Re: Zdoom fork?

Posted on 2017-01-27, 00:50

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by dondiego

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But if i'm not wrong you can select system midi in game and opl synth as midi device in windows control panel. BTW have you tried these binaries? What about using GetEnvironmentVariable instead of SHGetSpecialFolderPath in OpenAL?

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Re: Generic Win98SE Installation & Setup Guide

Posted on 2017-01-26, 20:24

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by dondiego

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dr_st wrote: If you install without ACPI - will you have to manually turn off your computer with the power button every time? Of course, i always install with acpi. If your computer hangs you could always restart in ms-dos mode and then turn it off manually.

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Re: Windows 95 USB PCI Card?

Posted on 2017-01-26, 13:56

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by dondiego

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Are you sure? According to the docs usbsupp and usbupd2 were for win95b.

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Re: Windows 95 USB PCI Card?

Posted on 2017-01-26, 12:56

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by dondiego

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I've got a driver called w95usbflash11.zip which works on win95c if i remember right.

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Re: Zdoom fork?

Posted on 2017-01-26, 10:12

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by dondiego

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Thanks again. I never install the desktop update on win 95. Have you tried any older version of OpenAL like 1.9? (i don't know the requirements of openal versions). That video memory requirement seems strange, is not stable with less ram even @320x200? And that's a lot of system ram for win 95. I …

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Re: Zdoom fork?

Posted on 2017-01-25, 21:07

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by dondiego

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@blue-green-frog: Thanks, have you modified OpenAL to remove that requirement? And how? So is anyone going to fork this? In case someone's interested the commit when r_detail was removed is the following one (i think some changes would need to be reverted in v_video.h, v_video.cpp, r_draw.h, r_draw. …

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Re: Zdoom fork?

Posted on 2017-01-24, 13:09

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by dondiego

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I had this version stored for Windows 98: gzdoom.exe version 1.0.21.340, 03-10-2006. The reason being a regression regarding the midi music I've tested GZDoom 1.3.17 (based on ZDoom 2.3.1) and it works on win 98 with old graphics cards (requires OpenGL 1.2). The issue with system midi is still …

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Re: Zdoom fork?

Posted on 2017-01-23, 20:53

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by dondiego

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This looks pretty interesting, reminds me of ECWolf legacy version. ZDoom 1.7.1 is capable of running recent mods (at least runs BD 20) and was stable, on the other hand 2.8.1 had the broken chainsaw. We need to get ultra low detail back as well. I've been testing 2.2.0 in windows 7 and runs fine, …

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Re: My new PIII system is in the post!

Posted on 2017-01-20, 13:28

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by dondiego

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The intel seattle ii could take up to 768 mb of ram.

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Re: Problem with HMC ISA video card

Posted on 2017-01-19, 17:37

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by dondiego

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Check the zero wait states jumper, but it was a very crappy card anyway.

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Re: Is this GPU Worth Keeping?

Posted on 2017-01-15, 00:15

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by dondiego

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lazibayer wrote: You got the 2D part right but the 3D core came from Real3D True, a silly mistake.

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Re: Graphics card choice for 486 DX4-100 system

Posted on 2017-01-14, 11:05

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by dondiego

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jade_angel wrote: That was the worst-performing PCI graphics chipset I could think of Actually there were much slower and older chips.

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Re: Is this GPU Worth Keeping?

Posted on 2017-01-14, 11:00

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by dondiego

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Actually it wasn't that bad, the 2d core was made by chips & technologies and was very compatible in dos, the 3d core came from real3d (not 3dlabs) and gave voodoo 1 class performance with good opengl support (intel bought both companies). The card had no 32 bit output however.

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Re: Graphics card choice for 486 DX4-100 system

Posted on 2017-01-13, 19:16

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by dondiego

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PCI > ISA for graphics, unless you're comparing a screamer of an ISA chip (ET4000, etc) against a stinkerino of a PCI chip (Trident 9680, say) Are you seriously comparing a isa card to a 64 bit pci card like that trident? (even when that chip usually came with 32 bit dram). The s3 trio64 would be …

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

Posted on 2017-01-13, 12:54

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by dondiego

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Today I discovered that a wonderful Socket 7 ATC-5220 mainboard that looked almost never used, it doesn't boot anymore. No vga signal only fan running and no beep. No damages done, only the latest time I updated the bios and it definetely booted ok but when I unmounted the mainboard I unplugged the …

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Re: Underclocking a Pentium 2 350MHz?

Posted on 2017-01-12, 11:05

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by dondiego

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I've got an unlocked p2 333 from 1998 week 30 running at 300 mhz (3x100) and i can downclock it by software in windows to 200 (softfsb or setfsb). Disabling l2 cache doesn't make much of a difference. The advantage of running below 233 is not getting the turbo pascal divide by zero error, but it's …

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Re: Underclocking a Pentium 2 350MHz?

Posted on 2017-01-11, 20:19

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by dondiego

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You can set 66 mhz fsb on the seattle ii with cpufsb (or cpucool) from windows 9x and of course stays that way in ms-dos mode. However those tools are shareware and you can't save settings, not much of a problem though. May be other tools support the board's pll but i don't think so.

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Re: Graphics card question Pentium one

Posted on 2016-12-30, 17:52

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by dondiego

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The blade 3d turbo was voodoo 1 class hardware, these were next generation designs. Blade xp4 was a failure and later blade xp5 came as xgi volari v3 (drivers identified them as trident).

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Re: Graphics card question Pentium one

Posted on 2016-12-30, 13:21

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by dondiego

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It's a cut down version of the trident blade xp with 64 bit bus like the t64, i guess the name comes from the 16 mb onboard ram. If i'm not wrong will give voodoo 2 class performance.

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Re: k6-2 compatibility

Posted on 2016-12-28, 21:33

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by dondiego

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kanecvr wrote: There's a high chance of killing not only the CPU, but the board as well. True, you could kill the onboard voltage regulator as well.

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