Re: Which Linux distro(s) should I choose?

Posted on 2021-12-14, 08:09

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by mrau

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for old linux try redhat or suse for soft landing (do not try softlanding however) or slackware for a hard landing for modern linux i can only recommend a few that i tried - mint, suse for binary distros and gentoo/funtoo for source and when at it - i recommend you try freebsd for a desktop driver, …

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Re: but how do i make windowresolution=800x600 output=opengl to a command line ?

Posted on 2021-12-13, 15:07

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does not seem supported, but you can have multiple config files if that helps: $ dosbox --help Usage: dosbox [OPTION]... [FILE] These are common options: -h, --help Displays this message. --printconf Prints the location of the default configuration file. --editconf Open the default configuration …

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Re: Can we create a DOS driver for Creative ES137X using the existing 16bit source code?

Posted on 2021-12-11, 12:16

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in Marvin \ Sound

the code in the picture does not seem to be doing much really.. when in DOS you really need to make it emulate something else that your target software already knows and likes imho - so the question is - emulate what?

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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 2021-12-07, 11:15

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ViTi95 wrote on 2021-12-01, 13:35: It's possible to profile FastDoom but only with Pentium processors (and later models). is this due to time stamp counter? there was no software profiling before that?

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Re: Lowest spec Windows XP pc.

Posted on 2021-12-01, 04:52

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isnt the cyrix 5x86 almost like pentium instructionwise? anyone tried that for xp maybe? imho its ok to go low on cpu, but memory should be available to not kill the hard disk

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Re: Would you be interested in an x86-based alternative to the Raspberry Pi, optimized for retro gaming?

Posted on 2021-06-19, 20:03

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by mrau

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

vortex is expensive as are most integrated toys - i would not spend such amounts on this kind of stuff i would personally just take a redone fx cpu;an ahci and hd audio driver for windows 98 would be required, i doubt other things would be in the way of some games having amd expand the fx line some …

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

Posted on 2021-06-15, 08:13

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by mrau

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Windows 10 + WSL 2 with WSLG : best of both worlds. did You try that recently? i saw a short technical review - quite interesting imho, even tui apps like vim should work i believe I'd prefer not to have MickySoft malware on my systems thanks. there's little a trusted 3rd party firewall cannot …

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Re: What is better: used HDD from a server or used HDD from a home computer?

Posted on 2021-06-13, 13:26

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm planning to buy these because used large capacity drives are much cheaper than Blu-ray disks. including delivery? all my WD have died and only one of them was helped by my stupidity; seagate are a bit slower but survive harsh conditions for longer imho (heat, mechanical instability) for backup …

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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 2021-06-01, 09:15

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thats 9 fps on that vid; the new modes are seemingly handled better on the hardware - maybe lack of some features makes them easier to handle in the newer mode? does scrolling work like on 13h? btw is there any graphics card that will do the copying from buffer to screen for us?

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2021-05-31, 15:45

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by mrau

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in Marvin \ System Specs

dual k6 workstation with proper sata or scsi, plentiful ram, some basic GUI accelerator and DOS compatible sound; real floppies and dvd rom are a must too I don't think the AMD K6 line supports SMP. there were dual amd workstations available back in the day - so the minimal support must be there i …

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2021-05-31, 12:10

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in Marvin \ System Specs

dual k6 workstation with proper sata or scsi, plentiful ram, some basic GUI accelerator and DOS compatible sound; real floppies and dvd rom are a must too

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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 2021-05-30, 17:59

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i'll just say - your mastery of the compiler is far beyond anything i could offer so any support would be limited; tried to decipher your last 2 VBE commits and i do not see anything that could be causing this but then my understanding is far from complete it does not say in bug report if this is a …

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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 2021-05-30, 13:03

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TIGA wasn't a standard, every company developed their own drivers and SDKs, so adding support for every card would be very complex. Another big problem is that Dosbox nor PCEm emulate any TIGA card, and I don't have one of those cards (I wish I had one). ok thats a showstopper; sorry about 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 2021-05-29, 20:50

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TIGA support for texturing?

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Re: Disableing 'head bob' in DOS FPS games (DOOM, Heretic, Hexen, Blood, etc.)

Posted on 2021-02-16, 09:23

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by mrau

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there was an old trainer which offered to disable that - i believe its a very simple edit, just have to know location - a 1 d table is beinge traversed hence and forth to offer the value of the shift in current frame (i believe so, did not really check myself)

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Re: ScummVM not working on Linux Mint 19 32-bit (D-Bus related problem)

Posted on 2020-11-20, 11:41

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probably some mismatch - try updating or rollback?

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Re: PCI Soundcard impact on PCI Videocard performance (gaming)

Posted on 2020-10-28, 17:16

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i believe isa is often not a separate bus but a pci extension; also this will wildly depend on settings for sound and gfx and also type of load (where eax with simple hi res framebuffer filled by soft routines is probably worst case but i have no clue what kind of load for 3d graphics there is on …

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Re: A way to limit how much VRAM windows sees

Posted on 2020-10-20, 22:33

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in Marvin \ Video

there was some techie on yt ( i have no experience/knowledge myself) who stated that stuttering was performance related on ati solution so the cpu is not fast enough to coordinate the work of 2 cards at the same time; im not sure if this is helpful, but maybe the cards can be downclocked to verify

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Re: Issues getting ESS 1869 running in Win98 DOS mode

Posted on 2020-10-15, 02:34

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doesnt win98 just emu a sb16 in the standard setting?

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Re: 486 VLB Board that will support Running DRAM at 0WS (25MHz FSB)

Posted on 2020-09-26, 20:51

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

there was some guy with a 486 based on static ram alone - the only comparison i can think of; i cant recall the name though

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