Re: Quake 2 too bright on screen with voodoo 2

Posted on 2016-05-09, 21:34

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by leileilol

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If the 3dfx MiniGL's gamma of 1.7 bothers you, you can still use the full ICD the later 1999+ 3dfx drivers provide (Windows\System\3dfxvgl.dll) by setting gl_driver 3dfxvgl. This does not force a high gamma.

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Re: Do savage cards support s3d?

Posted on 2016-05-09, 01:11

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Rage Pro also has strange compatibility issues with ATI3DCIF throughout driver/model variance in the Rage series, and the Rage128 doesn't do it at all. And no the later PowerVR KYRO cards can't run the SGL version either. Not sure on Tuxality's wrapper status on supporting Mech2 however

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Re: Geforce vs. Voodoo2 in older systems?

Posted on 2016-05-08, 22:46

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

brostenen wrote: mrau wrote: was there even anything valuable in technology they got from that takeover? Rumours will know that some went in to later Geforce chip's. I dunno. Some of their human resources allegedly worked on the FX at least.

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Re: Using Retro Hardware for multiplayer with DOSBox

Posted on 2016-05-08, 01:15

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The "outdated" Megabuild mentioned earlier can do IPX pass-through however, and I did get that working with a DOS machine before and have even done this to transfer files through some DOS-based IPX file sending tool for when I had SMB problems. The SVN Daum can be overkill and ubggier. However that …

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Re: Fault in MS-DOS Extender

Posted on 2016-05-08, 01:09

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by leileilol

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PCem doesn't have a 440FX because there is no emulation of any CPU supported by the 440 chipsets and it's not going to pretend doing so.

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Re: Fault in MS-DOS Extender

Posted on 2016-05-08, 00:30

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by leileilol

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Don't use PCem-X. I had no problem installing Win98SE on the proper PCem.

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Re: "Must Have" Best DOS games

Posted on 2016-05-07, 23:37

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by leileilol

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in Milliways

It's a point and click adventure with multiple characters on a single screen 😀

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Re: Geforce vs. Voodoo2 in older systems?

Posted on 2016-05-07, 12:13

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wait... a Geforce2 in a PMMX? that's just wrong. It is true that a V2 and even a V3 can outperform them on a slower CPU like that (since their drivers are a lot smaller and don't implement every new API, for starters :) ), but in a CPU bottleneck the GF2 really shines on any game demanding HW T&L... …

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Re: DOSBox problems on flashdrive

Posted on 2016-05-07, 02:12

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox General

You don't have to move it there. It's just a way for it to be 'portable'. It might be a bad idea with stdout.txt possibly wasting writes on it though

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Re: DOSBox problems on flashdrive

Posted on 2016-05-07, 02:08

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox General

You could do it relatively if dosbox is located on the same partition. Say you have DOSBox in E:\dosgames\dosbox And you can have these as your mounts: mount C: .\..\ mount D: .\..\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall So then it'll work on whatever drive letter the host OS assigns your flashdrive to. I …

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Re: Cycles "Max" ----> Windows 7 64 bits = Stuttering

Posted on 2016-05-07, 00:01

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox General

AMD FX-8xxx?

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Re: Cycles "Max" ----> Windows 7 64 bits = Stuttering

Posted on 2016-05-06, 23:12

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by leileilol

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It's very common for Intel users, and no, having a max percentage won't workaround it either.

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Re: Quake for Win98 or XP

Posted on 2016-05-06, 12:54

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by leileilol

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The official GLQuake ports run very dark on Nvidia cards IIRC. There's no easy way of raising the brightness. They run "dark" on anything not produced by 3dfx because 3dfx forces a high gamma of 1.7 to make you believe that's the standard setting. Just kick up your gamma manually, or use a newer …

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Re: 8 bit Diablo - feasible or no?

Posted on 2016-05-06, 02:52

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by leileilol

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And the isometric perspective shouldn't work against it either. Not sure about the memory required to have monster sprites and UI panels that pop in along with smooth scrolling however. You'd also have to do some clever shift trick to do shadows, or excise those completely

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Re: 8 bit Diablo - feasible or no?

Posted on 2016-05-06, 02:06

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by leileilol

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No. Procedural generation wasn't out of the ordinary in the 8-bit era and neither was dungeons of mass skeletons to slaughter with 4 players in realtime. Diablo's definitely feasible in whatever hypothetical 8-bit you're thinking of. I'm assuming you're going for AT 286s in mind.

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Re: Just an Idea: Why not a DosBox-Partner-Project for Windows 32bit-Games?

Posted on 2016-05-06, 01:40

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by leileilol

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PCem Qemu (the virtualization kernel isn't required, it can still emulate) Bochs (the often ported-to-everything-to-show-it-can-run-Win95-on-device-X-on-youtube-for-some-clickbait-monetization-hits emulator)

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Re: Cycles "Max" ----> Windows 7 64 bits = Stuttering

Posted on 2016-05-06, 01:32

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox General

Having a fast Intel is also a factor.

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Re: Just an Idea: Why not a DosBox-Partner-Project for Windows 32bit-Games?

Posted on 2016-05-06, 01:13

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by leileilol

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Because it's called DOS box. Shying away from this to regress DOS support, dynamic recompiler, etc. for Windows 95 games is a huge undertaking less than a handful of hobbyist programmers could possibly do without wrecking their sanity in their spare time. There is already one fork that has already …

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Re: Quake for Win98 or XP

Posted on 2016-05-06, 01:04

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by leileilol

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That depends on the release. Later Activision releases bundled GLQuake 0.97 (and vQuake for some odd reason even if it's a 2001 rerelease). There's also some VQuake shareware bundles with some Rendition cards. Also I'd advise against a lot of horrible old crufty sourceports like joequake and the …

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Re: gpu wrapper to add fog table and palettized textures emulation?

Posted on 2016-05-06, 01:01

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by leileilol

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in PC Emulation

But then you'd be wrapping Direct3D<9 to Direct3D10.1 to OpenGL.

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