Kahenraz wrote on 2024-02-22, 22:00: Was a complete SDK for S3D ever found? I'm also curious as to whether S3D as a 3D accelerator was accessible under DOS or if it was exclusively for Windows. I didn't try it myself but the linked file in the top post seems to contain headers, a Watcom library and …

Hopefully this forum has some sort of notification system when mentions and/or quotes are made since i can't reply to a PM @MrFlibble sent me about Post Apocalyptic Petra (too low post count perhaps? I don't visit this forum often), so i'll post the reply here as it is something others might be …

While somewhat simple as a strategy game (after a bit it is easy to figure out a winning pattern), i also liked The Anarchic Kingdom. Also Demografx was nice as a small city builder, kinda like a 2D simcity.

Nice, these stats (mainly the DOS one) are more in line with what i was expecting from a 233MHz CPU :-). The OpenGL vs D3D makes sense i think as 3dfx wasn't that great on OpenGL - i added a D3D backend exactly so that the game can run on Voodoo cards. The HW backends work pretty much the same, only …

I made a fix for the SB16 DMA bug yesterday and today my friend (who had the issue on his PC - it didn't happen on my laptop for some reason) confirmed that it works, so you may want to replace the PETRA.EXE with this until i make a proper new release: http://runtimeterror.com/pages/badsector/nyan/ …

- Software rendering, be it through the DOS executable or Windows, is understandably slow. It mostly sat at 20FPS and below although there were points were 30FPS were achieved. I didn't bother to check, is it doing 320x200 or 320x240 in software? What was the output of "petra -bench"? It should …

Sure, i just added a PetraAll.zip archive that contains all the other 60 files. Perhaps in the future i might remove all the individual files except those for the latest version of each platform and keep the older versions in an archive file for those who want to check out the older stuff.

I'd be curious about the 233MHz PC, but i'm not sure it'll run on a 486 since AFAIK it doesn't have the RDTSC instruction that the game uses for timing (and even if it did, the engine is using floating point math everywhere aside from the rasterizer).

hey BadSector, good to see you here! We've known each other from another, now defunct PC magazine and associated forum ;) [...] It reminded me a lot of Excalibur 2555 AD , was it an influence? Hey :-). No, Excalibur 2555 AD wasn't really an influence, it was more Tomb Raider, in fact initially i …

...and other platforms too :-P. https://i.imgur.com/yK4CWms.png Post Apocalyptic Petra is a 3D adventure/exploration/platforming game i originally made for the MS-DOS Game Jam #2 in 2020 and i've been tinkering with it ever since - mainly porting in to new platforms, fixing bugs and improving …

I also don't know if capping the FPS at 60 is doing anything, or if disabling DirectX 6 is doing anything. At the past disabling DirectX 6 commands did fix some things for me when i used WinXP, so that could help. Also capping the FPS at 60 helps with mouse input working without "skipping" and …

At the past i used DOSBox but nowadays i prefer 86box whenever possible, unless i really need the extra performance or need to easy access for files or want to script some stuff. Even then i do not use vanilla DOSBox much, i prefer DOSBox-X as it provides better compatibility (e.g. i had an issue …

In case anyone is into retrocoding and into Pascal and feels like writing some S3D code, then you may be interested in this S3D Pascal bindings i wrote, together with a bit of documentation (could be better but i'm a bit tired :-P): http://runtimeterror.com/tech/s3dtk/ It links directly to S3DTKW. …