Re: Getting on Half-Life Multiplayer Servers
Posted on 2016-09-24, 00:19
Counter-Strike Retail and Blue Shift keys will grant the same thing (kind of a consolation for the last one given how gouged it was in 2001)
Re: ATTN: 3dfxers with VGA capture and Q3
Posted on 2016-09-23, 10:51
Certain. On high gamma situations on a real CRT you can notice some blurry streaks towards the right if you look hard enough, and it also tells me i need to have more precision to use in my shader and have less hard caps and something exponential
Re: The SB AWE64 advantages???
Posted on 2016-09-23, 08:26
Considering the context of the AWE32/64 in the market and the stigma of FM sound with the evolving wavetable technology being the focus then (along with the growing sitgma of blocky lowres graphics), the cards aren't the worst thing ever and hanging note/having OPL3 or not wasn't a huge consumer …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-23, 05:39
I recently reaccustomed to the dither painting in PSP5. surely there must be a better modern solution but this works for now. This is more or less the art style with the video modes I had in mind (she's slightly squished for 640x400) fatelfff.png or the 640x200 PC88->EGA translation job kind …
Re: help finding the name of a game.
Posted on 2016-09-23, 05:36
Re: Worst cpus and worst computer builds
Posted on 2016-09-23, 05:23
A VIA SS7 + WinChip with a PowerVR PCX1 and a Rush and a bad WSS should be interesting. Even better with unpatched Windows ME on top. That way, you get all API (that are popular) support, CPU features (MMX+3DNow) support, and it's all bad hardware!
Re: Hercules' 3D Prophet 4500 DirectX Version?
Posted on 2016-09-22, 22:52
There are a lot of D3D games as late as 2000 that are stuck in 16-bit color.
Re: Hercules' 3D Prophet 4500 DirectX Version?
Posted on 2016-09-22, 21:31
It does have a texture filter precision issue though. Some extremely stretched out textures may jitter and get blocky, which can happen in many 96-98 games, like on big blurry terrain for example
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-09-22, 21:22
Re: Hercules' 3D Prophet 4500 DirectX Version?
Posted on 2016-09-22, 06:35
If you want 8.1 FEATURE support (pixel shading et al) head for a Radeon 8500 or a Geforce4 Ti at the least. If you want 8.1 API support, Kyro 2 will be fine. Note that the software T&L wasn't implemented until a 2003+ driver. It was popular to have 3danalyze running with some games to start with the …
Re: The SB AWE64 advantages???
Posted on 2016-09-21, 23:10
The noise floor is very much definitely reduced from that of the AWE32/SB32 for sure, so it will definitely sound better. It still doesn't have OPL3 though
Re: Most reliable hardware eras?
Posted on 2016-09-21, 22:34
The one without Super Socket 7, capacitor plague, ISA sound cards and leaky batteries.
Re: What happened to software rendering?
Posted on 2016-09-19, 00:57
Everything got 3d, and programming a software renderer that kept up with the evolution of realtime hardware 3d graphics would be a huge burden of human resources, especially since Abrash was much harder to get a hold of and it's not very trivial to find software rendering assembly geniuses in the …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-18, 23:04
There's plenty of good EGA pixel art by Surt to prototype with as well. Also how are the real-mode tile limits for a 640x200x4 / 640x400x4 game?
Re: Win32diskimager + USB Floppy drive= BOOM!
Posted on 2016-09-18, 22:46
Re: Looking for a old MS-DOS arcade shooter.
Posted on 2016-09-18, 22:25
this should answer that concern ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ ³ ³ - Cosmic Ambush - ³ ³ ³ ³ Copyright (C) 1996 by Shades of Evolution ³ ³ ³ ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´ ³ ³ ³ This game is freeware. …
Re: Looking for a old MS-DOS arcade shooter.
Posted on 2016-09-18, 22:17
Hunting for a zip right now i've tested this exposed on some Microforum 1000 games/"Encyclopedia of Games" thing where it was just shoved in a 4-digit 1018 directory. CA.EXE and COSMIC.UFS are significant filenames Don't forget you can add a forward slash to iso filenames on ia to get a file listing …
Re: Looking for a old MS-DOS arcade shooter.
Posted on 2016-09-18, 22:13
Re: What Was The Purpose of the IE4 Channel Bar In Windows 95 and 98
Posted on 2016-09-18, 00:38
Re: Listing games that work below OS or system requirements
Posted on 2016-09-18, 00:02
Doom3 requires a Geforce4MX supported minimum (Carmack targeted this for its then ubiquitousness) but you can fly it on a GF256/GF2 just fine.
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