Re: Direct3D games in DosBox
Posted on 2013-06-11, 20:54
There's a big price to pay for constant reads from video memory. 😀
Re: XBox One unveiled
Posted on 2013-06-11, 20:39
Re: Direct3D games in DosBox
Posted on 2013-06-11, 19:43
robertmo wrote: I don't see much hope for windows games when even dos games don't have enough cpu power in dosbox (even with glide wrapper). Half-Life works pretty well even in 640x480 software rendering.
Re: What is the best renderer for Unreal Tournament?
Posted on 2013-06-11, 19:40
UTGLR. No, I would stay far far far far away from that one new D3D10 renderer.
Re: N64 emulation - does anyone else share my dissatisfaction?
Posted on 2013-06-11, 05:49
Maybe you're not using the latest version or the Saturn Bios with it? Many emu sites tend to hoard only old ones.
Re: Direct3D games in DosBox
Posted on 2013-06-11, 04:47
yeah, but Bochs is slow as hell and far less user-friendly. Like many projects, it is focused on just being on as many platforms as possible over having something working nicely.
Re: Direct3D games in DosBox
Posted on 2013-06-11, 04:01
There's 98Lite, and you could also use Program Manager for the shell if you really wanted to.
Re: Win98 / early XP era sound card MADNESS!
Posted on 2013-06-11, 03:25
Live! 5.1 was also popular during the 98/XP migration period but has a bad front channel jack. kX Project can swap front and back for that
Re: How many Retro PCs do you got in your house?
Posted on 2013-06-10, 20:12
too many
Re: Is it Just Me, or is Direct3D a Dying Cause?
Posted on 2013-06-10, 20:10
GLQuake and Quake2 did support multitexturing and the particular extension it used was regressed as early as the Geforce2.
Re: "Device not registered" error and exit
Posted on 2013-06-10, 19:19
I have that problem with OpenArena starting up on Nvidia hardware, i'd have to set the videodriver to windib. FOR AN OPENGL GAME. ugh sdl can't even do basic initialization right.
Re: Assault Rigs and Mechwarrior 2- rage issues
Posted on 2013-06-10, 05:55
Because unlike Glide, it's far in the minority for such a big undertaking to develop a wrapper for an API used by a handful of hard-to-obtain OEM pack-in games. Ditto for SGL, Rredline, MSI3D, S3D....
Re: Assault Rigs and Mechwarrior 2- rage issues
Posted on 2013-06-10, 05:16
You need an ATI Rage card in Windows 9X on a real PC. There is no other way. ATI 3D CIF is currently not emulated.
Re: Is it Just Me, or is Direct3D a Dying Cause?
Posted on 2013-06-10, 05:15
And who says OpenGL 1.x (widely, WIDELY used) isn't rotting away? The SGIS Extensions being dropped were only the beginning...
Re: Is it Just Me, or is Direct3D a Dying Cause?
Posted on 2013-06-10, 00:14
Well... maintaining legacy compatibility isn't much of a moneymaker as regressing and making you buy new stuff. This is what the Xbone/PS4 is hoping for. DirectX is just a backend for sound, input and video these days. It doesn't do music or networking anymore. Unfortunately the alternative for …
Re: Idle voodoo sitting in pci slot drawing power / shortening life span?
Posted on 2013-06-09, 20:29
Well, you have some awesome DAC with the host card then. I get slight blur on even 640x480 using the passthrough cable.
Re: Interest in 90s-era laptops?
Posted on 2013-06-09, 20:28
Toshibas should be reliably surviving. They're built like tanks
Re: DOS Nostalgia youtube channel
Posted on 2013-06-09, 20:23
"alley cat nostalgia" yeah i'll take it all with a grain of salt. Anyone truly nostalgic about Alley Cat is going to be beyond showing things off on youtube and most likely not looking like a young Egon Spengler. 😀
Re: Interface mod for CnC95
Posted on 2013-06-09, 11:26
I think it's called C&C Generals
Re: DosBox virtual IPX network to real win98 IPX?
Posted on 2013-06-08, 21:55
Yes, but you don't use IPXNET. You load up the TSR drivers (LSL, IPXODI, etc.)
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