Re: "Must Have" Best DOS games
Posted on 2016-05-05, 21:21
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-05-05, 00:59
Does digging and documenting some of the Hexen count as a retro activity?
Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11
Posted on 2016-05-04, 23:08
Offtopic(without the wrapper), but i've noticed the Radeon GCN cards have better legacy D3D compatibility than the Radeon HD5-6 series with the recent crimson drivers, in Win7 at least. For two things, I can play an unpatched 1998-dated Blood 2 in 1920x1080x16 and can properly see the fog not …
Re: gpu wrapper to add fog table and palettized textures emulation?
Posted on 2016-05-04, 22:27
dgVoodoo2 can probably do it, despite the name implying it's strictly a glide wrapper, it's a D3D wrapper (up to 8) as well.
Re: "Must Have" Best DOS games
Posted on 2016-05-04, 02:20
Re: How to mirror a reasonably large web site?
Posted on 2016-05-03, 23:59
Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.
Posted on 2016-05-02, 23:25
in the PCem folder. Also don't forget to read the readme to find rom filename hints. If you're looking for Pentium Win98 3dfxing just grab a S3 Trio64 or Virge/gx rom and the specified Award 430vx rom (which is the easiest motherboard to work with currently). You could also dump your own rom (and …
Re: Which Old Games Can Be Played Online on Windows 95, 98, ME, and 2000 Machines?
Posted on 2016-05-02, 05:35
Continuum hasn't dropped Win9x support afaik. It should sitll be playable on a (high end) 486 even, assuming they didn't bloat it up with new routines since 2008. UT and UT2004 are still somewhat active.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-05-01, 11:31
to keep it painless don't forget to terminate the ie4 installer!
Re: 386to486, does it work?
Posted on 2016-05-01, 10:10
You need to buy the 486 DLC 😀
Re: Early ATI cards - Wild west of naming cards?
Posted on 2016-04-30, 02:27
Nvidia's got a worse problem.
Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz
Posted on 2016-04-30, 01:23
That's very subjective, I have always found games that use 3DFX / Voodoo2 have a softer edge and more vibrant colours than the alternative. A forced default gamma of 1.3 or 1.7 plus a dac filter on top tends to do that, yes. Only 3dfx does that, which warps all its rivals as "dark" and "grainy" in …
Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.
Posted on 2016-04-30, 00:08
in the roms folder.
Re: Uses for Each Windows
Posted on 2016-04-29, 11:08
Windows 1-Vista: masochism Windows Longhorn: dorky internet braggery Windows 7: computer use Windows 8-10: sadomasochism
Re: Early ATI cards - Wild west of naming cards?
Posted on 2016-04-29, 10:49
Powerstrip's great. It even id's weird laptop gpus well and even PowerVR PCX cards
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2016-04-29, 10:24
anyway here's the reason why i've bumped because now i've lost 3 nights to this so far if someone picks it up that's fine if someone doesn't pick it up that's fine how's an "infinite plane" span going to work anyway
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2016-04-29, 08:54
Some of the demos have 1992-1993 dates (like Ant), so an ISA Midas prototype could be likely.
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2016-04-29, 08:22
for the 0.01% of the internet that are amused by witty internal debug strings VSGL: SetCacheBits: page directory: 0x%08lx, 0x%08lx VSGL: SetCacheBits: page directory entry not present. Dodgy. VSGL: SetCacheBits: Hmm, 4MB page. Fuck. Genuine intel processor (phoarr!) Non intel pentium clone processor …
Re: Early ATI cards - Wild west of naming cards?
Posted on 2016-04-29, 07:24
Radeon's relatively easy considering the confusion of the earlier Rage and Xpert@ branding (and it certainly doesn't end there either)
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2016-04-29, 02:19
thanks for the new page. repeating: leileilol wrote: There's no information on what the the PCX2 does when reading/writing addresses is there? So far i'm assuming the tile information are in the 0x0C - 0x3F range, 750% wrong though.
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