Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2013-08-31, 00:24

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by Stiletto

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I think writing a DDraw wrapper is not a work of 5 minutes, but since I realized that a DDraw component would have another use than just enabling OGL wrapping, I'm getting thinking about developing it. ... If I treat dgVoodoo as a graphic driver, it could be augmented with a DDraw component. But …

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Re: POD Arcade with prototype dual Voodoo Graphics card

Posted on 2013-08-30, 18:51

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by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here's the precise quote... There were at least two 3dfx prototype cards at Ubi Soft that could run the special executatble made especially with a special SDK given by 3dfx... Well all of this seems very "special", but at that time, the 3dfx development team was completly associated with the POD …

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Re: POD Arcade with prototype dual Voodoo Graphics card

Posted on 2013-08-30, 18:38

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

These cards were each effectively two 4 MB Voodoo Graphics ("Voodoo 1") cards on one PCI card, giving a total of 8 MB of VRAM and two GPUs. Sounds like the Obsidian SB100 cards? Or am I missing something? http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/q3d_obsidian.htm Agreed, but according to this guy's …

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Re: SoftMPU 1.6 - Software Intelligent MPU-401 Emulator

Posted on 2013-08-30, 14:29

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by Stiletto

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Added support for the 2nd most popular DOS memory manager at such short notice...? I missed the preceeding drumbeat somehow :) Well, the drumming was coming from elianda: drumbeat: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=314831#p314831 drumbeat: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=315028#p315028 …

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Re: Whiplash/Fatal Racing config

Posted on 2013-08-30, 14:17

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by Stiletto

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

1. No. The game is using statically linked glide and is working only with a real Voodoo1 or Voodoo2. 2. More raw processor power. Because glide for this game is emulated by CPU only. 25 FPS? Are you sure there is no in-game FPS limiter in Whiplash? I found this a little confusing to read, so a re- …

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POD Arcade with prototype dual Voodoo Graphics card

Posted on 2013-08-29, 21:36

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by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Decided to publish the results of an old interview today: http://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=POD_Arcade There was a throwaway line I hadn't quite noticed at first, I'll point it out for swaaye: Ubisoft received two prototype 3Dfx cards during development (with a special version of the …

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Re: Windows 3.11 - grab an IP address, how?

Posted on 2013-08-29, 16:03

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by Stiletto

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I know that to get Win7 talking to 9x/NT4 over domains I had to lower some security in Win7 policies... Been a while tho. Not necessarily related to workgroups.

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Re: ISA sound cards redux

Posted on 2013-08-28, 20:47

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, I found it in the Internet archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20010304034627/http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/home/jwittema/awe/awe.html . But it might need the old AWE OSS driver and may not work with ALSA. Hah, okay, good enough, thanks. :) Off-Topic: This jogged my memory. I have the binaries …

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Re: ISA sound cards redux

Posted on 2013-08-28, 18:07

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by Stiletto

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pyrogx wrote: Okay, I found it in the Internet archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20010304034627/htt … ma/awe/awe.html. But it might need the old AWE OSS driver and may not work with ALSA. Hah, okay, good enough, thanks. 😀

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Re: It's been 17 years. Has someone discovered the secrets of Synnergist?

Posted on 2013-08-28, 17:08

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by Stiletto

in Milliways

in Milliways

I know a guy who knows a guy at VV. We'll push it up the food chain to see what they remember, but no promises. 😉

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Re: ISA sound cards redux

Posted on 2013-08-28, 14:25

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bristlehog wrote: Why vanished? I know such a program that is a part of AWE32 Developer's Information Package (ADIP). You can obtain ADIP here: http://www.phatcode.net/articles.php?id=244 Run \dos\demo\demo.exe. The question was about _Linux_ software... sorry, it's not obvious because I quoted out …

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Re: ISA sound cards redux

Posted on 2013-08-28, 12:59

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pyrogx wrote: There even was a small program that allowed for the wave playback on the EMU8k synth, but it seems to have vanished from the web Any more information about it - author, name, former whereabouts? 😀

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Re: Web browsing on 3.11 = NIGHTMARE

Posted on 2013-08-28, 02:24

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by Stiletto

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in Windows

I love it when old 90s sites are still intact and up. Brings me really back in time. One case I knew of was the Final Fantasy VII site, it was up just until that stupid rerelease they did recently. ...at least the PAL region one for FFVIII is still up. Until they decide to bastardize this one on …

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Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?

Posted on 2013-08-25, 00:05

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by Stiletto

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in Windows

Okay, I didn't think it'd come to this, but I think I'll lock this.

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Re: Looking for shareware compilation discs. (CD or Floppy)

Posted on 2013-08-24, 15:41

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by Stiletto

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The one time my family ordered shareware compilation disks, they were floppy disks from an outfit called Software Labs (in Culver City, CA). They were not compilation, they were one (or two) disks per application/game. Still, they were cheap enough we ordered 30 or so. I still have most of the disks …

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Re: "That man is playing Galaga... well, he's playing a YouTube video of the MSX port..."

Posted on 2013-08-24, 02:38

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by Stiletto

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Considering the line was an improv by RDJ... yeah, scrambling to find a video isn't totally unexpected 😀

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"That man is playing Galaga... well, he's playing a YouTube video of the MSX port..."

Posted on 2013-08-24, 01:54

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by Stiletto

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As it turns out, in "The Avengers"... it was the MSX port of Galaga. (I'm sure some of you never heard of the MSX) ... and they copied a YouTube video at that. As I'm sure you guessed, I knew all along it wasn't the real Galaga and I could tell it was gonna be some weird port. Hadn't figured on the …

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Re: The Wrapper Collection Project

Posted on 2013-08-23, 19:26

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by Stiletto

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in PC Emulation

DosFreak wrote: Found this website http://www.alex-ionescu.com/?p=40 which mentions a unreleased utility that can dump the hidden shims. Need to contact this guy. Found in the backlinks: http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/02/22/t … -shim-database/

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Re: Looking for shareware compilation discs. (CD or Floppy)

Posted on 2013-08-23, 04:02

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by Stiletto

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DracoNihil wrote: It might take alot of time, and I hope this is the right place for this For the long haul I thought "..not really..." and moved it here instead. Apologies.

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Re: Vogons: confusing sub-forums

Posted on 2013-08-23, 03:34

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by Stiletto

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Eddie, the Shipboard Computer - PC: Emulation of old PCs, PC hardware, or PC peripherals. Eddie, the Shipboard Computer - Macintosh: Emulation of old Macintoshes, Mac hardware, or Mac peripherals. Heart of Gold - Marvin: Discussion about old PC hardware and Retro PCs Heart of Gold - System Specs: …

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