Re: Glide and early D3D and OpenGL games with benchmark features

Posted on 2014-07-27, 10:57

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Send the Glide2x.dll/Glide3x.dll files directly to hell and native Glide should be functional. Sometimes you might even have to send ddraw.dll to hell in case it's wrapped for Vista or so DISCLAIMER: I have 0 GoG games. This is a theory.

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Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2014-07-27, 10:53

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by leileilol

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Why is this offensively off-topic crosspost here? Normal2x/3x/4x much? The point of this thread is to have something representative of their native screen environment over than just figuring out some overdebated 'truth' between filtered and pixelfied and novel upscale techniques.

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Re: Glide and early D3D and OpenGL games with benchmark features

Posted on 2014-07-27, 10:49

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

wasn't that old self-running X demo also a benchmark? I forget. Was Direct3D though Viper Racing has a built-in benchmark as well, but there's a framerate cap IIRC

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Re: Would anyone even care about oversampling?

Posted on 2014-07-27, 10:42

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by leileilol

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Personally I don't like the whole 'pixel scale' stuff when applied to console games and opt to prefer a NTSC + CRT shader where possible, because on real console hardware it's unlikely you'd get clear and colorful pixels as the "intended" first picture either. 😀

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Re: Wine as Win31 replacement in DOSBox?

Posted on 2014-07-26, 04:56

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by leileilol

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Wine doesn't have any APIs to wrap to at that point, so crazy talk? yes. The closest thing to it is that HX DOS extender.

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Re: Vintage Hardware Wallpapers

Posted on 2014-07-26, 04:55

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by leileilol

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well technically that's just 3 monitors with several Photoshop windows open 😀

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Re: Glide and early D3D and OpenGL games with benchmark features

Posted on 2014-07-26, 04:01

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by leileilol

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Kahenraz wrote: There is actually a fair difference in processing power going from greyscale to colored lighting. Even D3DRM had this option. But given that it's fixed vertex lighting, and mono vertex lighting still relies on 3 RGB values the same way in D3D.... it shouldn't. If it were lightmaps, …

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Re: Vintage Hardware Wallpapers

Posted on 2014-07-26, 03:17

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by leileilol

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An image ripped off the PowerVR site circa 1998 used to serve as a wallpaper. Note that Archive.org did not save this image at all - had to dig this up off a backup. Consists of the PowerVR triangle, some circles and a zoomed in picture of a volcano erupting

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Re: Modern web browsing on an older computer

Posted on 2014-07-26, 02:51

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by leileilol

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Media Player Classic is handy for this too combined with Livestreamer if you intend to watch Twitch and some other streaming sites just to get past the Flash CPU bottleneck. Yes, even for ~700MHz PCs. Flash sucks, is the ultimate deciding factor if a computer is 'too obsolete for web'. Now if only …

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Re: Voodoo 2 not found by windows 98.

Posted on 2014-07-26, 02:50

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is Plug 'n Play enabled?

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Re: Getting MIDI in DOS/W98 Dosbox?

Posted on 2014-07-26, 02:45

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by leileilol

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You should be able to use Hal9000's Megabuild for OPL passthrough capability in Windows 98. PIII 600MHz should be enough for many games out there, but definitely not for the 'late' ones through emulation. In addition this forum is for DOS games, not DOSBox. Actually he's trying to use a retro laptop …

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Re: Safely restoring DirectMusic functionality to Win7?

Posted on 2014-07-26, 02:02

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by leileilol

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That's true for Daikatana too 😀 only incompetent programming can make loading screens that fake loading.

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Re: WORLD OF WARCRAFT 2 Install crash DOSBOX

Posted on 2014-07-26, 00:52

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by leileilol

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OT, but......there's a World of Warcraft 2 !? FYI: I can install Warcraft 2. I did the following (letters changed to match yours): 1. Insert Warcraft 2 disc into optical drive 2. mount C: C:\DOSGAMES\ 3. mount D: E:\ -t cdrom 4. D: 5. INSTALL 6. CONTINUE 7. CONTINUE 8. watch the progress bar hit 100 …

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Re: Glide and early D3D and OpenGL games with benchmark features

Posted on 2014-07-26, 00:49

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

MDK 😀 AlphaWing wrote: Jedi Knight doesn't support vertex Colored Lighting but its expansion pack Mysteries of the Sith does. It's rather rudimentary and shouldn't make any framerate difference though

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Re: Modern web browsing on an older computer

Posted on 2014-07-25, 23:31

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by leileilol

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I would use a KernelEx'd Seamonkey 2.0 if it's Windows98SE.

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Re: Humble Bundle Square Enix bundle

Posted on 2014-07-24, 04:15

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by leileilol

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SquareEnix is either 1. a incompetent company running Final Fantasy into the ground and constantly remaking theiir past FF games on mobile systems 2. a puppet of Eidos, to cloak their brand association, hoping their new games get confused as Square products (pretty obvious with K&L 2, going china …

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Re: 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 vs 3000 bench

Posted on 2014-07-23, 23:29

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Very bottlenecked.

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Re: Humble Bundle Square Enix bundle

Posted on 2014-07-23, 03:51

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by leileilol

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more like Eidos bundle. NO SQUARE or ENIX games at all! "More games" is most likely to be Tomb Raider, a Batman Arkham game or Hitman Contracts/Blood Money.

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Re: Windows 98, Disk Images and Storage

Posted on 2014-07-22, 22:42

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by leileilol

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It's much less about partitioning and more about accessing high LBA. No amount of small partitions will get around the potential data loss problem by using a huge hard drive with Win9x/2000

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Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.

Posted on 2014-07-22, 21:49

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by leileilol

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in PC Emulation

thread.h is missing?

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