Re: Can I change my username?
Posted on 2015-09-05, 02:21
Re: LCD monitors that support VGA hacks/tweakmodes
Posted on 2015-09-04, 21:36
I have put together a small suite of utilities (mostly above) that can be loaded on a suitable VGA-supporting machine as a test bank. Is anyone is interested in contributing to a 'monitor compatibility database?' If so I'll upload this somewhere and post a few I've tested to start us off. (I've …
Re: What are the best console emulators out there?
Posted on 2015-09-04, 19:21
That "non-mess" link that Stiletto provided is really good one for this topic btw. http://nonmame.retrogames.com/ It links to MAME now because MAME and MESS were merged together back in May (I always wondered if they'd ever do that). Not only am I a forum moderator and founder here at VOGONS, but …
Re: Dumb things you've done (or have seen someone else do) on a computer
Posted on 2015-09-04, 19:16
After reboot, it never POSTed again, nor could I get any sort of BIOS recovery to work. Oh God that sinking feeling you must have had is like no other -ruining someone else's gear... right there in front of them! Your face must have been on fire! I'm surprised you weren't sick. I don't remember …
Re: Could any French speakers here please come in help interpret the following words for me?
Posted on 2015-09-04, 05:03
French, you mean, not Spanish. Fixed the title for you. ("cote" and "ouest" were the tipoffs for me, plus "suivant". Plus the Github description is all in French.) Here's what Google Translate says: https://translate.google.com/#fr/en/c%C3%B4t%C3%A9%0Acot%C3%A9%20oppos%C3%A9%0Aquad-n%C5%93ud% …
Re: Dumb things you've done (or have seen someone else do) on a computer
Posted on 2015-09-04, 04:26
I worked for 5.5 years for a local mom&pop chain of computer stores (now out of business) starting as a tech guy about a year after this forum started, plus another several years as an IT sysadmin, so I'm pretty sure I've seen it all. However, the ones that scarred me for life have mostly to do with …
Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?
Posted on 2015-09-04, 03:42
its too bad the original poster chose to use photobucket instead of just attaching the original pic as a file attachment on the vogons site itself! cant see a pic of what he was talking about To be fair, attaching photos on VOGONS was (what I consider) broken for a period of several months, um, …
Re: IPX over TCP/IP in Win95 through DosBox - possible?
Posted on 2015-09-04, 03:36
Moved. 😀
Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?
Posted on 2015-09-03, 17:22
Cleaned up the thread a bit. Graphics related, on page 1 of this thread I reuploaded the Real3D R3D/100 card photo I had archived from the former website of the graphics card collection of Timber / [EOCF] Tim (I don'r own the card). His old ImageShack album has gone offline. If anyone else snagged …
Re: AWE32 IRQ Questions
Posted on 2015-09-03, 16:25
Yeahhh there's an informal rule about thread bumping (try not to bump more than two-three years old or else some moderators (me) get snippy), Chris please try to start a new thread in the future. 😀
Re: Fun project: Web MIDI player that also does LAPC/MT-32
Posted on 2015-09-03, 02:44
Suggestion: Also add MOD file tracker playback (and all the accompanying formats)? 😁 [EDIT] Tested it out, took a spin through the interface, played CANYON.MID. This is a pretty sweet project. 😀
Re: Any of you on Windows 10?
Posted on 2015-09-02, 17:00
Windows 10 has killed SecuROM and SafeDisc DRM On the one hand, let's party on down. On the other hand, way more compatibility fixes now need mentioning at PCGamingWiki and Vogons: The Guide->Windows and the like. 😁
Re: Glide patch
Posted on 2015-08-30, 21:18
Can't remember if this patch can also hook glide.ovl (dgVoodoo 1.x can...) Interesting, I just found evidence of a prebuilt Glide3x.ovl. It's included with Quantum3D Obsidian2 90/200SB V5P (Professional Series Boards) - DirectX5 Driver, Release 5P and Quantum3D Obsidian2 90/200SB V5.1P (Professional …
Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11
Posted on 2015-08-30, 21:16
I think this has been asked already but will any of the previous dgVoodoo 1 features ever return for dgVoodoo 2? Or are they just too old? - 32-bit NTVDM support from glide.ovl / glide2x.ovl / glide3x(?).ovl to Glide.dll / Glide2x.dll / Glide3x.dll - dgvesa - others? Or else will it be possible to …
Re: Quake2 + Acebot for DOSBox (128mb)
Posted on 2015-08-30, 21:15
No problem, I just find wrapper development interesting. :) I mentioned Watcom, because most games compiled that way end up using glide2x.ovl (Finding glide3x.ovl prebuilt, it seems, is exceptionally rare) and for glide.ovl/glide2x.ovl there are already a wrapper patch for use with DOSBox (or if you …
Re: Quake2 + Acebot for DOSBox (128mb)
Posted on 2015-08-30, 20:37
Maraakate wrote: IMO, theres really no purpose to emulating it. It looks basically the same as ref_gl in Windows. It's using the same code, just fxMesa is the interface to OpenGL. I know, I just like there to be more wrappers in the world, and this provides a testcase. 😀
Re: Quake2 + Acebot for DOSBox (128mb)
Posted on 2015-08-30, 20:35
Maraakate wrote: the glide3x.dxe is directly from the glide3 source code. But in any case, no. Ah, so instead wrapper authors need to figure out how to wrap/intercept glide3x.dxe? Okay.
Re: Quake2 + Acebot for DOSBox (128mb)
Posted on 2015-08-30, 20:26
Can Q2DOS-3dfx be compiled with OpenWatcom so that glide2x.ovl dependency can be used, and thus improved compatibility with Glide wrappers? **Note: I don't 100% know what I'm talking about here...
Re: Is this the possibility of a Power VR SGL Wrapper?
Posted on 2015-08-30, 18:34
Any news. Tuxality? 😀
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-08-30, 17:47
I'm starting to archive a variety of online FTP sites that contain drivers/programs/BIOS/firmware/etc. I went to a site that had a ton of Packard Bell stuff last year (motherboard schematics, etc), and now its not online. I'm sure its mirrored somewhere else, but I figured with my business internet …
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