Re: Flashback - Incorrect aspect ratio?

Posted on 2020-10-08, 13:12

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This is something I've wondered about too. This kind of thing even causes debate within console fandom about what's the "correct" way to display things, because while it can be demonstrated what aspect ratio was displayed on TVs of the time, there can be the question of what aspect ratio the art in …

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Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it

Posted on 2020-10-01, 19:48

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Here we go with people in the comments doing a 180 and giving him all the loyal love. Is it that surprising? The video is unlisted, and thus mainly going to be seen by Patreons, who by this point will be the majority of people who won't care, because he's still their idol and they'll still spent …

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Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it

Posted on 2020-09-28, 23:06

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I like the 8-Bit Guy's videos, so this one is really disappointing, and perhaps eye opening in all the wrong ways. It was unnecessary too; he could still have done a video showing the system, the internals, etc, and just said he wasn't going to attempt a repair because he didn't want to risk further …

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2020-07-27, 13:16

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Speaking of vinyl, what annoys me is those hipsters who adopt the format not because of its sonic quality, but because it's 'retro' and 'cool' Tapes suffer the same fate. Because of nostalgia, cheap boomboxes with tapedecks started to reappear in stores - they all use the same tape mechanism, …

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Re: Problem with DosBox Flickering screen

Posted on 2020-07-06, 12:19

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It could be a whole bunch of things, but bear in mind that a lot of games output at more than 60Hz so juddering is only natural.

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Re: DOSBox speed vs real DOS PC?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 11:49

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ripsaw8080 wrote on 2020-05-30, 07:40: Silanda wrote on 2020-05-30, 07:15: I've got half a suspicion that NBA Jam TE's problems might be related too. If you refer to flickering at higher cycles, that issue should be resolved in SVN. Cool! I'll admit that I haven't tried playing it in ages.

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 07:30

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This is something that bugs the hell out of me with some modern games that have physical releases way after their initial release. Take Ion Fury: the collectors edition was DRM free on a USB key, the GoG version is of course DRM free, so why the hell does the upcoming DVD release require Steam? It …

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Re: DOSBox speed vs real DOS PC?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 07:15

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It seems it isn’t only the CPU emulation that determines the performance of DOSBox. Some VGA operations seem to be much quicker than a real system. For example, the TOPBENCH video score is a few micro seconds, way less than any real video card I have can do. Also DOOM seems to run very fast for the …

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 15:24

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Less remastered and more completely remade, but Deus Ex - Invisible War. The overall concept was decent, but the combination of an engine that ran badly at the time and an insulting amount of oversimplification to cater to what they thought the Xbox audience wanted kind of killed it. The PS2 version …

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Re: dgVoodoo site flagged as unsafe

Posted on 2020-05-02, 09:12

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Fun fact: BT used to flag OneDrive and a bunch of other legit sites as suspicious too. Some would fail to load but not give explicit warning messages, but I discovered what was causing the issue in the end. I disabled their web protection stuff because of that.

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-02-19, 22:34

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Do you read the output of configure to make sure everything is being detected correctly? I haven't been building the 0.74-3 exe, just testing against the official download. Out of interest, I performed a 32-bit MinGW build of SVN though as I hadn't tested that in a while. I didn't see anything …

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-02-19, 21:38

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jmarsh wrote on 2020-02-19, 21:31: Silanda wrote on 2020-02-19, 20:06: It's 66% faster than what I'm getting in stock 0.74-3. 0.74-3 doesn't have the 64-bit dynamic_x86 core, SVN does. I'm comparing 32-bit dynamic there; it's my 32-bit VS build that's 66% faster than 32-bit 0.74-3. The 64-bit build …

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-02-19, 20:06

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I using the 64-bit version of MinGW through Msys2 (GCC 9.2.0) to compile 64-bit builds, and version 16.4.5 of VS Community 19. 64-bit builds are comparable between VS and MinGW, with MinGW being slightly faster IIRC. FWIW, attached are my results of Speedtst with a 32-bit VS19 build. 5055556 parrots …

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-02-19, 18:03

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I've posted about this in another thread the past, but in my tests my Ryzen 3700x underperforms in 32-bit builds built with MinGW (like the official releases). However, it performs far better with MinGW 64-bit builds or 32-bit builds created with Visual Studio. My Quake timedemo score at 320x200 is …

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Re: What is the fps Mortal Kombat Trilogy naturally runs at: 63 or 70?

Posted on 2020-02-05, 14:26

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That's my thread but I honestly don't know the answer as I haven't tried it on an actual DOS machine, only DOSBox and the Windows version. I measured it at ~62.46 fps in the Windows version, which is a really weird number, but after disabling UniVBE it's also smooth in DOSBox VSynced at a resolution …

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Re: High Audio Usage even without sound

Posted on 2019-11-27, 23:18

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I'm seeing this behaviour to an extent too... a very small, and in my case insignificant, extent. CPU usage from "Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation" does indeed increase when DOSBox is active even if no sounds are playing. I'm assuming that DOSBox is always technically outputting audio even if …

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Re: Mortal Kombat 3 movement

Posted on 2019-11-03, 10:07

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Yeah. If you're playing with a keyboard this probably feels more odd than if you're playing with a pad or a stick, but the same thing is true on other versions of MK3 and UMK3. You cannot duck while you are moving forward or backward.

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Re: ROLAND UM1-G USB-Midi interface

Posted on 2019-10-26, 16:12

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Cool! Thanks for the advice.

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Re: ROLAND UM1-G USB-Midi interface

Posted on 2019-10-26, 13:55

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Just a slight word of caution about the UM-1G, but not about its functionality. I have a UM-2G and it has a rubberised coating. Over the years that coating has degraded to goo and the thing is now a sticky mess, although it still works fine. If the UM-1G has the same coating, the same thing will …

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Re: Benchmarking DOSBox on latest machines

Posted on 2019-10-19, 17:56

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Thanks for that! Results aren't really worth posting; they're comparable to the 64-bit mingw builds. Slightly slower if anything.

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