Re: Cows are cool. :)
Posted on 2019-10-18, 02:45
You can give Gateway a break for being based in Iowa (a very cow state) though.
Re: Sound effects and MIDI work, but no DOS games can produce traditional "soundblaster" music (running within Windows ME)
Posted on 2019-10-17, 04:50
The cards are good for old titles supporting SoundScape or some Amiga MOD trackers, maybe. ES1371-3 loses some of that Soundscape support. Roughly the difference between ES1370 and ES1371 are big changes for AC'97 compliance (like going from 44k to 48k native), and increasing Creative interference …
Re: Trying to run Half-Life 1 w/ Voodoo2's using MesaFX
Posted on 2019-10-17, 02:39
Either it's a steam repack (V1/V2's weren't in vogue in 2004, so 3dfx MiniGL's gone) or your pirate friend forgot that gldrv/ folder (which would contain a 3dfxgl.dll 1.45 MiniGL and a drvmap.txt file to point to this) It's certainly no early version.
Re: We Need to Preserve the Vanilla Quake Experience for Modern Systems
Posted on 2019-10-16, 23:24
Well neither does running it natively, it's why it has that MPATH interfacing for q95.bat to give it TCP/IP. neozeed once made WattTCP DOS Quake ports to alleviate this issue under DOS. For DOSBox, have a build with the network passthrough patch and it should work.
Re: We Need to Preserve the Vanilla Quake Experience for Modern Systems
Posted on 2019-10-15, 22:46
Winquake is a vanilla quake too and did support 320x200/640x400. Often those modes don't show up on modern video card drivers, but some do still have them (Intel HD for example) and this aspect ratio stuff... stock quake always strictly calculated a 320x240 4:3 aspect FOV, and sure quake's software …
Re: S3D GLQuake - any real value in it?
Posted on 2019-10-15, 22:36
S3D's GLQuake MiniGL used the S3D Toolkit library.
Re: Anyone have a seemingly working harddrive fail on wake up?
Posted on 2019-10-13, 03:13
On instinct I would think this is a firmware issue. I know that's spontaneously occured on a certain infamous line of Barracudas (not the usual mechanical failure)... can't help beyond that.
Re: win9x demoscene : Upgrade your Windows version.
Posted on 2019-10-11, 01:02
Even cracktros for Win9x games held back to DOS for a long while as well
Re: Why is Win 9x compatibility/emulation so difficult?
Posted on 2019-10-08, 02:37
@leileilol You have your right of choice and so do I. :happy: And, I did not mention Glide pass-through at all for DOSBox Direct3D acceleration if you are not aware that DOSBox has Voodoo chip emulation that run with real 3Dfx Win9x driver from Diamond Monster3D and that means acceleration for …
Re: S3D GLQuake - any real value in it?
Posted on 2019-10-07, 03:46
Not every CPU is a Pentium that can take advantage of the 2x span routines. 😀 In better context, this would make more sense in a trashy lower-end Cyrix6x86 system that'd likely suffer with a Virge in '97...
Re: Why is Win 9x compatibility/emulation so difficult?
Posted on 2019-10-07, 01:53
DOSBox is another good and near perfect Windows 98 emulator from my point of view. Its Voodoo chip emulation, though not quite perfect, provides decent acceleration for legacy Direct3D games that fall under the misery of Direct3D APIs immaturity during DX3 to DX5. no (also any concept of glide …
Re: S3D GLQuake - any real value in it?
Posted on 2019-10-06, 23:33
feipoa wrote: Why would there be an S3 Quake minigl if it is slower than software mode? Don't underestimate the early marketing behind bilinear filtering...
Re: Canyon (and all other MIDIs) absent from Windows 95
Posted on 2019-10-06, 00:26
Did you do a compact install? They should be the Multimedia>Sample Sounds checkbox in Add/Remove Programs>Windows setup
Re: How important are 8-bit Palleted Textures for using Win98 and nGlide (need to choose best video card)
Posted on 2019-10-04, 23:07
For starters, a lot of the major paletted games are UnrealEngine1 based. Any images are required to be a paletted texture as there's no other supported texture format (Besides DXT1 for the s3holes)
Re: AWE64 Gold Package Contents
Posted on 2019-10-04, 00:05
Thermalwrong wrote: it needs a Pentium 90! That requirement is more for the rather useless software WaveSynth driver. AWE64 sans that driver, it'll work fine in a 486.
Re: Quake without FPU
Posted on 2019-10-01, 06:16
I don’t think we’ve hit rock bottom till someone with a 386sx-16 w/ 8mb ram tries. There was once a "quake on 386!!! 4kb ram" video which was an obvious fake one which is simply a pentium+ recording played back slower and the audio was just the Quake2 soundtrack. I think it's removed now (it had …
Re: For V2: K6-2 500 or celeron 500 ?
Posted on 2019-10-01, 00:43
FWIW, 3dfx's 1999-2000 Voodoo2 drivers have 3dnow! optimizations. hint hint hint.
Re: Tech Reads in the early '90s
Posted on 2019-09-30, 01:52
In the US it was Compute! and PC Magazine being a couple of the major ones, and Computer Gaming World also covered plenty of gaming relevant tech in the time as well. Yeah there's a heavy x86 PC bias 😀 though there are times when CGW covered some notable Mac games.
Re: Quake without FPU
Posted on 2019-09-29, 05:52
r_drawflat 1 would be even better 😉
Re: Custom Theming for Windows 98
Posted on 2019-09-25, 00:38
Windowblinds was the big popular corporately corrupted one, providing Whistler/XP skins to Win9X back in 2001.
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