Re: PCem v17
Posted on 2020-12-05, 02:10
The dynarec's improved yes. M II 400 and K6/200's my new sweet spot for constant 100% with the new Banshee emulation.
Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2020-12-05, 01:58
Glide ceased being proprietary when it opened in 2000 😀
Re: Vintage Hardware Wallpapers
Posted on 2020-12-05, 01:33
Use something excellent like Paint Shop Pro 3 that has very good color reduction processes.
Re: Video Games running with only GDI32.DLL
Posted on 2020-12-04, 13:32
I was thinking Virtual Stupidity. It's one of the earliest Win95 games and is amazingly forward compatible.
Re: What is good puzzle design in adventure games?
Posted on 2020-12-04, 13:29
Re: Windows 9x Wallpaper Format - What kind of BMP do I save in GIMP?
Posted on 2020-12-04, 09:29
Just stick with 24-bit and don't bother with RLE (run-length encoding).
Re: Where to find the Stealth 3D release of Destruction Derby?
Posted on 2020-12-03, 07:52
Vendor lock-in doesn't make it any less copyrighted.
Re: Where to find the Stealth 3D release of Destruction Derby?
Posted on 2020-12-03, 02:04
You find them with the complete boxes of Stealth 3D 2000 cards.
Re: Disabling emulated FM OPL synthesis to allow softsynth?
Posted on 2020-12-02, 17:01
You can't output OPL commands to MIDI out directly. There's no insturment data, etc. as adlib isn't midi. Ensoniq PCI cards have tried (with infamously disastrous results) For real hardware, there was hal's old OPL port passthrough patch.
Re: what cool retro thing would mean little to you?
Posted on 2020-12-02, 09:35
Probably anything related to CGL and Glint. more like.... lint!!!! Also those dorky 94-95 home VR headsets (a byproduct of the immense amounts of VR hype at the time) Finally, VLB stuff. I've never had a decent experience with VLB, as my interest in that bus was brief after one burnt video card and …
Re: PCem v17
Posted on 2020-12-02, 05:13
Some games that can work with the Banshee emulation now: - Command & Conquer Renegade - Dance Dance Revolution - Empire Earth - Evil Dead: Hail to the King - Max Payne - Oni ...and probably many many more unlisted games from the period of 1999-2001 that ignore secondary video devices, as well as a …
Re: DingusPPC - Mac Emulator In Progress
Posted on 2020-12-01, 05:04
the moment an OG Bondi iMac and/or iMac DV's entirely properly software emulated will be a great one.
Re: AVOID the GT Software CD release of Corridor 7: Alien Invasion
Posted on 2020-12-01, 03:34
FormGen also published Keen6. I think GT distributed that CGA-only release though
Re: Worst adventure game ever made?
Posted on 2020-11-29, 15:26
Re: sonicMayhem vinyl quake 2 album
Posted on 2020-11-29, 09:56
There's a monkey's paw in asking for that. Like when Quake recently had a vinyl release, there's been contentIDs hitting many old videos and streamers. Same for when Sonic Mayhem rereleasing Quake3 Noize digitally earlier.
Re: best build of dosbox and frontend?
Posted on 2020-11-28, 01:33
There's no such thing as a best build with savestates. The entire concept of save states can't apply well with file locking, virtual memory, and how DOSBox is initialized. It's not a console system where you could always emulate with a constant of ROM data and memory (to reliably state it up there).
Re: Windows 98 and DOS Question
Posted on 2020-11-26, 03:03
Just so you know, there's also FAT32 support in Windows 95 OSR2's DOS.
Re: Fact review on graphics card purchase for XP
Posted on 2020-11-26, 01:49
Baoran wrote on 2020-11-23, 05:12: The newer card you get the better the performance is and older card you get better the compatibility is. Not always. RadeonHD is worse at legacy compatibility than the GCN series after it, somehow... Yes this implies Win7+GCN > WinXP+RadeonHD for some retro setups …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-11-26, 01:42
Software Quake has surfaces split up in blocks/leafs so the mip levels do have visible pop-in as they don't switch around the surfacecache across depth, so GL mipmapping doesn't match this behavior. It would be possible to hack in a forced software-driven mipmap to recreate the effect, but that's …
Re: Retail Windows 95-Windows XP(non DX9) games which work on Windows 7 and later [User Input is Required]
Posted on 2020-11-26, 01:37
I remember Fallout having palette issues. Are you judging from late rereleases? Shadows of the Empire also had fog issues with a large range of 200x hardware.
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