Re: Wing Commander Saga
Posted on 2012-03-27, 00:23
Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures
Posted on 2012-03-26, 23:08
I've uploaded UT PowerVR SGL footage, this time from the original 400 release (and not 426 GOTY where the lighting appears to be screwed up) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KQcztTwLxk
Re: Legal status of Darkstone
Posted on 2012-03-25, 12:12
Abandonware used to mean games lost to humanity, and that transmutated as eternal september came and had more entitlement for older games. Trixter would facepalm at what his established term has turned to as a new 'good faith' excuse for warez.
Re: TextAssist doesn't work
Posted on 2012-03-25, 00:16
TextAssist relies on that Willowpond TTS engine doesn't it? I know some related software works, and sometimes the TTS engine itself makes a runaway loop and fails strangely so my guess? it's a bugged installation. though I have not attempted to try TextAssist and the rest of the SB16 suite in Win …
Re: Sound Blaster CT1350B
Posted on 2012-03-23, 22:34
Take the Virge out, use a different card! Not saying that's the deifnitive answer but i've had a bad virge too, it wants to be picky (as if deceleration wasn't bad enough)
Re: Help design ultimate win9x gaming rig (3.11/DOS too!)
Posted on 2012-03-23, 18:18
If you're doing Win9X, you do not ever think of going PCIe . There's double-edged swords when going Geforce and Radeon when it comes to retro compatibility. Radeons can't do table fog and Geforces have trouble with palettes. (Radeon also has some minor uncapturable palette precision errors with …
Re: ...but why cant emulators enhance graphics like this? >_>
Posted on 2012-03-23, 14:02
i'd like to see crt mocking more often. MAME/MESS, Dosbox+yhkwong and bsnes are the only ones I know of that can. It's something I dreamed of here in Vogons some time ago finally becoming a reality. There's more use in that than the novelty of a scaler.
Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support
Posted on 2012-03-23, 12:10
OTOH, that does make the Rage Pro more interesting and special in that it's the highest performing card capable of playing those early Rage-specific versions of games (some of which are among the best versions -like Mechwarrior 2, arguably better than the Voodoo version and definitely better than …
Re: Identifying 486 mobo, possibly fake cache chips
Posted on 2012-03-22, 21:53
Welcome to PC(not)CHIPS!
Re: Games lost to humanity
Posted on 2012-03-22, 21:51
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2012-03-22, 00:52
I've been editing the id tech3 renderer source lately frigging around, I came up with an 'alphahack' shader command which I can give or take away alpha channels from a texture on load. Much easier than manually editing texture files themselves :P ideally i'd want it to just parse all the blendfunc …
Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures
Posted on 2012-03-21, 02:55
Want to capture the dithery stuff? 320x240 record 😀 that said i wonder how Radeon7x00's look with its error diffused noise table in 320x240
Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support
Posted on 2012-03-21, 01:00
That's weird Keen 4 has those issues on your Voodoo3. My AGP Voodoo3 3000 doesn't go crimson with the game, and it even scrolls properly.
Re: "Pure" DOS benefits over Windows MS-DOS Mode?
Posted on 2012-03-20, 02:14
AdamP wrote: There are some standalone versions of 7.1 out there. There's also some fraudy, illegal "GPL" "MS-DOS 7.1"'s as well
Re: "Pure" DOS benefits over Windows MS-DOS Mode?
Posted on 2012-03-19, 22:35
Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support
Posted on 2012-03-19, 22:34
yeah, more voodoo2 doesn't make 32bit, fsaa or 512+ texturing
Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures
Posted on 2012-03-19, 18:13
Indeed, that is definately how it should be done. The VIA combo box is my attempt to squeeze in an oddball CPU/graphics combo, just to see how the underdog compares on the system level. My recent PCX2 footage was on a Pentium IV Northwood 2.6, exceeding the potential max-out of the card roughly by …
Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures
Posted on 2012-03-19, 15:57
but continuum doesn't use a 3d card and i miss the old subspace fonts/hud
Re: How important are early Pentiums?
Posted on 2012-03-19, 09:19
The odd thing about the Kilrathi Saga? Briefings are STILL TOO FAST on Pentiums.
Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support
Posted on 2012-03-19, 09:18
kool kitty89 wrote: How does the Banshee compare for compatibility? (3D performance would obviously be lower) Same 2D core I reckon. I never really seen much of diff between V3 and Banshee ofther than the obvious tmuage. V3 IS an evolution of Banshee after all.
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