Super Trace VESA Benchmark

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As part of the currently-running DOS Games Jam June 2023 Edition I decided to create a new DOS benchmarking tool for VESA cards (as a fallback it also support VGA). It really benchmarks the CPU more than the video card, though, but it might be interesting to see if there are any differences between …

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Re: New game: Loonies 8192 (386+, VGA, OPL-2)

Posted on 2023-06-01, 09:23

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New ports just dropped : PS2 GameCube Wii Windows 3.11 The last one might be the most interesting to Vogons members. While there is a 16-bit DOS port (using Borland C++) and a 32-bit DOS port (using DJGPP), this adds two ports using OpenWatcom, and an alternative way of OPL FM Synth on compatible …

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Re: Yet another 486 DX4-100 build

Posted on 2023-05-29, 17:44

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Ha, just randomly google searched for "Targa AT case" and of course somebody on Vogons did a build eventually. Our first computer was the same Targa AT case model, glad that are still some out there (ours got trashed years ago eventually after rusting in storage for too long).

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Re: New DOS EGA / VGA / VESA / Glide game in 2021: Dzzee (now also with Win32 OpenGL/Glide version)

Posted on 2023-04-21, 09:01

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Talking about the itch.io release of the game, there's now a new Nintendo DS Homebrew port available.

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Re: New DOS EGA / VGA / VESA / Glide game in 2021: Dzzee (now also with Win32 OpenGL/Glide version)

Posted on 2023-04-11, 08:52

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I'm slightly confused, the game is now sold from the author's page at $5.00: https://thp.itch.io/dzzee Are the older free downloads still legit? The itch.io build gets you a modern Windows build (32- and 64-bit), 3DS and Vita versions as well as the retro (DOS, Windows Glide) version, and any …

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Re: DirectX compatibility?

Posted on 2022-10-22, 14:00

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A bit late to this thread, but the Falconfly page has quite a few DX versions for download, including a handy OS compatibility matrix (this also includes date-based releases of DX 9.0c): http://falconfly.vogonswiki.com/directx.html

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Re: MS Sidewinder Gamepad in MS DOS

Posted on 2022-10-15, 06:20

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Were you able to make it work in DOS even with 4 buttons only? I tried using SDWRGMPD and it never works for me (the testing program works fine, but none of my games can detect it). Do you know of any games that work with that driver? Looking at the SDWRGMPD documentation, it seems to work by …

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Re: You Be At Orbit - New (2022) DOS space shooter - VGA Mode X / Sound Blaster / Mouse

Posted on 2022-09-28, 11:53

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New version "v2", which speeds up loading and fixes Sound Blaster-related issues. CHANGELOG --------- v2 (2022-09-28) - Faster loading (custom VM now has a bytecode representation) - Smaller executable (not linking in debugger and scripting parser) - New Sound Blaster DMA code (based on code by …

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Re: You Be At Orbit - New (2022) DOS space shooter - VGA Mode X / Sound Blaster / Mouse

Posted on 2022-09-15, 06:43

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Would it be possible to run this on a sub-Pentium processor, if it could be configured to run in a low-detail mode? I haven't done performance measurements, so I'm not sure what the current bottleneck is (rasterization or some other part). The game is written in a small VM/interpreter I've written …

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Re: You Be At Orbit - New (2022) DOS space shooter - VGA Mode X / Sound Blaster / Mouse

Posted on 2022-09-11, 21:44

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If you want to see the game played on a CRT monitor... LGR played the game on a recent YouTube video, direct link with timestamp here: https://youtu.be/cZ_CEJMOPQw?t=1032 (at the 17:12 mark)

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Re: Graphics cards with broken Mode X support (bottom 40px cropped)

Posted on 2022-09-07, 17:52

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I did some tests with these settings: ... I don't know if these tests will be helpful.. Thanks! Seems like all your cards support Mode X properly. Interestingly, some cards have broken fonts. I haven't checked if VGATEST reads font data from the VGA font ROM or how it does it, maybe that's just …

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Graphics cards with broken Mode X support (bottom 40px cropped)

Posted on 2022-09-05, 07:44

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I noticed this week that some VGA chipsets seem to have a problem outputting the 320x240 resolution of VGA Mode X (tweaked mode 0x13) and display the mode as 320x200 instead, cutting off the bottom 40 pixel rows. In my case, a "VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP" seems to have this bug. With the same monitor …

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Re: You Be At Orbit - New (2022) DOS space shooter - VGA Mode X / Sound Blaster / Mouse

Posted on 2022-09-02, 09:14

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This is pretty fantastic! Love the smooth zooming/turning mechanics - I suppose most of the in-game visuals are rasterized vectors? Thanks :) Yes, the projectiles, enemies and explosion shards are all rasterized lines. Even the enemy "circles" are built out of a bunch of lines. The output …

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You Be At Orbit - New (2022) DOS space shooter - VGA Mode X / Sound Blaster / Mouse

Posted on 2022-09-01, 10:55

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For the August DOS game jam on Itch, I finalized and polished a new game, "You Be At Orbit" a simple space shooter controlled with keyboard and mouse. Send pics if you run it on your retro battle station! Requires a relatively fast computer (Pentium or newer recommended), VGA and Sound Blaster …

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Re: New game: Loonies 8192 (386+, VGA, OPL-2)

Posted on 2021-12-23, 21:09

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An enhanced port, "Loonies (2021)" with a new soundtrack and new artwork is now available on Itch.io: https://thp.itch.io/loonies

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Re: New DOS Glide / VGA / VESA game in 2021: Dzzee

Posted on 2021-10-18, 04:22

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Ostensibly speaking as a project manager for the old OpenGlide Glide wrapper, and having communicated with Glidos (OpenGlide), Dege (dgVoodoo2 and ye olde dgVoodoo), and Zeus (nGlide) frequently in the past, I am sure we'd all be interested in what can be done to bring things in line with actual …

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Re: New DOS EGA / VGA / VESA / Glide game in 2021: Dzzee (now also with Win32 OpenGL/Glide version)

Posted on 2021-10-17, 15:33

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In related news, homebrew ports to 3DS and Vita as well as a "modern" Windows version utilizing OpenGL and SDL2 are now available on Itch.io too: https://thp.itch.io/dzzee (the "retro" build is the same as the version available here).

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Re: New DOS EGA / VGA / VESA / Glide game in 2021: Dzzee (now also with Win32 OpenGL/Glide version)

Posted on 2021-10-17, 15:31

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I know that this is final build, but I've noticed that the sound quality with the DOS 3Dfx version is not on par with the other ones having some annoying clicks when playing samples. Besides this, could be possible to add 800x600 and 1024x768 (for those using SLI on Voodoo2 cards) resolutions on …

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Re: New DOS Glide / VGA / VESA game in 2021: Dzzee

Posted on 2021-10-15, 18:19

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Here's the final build. As the behavior of real hardware vs Glide Wrappers (PCem/DOSBox-X/nGlide) was different, I actually got myself a Voodoo Graphics board this week to test it myself, and it works at 60 FPS on my K6-II 500 MHz. Download below. Screenshots: Screenshot 2021-10-15 at 20.13.58.png …

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

Posted on 2021-10-15, 17:08

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I bought a Voodoo Graphics card again recently for development/testing purposes (finally figured out that Glide2x needs to have its vertex positions snapped to multiples of 0.0625 units, so it doesn't lock up -- obviously didn't happen with any Glide Wrappers or Emulation), but since it didn't come …

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