Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2018-01-22, 19:33
Re: PCbi - a 3D front end for PCem and frankly a retro PC building simulator in general
Posted on 2018-01-22, 18:31
For a 3d format i'd probably recommend IQM - it's open - the blender exporter is competently written (from my experiences with different formats in blender across different versions of blender, this is a huge bullet point) - plenty of sample code and easy, non-bloated integration - it has the bones …
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2018-01-22, 18:23
Re: Video card for K6-2+
Posted on 2018-01-21, 22:27
Given driver bloat and the bad control panels among driver maturity, i'd say on the nvidia side the Geforce4 Ti. Of course, SS7 chipsets may hugely vary on what cards you'll want to run since AGP is such a hit or miss on SS7. A VIA will keep you back at Voodoo3...
Re: SoundBlaster 16 Midi better in Windows 3.1
Posted on 2018-01-20, 01:46
OP's referring to the Voyetra SuperSAPI drivers that were shipped on the original SB16 floppies back then (they were not compatible with Win9X nor NT). It was still OPL3 but are more complex timbres etc. Having SuperSAPI available in a more modern 32-bit form has been a white whale of many here for …
Re: Graphics card for Pentium 4 1.3 GHz
Posted on 2018-01-19, 01:01
Given the dreadful bottleneck, how's a Geforce2MX sound?
Re: Does anyone know where the Gunmetal demo is?
Posted on 2018-01-18, 21:45
I skipped it in the day 2 decades back because it looked unappealing in print ads (tiny screenshots of blocky levels among a generally vague propaganda-like theme with minimal to no information on the game) and I had Quake2 on the brain.
Re: Capturing Accurate Voodoo1 Screenshots
Posted on 2018-01-18, 04:10
The "24bpp mode" is a filter toggle and shouldn't affect framerate at all. The threshold of the filter can also be adjusted so you could make the picture much more blurrier if you'd like. This makes the filter effect even more obivous
Re: Capturing Accurate Voodoo1 Screenshots
Posted on 2018-01-17, 05:50
but the voodoo1 does add purple lines to the screen which gets even more pronounced with higher gamma settings. It's not just those lines either.
Re: Last PC games supporting Windows 9x?
Posted on 2018-01-17, 01:30
chinny22 wrote: Sure did! but that was 2004 Not even 2004 but May 2003. The latest I can think of is Half-Life 2... and that ended around late '05 or 06 (one of the two)
Re: voodoo 2 sli higher res
Posted on 2018-01-16, 21:46
The MiniGL shipped with GLQuake is '97 old and you should replace it with something newer that knows what advances 3dfx had done since. It's easy to copy 3dfxvgl.dll over opengl32.dll in the quake folder.
Re: Capturing Accurate Voodoo1 Screenshots
Posted on 2018-01-16, 21:16
Also related to screenshot accuracy but not the filter, there's also the gamma algorithm the V1+V2 cards use that's a bit incorrect and lossy (in whicn Banshee/V3 fixed). You won't be able to capture the gamma bug in screenshots either. I haven't reproduced 3dfx gamma, but i believe a recursive …
Re: Quake 3 and A3D
Posted on 2018-01-16, 17:43
A3D gets removed in 1.25 (Sep 2000) and all versions afterward don't have it jarreboum wrote: ioquake3 patched it back in iirc Wrong
Re: FreeDosEmuBox-OS (Linux x64)
Posted on 2018-01-16, 01:01
It runs a little better if you disregard its terrible desktop video driver (akin to using a hacky VESA 1.x driver in Windows), if the dosbox core in retroarch through its EGL backend is any indication..... you can almost push 14,000 cycles on the normal core. and that's not even considering the …
Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2018-01-15, 20:57
I've only had PCX2 freezing by too-fast PCI timing.
Re: Configuration for games after 1996?
Posted on 2018-01-15, 19:45
A Voodoo3 (or some decentvideocard + Voodoo1) with AWE64 would relevantly cover a lot of ground for the "after 96" period. AWE64 in particular as you'd want clean sound to go with those SF2-using games (FF7pc etc). OPL3 music was in the minority in this period so don't take those insistent YMF262 …
Re: FreeDosEmuBox-OS (Linux x64)
Posted on 2018-01-15, 19:38
I thought of a similar idea for PCem last year but as to booting a computer straight into a single PCem configuration with a minimal LibreElec core and the configuration remotely configured by SSH (no gui). The application of this is limited without real disk drives however though (especially when I …
Re: Capturing Accurate Voodoo1 Screenshots
Posted on 2018-01-14, 23:36
^ This is true. Hasn't stopped people from trying to reimplment the filter in software though. All I know is that SUPRGRAB and Hypersnap DX implement the 4x1 filter (the latter has a nag watermark and isn't actually very precise at filtering) Reproducing the filter effect was once a passion of mine …
Re: Anti-aliasing possible?
Posted on 2018-01-12, 14:44
No.
Re: X1950PRO vs HD3850 AGP vs HD4650 AGP
Posted on 2018-01-11, 23:50
The PCIe->AGP bridge on the HD radeons tend to be really hit-or-miss though, needing special hotfix'd drivers and not having the same reputation for performance or stability as their PCIe cousins....
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