Re: Hexen II + Portal of Praveus

Posted on 2014-12-02, 05:16

by

by leileilol

in Windows

in Windows

-bpp 32? And for the normal H2 exe.... -dibonly? Delete Opengl32.dll from Hexen2 folder (as it installs a 3dfx MiniGL by default)? You could also try using the Scitech GLdirect DLL in Hxeen2 to get around legacy GL issues with early games.

---

Re: Ideal Mechwarrior 2 Joystick.

Posted on 2014-12-02, 00:14

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mech2 predates the forcefeedback novelty madness by 3 years so no.

---

Re: Matrox Roundup G200, G400, G400 MAX, G450 and G550

Posted on 2014-12-01, 20:12

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

G100 had no OpenGL support period, though it can work with the Techland Direct3D driver to play Quake2 😁

---

Re: Best way to create ISO+OGG images?

Posted on 2014-12-01, 19:21

by

by leileilol

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I've never heard of TurboRip being used for PC, though for the WAV->OGG conversion, oggdropxpd is enough for that, and if a batch is really needed, just some optimized oggenc. "Free Wave Converter!" programs are always fishy The only other software I can think of that can extract just the data track …

---

Re: There is no such thing as "good enough"

Posted on 2014-12-01, 18:15

by

by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

Compared to UE3, the only major 'next gen' thing I really notice in UnrealEngine4 are reflections plastered on everything , and the slower performance from it, and some seemingly realtime light. but it just looks more of the same to me really, with the current UE4 games out there that don't have a …

---

Re: Matrox Roundup G200, G400, G400 MAX, G450 and G550

Posted on 2014-12-01, 16:43

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't forget the G100a, even if it's just in name only it still performed well despite its Mystiquesque shortcomings and would be fair to be included in the comparison.

---

Re: There is no such thing as "good enough"

Posted on 2014-12-01, 15:29

by

by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

This is kind of the reason why TF2 ages well because it's not trying to be hyperreal. I also miss the age of detail textures 🙁, shame that hasn't adapted into the next generation that well. also my reason for going anime style in OA3, which is something many players disagree with

---

Re: Socket for amd 5x86?

Posted on 2014-12-01, 08:03

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

they never made socket 4, 5, 6 or slot 1 486s either.

---

Re: How low can I go with my Phenom 2 X4 Deneb?

Posted on 2014-11-30, 14:22

by

by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

IIRC it goes as low as 800mhz

---

Re: Advice on a "1999 correct" build

Posted on 2014-11-30, 13:21

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

13-20GB is nice, though there was also 40gb available by the end of 1999. 512MB RAM would be overkill yes, remember that 1999 was a year of gouged RAM prices, so a "'99 correct" build would have to stay in the 32-128mb range to be realistic, even if the motherboards do support more than that :) A …

---

Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2014-11-25, 19:59

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

a surviving one. Most SS7 boards were often cheaply produced and wouldn't last after a few years of use (read: not one year of use and 16 years of hoarding), be it capacitors or not

---

Re: Is this the possibility of a Power VR SGL Wrapper?

Posted on 2014-11-25, 00:24

by

by leileilol

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

and of course those MiniGL-based games wrap OpenGL to SGL but this may get a little recursive when used with the wrapper.... the exception being Quake2 since that just dynamically loads pvrgl.dll and works its way from there

---

Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-11-24, 16:04

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A reason for that is technical support, and the fact Linux distro lifecycles are so short there's so much fragmentation for hardware support so they really can only care for the latest that have working Linux drivers for the Steam supported kernels/distros yeah, makes no sense when TF2 on Linux …

---

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

Posted on 2014-11-24, 03:20

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

More shader tweaking

---

Re: What retro computing gadget that doesn't exist would you like to have?

Posted on 2014-11-23, 04:53

by

by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

a 3d printer that prints working ATX computer cases of vintage designs that haven't had gone past AT If I could have a modern computer in a 1992-style 486 tower case, i would

---

Re: Poll: parts that have spontaneously died?

Posted on 2014-11-23, 03:15

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maxtor Diamondmaxes from 2000 and Seagate Barracudas from 2008 are pretty bad as well.

---

Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-11-23, 00:28

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

not exactly crazy when the 2500k was 5 years ago

---

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

Posted on 2014-11-22, 17:23

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

trying to put in the Cyrix 6x86 cycle count tables 🙁

---

Re: Is this the possibility of a Power VR SGL Wrapper?

Posted on 2014-11-22, 02:05

by

by leileilol

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Cool :) Would be neat to see shaders eventually used too, maybe to do PVR's depth sorting or their alpha blending imprecisions (in theory: force nearest neighbor, then do blocky bilinear filtering at 16x the texture's resolution with RGBA4444, and get the modulated alpha channel posterized to 4 bits …

---

Re: Poll: parts that have spontaneously died?

Posted on 2014-11-22, 02:01

by

by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Slot A Thunderbirds

---