Re: Why doesn't modern Windows advertise DirectDraw in any way?
Posted on 2023-12-11, 01:08
it'd be like advertising MMX on new CPUs.
Re: How were software-rendered games able to apply filtering to lightmaps, but not any other texture?
Posted on 2023-12-10, 01:07
Lightmaps are not filtered, but they are alpha blended over normal textures, so it creates the illusion of filtering. No they weren't unfiltered alpha'd (that'd be ugly and Rage-like). They ARE filtered but at a specific aligned level with the texels. In Quake, there's 16 texels to filter a luxel …
Re: Any pattern in when you play games
Posted on 2023-12-09, 04:34
Around October there's always a mood for vsav and melty. December though I tend to associate with a lot of the anniversaries of some big games out that month. 93, 94, and 99 were some busy ones...
Re: Which Windows shut down sound had laughing children?
Posted on 2023-12-09, 03:05
Re: WinDirect and MGL
Posted on 2023-12-09, 02:28
DISPDIB's also for Windows 3.1 and allows VGA there (part of Video for Windows drivers ~1992). Some of the earlier games that can use it are Out of this World, Fury3 and Burn/Cycle. It has nothing to do with Scitech WinDirect/MGL.
Re: Build engine games running poorly.
Posted on 2023-12-08, 04:48
ThermalLance89 wrote on 2023-12-07, 21:46: SoundBlaster AWE64 PCI this is the most unusual factor to me in this case There's no way a P166 should be slow for a Build game - unless you're intentionally running beyond 800x600 or using a Rendition in VGA. The hard drive doesn't imply the possible …
Re: Is selling mods for commercial games legal?
Posted on 2023-12-06, 02:30
There's strict usage rights when it comes to released game tools from the developer and that a license must be acquired for any commercial exploitation. id authorized Shrak. HL SDK's strict non-commercial usage rights didn't stop the rush of 'i want valve to buy me and release my game' ambitions …
Re: Win XP 32 or 64 bit?
Posted on 2023-12-04, 05:29
I've only had software firewalls not being available at the time I jumped to XP64, but that became a non-problem pretty fast. I didn't need NTVDM for dos/w16 stuff as DOSBox was helping those migration pains already. It's the software/driver avail issue mutual with Vista complaints around 05-06 but …
Re: Native DOS games with framerate display built in
Posted on 2023-12-04, 02:42
Re: Restore default 98se theme
Posted on 2023-12-03, 04:42
It's an old bug that Windows Me eventually fixed. If you want the gradient color values, it's this for active 16, 132, 208 this for inactive 181, 181, 181
Re: Daikatana
Posted on 2023-12-02, 08:08
12fps sounds right. It's not well optimized in the early marsh point in the game. Also there is no software renderer. There is no HWT&L in Daikatana so the GF2MX won't do much over a Rage128 for this CPU and fillrate-limited situation
Re: Pentium CPU Game Changer that Helped Build the Internet and USA.
Posted on 2023-12-02, 02:35
I've seen a lot of Gateway and Packard Bell P75s in my life so it's definitely that setting the foothold, but only a little later when they were rather old (late 95-96) and Pentium was a relative unobtanium luxury CPU with little use gains over a well-tuned 486/5x86 before that point and Cyrix were …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2023-12-01, 06:42
My last Maniac Mansion 100%'ing I only struggled to remember how to put the stamps on.
Re: Advice on CD-Rom drive to read old CD-Rs
Posted on 2023-11-30, 16:24
Dominus wrote on 2023-11-30, 15:24: Among that are some CD-Rs that my drive couldn't read, for example this Beta version of the never released Crusader: No Remorse for Playstation. I'm confused It's No Regret that didn't get a console port
Re: 3D accelerated console games with software only PC version
Posted on 2023-11-30, 09:26
PSX doom is 256-width and throws spans as thin polys (like 3dfx blood/sw), that won't adapt well. It's also not a 1:1 port, given it changes/removes levels about, puts Doom2 monsters in episode 1, and sounds completely different etc. At least SNES Doom somewhat resembles the PC version though you …
Re: Advice on CD-Rom drive to read old CD-Rs
Posted on 2023-11-30, 09:20
There's a certain preservation group that holds it as the gold standard which can be misinterpreted as 'best drive ever'. They're certainly not durable from my personal experience...
Re: Advice on CD-Rom drive to read old CD-Rs
Posted on 2023-11-30, 07:29
Before the obligatory preach, I've had some CD-R problems with Plextors so I can't recommend them and that's when the CD-Rs weren't even 10 years old and "rotted and hopelessly disintegrated" yet and that's when the laser hadn't worn out. Said CD-Rs still read fine on others like LGs and Liteons way …
Re: 3D accelerated console games with software only PC version
Posted on 2023-11-30, 05:43
the 4k seems more meaningless when a lot of these games compromise in texture format color depth and resolution. Have you seen how blocky and choppy those explosions in PSX WC3/4 are? Not to mention imprecise vertex positions and the hacky ways of enhancing them that aren't bulletproof. The sound …
Re: Sound Blaster Live! - Which model?
Posted on 2023-11-30, 04:46
All of them? They're all mutually derived from the same ensoniq sbe TSR made for AudioPCIs and have the same achilles heels (besides the later live drivers' attempt at FM emulation rather than ECW approximation), and the DOS support rots when you go WDM or Windows ME (which cleans out TSRs and won't …
Re: Overclocking the Videologic PowerVR PCX2?
Posted on 2023-11-28, 04:03
A 440LX with a Pentium II Klamath 233 with a Mach64/Rage of some kind and a SB32/AWE64 Value. The PCX2's been part of many 97 P2 OEM setups because of the ability to pass 3d to the video card which could probably have TV out on it (leading to a 'gaming home theater PC' setup before specialized 3dfx …
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