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Re: Voodoo Banshee AGP or Voodoo 5 5500 PCI?

Posted on 2014-07-07, 02:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Your best bet for DOS Glide are the Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 cards. Banshee and anything after (V3, V4, V5) shouldn't be considered substitutes for the all-around DOS Glide usage. Banshee isn't that similar to the V2 at all. That single TMU (opposed to V2's dual TMUs) really hamper performance …

Re: Thrift store finds? (Software)

Posted on 2014-07-06, 19:32

in Milliways

in Milliways

The Windows game or the BAD ACTING Dos game? 🤣

16-color dithering programs

Posted on 2014-07-06, 18:40

in Milliways

in Milliways

Paint Shop Pro would be the obvious pick, but it only supports 5x5 ordered dithering and a bunch of other not-so-neat noisy methods. I'd like more control over dithering, like a 2x2 dithering block or more options like that.

Re: 5.25" Floppy Drives

Posted on 2014-07-06, 18:36

in Milliways

in Milliways

It's looking more feasible to buy a old PC from ebay with oen than an individual drive Once you do get your 5.25" drive, IMAGE YOUR FLOPPIES LIKE THE WIND 🤣 I sued Resqflpy. My floppies still worked fortunately. Decades-old cardboard boxes are amazing!

Re: Game image file approach (feedback requested)

Posted on 2014-07-06, 18:17

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

Last time I tried that, it couldn't support directories within zips. Has this been fixed lately?

Re: What are the best console emulators out there?

Posted on 2014-07-06, 15:19

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Well also consider NeoRageX sets are very old dumps as well and specific for itself (hence the incompatibility with Kawaks/Nebula/etc). It's like suggesting Pasofami for NES emulation to run Pasofami ROMs that don't work in FCEU/Nestopia/etc therefore leaving oldashell Pasofami the only option I'll …

Re: What's the big hold up with XBox emulation?

Posted on 2014-07-06, 15:17

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

and not only was that one of the games the emulation was supposed to be optimized for, but it was also a launch title on the original Xbox, so it shouldn't be that demanding. :P Late ported PC titles can be pretty demanding no matter how early it's for release. Similarly PS2's was Star Wars …

Re: A modern DOS Quake engine by Qbism

Posted on 2014-07-06, 14:31

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Not surprising really, Qbism targeted recent Core architecture by default. and never had an opportunity to do low-end testing. He couldn't see the drawback for sacking the assembly code

Re: K6 Mobile cpu?

Posted on 2014-07-06, 14:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IIRC a K6 Mobile should be even slower at Quake than a K6-2. Expect PMMX speeds (~40fps start.bsp 320x200 timerefresh).

Re: Voodoo 2 graphic artifacts.

Posted on 2014-07-06, 13:35

in Windows

in Windows

but so was ReVolt and that can occasionally send the Voodoo into artifact hell.

Re: Voodoo 2 graphic artifacts.

Posted on 2014-07-05, 23:55

in Windows

in Windows

Is it possible you might have the gamma too high? Voodoos go into an acid trip that way.

Re: Good 2D card to use with PowerVR/Matrox M3D

Posted on 2014-07-03, 21:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd pair it with a Voodoo3 3000 for excellent video capture quality and purposing the machine as a Glide/SGL powerhouse, where a 440BX is an ideal fit for IMO :) Also experiment with PCI and AGP video cards. The PCX2 works through a bus transfer and this, and the colordepth used for the PCX2 does …

Re: Thrift store finds? (Software)

Posted on 2014-07-03, 17:30

in Milliways

in Milliways

i'd want to see trespasser at AGDQ 😜

Re: Does anyone have a copy of the Mindscape game CyberSpeed?

Posted on 2014-07-03, 16:50

in Windows

in Windows

Yes. I do have a 1995 PC CD with the soundtrack.

Re: Engoo Quake 1 Port

Posted on 2014-07-02, 02:27

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

No, unless you somehow can study the differences between in r_surf.c's functions R_DrawSurfaceBlock8_mip0, and then compare Surf8.s, and try to apply the differnces of R_DrawSurfaceBlock8_mip0 and D_DrawSurfaceBlock888RGBX_mip0 to Surf8.s as a surf8rgb.s file. Assembly scares me, which is why I …

Re: Quake II and Voodoo3 Issues

Posted on 2014-07-01, 04:55

in Windows

in Windows

No. The MiniGL existed because 3dfx did not release a full ICD at the time. Voodoo 1 / 2 being secondary video adapters that hijack the VGA signal for it to be used wouldn't work well with a general purpose full GL ICD. Later on around Spring 1999, 3dfx started including a full ICD for use with …

Re: Quake II and Voodoo3 Issues

Posted on 2014-07-01, 03:22

in Windows

in Windows

Don't use the 3dfx OpenGL renderer. Don't rename or copy 3dfxgl.dll to another file. Just use Default OpenGL. 3dfxgl is intended to be used with Voodoo1/2. Voodoo3 has a full OpenGL ICD so using "3dfx OpenGL" is not necessary. Quake2 doesn't require DirectX 7 (or DirectX at all - it can use GDI and …

Re: Dynamic (maybe a bit too) music in video games?

Posted on 2014-06-30, 22:46

in Milliways

in Milliways

Super Mario World did that same exact thing with Yoshi.

Re: Engoo Quake 1 Port

Posted on 2014-06-30, 05:32

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

the qbismSuper8 lighitng methods are completely different than Engoo. qbism uses some intensity/hue lookup, incidentally the resulting lightmap looks similar to PowerVR PCX2 running Quake2.

Re: Dosbox become slower and slower

Posted on 2014-06-30, 03:01

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

also.

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