Re: Do you keep all your really retro machines set up?
Posted on 2014-11-10, 00:02
Yes, though it's mostly swapping between computers and the same desk since I used one monitor between 3 generations of computers anyway 😀
Re: ordered a generic ISA sound card, have some questions
Posted on 2014-11-08, 03:20
>Analog Devices AD1845JP 🙁
Re: ordered a generic ISA sound card, have some questions
Posted on 2014-11-07, 21:17
if only there was a generic ISA sound card....
Re: Modern graphics on a 486
Posted on 2014-11-07, 21:15
Don't bother with any PowerVR cards in 486s. They have heavily float-dependent drivers and are anything but modern
Re: Destruction Derby 2 (DOS)
Posted on 2014-11-07, 00:06
I couldn't get any MSI game or DLL working with the G100 when I tried. Was hoping for luck with the Techland MSI GL wrapper :( shame because it's more related with Mystique than it is G200 It does exhibit the matrox-quality 2D signal they're known for so it's not a bad 2D card choice if you can't …
Re: What are you using as a Wallpaper on your vintage system?
Posted on 2014-11-07, 00:01
Oh yeah there's that brief period in late 2000-2002 where I used wallpapers of games, some games even cancelled, from GameWallpapers. Unfortunately this is also the post dot-bomb period where all those neat desktop themes sites died and one of the two standing were a spyware installer wrapper to all …
Re: What are you using as a Wallpaper on your vintage system?
Posted on 2014-11-06, 21:49
In period correction mode I just slap on a desktop theme I was using at the time. Unfortunately the desktop theme I was using at the time is MISSING FROM THE INTERNET and i'm going at many lengths to get it, going beyond archive.org, turning toward even the email protocol for getting to old …
Re: How is Windows 2000 on a K6-2 333MHz, 256MB ram?
Posted on 2014-11-05, 22:08
Win2k should work fine on those specs.
Re: Video Driver for Windows 95
Posted on 2014-11-05, 04:13
On floppies On a CD On the Internet
Re: Old Japanese Games for PC (DOS/Win9x)
Posted on 2014-11-04, 21:28
Unfortunately the PC88-98 PCs had so much foothold in the Japanese market it's rare to see a proper IBM compatible DOS release from them beyond a few localized visual novels, wargames and H games, giving the false impression that's all the Japanese ever had for computer entertainment. It wasn't …
Re: Raven - Pentium 4 yet again
Posted on 2014-11-04, 08:30
2084x1024? will play? fx5200? funny shit
Re: Question about building a 90s rig
Posted on 2014-11-03, 22:31
Putas' website is full of these, it's just priceless, I suggest everybody gives it a read as he's done an amazing job with cards he's tested. :happy: To be nice about the G100 though, its Direct3D HAL driver is more compatible than the PCX2 (despite having more limitations) and performs a lot …
Re: Does anyone have a copy of the Mindscape game CyberSpeed?
Posted on 2014-11-03, 21:25
Re: Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold lags whenever the screen is flashing
Posted on 2014-11-03, 19:28
Oh don't use very high cycles for wolf-based games, just use cycles=max if you want consistent smoothness for it.
Re: Deus Ex Invisible War and GPUs
Posted on 2014-11-03, 19:24
The shoehorned Carmack's reverse shadows were a big deal. Bloom on the other hand is just mostly copying the screen to a texture buffer, blurring it creatively (like copying it into a smaller buffer and adding that as a quad to the screen in several times
Re: Deus Ex Invisible War and GPUs
Posted on 2014-11-03, 19:08
Forking from a very unfinished UnrealEngine2 renderer early on (~2000) probably doesn't help, so who knows how many optimizations they missed from upstream.
Re: 3D Realms Anthology 32 Games
Posted on 2014-11-03, 18:09
It plays somewhat like a mix between classic ROTT and UT99. hardly That is to say, it's not bad unless all you want to do is fawn over "the way things used to be", in which case it's terrible. So you're welcoming badly clipped areas (leading to running into microsnags), unplayably fast player …
Re: NVIDIA NV1 Wrapper
Posted on 2014-11-02, 18:14
Nope however sort of related, the emulator PCem did gain S3 ViRGE hardware emulation including 3d, in software.
Re: NVIDIA NV1 Wrapper
Posted on 2014-11-02, 18:02
since then there's been a little more digging on the pvr dev front too
Re: Do you guys collect other things?
Posted on 2014-11-02, 17:59
Sutekh94 wrote: Indeed. Once you go mechanical, you don't go back. What if one starts out mechanical and goes to the inferior types of keyboards due to technical difficulties? 🙁
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