Re: Step-by-step guide to QEMU and QEMU-3dfx for artards?

Posted on 2022-04-02, 21:17

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Copy code to clipboard 1 wds@X-23:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep qemu 2 [sudo] password for wds: 3 Reading package lists... Done 4 E: You must put some 'deb-src' URIs in your sources.list 5 wds@X-23:~$ So ummm... what repos am I supposed to add?

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Step-by-step guide to QEMU and QEMU-3dfx for artards?

Posted on 2022-04-02, 17:59

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Okay so... I just learned that my retro computing needs might be best met by a combination of QEMU, qemu-3dfx, a WinXP or Win98 guest machine, and some WineD3D dlls installed on the guest. I'd like to give this a whirl, but the problem is that I've never touched QEMU and have no idea how it works or …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-12-21, 18:18

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I played the Windows 3.0 port of SimAnt in a virtual machine yesterday. It was awesome.

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Re: Best chipset or decent motherboard for socket 754?

Posted on 2021-12-18, 08:20

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Perhaps "same generation of chipsets" would have been the better way to put it?

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Re: How suitable would a VIA VB7009 be for late '90s and early '00s gaming?

Posted on 2021-12-18, 05:04

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aaronkatrini wrote on 2021-12-16, 19:00: It's rocking a Via Chrome9 Is that what they mean by "VIA C-9 HD"?

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How suitable would a VIA VB7009 be for late '90s and early '00s gaming?

Posted on 2021-12-16, 18:54

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Did anyone ever bench this in Quake III or UT2004? https://www.viatech.com/en/products/boards/em … oards/vb7009-2/

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Re: Best chipset or decent motherboard for socket 754?

Posted on 2021-12-16, 07:11

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So... I was mostly right?

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Re: Best chipset or decent motherboard for socket 754?

Posted on 2021-12-15, 22:54

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luk1999 wrote on 2021-12-13, 21:31: Are you sure about nForce 4 and GF6100? Could you pls provide an example of motherboard that has both GF6100 and nF4 (not nF 4xx series, as this is a separate line)? I consider the nForce 400 to be a subseries of the nForce 4 series.

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Re: Hard drive and partition sizes in Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-12-13, 03:44

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So, just to be clear, Win98 can't see more than 128 GB of space on a physical device, regardless of how many partitions you carve it up into or how small those partitions are? It can only see the first 128 gigs' worth of partitions? Also, some sources say that for Win98 to use a 128 GB partition, …

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Re: Blood 2: The Chosen On Windows 8, 8.1

Posted on 2021-12-12, 23:06

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I'll be resurrecting my Socket 940 system soon enough so I'll be able to confirm that my memories are correct. Manually capping the frame rate at 60 in a config file is part of the standard workaround to get Blood II running on modern machines so the frame rate is definitely part of the puzzle. …

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Re: Fun thread: Things you thought you knew but were soooo wrong..

Posted on 2021-12-12, 09:05

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Baoran wrote on 2021-12-02, 11:44: I thought ati cards dont support 8-bit paletted textures but then I realized that 2 ati rage cards that I own both support it. What was the last ATI card to support 8-bit textures?

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Re: Best chipset or decent motherboard for socket 754?

Posted on 2021-12-12, 08:55

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Thanks for all the suggestions. I just bought an ASRock K8NF4G-SATA2. It has GeForce 6100 NB nForce 410 MCP SB (which I'm guessing is nForce 4 ?) Nope, it's GeForce 6100, a newer chipset with iGPU. Wrong. It's both. The Geforce 6100 was the IGP of choice for the nForce4 chipsets that had an IGP, …

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Re: Blood 2: The Chosen On Windows 8, 8.1

Posted on 2021-12-12, 08:35

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Here is dgVoodoo2: http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/ DDrawCompat: https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/releases WineD3D: https://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag For all of these, you need to extract the ddraw.dll to the game folder, in the same folder level as your main executable ( …

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Re: Blood 2: The Chosen On Windows 8, 8.1

Posted on 2021-12-11, 04:00

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I used to play the Blood II demo at 1600x1200 all the time back in the early to mid-2000s. No patches, hacks, or workarounds were required. Running it in 32-bit XP on a Sandy Bridge CPU and Geforce 700-series card, however, results in the well-documented crashes at vertical resolutions exceeding 1, …

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Re: Blood 2: The Chosen On Windows 8, 8.1

Posted on 2021-12-10, 18:50

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2021-12-10, 10:40: Why not use a proxy DLL from Ddrawcompat Because I've never heard of it and have no idea what you're talking about?

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Re: Blood 2: The Chosen On Windows 8, 8.1

Posted on 2021-12-10, 09:47

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I used to play the Blood II demo at 1600x1200 all the time back in the early to mid-2000s. No patches, hacks, or workarounds were required. Running it in 32-bit XP on a Sandy Bridge CPU and Geforce 700-series card, however, results in the well-documented crashes at vertical resolutions exceeding 1, …

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Hexen II, OpenGL mode, and glide2x.dll

Posted on 2021-12-09, 16:39

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Downloading glide2x.dll and putting it in the Hexen II folder doesn't fix it. Deleting opengl32.dll doesn't fix it. Installing Glide Wrapper doesn't fix it. HALP

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Re: Questions about ye olde XGI Volari cards

Posted on 2021-12-09, 02:32

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Well, from that review you posted a link to, they look to have abysmal performance.. and that was that V8 model... The V8 Duo, more specifically. But frame rates aren't my concern. I'm more interested in feature compatibility. Benchmarks of the thing are weird, because it isn't a speed demon on Dx7 …

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Re: The Force Engine (Dark Forces Engine remake)

Posted on 2021-12-09, 02:14

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Why the concern over software vs. hardware rendering? I don't think hardware rendering was even a thing in '95

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Re: XGI Volari V8 Duo. Do they exist?

Posted on 2021-12-09, 00:14

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XGI Volari product of some type or another DID get moved by normal vendors: https://www.newegg.com/xgi-volari-v3-v3-64mb-agp/p/N82E16814270002 https://www.newegg.com/startech-com-model-pcivgav7-pci-to-vga-card/p/N82E16815158241 However, I'm not sure about the V8 Duo specifically. I'd be very …

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