Re: Is this the possibility of a Power VR SGL Wrapper?

Posted on 2016-02-12, 17:48

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by Stiletto

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In some cases legal game distributors like GOG discover that using a wrapper can make for enhanced game compatibility or enhanced graphics, and that makes for thousands of users. Case in point: Zeus Software/nGlide's partnership with GOG. Even so, while nGlide is closed source, it is not-for-profit …

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Re: Booting from Compact Flash: Dealing with Virtual Memory

Posted on 2016-02-12, 15:32

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by Stiletto

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gdjacobs wrote: You unleashed ninja on me. what?

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Re: Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?

Posted on 2016-02-11, 07:53

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by Stiletto

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The real difference between Windows Vista (with all its service packs, updates, and patches up until release of Windows 7), and release version of Windows 7, is quite small.

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Re: Wine 1.9.3 includes old game fixes!

Posted on 2016-02-10, 23:27

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by Stiletto

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Cool. If you're looking for always current Windows compiles of parts of Wine, check out WineD3D For Windows: http://adolfintel.com/index.php?p=wined3d/index.frag However, this only currently includes: d3d8.dll, d3d9.dll, d3d10.dll, d3d10core.dll, d3d11.dll, ddraw,dll, dxgi.dll, libwine.dll, wined3d. …

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Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

Posted on 2016-02-10, 19:04

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errr yeah I remember that. From 2014 sometime. https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/ibmpcjr.cpp We got a partial dump from some random contributor (I think it came from the direction of VCF?) but they didn't have the full thing. The one that currently appears in the romset …

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Re: What's planned for DosBox 0.75?

Posted on 2016-02-10, 18:47

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Is there any method to compare those status pages? You'd have to download each status page, remove anything Internet-Archive-related in the code, and then run a diff. I can't imagine Qbix updates that all that much between releases, but you never know. *shrug* If you really want to see what's …

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Re: Doom95 under Windows 10

Posted on 2016-02-10, 02:09

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iGREKKESS wrote: ZellSF wrote: Have you tried dgVoodoo2 or DXGL yet? Because that's what you should do. I'm not sure fix for 3-D APIs will help, since Doom Vanilla is not a real 3-D engine... 😉 AFAIK these wrappers (dgVoodoo2, DXGL) wrap DirectDraw as well as Direct3D.

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Re: Old PC's used as props in movies

Posted on 2016-02-10, 00:31

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bjt wrote: Halt and Catch Fire was absolutely packed with vintage PC's, they really nailed it. Everything from C64s to XTs and DEC PDPs. Apparently it's been renewed for a third season, but I won't believe it until I see it later this year. I really enjoyed that show. 😀

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Re: Old soundfonts hard to find?

Posted on 2016-02-05, 19:15

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Creative apparently produced a Netscape-compatible plug-in in 1996, called Netsynth. Trying to find it... Took a stab. Developers: http://seersystems.com/1996/09/24/creatives-partnerships-change-the-face-of-the-internet/ Websites: http://www.ctlsg.creaf.com/members/connect/music/netsynth.html …

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Re: Old PC's used as props in movies

Posted on 2016-02-04, 16:56

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This guy rents arcades, pinballs, jukeboxes and other misc. to TV/film production in the Vancouver, Canada area. No computers so far as I know. http://flippers.com/props.html

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Re: 2d cards

Posted on 2016-02-04, 05:44

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never heard of number9 sounds interesting. I'll look in it. After looking in to it i went with the number 9 card. Hopefully will go well with the voodoo 2 card. Number 9 was afaik a graphics card manufacturer of the old days back when graphics cards were mainly ISA, VLB and PCI and many of their …

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Re: TK8880F/2066A2 Motherboard Manual or Settings

Posted on 2016-02-04, 02:52

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by Stiletto

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Moved.

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Re: Cannot get older Timeshift demo to work

Posted on 2016-02-03, 20:23

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by Stiletto

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These days, I'd try dgVoodoo2 with them...

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Re: Modern printer with pure DOS

Posted on 2016-02-03, 17:05

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by Stiletto

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You can do it with a RPi and some handy work with a FT245R and port capture software. Hardware: https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/bastelecke/PC/LptCap/ Sample Windows port capture application (appears to do limited ESC/P emulation): https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs/freew.html#SPE Of …

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Re: My first Pentium MMX/S3/Voodoo 2/Vibra16 build

Posted on 2016-02-03, 16:32

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It looks like your stickers say "MVP WS", Tetrium... that is indeed another STB model. STB Systems MVP Workstation However, the key part number is the Compaq part number, which normally follows a pattern like: 213456-001

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Re: Power Macintosh G3- no startup disk selector.

Posted on 2016-02-03, 16:22

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Oh and does anyone know if RealPC or any other virtual machines/emulators have PCI pass through? Tossing a Live and a Voodoo 2 in to use with a virtual PC is an enticing idea. Nothing's coming to mind, but I haven't been following PCI pass-through in modern VMs very closely. With a retro Mac, there …

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Re: Modern printer with pure DOS

Posted on 2016-02-03, 16:05

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by Stiletto

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Here's a few hardware options: 1. http://www.epapersign.com/products/52-products1/lpt2usb http://www.jacobi-shop.com/xtcommerce/products/en/Various-Adapters/LPT2USB-Parallel-to-USB-printer-adapter.html 2. https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/bastelecke/PC/USB2LPT/lpt2usb.en.htm Your guess is as …

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Re: These all in theory fit the same socket

Posted on 2016-02-03, 15:22

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I'm vaguely cranky about 5-year necros still, BTW, Tetrium got in there with his stupid "valid necro" comment before I had a chance to do anything about it. ;) Conversations on the Internet have a longer lifespan than in Real Life, but there's still a point where all participants have dropped out …

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Re: ATI experimentation

Posted on 2016-02-03, 04:32

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by Stiletto

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Awesome! Good job! 😁

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2016-02-02, 21:15

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by Stiletto

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I'm sure that's true, but Dege likes testing weird stuff anyways. 😀

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