Re: Discovered an old 3D card article I saved in 2002...
Posted on 2017-11-28, 01:00
I thought Loyd Case and Dave Salvator's articles in CGW were nice at the time. CGW staff collaborated with Gamespot occassionally in the late 90s
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2017-11-27, 03:02
And here's the same shot as above but with the RGB565 channels split off, reposterized and rejoined to work around PCX2's odd RGB565 output (that I should reverse into a shader some day...) The amount of colors is identical. it's almost like it's outputting RGB454
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2017-11-27, 02:19
If anyone's curious about how Hardwar looks on the PCX2... All of the flares seem to lose their white blend (despite being all entirely alpha blended so it could've worked. Probably a sorting compromise) Supported resolutions range from 640x400 to 1024x768. No 640x480. Max fog distance, building …
Re: release: roland sc88 soundfont
Posted on 2017-11-26, 23:34
Yeah I just tried it, sounds terrible with any midi i threw at it
Re: ut2004 + kyro ii = death?
Posted on 2017-11-26, 02:56
I'd think the freezes (on any UE2 game) are the bigger issue than the obvious lack of HWT&L....
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2017-11-26, 01:09
Re: Opinions on Games
Posted on 2017-11-25, 23:27
Re: Mac Emulation on Windows
Posted on 2017-11-25, 01:28
The first iMacs had Rages and there are Mac versions of Voodoo3s out there. i'd think it's more likely for a Sheeps Haver to get v3 emulation than ahything else it supported though the state of mac emulators these days seems to be generally dead-for-years + frontend maintenance on a forum so not …
Re: Wolfenstein II: New Colossus
Posted on 2017-11-24, 02:32
Well...... 1. Black Friday 2. It's not a main Bethesda franchise game, so they'll half it soon after (it happened to Prey quickly already) 3. There's a demo out now.
Re: Where do you get it and how often?
Posted on 2017-11-22, 23:27
I haven't picked up any more "retro" parts since the 00's, so not often at all.
Re: 100% portable dosbox?
Posted on 2017-11-21, 07:16
make a dosbox.conf file in the dosbox directory suddenly... ITS PORTABLE!!! no "Portable Apps Dot Com Special Edition" neccessary.
Re: Is Windows 3.1 or Older Necessary?
Posted on 2017-11-20, 00:22
No. There's no real advantage in Win3.1 gaming. Those that did were done with WinG which was pretty late in the Win3.1 life anyway (and border into the Win95 release schedule) Probably the only reason to keep Win3.1 around is for those old icon-based novelty programs and some of the vanity shells …
Re: [Identify] MHz of this coprocessor?
Posted on 2017-11-19, 03:34
I saw that, but the chip was designed in 1990. (ish) so it would be designed with chips of that year in mind. At least that is how it works in my mind. By that logic, Pentiums are old 1992 processors that were a year out of date in their introduction to the market. Why buy a 1992 pentium when you …
Re: Strange thing is. First 2.5D games look better than those first full 3d games. So technology doest not matter.
Posted on 2017-11-19, 03:29
Quake's art was actually quite top notch and all the monsters are well animated. However that game was rather rushed and didn't implement a lot of things and spackle that Doom had (weapon drawing/holstering, sound pitches, transparent textures, proper invisibility effects, automap, etc). Hell, even …
Re: Pentium Or 486. Can't Decide
Posted on 2017-11-19, 03:21
The 486 has that cute loveitorhateit AMI WinBIOS late in their years 😀
Re: Dosbox VR games and Oculus Rift
Posted on 2017-11-19, 01:00
No.
Re: DOS games with weird resolutions?
Posted on 2017-11-18, 23:16
FFXIhealer wrote: it was a resolution problem, that it was more like 320x200 instead of 320x240, which would have given a proper 4:3 screen ratio. So my CRTs of the time stretched the screen vertically. That is not weird at all.
Re: Best PC the year 2000 could provide.
Posted on 2017-11-17, 04:23
^ only with Fastvid (write combining) enabled, and then there's the whole unobtanium luxury of a cpu it was in its time that makes itself too prohibitive for the consumer market. might as well list all the server processors for each year and eventually revise history that everyone was using a Ppro …
Re: Voodoo 2 SLI and 1024x768
Posted on 2017-11-17, 02:50
There's indeed a "Disable Scanline Interleave" checkbox in the V2 pane;'s advanced dialog.
Re: Versions of MAME Compatible with Windows 98?
Posted on 2017-11-16, 05:02
i'd imagine it'd be a GCC-induced problem...
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