Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-16, 03:21

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

But compare it to Quake IIs though. And indeed, that 24-bit color might have been the problem since it has often been said (criticized?) that Quake II's optimization came from its dithered palette. Quake2 has no dithered palette. Its optimization is primarily in the surfacecache system, where it …

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Re: Doom in DOS: Original vs Source Ports

Posted on 2014-09-16, 00:48

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by leileilol

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in DOS

Uh.... press F11. Gamma correction has been implemented since 1.1

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Re: games that use EMBM

Posted on 2014-09-15, 17:06

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Command & Conquer Renegade uses EMBM for water. Probably the most recent example I know of, and one of the few non-Matrox EMBM examples as it works on Geforce3, Radeon, KYRO, etc... Also keep in mind EMBM was only implemented in Direct3D. OpenGL never had this as an extension, so all id Tech games …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-15, 13:11

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On the contrary I think Unreal's software rendering driver is very optimized. It's putting out 24-bit color and only 24-bit color and it's fast for it - it's 16-bit output is just its 24-bit dithered down. However Unreal, unlike Quake, didn't have a surfacecache system.

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Re: Is it alive? I'm worried

Posted on 2014-09-15, 01:51

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by leileilol

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Probability: positive

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-14, 13:30

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ System Specs

That benchmark should take into account the maps have been 'vispatched' modified to display more than usual - through the water surfaces that is. also gl_flashblend is 0 in the video. Turning on the orange balls helps the 486 a lot also.

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Re: How to search files in subdirectories in dosbox?

Posted on 2014-09-14, 00:18

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by leileilol

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

if a game doesn't need dir /s, then it DOSBox doesn't need it either. have you gotten the memo that dosbox is only for games yet?

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Re: Creating DOSBox Game Installers for Windows?

Posted on 2014-09-13, 23:48

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

There's also Innosetup which GoG uses. Different learning curves definitely do apply. Both are script based, though NSIS is very bare and is busy upfront which can be daunting. That said i'd love to switch to NSIS for my things some day, if only my installers could look just like mid-90s …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-09-13, 23:40

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by leileilol

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in Release Announcements

Adjusting sound sampling rate/bits helps the memory. 16mb can be too slow for Blood if you play with 22khz 16bit sound, and it's been this way since 1.00. The 16mb player probably used 11khz and 8bit sound This also applies to Shadow Warrior which also similarly treads the limits of 16mb memory …

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-13, 22:23

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Voodoo2 > Voodoo1 for 486. Don't underestimate multitexturing, means less passes of polygons through the slow bus. It's also possible to "run" Quake III Arena on a 486 with a Voodoo2 also :) should roughly be 4-7fps, most of the CPU being sucked on the sound and shader code (realtime texturemapping …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-13, 02:05

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, like Trespasser needs a Pentium 166?

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-09-13, 01:20

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by leileilol

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in Release Announcements

You should pay attention to your viewer rating and such after this review. Blood's one of those 'retro hipster millenial' dos games.

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Re: Forsaken

Posted on 2014-09-13, 01:00

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by leileilol

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in Windows

what

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Re: What were your first computer(s)?

Posted on 2014-09-12, 23:44

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

First OEM x86 was a IBM 5160 First custom-built x86 was a 486DX/33. This evolved to be the "94cheen".

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Re: Magazine download sites

Posted on 2014-09-12, 23:42

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by leileilol

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in Milliways

It's a nice thing to have when it's the telephone's turn on the phone line 🤣

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Re: Magazine download sites

Posted on 2014-09-12, 23:29

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by leileilol

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in Milliways

So is Computer Gaming Strategy Plus but no one's saving those. 😒

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Re: Magazine download sites

Posted on 2014-09-12, 23:14

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by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

Indeed. At least one of those sites also conducts active software piracy.

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Re: Open source ports of FPS games + bots

Posted on 2014-09-12, 23:06

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by leileilol

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in Release Announcements

There's also plenty of Doom sourceports with bots such as Doom Legacy Zdoom (and derivatives: Skulltag/Zandronum, Zdaemon) Strawberry Doom Also every other Q3 port ever. There's more than ioq3 out there. And since you love bots and engines, here's a Quakeworld port with a engine-side bot , which was …

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Re: xBRZ - High quality image scaling support for DOSBox

Posted on 2014-09-12, 05:04

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox Patches

Aren't RetroArch trying to move away from nVidia cg?

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Re: Warcraft 2 and Windows 7: Best Config

Posted on 2014-09-12, 03:36

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by leileilol

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote: it will sound almost exactly like the CD Audio tracks. The CD Audio tracks were all done on an SC 55, and Windows has the same sample set built in. This is not true The CD audio has a few more tracks that don't have MIDI versions

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