Re: Windows 98 System running slow on Build engine games.

Posted on 2014-09-29, 02:24

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The drops come from lookup tables being shoved close in your face, that's normal for a dip in a software renderer, even on today's CPUs. CPUs never had decent fillrates

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Re: Far Cry

Posted on 2014-09-29, 00:44

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by leileilol

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You should also try OpenGL mode. Yes it's in there, you gotta run the config program to access it 😀

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Re: Windows 98 System running slow on Build engine games.

Posted on 2014-09-28, 23:59

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

With a willamette, that sounds normal FPS to me.

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Re: My vote for best DOS video card

Posted on 2014-09-28, 20:20

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by leileilol

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Riva128 was fine for the time. The crazy dithering is all blending artifacts with the lightmaps and such, it's totally great in vertex lit games (psx/n64/dc crossports which made up a lot of the 98/99 releases) and it also works with the PowerVR PCX2. but i can't see how its opengl/direct3d …

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Re: A way to repurpose older PCs for educational uses

Posted on 2014-09-28, 19:40

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by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

"IM THE EXPERT, I HAVE RETRO PC HISTORY!!! MOVE OVER" Probably active virus scanning bogging it down then. Athlon X2s should be snappy for XP, and in the case of a school, that shouldn't even be 'old'!

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Re: A way to repurpose older PCs for educational uses

Posted on 2014-09-28, 18:25

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by leileilol

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in Milliways

I would consider early Pentium II as 'barely XPable', and that's not something I would install Ubuntu on. If an XP-powered school PC is slow, chances are it's a Pentium IV at least (Dell Dimensions likely) and has some drive-by installed spyware sucking its resources, and 340 pixels of toolbar …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2014-09-28, 16:33

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by leileilol

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in Release Announcements

Why not get an admin to rename it? It's a piece of cake to rename members on phpBB, makes me wonder why some forums don't want to do this as if it were overly hard.

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2014-09-28, 13:45

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by leileilol

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Would the 'optimized' column assembly drawing funcs from Zdoom do anything? I think Randy could allow the use of it for the GPL if asked since it's nothing specific to the restrictive licensed stuff in the engine...

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Re: What retro computing gadget that doesn't exist would you like to have?

Posted on 2014-09-28, 13:06

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by leileilol

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A secondary PCIe Voodoo5 that works through the bus similar to PCX2 cards and every TV card ever. PCIe for the bandwidth to do that while i'm at it...... a refreshed PCIe PowerVR PCX2 with WDDM drivers 😀 who knows how fast they really are when you take the transfer bottleneck away?

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Re: What was the purpose of a 3D-accelerated graphics card on a 486?

Posted on 2014-09-27, 03:24

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Battlezone.

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Re: Please help with 3dfx Voodoo Banshee dirvers 16 Mg

Posted on 2014-09-26, 20:59

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For a retro PC with a focus of running retro games, you don't have to install the wacky third party drivers. You can find the official driver sets around the top here.

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Re: TIL the 640k barrier is not set in stone (in theory)

Posted on 2014-09-26, 16:43

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

keepin' it real

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2014-09-26, 14:40

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by leileilol

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Have you tried BTSX on it?

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Re: What was the purpose of a 3D-accelerated graphics card on a 486?

Posted on 2014-09-26, 14:36

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by leileilol

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You could try porting GLQuake to Glide and then try porting that to DOS Glide :P actually easier said than done because you'd have to write a bunch of texture management shit, and with animated lightmaps this is where it gets to be a real pain. At least you'd save more memory by dropping the 15to8 …

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Re: What was the purpose of a 3D-accelerated graphics card on a 486?

Posted on 2014-09-26, 05:52

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Quake. Playing GLQuake on a 486 takes the CPU pain of crunching up lightmap updates since it doesn't have to filter luxels

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Re: OS of choice survey (DOS).

Posted on 2014-09-24, 13:31

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by leileilol

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rgart wrote: Its easy to fill up a 2GB DOS partition but I don't find it an issue having a couple of them. Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones, Lands of Lore are just a couple of CD's that will fill your 2GB. Some of us don't do that virtual CD thing on period correct DOS systems 😀

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Re: OS of choice survey (DOS).

Posted on 2014-09-24, 02:11

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Real DOS 7 > Unofficial DOS 7

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Re: OS of choice survey (DOS).

Posted on 2014-09-23, 20:51

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by leileilol

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I've stopped having DOS 6.22 on my PCs since 1995, and i'm certainly not going back to formatting to FAT12/16 with them now. I didn't feel trapped since I went beyond 2gb well into 1998 to even care about old DOS anymore. Also there's not a lot of DOS games to do 'full cd installs' for, they'll all …

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Re: Dosbox license ?

Posted on 2014-09-23, 19:33

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by leileilol

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from experience, the GPL is a good diva filter, i'd say.... especially if it's v2 also those other emulators with such filters are GPL too, and adding filters doesn't mean 'improvement'. It doesn't do DOS emulation any more accurately GPL keeps this project healthy by being irrevocably open source. …

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Re: When does something become retro?

Posted on 2014-09-23, 19:27

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by leileilol

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"Before Pixel shader 2.0" is a good definition, because that's when things were still very much a wild west 'bag of tricks' and PS 1.0-1.4 was pretty much a supplement for those 'bag of tricks'

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