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Re: How is 16-bit dithering controlled?

Posted on 2017-04-23, 18:19

There was a time in the early D3D10 card era when nobody seemed to support 16-bit dithering and old 16-bit color games were extremely banded. This is what 8800 produced in 2007 ( image ). I think ATI and NV both improved their legacy support over time. Was that an improvement on the driver side or …

Re: GOG installers vs ISOs

Posted on 2017-04-22, 16:33

appiah4 wrote: They just work fine, they are Win32 programs after all. There are many reasons why a "Win32 program after all" may not work on older systems. Nowadays practically no new applications are written that are compatible with Win9x, and in a year or two the same will happen to XP.

Re: Sound blaster awe64 value and older games.

Posted on 2017-04-19, 09:51

If you're running from MS-DOS mode, then you need to make sure that CTCM is loaded in your Config.sys file as a device driver. You don't have to do this in config.sys. All you need is to run ctcm in your autoexec.bat. This way it'll only initialize the PnP card, without installing any resident TSR …

Re: 32 Bit with 1280 x 1024 issue

Posted on 2017-04-15, 07:51

I have not been able to set True Color (32 bit) AND a resolution of 1280 by 1024 pixels at the same time. Whenever I try to set it to 32 bit color the resolution drops to 1024 by 768 pixels. Why? One image of 1024x768x32bit takes 3 MB of video RAM, while 1280x1024x32bit takes 5 MB. For double- …

Re: Voodoo1/2 will it work with onboard graphics?

Posted on 2017-04-12, 15:32

You could use a card with DVI output, hook that DVI cable up to your monitor, also hook up your Voodoo to your monitor with VGA, and use your monitor to switch between your cards if you wanted. (I'm not specifically saying to do that, as most people would find that less convenient, just saying it's …

Re: FrankenDOS?

Posted on 2017-04-08, 10:58

FAT32 does not give you long file names by itself (LFNs are supported since Windows 95 or with DOSLFN in the same hacky way as in FAT16). What FAT32 does it gives you smaller clusters on the same partition size (so less wasted space if you have lots of small files) and partitions larger than 2 GB.

Re: ddhack

Posted on 2017-04-07, 11:39

in Windows
I don't know. When I tried to run my 8-bit mode demo program on Windows 8 (or 8.1) it didn't work at all. What I know is that Vista and 7 are heavily affected, and 10 is not. On XP the color bug can also appear albeit very rarely. I have made a custom build of Quake 1 that fakes the 8-bit mode in …

Re: ddhack

Posted on 2017-04-03, 11:51

in Windows
Yes, and as I understood it, it is 'by design'. That is, in a system where you REALLY use an 8-bit mode, the system might have to 'steal' some palette colours from time to time, to show GUI elements. There are WM_PALETTEISCHANGING and WM_PALETTECHANGED messages for that: https://msdn.microsoft.com/ …

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