Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows
Posted on Yesterday, 21:24
If AMD doesn't fix things, more modern OpenGL 2 games could fall under this for future Radeon users. 🙁
Re: Clarification on definition of abandoneware on Vogons.
Posted on 2023-06-05, 02:31
being a portion, depending on, or complementary for a piece of hardware does not absolve software of copyright protection. (I never gave in to PMs begging for Stealth3d 2000's games)
Re: Strange HUD glitching in GLQuake
Posted on 2023-06-03, 16:11
GLQuake doesn't play well with forced triple buffering on Glide. Turn that off and the 2D parts should no longer flicker
Re: Best 'native' 5.25 floppy disk games
Posted on 2023-06-01, 18:00
Tongue of the Fatman of course
Re: TNT2 Ultra faster than Geforce 2MX on Slot A?
Posted on 2023-05-30, 04:32
Note that on Quake III, there will be color banding issues (particularly the sky) when texture compression is enabled on early GeForce cards. IIRC that was fixed around detonator 12.41. Quake3 tells OpenGL to load RGB textures in a S3TC format and nVidia's on-demand compression wasn't great. Note …
Re: Vodoo 2 Sli vs Vodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?
Posted on 2023-05-28, 22:59
CoffeeOne wrote on 2023-05-28, 21:46: Sorry, but I cannot stand it anymore. The name is Voodoo. with 2 times double o. You always write Vodoo, where every reply contains Voodoo, the later one is correct. i'd take Vodoo over VooDoo , tbh
Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me
Posted on 2023-05-28, 06:43
MechanicalSanity wrote on 2023-05-28, 05:19: brightness slider does work for sure on voodoo cards. are you sure about that
Re: Proper SSAA+SMAA combo (new type of AA)
Posted on 2023-05-28, 00:26
With anti aliasing , the older the technique, the better. When I messed about FSAA on Geforce2 cards there were way too many cases of 2D art getting a feedback of smear and pixel fonts blurred up in Direct3D games. And if we went even older than that, we'd have inconsistent edges only antialiasing. …
Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me
Posted on 2023-05-28, 00:04
GLQuake's brightness never worked. Later builds of GLQuake had a command-line parameter to boost the texture 'gamma' up (i.e. glquake -gamma 0.4) but never any real-time screen gamma changes ingame. It's usually gamma 1.7 on 3dfx MiniGL (with glquake's own gamma set to 1.0 to not affect any textures …
Re: Vodoo 2 Sli vs Vodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?
Posted on 2023-05-27, 10:27
Voodoo2 drivers had some Direct3D related regressions starting from the DX7 beta drivers in Nov 1999. You'll notice color modulation breaking in certain games (like AVP) as well as some missing textures (like Outrage). Voodoo3's far more versatile and mature with regards to Direct3D support (i.e. …
Re: The Joy of MMX
Posted on 2023-05-27, 08:30
I still see MMX as largely as a 1997 consumer focus thing. Intel's attempt at vendor lock-in (before K6 and 6x86MX came , anyway). Some of the worst games of 1997 required MMX. 😀
Re: Emulating Area5150
Posted on 2023-05-26, 12:36
GloriousCow wrote on 2023-05-26, 01:41: It's an unfortunate name collision, but I tried to think of a new name and came up blank. Biffulator, making other emulators like a tree and get out of there?
Re: Your favourite coop games for dos and windows 98?
Posted on 2023-05-23, 11:35
Tyrian's two player mode is an arcade mode variant with a weird two part 'dragon' ship, kinda like Blasteroids mechanics on the other hand (with keyboard jam potential)....... DESTRUCT >:}
Re: How will this affect DOSBox development?
Posted on 2023-05-22, 01:50
It would sooner break dosemu instead.
Re: Descent Freespace Demo not running in DX mode
Posted on 2023-05-22, 01:36
It's possible they've had support coded in at that point, but hadn't done anywide hardware testing runs to assure it'll work in time for the demo, especially in the case of the 1st/2nd generation of 3d hardware with wildly varying capabilities so they can only be surely certain for 3dfx users.
Re: Descent Freespace Demo not running in DX mode
Posted on 2023-05-21, 23:08
FSdemo was a month earlier and glide only, and the readme doesn't mention any Direct3D support. The full version had Direct3D
Re: What's the video mode refresh rate used by Prehistorik Man 2?
Posted on 2023-05-21, 01:45
PCem reports these at different parts on VGA: Title = 320x200@70hz Difficulty/world pan=624x400@70hz ingame = 640x200@70hz Does your monitor have a digital mode-reporting OSD?
Re: Changing resolution of Win9x/2k DOS box?
Posted on 2023-05-21, 00:10
No
Re: Darker Image in Unreal when playing in opengl mode mode compared running the game in Nglide
Posted on 2023-05-19, 08:47
It's theoretically possible to hack around the exposed shader files of the new D3D renderers to get it looking closer to early GlideDrv and even SoftDrv (yank out gamma and bind the brightness to multiply lighting instead).
Re: Win98SE Themes: Am I Doing Something Wrong?
Posted on 2023-05-19, 04:06
C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes
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