, if you compiled OpenGlide yourself. AFAIK it uses dlopen() to find it …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on 2021-01-11, 10:15

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Thanks guys. This is actually my first Win98 install, that's part of the problem.. Yes ACPI is a very good thing to have :D EDIT: ..or at least it would be, if it worked. With ACPI enabled (re-installed from scratch with the /NM /PJ switches) , I got the bearwindows drivers (the 32MB variant from …

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