Re: Looking for an OLD raytracing benchmark for pure DOS

Posted on 2024-12-13, 07:49

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I still can't find a way to make it work with 24bpp modes. That would open up the benchmark to older systems with cards that don't support 32bpp (ie. many ISA/VLB cards) I've never worked with vbe before so I'm really going blind in here. Any help would be appreciated :) It should support 32bpp, …

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New Win32 game: Meal Plan 1.2

Posted on 2024-12-11, 08:36

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As part of the Win32 Jam Autumn 2024 , which ended a few days ago, I wrote a small Dobble/Spot It-inspired Win32 game that should work on Win9x all the way to the latest Windows 11 (not sure if Win32s or HX would also work). The game is available for download for free here: https://thp.itch.io/meal- …

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Re: Looking for an OLD raytracing benchmark for pure DOS

Posted on 2024-12-04, 19:49

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in Marvin \ Software

Shameless plug: Super Trace VESA Benchmark

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Re: Questions about coding HTML for old websites

Posted on 2024-11-25, 20:16

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My browser (NM28) is not redirected to HTTPS, despite it fully supports latest TLS 1.3 standards. I just checked and it seems like I unconditionally avoid a HTTP->HTTPS redirect for "Windows NT 5.1" (i.e. XP) in the user-agent string, independent of the rest of the browser identification. Also …

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Re: Questions about coding HTML for old websites

Posted on 2024-11-25, 07:02

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About TLS: If you self-host/have control over the HTTP server config, you usually redirect HTTP to HTTPS for modern browsers there. I configured my web server to check the user-agent and if the user agent looks like one of the browsers on my retro machines I just skip the HTTPS redirect. In general, …

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Re: Help with Direct Draw and DirectX

Posted on 2024-11-24, 19:01

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in Marvin \ Video

Some less intrusive suggestions: - Use ScummVM - Try ddhack https://solhsa.com/ddhack/ / https://github.com/jarikomppa/dxwrapper

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-11-21, 15:15

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Updated some of my games with new or updated ports for Win32 (Win9x/XP and newer) for the Win32 Jam Autumn 2024 on Itch.io (shameless plug!): Loonies now has a build for Win9x (using SDL 1.2) and WinXP (using SDL 2.0), it uses OpenGL 1.1 chro.mono 2 now has a Windows build, for WinXP (using SDL 2.0) …

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Re: Can’t run Simon the Sorcerer

Posted on 2024-11-14, 18:54

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ScummVM supports the game, which might be a viable alternative on a Win98 build.

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Re: Would using screenshots of old games and applications in a collection of art be a violation of copyright?

Posted on 2024-11-13, 14:56

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ask Bitmap Books, they publish coffee table books with artwork from old games all the time: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/

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Re: USB-Stick Boot with USBFDD or USBCD options possible?

Posted on 2024-11-10, 08:08

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Alternatively, a Raspberry Pi Zero can emulate a USB FDD or CDROM via the Mass Storage Gadget driver: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.9/usb/mass-storage.html

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-11-08, 12:42

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Collected some accessories that I had in storage for that ISA SB16 that I'm going to be parting ways with, as the DOS era will be covered via DOSBox-X/86Box for me going forward. interesting, just tried dosbox-x and main>quick launch program tyrian.exe in win10, seems a bit off but loads up Yeah, I …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-11-07, 06:58

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Collected some accessories that I had in storage for that ISA SB16 that I'm going to be parting ways with, as the DOS era will be covered via DOSBox-X/86Box for me going forward.

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Re: Red Book audio not working on my CT2230

Posted on 2024-11-07, 06:15

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You could also try booting a live Linux CD (that loads completely into RAM) or a live Linux USB and see if that can play CD-Audio (make sure it uses analog playback and not digital extraction, which would work without the audio cable). Then, also cross-check with a different CD-ROM drive to exclude …

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Re: Red Book audio not working on my CT2230

Posted on 2024-11-05, 11:50

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Things to try: - Use a different CD-ROM driver - Use MSCDEX instead of SHSUCDX - Make sure the mixer has CD-ROM unmuted

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Re: new dos games! (in development)

Posted on 2024-10-31, 17:58

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doscore wrote on 2021-01-01, 10:25: well its a bit of fun and no body has really made a full dos game release in over 20 years 🤣 There have been a few 😀 DOS Game Jam Demo Disc 2023

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-10-23, 15:28

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Had a look at why my K7S5A locked up during gameplay. Didn't fix the issue at 133/133, but it's stable at 100/100 FSB/CPU base clock, and that's probably good enough for now (and seems stable for prolonged periods of gameplay). As a side effect of playing around with different settings and trying to …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-10-14, 13:22

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Falcosoft wrote on 2024-10-14, 11:51: BTW, here is a proof of concept video about how SBEMU works without JEMMEX and QPIEMU.DLL. The config only uses HIMEMX and as you can see/hear DUKE3D works perfectly: https://youtu.be/s8rRUNDbuQQ Duke3D is a protected mode game. Jemmex/QPIEMU is only needed for …

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Re: RoidRage | AMD K6-2 550MHz Project

Posted on 2024-10-14, 06:51

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You can modify a toggle switch to be a momentary switch. There‘s a small piece of metal in the switch that hooks the switch in place, and if you remove it, you turned your AT style switch (latching) into an ATX style switch (momentary). Might be worth a shot to avoid buying a small piece of …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-10-09, 06:02

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Hey all, so when SBEMU is loaded all games FREEZE. I am running FreeDOS 1.3 and the games I am trying are the games installed form either the FreeDOS 1.3 install CD or Bonus CD. I have tried BOOM, FREEDOOM, WING, and QTETRIS: none will start, starting freezes/hangs. Sometimes I can ctrl-alt-delete …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-10-06, 20:02

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Can't get audio at all under Windows 10 with the RV630 (Radeon HD2600XT) so can't even test SBemu but I did notice SBemu code has support for RV630 as {"ATI RV630", 0x1002, 0xaa08, AZX_DRIVER_ATIHDMI } but the actual card under Windows10 reports hardware IDs different - HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_1002&DEV …

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