Possibly the best way to play Tombraider ever! :-)

Posted on 2020-07-26, 11:56

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I added 3D monitor support to Glidos (via psVoodoo) some time ago, but haven't been able to take advantage of it since I swapped to 4K monitors for work. Recently though, I've acquired a VR headset, which can simulate a huge cinema-sized 3D screen. That along with the new high-res modes I've just …

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Re: Redguard with Glidos v1.53b on Windows 98SE, not working

Posted on 2020-07-05, 10:05

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I haven't had a machine running Windows 98 for years, so it's been impossible to test. A few suggestions though: Within the Adjust dialog, under the DOS tab, selection Windows for the Dos emulation, at least to get started. If you have a copy, try getting Tomb Raider working first. More people used …

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Re: Making Transparent Textures For Glidos? Need Help!

Posted on 2020-05-19, 08:02

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Yes 256x256 is the maximum. The overriding of textures is done by Glidos, not the selected Glide wrapper, so it has to stay within Glide limits and 256x256 is a Glide limit.

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Re: Glidos problem with Tomb Raider Unfinished Business

Posted on 2020-05-14, 19:17

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Click Adjust. Select the DOS tab, and choose DOSBox rather than VDos32

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Re: Making Transparent Textures For Glidos? Need Help!

Posted on 2020-05-03, 08:18

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Looks like that image may have been captured with a slight perspective transformation applied to it. Gimp has tools to alter things like that.

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Re: Making Transparent Textures For Glidos? Need Help!

Posted on 2020-05-01, 08:31

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Yes, the tutorial is old. pngs are a much better option. Rather than trying to match the brown, you should use true transparency in the png. There are lots of new techniques, that developed over time, that aren't explained on that page, but all the information is here on Vogons in various threads. …

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Re: Carmageddon/Redguard/Blood issues

Posted on 2020-04-24, 18:16

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Yeah, I wondered about making it a donate link, but it's a bit unfair if I'm no longer work on it. I should probably just route it to the free unlock page.

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Re: Carmageddon/Redguard/Blood issues

Posted on 2020-04-24, 14:32

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This is my latest home project: http://www.tower-of-babel.co.uk/

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Re: Carmageddon/Redguard/Blood issues

Posted on 2020-04-24, 14:27

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Oh yeah, it's been so long, I'd forgotten. It's a pain to not have "Inhibit mode change" and it's not supported by OpenGlide. psVoodoo, on the other hand, hasn't been updated to handle all that the various games need. Not sure what's going on with Redguard. I used to find it definitely playable. I …

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Re: Carmageddon/Redguard/Blood issues

Posted on 2020-04-24, 13:46

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The settings under "Extras" can make a lot of performance difference in some games, but if your settings are based on the defaults for each game then I doubt changing them will help. I think perhaps these problems were always present. The mouse problem I was unaware of. Glidos has a very complicated …

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Re: Higher resolutions?

Posted on 2020-04-15, 10:14

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Hi Ken. The difficulty there is that the game itself is still generating the textured triangles that make up the display of the game scenes, and it cannot generate those outside it's original 4x3 view. 1600x1200 is optimal for a 1920x1200 display. You should have "Inhibit mode change" checked. …

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Re: Which one do you guys prefer? Redguard FMV

Posted on 2020-02-25, 09:23

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I don't think you'll see any improvement from a simple reencoding. More likely you'll see a loss of quality. You need to apply some sort of advanced upscaler. Also mkv and f4v are container formats. They don't determine the type of compression used.

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Re: "Store" VDos32 activation?

Posted on 2020-01-30, 15:13

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Ha! Oh yeah. I didn't notice.

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Re: "Store" VDos32 activation?

Posted on 2020-01-30, 13:27

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VDos32 is pretty much dead now. It works only under old 32bit Windows. It's a shame because, although very restrictive in what games it supported, it could be wildly faster than dosbox.

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Re: Descent 2 and Vdos32

Posted on 2018-09-25, 14:26

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For Glidos, you could stick the GlidosID in a text file on a USB stick to transfer it to your work machine and then bring back the unlock code the same way. Vdos32 will be problematic, but that's rarely used these days because it works only on 32bit versions of Windows.

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Re: psVoodoo improvements

Posted on 2018-06-29, 23:21

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Sure. Thanks. It's great to see someone reviving the project. I'm happy to take the patch, but I'm interested to know what the problem with github is.

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Re: Was Glidos named after Eidos?

Posted on 2017-04-05, 09:12

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twiz11 wrote: but it was marketed towards Eidos's Tomb Raider, which the port or software just sucks You don't like the first Tomb Raider game? Or Glidos? Or a port of the first Tomb Raider game?

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Re: Was Glidos named after Eidos?

Posted on 2017-04-05, 09:10

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Yes it was a combination of Glide and DOS. There was no other Glide wrapper that worked with DOS games at the time

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Re: if(pyl + vdos32) = win

Posted on 2016-12-11, 16:54

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Sadly, vdos32 is a dead project. There seems to be no way to make it work under 64bit versions of Windows, so it is only a few people now who get to use it. When a cpu is running in 32bit mode, there is an on-chip table called the local descriptor table. vdos32 cannot work without access to this and …

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Re: TOMBRAIDER on GLIDOS problems and GLIDOS logo appears after purchased ID inputed....

Posted on 2015-08-10, 08:25

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I fixed the border problem in Direct3D (psVoodoo) mode by changing the resolution to 1600x1200. Everything looks really nice, but why is there a freeze/delay at the start of each level or when I load up the inventory? There is like a 3-4sec delay. Also, the menu texts & health bar are not displayed …

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