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Re: AMD drops the mic

Posted on 2016-12-19, 22:33

in Milliways

Streaming videogames is a popular high demand use though and i've seen friends upgrade to i7's (from i5's of the same generation) just so the video encoder can behave with and play well with games for live >720p broadcasting.

Re: Newest games on oldest hardware

Posted on 2016-12-19, 17:47

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So does anyone have a Sempron64 DX11 system handy to take it through modern torture? 😀

Re: Post your rendition of Passport.MID

Posted on 2016-12-19, 07:25

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Sound

patents != copyrights

Re: Ultimate Windows 98 Machine

Posted on 2016-12-19, 01:38

by leileilol

in Marvin \ System Specs

Those specs are better off as an EAX W9X gaming rig as Vista dropped hardware accel'd sound and etc.

Re: Post your retro desktop

Posted on 2016-12-18, 23:49

by leileilol

in Milliways

I can't snap my retro rigs, but i do have this to share X)

Re: Home made glide patch

Posted on 2016-12-18, 23:46

by leileilol

in Milliways

Unless you have their source code (as in .c files, asms, projects, makes and all that) you're shit out of luck. The most brute way would be disassembly and poking out renderer objects and reverse engineering them and then creating new Glide renderers in their place and putting them back in, but even …

Re: Ultimate Windows 98 Machine

Posted on 2016-12-17, 02:28

by leileilol

in Marvin \ System Specs

DOS, full potential and no emulation? Drop the Live. Drop the FX5200. Drop the motherboard (it lacks ISA slots, which matter 400% for DOS gaming at "full potential" when you have a real ISA Sound Blaster in use, rather than running into many edge cases and problems with SBLive's Soundblaster …

Re: dosbox bezel

Posted on 2016-12-16, 15:23

by leileilol

in DOSBox General

Closest you can do atm is use one of those terrible horrible awful Daum builds or build your own dosbox svn with the Direct3D patch and use the CRT shader with both of them, though that is still missing the bezel and just has a pincushion

Re: 1999 K6-2 Blade3D Budget Machine

Posted on 2016-12-15, 18:04

by leileilol

in Marvin \ System Specs

They had laptops just like this spec too :) To inch the most speed out of this is to disregard OpenGL rendering, stick to Direct3D where you can and wrap OpenGL to Direct3D, and avoid high texture detail as it slows down massively when rendering any texture beyond 128x128 - even ONE It should be …

Re: Post your rendition of Passport.MID

Posted on 2016-12-15, 15:46

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Sound

Related to this issue, here's passport in Virtual PC 2007's horrible OPL emulation 😉

Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going

Posted on 2016-12-15, 05:21

by leileilol

in Milliways

leileilol wrote: everyone has ideas, what matters is execution. but i got a feeling this thread will be stuck in the ideas/concept phase anyhow

Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2016-12-15, 02:57

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

Anyone with Voodoo 1/2 and VGA capture want to try SST_VIDEO_FILTER_THRESHOLD SSTV2_VIDEO_FILTER_THRESHOLD and set those environment vars to 0xffffff, 0x180c18, 65535 and 0, and see if they make any visual differences? 😀 😀 😀 😐 🙁

Re: Guess the track

Posted on 2016-12-15, 01:17

by leileilol

in Milliways

Day of the Tentacle?

Re: AMD drops the mic

Posted on 2016-12-14, 23:41

by leileilol

in Milliways

I'm all for it if it makes the more obnoxious intel fanboys salty. 😁

Re: Why no much attention to mac/amiga on this site ?

Posted on 2016-12-13, 17:53

by leileilol

in Milliways

gdjacobs wrote: but was Halo in development before Microsoft bought Bungie? Yes, and it even premiered at Macworld in 1999. The buyout and xboxexclusivness was salt in the wounds and actually made me feel for all those poor Mac'ers, screwed from finally getting their equivalent to Half-Life 🙁