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Re: S3 Trio Documentation

Posted on 2005-04-03, 01:51

I can tell you from experience that I found my Hercules Dynamite Power VLB (ET4000/W32p) to be a better card overall than my #9 Motion 771 VLB (S3 968). The ET4000 was as fast or faster (except in Win) and worked just as well, and was far cheaper. On an unrelated note, one thing I've always been …

Re: Gulikoza: Problems with D3D

Posted on 2005-04-01, 19:45

@swaaye: I found the problem. D3D is doing only integer scaling when fullfixed is on in order to avoid blurring pixels on LCD monitors. If the fullfixed resolution is 1280x800 and game res is 640x480 it will scale 2x in the x direction and only 1x in the y since 2x480 > 800. What would you prefer …

Gulikoza: Problems with D3D

Posted on 2005-04-01, 07:14

Gulikoza: I've been playing TIE Fighter thru with DOSBOX. It runs pretty good. But, I am now trying to use your impressive D3D option. The problem is in fullscreen and SVGA mode that i get full width, but only a few inches of height. There are big black bars on top and bottom. fullscreen=false …

Re: DOSBox takes extra CPU time to draw the screen

Posted on 2005-04-01, 04:24

How much does DOSBOX benefit from a big L2 cache? With tons of screen data being whipped around and everything else it sounds like latency would be a big concern. And now days we have chips with 1MB-2MB L2 cache a lot of times, and A64 S939's dual channel ~50ns latency RAM controller. Is this stuff …

Re: DOSBox takes extra CPU time to draw the screen

Posted on 2005-03-31, 19:05

I've been pondering the DOSBOX conundrum lately (lol) with regards to its demanding video emulation. I was remembering how my old Diamond Speedstar Pro ISA 1MB (FPM DRAM, 70-80ns) could run SVGA DOS games very well on a 486. DOSBOX obviously must emulate a framebuffer like those old ISA VGA cards. A …

Re: Increase memory of a video card in Dos Box

Posted on 2005-03-31, 18:55

DOS cards definitely don't need more than 1MB VRAM. I think the highest resolution for a DOS game is like 800x600x8bit. Some do 16-bit, but DOSBOX doesn't support that (and it would be pointless to do so for performance reasons). And that is something I think I've only seen in maybe SimCity 2000. …

Re: DOSBox takes extra CPU time to draw the screen

Posted on 2005-03-10, 07:26

When I referred to Unix/Linux, I was including OS X in there too. It is a derivative of Unix just like Linux, and it supports OpenGL. I guess I understand what you are saying. The graphics APIs are being used in the last step of the graphics basically. DOSBOX prepares its emulated 'framebuffer' and …

Re: DOSBox takes extra CPU time to draw the screen

Posted on 2005-03-09, 19:17

How does DOSBOX do it? Really, there are 2 majors OS's that DOSBOX will be run on. Linux/Unix and Windows. How much does DOSBOX use DirectX/OpenGL. I know they are output options, but does DOSBOX really take advantage of them? One would think if they can run a game like Doom3/Half Life2 that DOSBOX …

Re: Recommendations for my legacy PC

Posted on 2005-03-03, 22:05

in PC Emulation
Daughtercards for sound cards just give you wavetable midi. Some have effects processors for Chorus, Reverb, Spatial effects to add to the midi. Some of them really suck (Creative Waveblaster) and some are awesome (Roland SCD's). Hard to find. Sound Blaster cards are by FAR the most compatible card …

Re: Recommendations for my legacy PC

Posted on 2005-03-03, 20:33

in PC Emulation
AWE64 Gold? My friend has one(he's also the one with the Socket 7 mobo w/AGP slot), but I think it's a PCI model. Also, I hear the AWE series has some disadvantages compared to the classic SB16. I don't see the problem, though, as my SB Live! Value seems to work quite well already. And another …

Re: Recommendations for my legacy PC

Posted on 2005-02-23, 22:42

in PC Emulation
Remember you're building a retro-rig. We don't need AGP or USB. Get a Voodoo2 12MB PCI. You can use your onboard video with that since Voodoo2's use a pass-thru cable. You hook your monitor to the Voodoo2 and then a small cable goes from the Voodoo2's other VGA port to the VGA out of your mobo. You …

Re: Phantasmagoria 2 Problem

Posted on 2005-02-22, 21:29

in DOS
I'm tellin ya'all...just use VMWare. Or a real Win98 install. I played thru the entire game ok with VMWare. VirtualPC may well be the better way to go and I think you can get a demo of that from MS. It is annoyingly ironic that P1 works fine in XP while P2 is broken.

Re: Athlon XP 1800+ or Sempron 2800?

Posted on 2005-02-17, 08:10

in PC Emulation
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000364 Another good example of L2 being less than defining of processor speed is that a Athlon 64 939 with 512k cache will beat my Athlon 64 754 with 1MB cache. The dual channel memory of the 939 chip more than makes up for the L2 cache size drop. Pentium 4 …

Re: Favorite ISA Sound Cards

Posted on 2005-02-17, 07:56

in PC Emulation
Oh my. Now that's pure retro energy there. I've never even seen one of those. I remember reading game requirements back then though and seeing that little fellow mentioned. What exactly does that produce for sound? "Speech" implies digital sample playback........

Re: Favorite ISA Sound Cards

Posted on 2005-02-15, 22:36

in PC Emulation
I dunno, is there a changelog? ;) Actually, the 2, 4, and 8MB soundfonts that come with Live! and Audigy cards are the 2, 4, and 8MB ECW banks, converted to SoundFont format. :) I STRONGLY doubt that. The ECW banks were made by Ensoniq for AudioPCI. The Soundfonts came with the SB cards back to the …

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