Re: Emulation of Windws 98 era hardware

Posted on 2018-02-07, 20:09

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by leileilol

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Many VirtualBox fans like to stomp their feet to declare Win98 being supported in their favorite VM software by means of a late third-party VESA1.x video driver but that's not stable and fully featured either (and VESA in Win9x wasn't really a thing then). PCem's the only one that seems to be on …

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Re: C++ programming on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2018-02-07, 20:06

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Visual Studio is not a good choice. MSVC6 is a great choice :D I miss its debugger and lack of bloat so much..... You may want whatever was the latest version of mingw (gcc) to support win 98. GCC 4.7.2, but then there's also the issues with the newer libraries that you'd depend on that have been …

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Re: Set up a Win311-DOSBox system in less than one minute

Posted on 2018-02-07, 03:17

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by leileilol

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It's probably the same old zip of zips dumped from the same softkey-made shovelware discs presented as a "personal collection". There are a few of those...

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Re: Falcon Heavy is go for Launch!!

Posted on 2018-02-07, 00:21

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Re: Shadow Warrior 3D black screen

Posted on 2018-02-06, 03:06

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by leileilol

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On the contrary, it will run worse.

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Re: Programs for building software (dos, windows 9x)

Posted on 2018-02-06, 01:00

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I use GCC 4.7.2 to compile new Windows 95 stuff. Engoo however was built with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 + MASM and DJGPP for DOS.

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Re: The Reason For Vintage (again)

Posted on 2018-02-05, 18:40

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I still think parts are simple (more so today than in 199x). It's just the usual OS is overboard with the bloat these days needing hundreds of 'services' etc... I don't have to keep a bag of jumpers with my PCs in ages or think about cache modules/chips or how to layout SCSI/IDE ribbons or *shudder* …

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Re: Daggerfall on Raspberry PI3

Posted on 2018-02-04, 22:10

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by leileilol

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I'd give up on this as the Pi3 doesn't have enough juice to give the cycles Daggerfall wants (which would be something like 60000-230000 AT LEAST). and considering there is no dynarec on the Dosbox for Pi....

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Re: Shadow Warrior 3D black screen

Posted on 2018-02-04, 09:11

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by leileilol

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"better" being vertical-only bilinear filtering on walls. It's still software rendering with palette ramps and the like and still doesn't bring true 3D and it'll regress voxel sprites as well. You're better off running jfSW in OpenGL on a Voodoo2.

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Re: Which MS-DOS games support CrystalEyes 3D mode?

Posted on 2018-02-02, 23:17

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by leileilol

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Probably the other early Build games (legend of 7 paladins, witchaven, tekwar, etc). Crystal Eyes is still in the engine for the later ones but it's busted.

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Re: Shadow Warrior 3D black screen

Posted on 2018-02-02, 22:45

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BTW with vesa 2.0 support will the water areas still drop fps severely? is there anyway to solve that? By not having butter-smooth expectations of CPU-driven software renderers that use palettes. Overdraw will always be a big dip, especially in high resolutions. There's no miracle video card that …

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Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2018-02-02, 21:58

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by leileilol

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The only real problem of Half-Life is that it'll spoil the feel of every other single-player FPS in the following year. Also I never liked Unreal Gold's gratuitous Uwindow menus and the patch cruft (no more dispersion trails, the sonic mayhem sounds etc)...

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Re: As of 2018... any Img mounting soft with CDDA support?

Posted on 2018-02-02, 20:24

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by leileilol

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ZellSF wrote: Virtual CloneDrive works fine for bin/cue files with CD audio. Why wouldn't it? Only problem with Virtual CloneDrive is that you can forget about playing games with advanced copy protections. It works best with CCD files. My CCD'd safedisc games work fine with it.

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Re: Shadow Warrior 3D black screen

Posted on 2018-02-02, 20:22

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by leileilol

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Arbys Guy wrote: What graphics card or cards work the best with shadow warrior? i Anything with a Vesa 2.0 implementation. It's not that picky (except for special optimized 320x200 modes for VLB-era boards that had been left in since '94).

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Re: Vigilance 3dfx game

Posted on 2018-02-02, 10:16

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by leileilol

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It's best forgotten for a good reason.

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Re: Shadow Warrior 3D black screen

Posted on 2018-02-02, 10:13

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by leileilol

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Besides, losing 3dfx support in SW's not that big of a deal. It's still a technically software renderer - just annoyingly blurrier and not any faster. Its hype and impracticality keeps the 3dfx fanboys at bay out of fear of not being able to use their hardware in the late 90s.

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2018-02-02, 02:07

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by leileilol

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Why should it? MMX's only really practical for exotic sound code which would be out of the scope of a maintenance fork.

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Re: Copying Floppy Disks to .img?

Posted on 2018-02-02, 00:09

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by leileilol

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I use VGACOPY.

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Re: Is FreeDOS kinda failed?

Posted on 2018-02-01, 23:22

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RobertJ wrote: MS-DOS 6.22 (or even older versions) are readily available and easy to install. Uh.....it isn't.

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Re: 486sx and 486dx

Posted on 2018-02-01, 22:10

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Buying a 387SX/DX benefited Falcon 3.0 over a 386SX/DX as well. vladstamate wrote: You might be able to run with 4Mb only. Quake requires 8mb minimum as well as a FPU. elainda ran it on a 387 once.

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