Re: Would you be interested in an x86-based alternative to the Raspberry Pi, optimized for retro gaming?

Posted on 24 minutes ago

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by kjliew

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@WDStudios Just go ahead and do your bidding. Form a team of experts, execute towards your dream and shock the world. You could either be the "Elon Musk #2" or the laughing stock. Talk is cheap.

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Re: PCem v17

Posted on Yesterday, 22:34

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by kjliew

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🤫 (whispering ... ) I had deliberately toed the line not to mention any of the forks ... I think you should if you had been lurking the forums prior to the tear-down.

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Re: Different rendering methods for OpenGL: fixing compatibility issues with modern drivers (+ graphical enhancements)

Posted on Yesterday, 19:37

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by kjliew

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I am sorry to say that the statement of Intel UHD 620 failed to provide proper OpenGL support is wrong. If any Intel Graphics engineers read it, then they would just have a good laugh. If you have meant to engage in proper technical discussion, then you could have done more thorough research, just …

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Re: Running Duke3D in VESA modes, why won’t it work for me?

Posted on Yesterday, 00:01

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by kjliew

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Just use VBETEST that comes with UniVBE to list the VESA modes. You can use it with or without UniVBE. If the low-res VESA modes showed up, then the game will work. Some companies believed VBIOS resident memory footprint can be as large as 64KiB, some didn't just to be 100% IBM PC AT compatible. So …

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Re: Running Duke3D in VESA modes, why won’t it work for me?

Posted on 2021-06-19, 22:51

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by kjliew

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So you don't like VESA 640x480 or 800x600? For Matrox Mystique, IIRC it requires a supplement VESA TSR to support low-res VESA modes. Typically, UniVBE is not required for Matrox Mystique but I don't remember if it will supplement low-res VESA modes for Matrox Mystique. UniVBE comes with VBETEST …

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Re: Would you be interested in an x86-based alternative to the Raspberry Pi, optimized for retro gaming?

Posted on 2021-06-19, 22:22

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by kjliew

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If he could make it cheaper than $60 bucks, then maybe he had a plan. Expensive or affordable is subjective to one's value perception, too. Or perhaps the OP's real life is a Saudi prince whose family has controlling stake in GlobalFoundry and all he needs is to keep a couple samples for himself for …

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Re: Would you be interested in an x86-based alternative to the Raspberry Pi, optimized for retro gaming?

Posted on 2021-06-19, 07:42

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by kjliew

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WDStudios wrote on 2021-06-19, 07:36: New designs are expensive. Taking old designs and remaking them on a 7 nm process is cheap. Are you sure ? 🤣 Otherwise, you should not be spreading misinformation.

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Re: Blood II: The Chosen

Posted on 2021-06-19, 07:22

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by kjliew

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What's the newest, beefiest graphics card that will play Blood II correctly, and why? If you had RTX2070 or even better, then the game just work. I have Geforce GT 730 and the game just rocks and it rocks equally on Ryzen APU/Vega Graphics laptop. If you wish to know more, then request mods to move …

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Re: Would you be interested in an x86-based alternative to the Raspberry Pi, optimized for retro gaming?

Posted on 2021-06-19, 07:13

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by kjliew

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AMD will just tell you to use a VM ... 🤣 Sorry I know this is Marvin.

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Re: PCem v17

Posted on 2021-06-18, 19:40

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by kjliew

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As of writing this post, the canonical GitHub repo at https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem still exists. That was a pretty strong language, wasn't it? Or am I getting old & rusty in my command of English language? Oh, please, this is not episodes of novel or popular franchised of Sci-Fi …

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Re: Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)

Posted on 2021-06-18, 18:45

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by kjliew

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I have the same problem with QEMU on M1. Wine strategy of OffscreenRendering is to use FBO. That didn't seem to work on macOS. I would have thought that to be XQuartz/OpenGL 2.1 issue as I guess you had a better OpenGL context instantiation from NSWindow/CocoaGL. You should try changing …

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Re: Moderator violating Community Standards

Posted on 2021-06-18, 04:50

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by kjliew

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Moderators, request thread locked, please. Thanks.

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Re: Heavy Gear v.1.2 runs with DgVoodoo2 (3Dfx graphics glitches)

Posted on 2021-06-18, 01:21

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by kjliew

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I had the same graphical glitches from QEMU from every other Glide wrappers. I think I checked nGlide and OpenGlide. TCG/KVM/WHPX does not matter. DOSBox SVN with Glide passthrough was OK. So I don't think this is dgVoodoo2 issue, but if Dege knows how to get it fixed, I will be happy. I guess it …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-18, 00:48

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by kjliew

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Removing support for 32-bit application on a 64-bit system would be a very bad idea. They could definitely do it on next major updates after Windows 11. They could also unify how 32-bit application was handled as in current Windows 10 ARM. I believe Windows 10 ARM employs dynarec/JIT for 32-bit x86 …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-18, 00:14

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by kjliew

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... and they should ditch 32-bit support. No one needs to run Windows 11 on a Pentium 4. I think they will. They will ditch 32-bit CPUs but retain 32-bit software compatibility. The whole UI just looks downright classy and more... I dunno, GPU accelerated ? Just look at how smooth the transition is …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 22:12

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by kjliew

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It is a good time to start to learn to use VMs to play games ... bravo ;) They may not offer enough performance for semi-modern games, games that are originally qualified & approved for XP+, but here at VOGONS we are enthusiasts of "Very Old Games" anyway. ;) Perhaps GPU pass-through could be …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 21:19

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by kjliew

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It really does not make a whole lot of point these days by comparing the OS memory footprint and make up which one is more or less "bloat". We have been out of DOS eras for a long, long time and DOS is about to be really killed. If the OS will show its memory in used, then it is just stats. Linux …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 20:27

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by kjliew

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If you want Windows not to break, then just use a VM ;) I would say that it is common sense, perhaps not for everyone, that software involving kernel-mode or user-mode drivers are going to be delicate and risk of Operating System internal changes. VMware or Intel HAXM could break, too, but it is …

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Re: Moderator violating Community Standards

Posted on 2021-06-16, 18:11

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by kjliew

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Just want to add here that we are aware of this thread and it's being discussed in the mod section. So I will just skip sending private message to with the link to the post to all moderators. I will also give up rewriting the deleted posts from my memory. I think the essence of the deleted posts …

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Re: Moderator violating Community Standards

Posted on 2021-06-16, 17:44

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by kjliew

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I do think the OP would have been better to: 1..Sort his problem out in private with mods 2..STOP turning every thread into a qemu fest (even this one) 3..STOP bringing up pcem in his threads when its obviously a decent platform for many people 4..STOP being an attention seeker 5..Grow up. Very …

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