Re: QDOS / Q2DOS with 3Dfx OpenGL on DOSBox

Posted on 2018-07-30, 08:20

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by kjliew

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Yeah but it would mean Windows 9x pseudo Dosbox or Dosbox on Xp+.. No, no, linking with GLIDE2X.OVL is the right way to go. It will still work for pure DOS with real 3Dfx hardware. Nothing will be missed by switching static linking to dynamic linking with GLIDE2X.OVL. The latter simply gives …

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Re: GLIDE.DLL LFB implementation issue + WIN64 DLL?

Posted on 2018-07-30, 03:21

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by kjliew

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

Thank you very, very much! Everythings now work out so great on QEMU with this version of dgVoodoo2. I also checked out Glide resolution scaling for games that only support 640x480 and it works great together with the option for anti-aliasing. I really hope that one day you will find interests to …

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Re: QDOS / Q2DOS with 3Dfx OpenGL on DOSBox

Posted on 2018-07-29, 21:31

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by kjliew

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Most of the time the fps seems to be much higher but falls way down (<10 fps) on scenes with lots of action (like at the end of the demo with the explosions). That's a real issue with kekko 3Dfx voodoo1 chip emulation on DOSBox. According to him, not all 3Dfx pixel blending operations are …

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Re: List of DOS Games won't start in DOS

Posted on 2018-07-26, 02:38

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by kjliew

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I hardly believed that there was any DOS games won't start in DOS, until I truly encountered one. Battle Cruisers 3000 A.D. v2.09 Freeware. It failed in DOSBox, Win98 real-DOS in QEMU and I found others had also reported it failed in DOS on real machines. It seems to me as utter brain-dead that a …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2018-07-24, 23:32

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by kjliew

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

Dege, you may also consider how to make dgVoodoo2 not to advertise itself as virus threat. I think the way that you coded dgvoodoo2 make it susceptible of virus threat from heuristic scanners point of view, similar to most EXE packers and self-modifying codes. Today's signature-less scanners are …

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Re: GLIDE.DLL LFB implementation issue + WIN64 DLL?

Posted on 2018-07-24, 22:32

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by kjliew

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

So if I get it right, you'd like the current window size to be the forced resolution when calling grSstWinOpen, overriding the one specified in dgVoodoo config file? Ideally, I would like dgvoodoo to be "Resolution = unforced". Just render at Glide resolution from _grSstWinOpen. Scaling is …

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Re: GLIDE.DLL LFB implementation issue + WIN64 DLL?

Posted on 2018-07-24, 18:42

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by kjliew

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

I found that QEMU works best for Glide wrappers that do not interfere with events loop and window sizing. I made this change to locally compiled OpenGlide and psVoodoo. Instead of detecting the name of the running application, I would suggest that this be done through dgvoodoo.conf, for eg. " …

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Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit official EA patch

Posted on 2018-07-21, 06:59

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by kjliew

in Windows

in Windows

Hi, does anyone know a way to obtain the official EA patch for Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit? All existing downloads that I could find are installing "Network Play System" which would then connect to EA servers to update the game. Unfortunately, EA server no longer responded and I couldn't get the …

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Re: GLIDE.DLL LFB implementation issue + WIN64 DLL?

Posted on 2018-07-13, 10:27

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by kjliew

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

Ok, I'll compile an 64bit Glide3x too. I wanted to ask you if you need that too anyway. Unfortunately I cannot be engaged in dgVoodoo now because of various reasons but I'll be back soon. :) Great, thanks a lot! BTW, I found that dgVoodoo2 is doing some weird hijacking on the WNDCLASS and likely …

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Re: Compiling DOSBox SVN with MinGW

Posted on 2018-07-13, 00:36

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by kjliew

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

You should really be switching to MSYS2/mingw-w64-i686 for Windows build. The only optional lib that is missing from packaging ecosystem is SDL_sound. Everything else should have already been available. You don't need to compile libpng, SDL, and SDL_net from source. If you really want SDL_sound with …

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Re: GLIDE.DLL LFB implementation issue + WIN64 DLL?

Posted on 2018-07-11, 00:32

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by kjliew

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

Hi Dege, Would you please provide 64-bit build of glide3x.dll, too? I am adding the support for wrapping glide3x APIs in QEMU. Hopefully, this would get NFS3 to play within QEMU, too, and other 3Dfx OGL based games, such as Homeworld. The 3Dfx OGL driver requires glide3x.

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Re: GLIDE.DLL LFB implementation issue + WIN64 DLL?

Posted on 2018-07-08, 01:56

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by kjliew

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

I didn't try it but isn't it an expected difference between 3Dfx and D3D? I also don't know which NFS3 version you're trying. VEG made a wonderful patch for that game, if not that one is what you're using then let's give it a go. :wink: Yes, that's the version I have, NFS 3 Hot Pursuit. I …

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Re: GLIDE.DLL LFB implementation issue + WIN64 DLL?

Posted on 2018-07-05, 23:07

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by kjliew

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

OK, I think I know where the problems arise. To make the glide pass-through simple and without the need to include 3Dfx SDK header files, I generalized the function arguments into uint32_t/uintptr_t type. I think I had had a good lesson learned on WIN64 C ABI, that float/double are passed using XMM …

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Re: GLIDE.DLL LFB implementation issue + WIN64 DLL?

Posted on 2018-07-05, 19:01

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by kjliew

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

No command line switch is required. It uses WINAPI LoadLibrary to load the host glide2x.dll. So for Windows, the standard DLL search path for LoadLibrary applies. You should also be getting the debug info from stdout. Below is the stdout from running the Glide SDK TEST04. glidept: DLL loaded - …

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Re: Dosbox Win95 - disk size 2GB limit hack?

Posted on 2018-07-02, 04:25

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by kjliew

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Check out Large HD images (DOSBOX) You can get 8GB disk image support for DOSBox, provided you use the Win9x version that supports FAT32, such as Win95B or Win98.

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Re: psVoodoo improvements

Posted on 2018-07-02, 04:16

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by kjliew

in GliDOS General

in GliDOS General

Attached the patch for psVoodoo. With this patch, psVoodoo can be used by standalone DOSBox for Tomb Raider I. Also added a Makefile.in for GCC build in separate build folder from source. Just copy the Makefile.in as Makefile into the build folder and run make. Update: New patch in opening post.

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Re: My rant for the day... compiling and libraries.

Posted on 2018-07-01, 08:55

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by kjliew

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

cyclone3d wrote: I'm using Visual Studio 2017... I hate to say this, but I want to tell you that this is the cause of your problem. If you switch to MSYS2/mingw-w64-i686, then building DOSBox is just a cup of tea. All the dependencies libraries can be obtained from the pacman packaging system.

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Re: Looking for original Glide OVL for Lands of Lore 2

Posted on 2018-07-01, 03:56

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by kjliew

in DOS

in DOS

I'm attempting to get DOSBOX ECE's Glide emulation to work with the GOG release of Lands of Lore 2. The issue seems to be that, in their reliance on a patched version of DOSBOX 0.74 to get that working, they removed the original glide2x.ovl and replaced it with one which worked with the patched …

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Re: MechWarrior 2: Titanium on Windows 10 (with MechVM) does not work?

Posted on 2018-07-01, 03:36

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by kjliew

in Windows

in Windows

Nice, although I still prefer the PowerVR version! True, but 3Dfx left over the legacy that lives on, thanks to its dominant position of propriety 3D API and the abundant of undertakings trying to wrap Glide APIs over OpenGL and Direct3D. Now, such efforts have made significant contribution to the …

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Re: MechWarrior 2: Titanium on Windows 10 (with MechVM) does not work?

Posted on 2018-07-01, 02:22

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by kjliew

in Windows

in Windows

Native WIN64 QEMU with 3Dfx Glide pass-through in action, running Mechwarrior 2 31st 3Dfx enhanced version and Titanium Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries, using dgVoodoo2 64-bit in Windows 10 Pro build 1803. !!! 3Dfx Glide lives on !!! Filename qemu-ttmerc.png File size 692.14 KiB Views 9210 views Filename …

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