Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2016-10-16, 10:30
They eventually did have some redundant scaleability in the NAOMI though but that's crossing into Series2 territory....
Re: High res dos gaming - ISA for sound card importan?
Posted on 2016-10-16, 08:17
it's unlikely because Quake had a hard cap for 1280x1024 in resolution enumeration (which could be raised in the source or a hex editing) ISA sound card is important if you wish to play those Build classics without it crashing when you enter water/sewer
Re: Matrox Roundup G200, G400, G400 MAX, G450 and G550
Posted on 2016-10-16, 03:24
For G100's GL I had to resort to a Techland D3D->GL ICD from Crime Cities. from there on I got Q3 to "work". Nothing blends and it looked completely ugly of course, but the speed was playable and the picture was sharp and I can see how sharp all those dithers are :) G100 gameplay can be a guilty …
Re: Unacceptabale OpenGL performance
Posted on 2016-10-15, 23:52
Re: What software to use to test your sound setup?
Posted on 2016-10-15, 23:51
setblaster
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-10-15, 23:06
^double round attempt ignored VileRancour wrote: Hunchback: Borland EGAVGA.BGI Edition 😜 Nope HINT: Female protagonist (which is super rare in the borland bgi canonical universe)
Re: Ran into a problem.
Posted on 2016-10-15, 01:55
Also later versions of Doom fixed some of the windows 3.1 compatibility issues (Though I never played Doom with a mouse)
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-10-15, 01:27
Re: Ultra high resolutions on old school flight sims?
Posted on 2016-10-14, 23:33
Not a sim but CyberBykes did have 1280x1024 support in 1995 😀 The potential was always there, the CPUs weren't though, and games were already struggling to get to 640x480 by that point, being the luxury niche res for a while that the common ISA bus is totally crap for
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-10-14, 23:25
Re: Smacker to Bink wrapper
Posted on 2016-10-14, 09:30
IllidanS4 wrote: so this doesn't go against it. This can be in general applied to any game. you don't read EULAs much do you
Re: Ultra high resolutions on old school flight sims?
Posted on 2016-10-14, 09:25
Also common VBE extensions didn't really have much widescreen resolutiosns specified to begin with, unless you count 320x200/640x400/1280x800 as 16:10. The most old highres game I can think of that applies is Jane's US Navy Fighters and ATF, featuring 1024x768 support (for 1994!)
Re: What does DgVoodoo2 do exactly?
Posted on 2016-10-12, 22:04
c64z80 wrote: Does it translate old Direct3d 5/6/7/8 calls to modern 10/11 ones, so the program runs as DirectX 11? yes
Re: Smacker to Bink wrapper
Posted on 2016-10-12, 22:02
DosFreak wrote: What's the legal status of this game? I'm thinking not legal? Blizzard certainly still owns it and will do takedowns of it no matter how "abandonware" and "unlicensed" it allegedly is. It'd also go against the very footer of every page on this forum
Re: What makes real hardware.. "real"?
Posted on 2016-10-12, 00:03
It's gotta be the DAC, the phosphors, the mechanical clunks, clacks and all the electrical whines you can muster. Also the cramped fingers you have when manually setting a bunch of jumpers in a row nonstop, as well as degunking your mouse ball / wheels and having a novelty cloth pad for them on. …
Re: Warcraft 2 resolution
Posted on 2016-10-11, 12:18
That depends on the monitor and if it has a choice of resampling. I'm guessing the Windows section implies Battle.net edition which is eternally stuck in 640x480 anyway, and maybe directdraw can be wrapped to a wrapper that can handle aspect correct 2D scaling, like DXGL or dgVoodoo2 (never tried …
Re: looking for Puzzle game with cute robot 93-97
Posted on 2016-10-11, 02:11
Re: S3 video card
Posted on 2016-10-10, 23:24
S3 Trio64v should be fine on am5x86, i'd guess it's more of the classic conflict involved if you can't get anything more than VGA. You should be able to get up to 800x600x16/1024x768x8 on a 1mb Trio
Re: A game of spotting THE explosion sprite
Posted on 2016-10-10, 01:07
Defiance has a low res but really smooth and very alpha blended variant. I believe Descent's infamously internet copied explosion is the same fireball but condensed down the middle Eradicator also uses it a lot.
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2016-10-09, 03:57
Usually i've only seen Youtube's age-restricted viewing enabled on videos of a far more sexual nature (i.e. jimsterling's bad ***CENSORED!!!!*** babes/Haydee/etc plays ). EGA toon violence's perfectly far away and safe from this. There's nothing more than a PG-V Itchy and Scratchy bit on network …
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