Re: 3D accelerated console games with software only PC version

Posted on 2023-11-30, 09:10

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by elszgensa

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

How about Doom? Not sure about the 3DO, that might've been just ye ole software renderer - but the PS1 version even did colored lights, and the SNES one included a SuperFX chip to give the console enough (...well, barely) oomph.

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Re: Modern IDE to develop Win 3.11 / 9x GUI C++ software with VM integration

Posted on 2023-11-20, 19:09

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by elszgensa

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Watched your video, didn't try the actual software yet. You're saying "DOSBox-X acts like a debugger" but it looks like your "Debug" button is basically just "'Run' but in an emulator", i.e. no attaching to process, single stepping, viewing/editing of variables etc (you know, actual debugging )? Is …

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Re: Does anyone know of any Virtual CD/DVD software that used VXD drivers in Win98?

Posted on 2023-11-18, 09:30

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I know of one but have no idea about the status of its audio support, i.e. whether it would fit your use case: "Virtual CD-ROM" by Logicraft, later bought out by Microtest and renamed to "Virtual CD".

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Re: Writing DOS device drivers in C

Posted on 2023-11-14, 05:23

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

shcdx86.com?

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Re: DosView

Posted on 2023-11-12, 19:35

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by elszgensa

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Sounds useful, thank you. Still stumbled upon a bug tough. I recommend adding a couple portrait mode pictures to your test set, zooming/panning doesn't seem to work right for those. Instead they draw correctly at first but seem to get locked to fit-to-screen afterwards. I also encountered this …

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Re: Which IDE CD drive is best suited for reading burned CDs on old PCs?

Posted on 2023-11-10, 04:18

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

> read a wide range of blank CDs There's your problem, there's nothing to read in the first place! /s Seriously though, the only type of discs that I consistently had issues with were CD-RWs (which need a much better laser) so if you happen to be using those then try non-rewriteable ones instead. If …

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Re: Software to rip CD and Floppy Images?

Posted on 2023-11-06, 21:20

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

In case some of your media do have copy protection: Alcohol 120% (and a decent drive) for optical discs. If you have a machine with XP or earlier to rip on then you can even grab their free "retro edition". And for floppies there's hardware devices, e.g. Kryoflux or Greaseweazle.

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Re: My experience with a KingSpec IDE SSD

Posted on 2023-11-02, 20:57

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fwiw I've used several of their SATA- and mSATA devices, some of them with (usually mSATA-to-)IDE adapters in older machines, and don't recall having any more (or less) issues than with other SSD brands. Maybe the onboard IDE interfacing solution they're using isn't the best? Or maybe you just got a …

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Re: mobygames new interface

Posted on 2023-10-03, 16:03

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by elszgensa

in Milliways

in Milliways

My previous post here apparently contained too much of an opinion and got deleted, so I'll just neutrally state that Mobygames now has a paid user rank (MobyPro) with a slightly different feature set. Make of that what you will.

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Re: Laptop for XP Gaming

Posted on 2023-10-03, 12:26

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

At a glance, they seem to be decent options, if a bit pricey imho. I'll assume you have looked into driver availability by yourself? One thing I would like to point out is that quite a few of the earlier XP games (the XP era is a looong one) are from that awkward phase were the resolution could not …

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Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on 2023-10-03, 11:46

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

because of the ramdisk being mapped to D: Alright, now where the fRAINBOWS AND UNICORNSk did this ramdisk come from all of a sudden? Please show the contents (directory listing) of your boot disk when you can - I don't remember ever seeing a(n untouched) MS boot floppy create any ram drives. Yours …

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Re: Is there a patch for 3D Windows XP.scr Screen Saver to work on new OSes?

Posted on 2023-10-03, 11:15

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I'm not set up to test this right now, so this is completely blind, but... Assuming your .scr file is 1634304 bytes, open it in a hex editor, go to offset 0x4827 and change it from 0x74 to 0xeb. That should ignore the result of the OS check at least. Other thing may still be broken later on, no idea …

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Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on 2023-10-03, 10:24

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Your CD drive jumps from being jumpered as CS, to slave, back to CS between posts. Which is it? Since the CF is master it should be set to slave. Imho this (explicit jumpering) is always the preferred option. Or you could set both to CS, and let the drives(' position on the cable) decide. But do not …

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Re: Roland RA-50, RA-90 and RA-95 doubts about purchase or not

Posted on 2023-10-02, 19:58

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

No, that message should only show up in "MT-32 mode".

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Re: Hexen II (Software mode) Dark Screen ---> -width 800 -height 600 -bpp 16 has not effect!

Posted on 2023-09-28, 18:20

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

> What does -dibonly do? Short answer: Set the dibonly variable to true . Longer answer: It skips trying to initalize and probe various bits of video hardware. If you want to look deeper into this then you could also try -nowindirect and/or -nodirectdraw instead, that would then run different parts …

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Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on 2023-09-28, 12:13

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

> If anyone can personally vouch for links Not gonna happen on these forums. You're supposed to use what's in the box that you legally bought; if necessary build your own bootable disc from it (pretty easy to do using mkisofs's '-eltorito-boot' option). If you want to pirate stuff then you better …

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Re: Having Trouble With Recovery Software

Posted on 2023-09-28, 10:07

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, hi, how you doin'? Bumping a thread does not magically spawn knowledgeable people out of thin air.

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Re: C&C Renegade crashes on Windows 98SE

Posted on 2023-09-26, 16:33

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by elszgensa

in Windows

in Windows

Well at least that's a proper error message, as opposed to C&C:R's page faulting with zero info regarding the cause.

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Re: Old pc keeps switching off during boot

Posted on 2023-09-25, 21:05

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by elszgensa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

> I have previously tried cloning the drive So you already have a backup? That's good. If not, make one ASAP. > but the software just won’t work in the emulator. Well, if that proggie is all you need then imho virtualizing it (and then possibly migrating the data to a later version that runs …

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Re: eDuke32 for Win95

Posted on 2023-09-25, 16:41

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by elszgensa

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

What CPU you got in there? Mingw32(-generated binaries) may use instructions not present on the low end of processors supported by Win95. OP wrote "Pentium arch" but most toolchains I see around seem to be i686 (i.e. Pentium Pro), so make sure you have at least that.

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