Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2023-07-05, 21:55

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Quick question regarding a feature. "New option to show only objects that are not far away from the player. All the enemies are still rendered as they're important" Does that mean that Doom normally renders objects and/or enemies for a whole level? Or is there some limit to the distance each level …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2023-06-20, 21:51

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I mean the mask pitch is of course still relevant, as well as the spot size. There was a whole big thread on shumps about this a while back I'm surprised you missed it https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=67124 oh no, I didn't miss that thread, but I thought that was about wrapping extra …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2023-06-20, 13:55

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You're also limited by the bandwidth of the drive transistors on the neckboard it can't be that simple though can it? Could one theoretically pump more horizontal lines out just by swapping the drive transistors with modern equivalents at a higher bandwidth? I would tend to assume that other …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-05-17, 13:38

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1. It's not to protect our users, it is to protect the website (owner). 2. Turning Vogons into a marketplace will slowly turn Vogons toxic 3. A lot more moderating time would need to be spent which comes out of the free time of the moderators (all unpaid). Use Amibay, ebay or whatever for buying …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2023-04-10, 17:44

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EDIT: actually it is working it's just stupid quiet compared to vanilla, even with the volume slider at max Yes, I noticed that the music volume is *extremely* low for me using Adlib music, especially compared to the sound effects. I have to crank the volume on my stereo to hear it. IIRC, I had …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2023-04-05, 19:12

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appiah4 wrote on 2023-04-05, 13:01: Is it possible to disable dithering for the HUD bar? Just an idea.. That's exactly my reaction. The hub bar is cleaner/clearing without dithering.

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2023-03-28, 18:27

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I'll entertain your white-noise comment with what happens if you start doom2 MAP27 with FDOOMEGA without MODE16.WAD, relying on the PLAYPAL and COLORMAP lumps from DOOM2.WAD instead: https://i.imgur.com/PvKJJ0S.png How gracious of you your majesty. 🙄 Anyway, I see how much better the colors are now …

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

Posted on 2023-03-27, 19:24

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Today I received a bunch of spare pinch rollers for an audio cassette player, from China and set about repairing a spare Commodore 64 Datassette. I fitted the new pinch roller, which worked fine but then I discovered that the heads were out of alignment. I didn't have an alignment tape to hand so I …

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2023-03-26, 04:05

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dreamblaster wrote on 2023-03-24, 21:58: well i made a few prototypes and they worked well, i sold these next up is making a larger batch i think in about 1-2 months i will have more Sweet. Yeah, sign me up!

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2023-03-24, 18:24

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dreamblaster wrote on 2022-10-19, 13:59: - producable again ! Very much looking forward to grabbing one when they exist again. Is there some kind of timeline for production at this point, or is it "sometime in the future?"

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2023-03-16, 05:38

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Since this is effectively a cheat You can't possibly be serious? The non-VGA versions are so difficult to see compared to anything higher resolution that it's already insanely more difficult to make out what's going on no matter how "bright" it appears. Your own screenshots show how little good the …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2022-12-28, 17:53

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Could there be a CGA mode that takes advantage of the ATI CGA clone with 64k? Like use composite mode with higher resolution perhaps, or is that impossible?

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Re: Zeos motherboard project

Posted on 2022-12-27, 19:34

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Are those all Zeos boards?

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2022-12-23, 06:59

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theelf wrote on 2022-12-22, 17:12: Win XP sp3, chrome 86, works fine here downloads Yeah I just tried it again and it worked fine for me this time. No idea what happened.

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2022-12-22, 17:04

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ViTi95 wrote on 2022-12-22, 16:41: Found the issue and upload again with the problem fixed. It should play demos fine right now. Thanks again for discovering this. Weirdly, the download didn't work on Chrome. I went to Edge and it downloaded fine, but I got an XML error with Chrome. Didn't happen …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2022-12-21, 07:13

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I got the sound working in Staging. I had to go into the config and turn off the filters for soundblaster and opl. I'm not sure why that worked, but it did. They were set to default, so that should have been the same as regular DOSBox, but it made a difference for some reason. I wish I had more time …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2022-12-20, 17:01

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A couple issues here. I couldn't get the sound working in 0.9.2 for either the CGA512 or regular FDOOM. I went back and tested 0.9.1 and the sound is fine. I tested with the most recent Staging, SVN and ECE. Also, I couldn't get the composite output to work in SVN or ECE. Staging it worked fine. …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2022-12-08, 18:05

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ViTi95 wrote on 2022-12-08, 09:20: For CGA cards the next release (0.9.3) will feature a "512 color" 80x100 mode, the same used on 8088MPH demos. Will require an original IBM CGA card with composite output. That means this will be impossible to try out in emulation, correct?

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Re: blood 1 mouselook

Posted on 2022-12-02, 01:37

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You probably know this already, but if not, there are two *excellent* modern Windows remakes of the Blood game engine; BuildDGX and NBlood . Using either of these fixes all of the problems and limitations of the original DOS engine. Interested. One thing I would like is to overcome the lousy …

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Re: Zeos motherboard project

Posted on 2022-12-01, 17:10

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My family had a Zeos 386 that I played all the Lucasarts stuff on. P5 must have been the very end for them as a company. Everything after that one would have been Micron branded.

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