Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-25, 12:11

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I'd buy the X2 as a curiosity, but the specs aren't bad either. An interesting thing about bandwidth is that since the Datapath cards have hardware scaling, you can downscale the frames on-card before sending them down the PCI bus, basically increasing bandwidth at the cost of image quality. So I …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-25, 02:44

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That said, it is also too bad that the E1S is not available in a PCI-X 133 variant (or is it?). It would have found a nice place alongside my AJA Kona LH in my Supermicro X8SAX based system . There's the VisionRGB-X2 for PCI-X. A bunch of them on US ebay right now, not too bad of a price for a dual …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-21, 14:52

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Assuming for a moment that this sampling method is agreeable (as it is to me, when I use DOS systems on my LCD panels via VGA), why aren't there cheap solutions that do it this way? How cheap do you need it? I paid like $40 for a VisionRGB-PRO2 and $150 for the VisionRGB-E1S. Someone in the US …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-08, 11:57

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Do you have a link to the cable you're using? I have an E1S and want to capture from VGA, but most of the cables on Amazon are openly unidirectional - DVI to VGA - and the ones I've bought that aren't up front about it mention the limitation once you open the pack. Using a passive DVI to VGA …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-07, 12:50

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Image quality comparison between the Datapath VisionRGB-E1S and the Datapath VisionRGB-PRO2. Captured at 640 x 480 from a Matrox G400 with a normal-quality VGA cable using the VCS software. The base image quality is virtually the same. Any variation appears to be largely or entirely due to user- …

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Re: RallySportED, the track editor for the DOS game Rally-Sport

Posted on 2020-09-02, 23:24

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The Rally-Sport Content service is now up. It contains downloadable tracks made by me. Technically it's a service for anybody to register and upload new tracks, but due to EU copyright and so on, I'm not taking new registrations for now. I've made the service open source though, so in theory someone …

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Re: Serlain - Internet Archive frontend with mock 1990s browers

Posted on 2020-08-20, 14:27

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This service is now online, link in the first post.

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Re: RallySportED, the track editor for the DOS game Rally-Sport

Posted on 2020-08-17, 11:57

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Versions web-beta.5 through web-beta.8-dev introduce the following, among other things: - Full undo/redo - Texture editing - UI changes + more interactivity - App is now 100% client-based - Drag moves camera on touch screens (screens smaller than tablet size aren't supported; the GUI doesn't support …

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Re: Retro n-gon renderer - a JavaScript 3D software renderer for your retro projects

Posted on 2020-06-14, 13:00

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Beta.2 adds pixel shaders, among other things. The repo's readme gives a good introduction to their use, and further samples are provided. Interactive samples are at https://www.tarpeeksihyvaesoft.com/s/retro-ngon/samples/pixel-shaders/. Depth-aware blurring: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ …

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Re: Release Announcements Consolidation

Posted on 2020-06-07, 16:50

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Focus for now for this thread is posts without discussion or meaningless discussion in Release Announcements . For those with will have to see what to do to cleanup and put on a wiki. Traffic (downloads, clicks) originating from Vogons announcements tends to be fairly light, even for software …

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Re: Command & Conquer / Red Alert Remastered source GPL'd

Posted on 2020-06-07, 04:01

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The game module's a generous step for an engine implementation to start on though. Less 'creative liberties' with the gameplay like every Westwood RTS reimplementaiton ever and potential compatibility. However the FOSS gamedev scene ain't what it used to be. I bet if I posted about this source …

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gpl-dta - cross-platform asset extractor/converter for Grand Prix Legends

Posted on 2020-06-02, 16:47

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Extracts data from Grand Prix Legends's DAT files. Converts textures into PNG and 3D models into OBJ/MTL. Also works with track meshes (recursively converts all 3DO dependencies except for the horizon) but not with cars. The DAT extractor and texture converter are written in PHP7 and will run on the …

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Re: GTA V Premium Edition now free on Epic Games

Posted on 2020-06-01, 16:48

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Shame that with this Epic games put in the last nail into gta V's coffin, there are more modders than ever + servers are super unstable. Or Epic is financing GTA6 if Rockstar aren't pouring the money they got into GTA5 upkeep. But I'm enjoying the story mode so far despite having seen it let's …

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Re: RallySportED, the track editor for the DOS game Rally-Sport

Posted on 2020-05-24, 17:42

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The browser version of RallySportED is again up at https://www.tarpeeksihyvaesoft.com/rallysported/. A user guide is at https://www.tarpeeksihyvaesoft.com/rallysported/user-guide/. A temporary host for the DOS binaries (including the loader required to play modded tracks) is at https://github.com/ …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-05-21, 16:20

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A reminder to all. VCS, the third-party capture software for Datapath capture cards, is up to version 2.0 these days and has added support for Linux as well as implementing many other improvements over what was already a good version 1.0. Targeted especially toward analog retro capture. Free for …

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Re: GTA V Premium Edition now free on Epic Games

Posted on 2020-05-19, 01:34

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Bought this on christmas sale and got around to playing it now. Works decent in Linux with Proton and a GTX 980, everything on very high at 900p. The new Rockstar Launcher is quite annoying though.

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-18, 16:03

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I know, I may sound stupid, but how do I install the .patch file? It's only needed if you want to build a PCbi-compatible version of PCem yourself. In Linux, you can apply the patch with something like "$ patch -p1 < pcem_v16_for_pcbi.patch" if you're in e.g. ../pcem/16/ and the source code is in …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-18, 07:31

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Version 0.16.2: - Tweaks the UI here and there - Disallows connecting Super Socket 7 CPUs into Socket 7 sockets - Components: Adds a SiS 496 Socket 2 motherboard - Components: Adds a VIA MVP3 Super Socket 7 motherboard - Components: Tweaks the visuals of all motherboards - Components: Adds a number …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-16, 16:59

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This is REALLY cool. I'd love to have a frontend like this for MAME someday, especially for its computers. We don't quite have the configurability of PCem yet for PCs tho, but it's getting closer. It took about two weeks of work to have a working prototype of PCbi, which included setting up a …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2020-05-14, 03:59

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Version 0.16.1: - Uses the correct PCem CPU IDs across all of PCbi's supported motherboard models - Components: Adds a couple of WinChip CPUs - Components: Updates the visual style of the Intel Premiere/PCI motherboard - Renames monitor smoothing filters to "Smooth" and "Crisp" (and makes "Smooth" …

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