Re: Pre-1999 games that support 32-bit 3D rendering?

Posted on 2020-02-13, 10:28

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by leileilol

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Grand Theft Auto 1 really wanted you to know about its 24-bit color graphics modes... PowerVR stuff probably counts too as they're always rendering internally in 24-bit (and sometimes allow 24-bit output with some games after a registry key enabling it)

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Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?

Posted on 2020-02-13, 10:24

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by leileilol

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just type nfsvesa and your problem will be solved

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Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?

Posted on 2020-02-13, 06:37

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by leileilol

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The Tseng ET3000-4000 is probably likely the alleged "pure VGA" card in use if it's fast enough for Quake. Running INSTVESA insted of INSTALL would get NFS going in that case (as it loads UNIVBE). EDIT: A thread that's now deleted implies ET4000 is indeed the "pure VGA" card with the imaginary …

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Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 16:02

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ Software

If Quake runs well, then it's definitely not no "pure VGA" card.

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Re: OPL passthrough in MAME?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 00:25

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by leileilol

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

I hope you all have a large enough house for this real-thing-is-best argument because this is a thread regarding arcade emulation....

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Re: PC Gamer/Computer Games Strategy Plus completely gone?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 00:09

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by leileilol

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IIRC Future Publishing had requested PCGamer to not be scanned years ago. Hadn't stopped dumping of their cover cds though ;) Strategy Plus on the other hand is a whole lack of awareness (especially after the constant rebrandings and PCGamer's reputation on the later internet as the only computer …

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Re: AGD Interactive classic Sierra Adventure remakes running on DOS

Posted on 2020-02-11, 03:14

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by leileilol

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Any luck throwing them at the HX-DOS extenders? AGS Windows still used Allegro around that time IIRC.

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Re: Games that absolutely, positively cannot be played except on original hardware

Posted on 2020-02-11, 01:53

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by leileilol

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Could be that they made a patch that added generic D3D support, but the retail version don't have it. It's DIrect3D (D3D Immediate Mode). Dependency Walker only references DDRAW.DLL and game invokes d3dim.dll. Game is known to run on Mystique and other freaky 3d cards, etc. It even does a D3D …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2020-02-11, 01:39

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by leileilol

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Also in the shader I did attempt to try to mimic the feedback/bleed in your VGA captures :P though it may be too exaggerated... The composite mode blur I don't think is captureable losslessly without needing some kind of dev box to dump the PVR2 buffer or so. I had to use old .TIF/.BMP press release …

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Re: Half-Life WON 1.0.1.6 Pause Menu Issue

Posted on 2020-02-10, 03:19

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by leileilol

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For what it's worth, Half-Life's menu being busted is normal behavior even on Win9x machines with proper era-appropriate hardware. Valve couldn't code a stable frontend for a long time. It'd corrupt itself a lot trying to maintain a buffer for 640x480x16. There's registry keys about the menu in \ …

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Re: Converting CDs to CD images that defeat copy protection

Posted on 2020-02-08, 15:33

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by leileilol

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I personally use CloneCD/CloneDVD with my games and mount those CCDs. Seems to work fine in my case, dunno how DT347 would behave with them on Win98 but VirtualCloneDrive's fine. These are probably different names by now. There's also the thing about cloning a protected disc, it'll take a while to …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2020-02-07, 03:26

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by leileilol

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An update on my PowerVR2 shader stuff it's made it into Flycast as an internal shader lately. so yay there's a Dreamcast emu with my thing now!!! i've also learned a bunch in the process: - It's officially called the Y-filter - only works with 3 lines per line for 480i modes - definitely happens …

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Re: What special version of MechWarrior2 for Riva 128\TNT\TNT2 ?

Posted on 2020-02-07, 03:17

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ Software

Mercenaries != MW2. Not the same game at all. It's an attempt at a new game within license restrictions

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Re: What special version of MechWarrior2 for Riva 128\TNT\TNT2 ?

Posted on 2020-02-06, 08:24

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ Software

There's no proprietary API for the Riva128, and the Titanium edition was rolling out around the 128's time A TNT/Geforce won't help your Mech2 software framerate issues on that processor, especially not 60fps.

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Re: OPL passthrough in MAME?

Posted on 2020-02-06, 02:10

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by leileilol

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"..software-based emulation finally became better in almost all cases" Um, how can -emulation- be better than the thing that's being emulated? Nice twist. When MAME's OPL passthrough was around, sound cards were already dropping Yamaha chips so the intended use became against the purpose for …

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Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-06, 02:01

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by leileilol

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I see it more as a "DOSBox is popular now so it sucks", taking all the presence of Dosbox for granted. Chocolate-Doom still doesn't reproduce the proper 11khz sound buffer Doom used by default (leading to 22khz sounds playing in Doom2 as that wasn't the case for the DOS version) , and i've had SDL …

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Re: Control exclusive access to audio hardware under Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-02-04, 00:07

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ Sound

DON'T USE WINAMP 3 THAT'S THE BAD VERSION EVERYONE HATES!!! Use 2 OR 5!!! 5 should still work on Win9x and should still have 2's interface.

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Re: Control exclusive access to audio hardware under Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-02-02, 02:17

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ Sound

I think my workaround for this in the AWE days was when I used WinAMP to play music, i'd do it with the DirectSound output, in which another game that may use DirectSound will also get the audio.

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Re: Fastest emulators period

Posted on 2020-02-02, 01:02

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by leileilol

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

Gens was never fast in my experience... I preferred Steve Snake's emulators to Gens for the performance, accuracy, and not forcing my desktop to 16bpp when it runs.

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Re: What are your favorite in-game soundtracks (arcade, PC, NES)?

Posted on 2020-02-01, 13:34

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by leileilol

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I can't narrow to favorites so i'll say a bunch of names for now. Hitoshi Sakimoto Nobuo Uematsu Masahiko Takagi Hiroshi Kawaguchi Hideaki Kobayashi Hideki Naganuma Hisayoshi Ogura

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