Re: Descent's 'demo' mode?
Posted on 2020-02-01, 13:19
If it were a prerendered video, Descent would be impractically huge.
Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS
Posted on 2020-02-01, 04:27
Re: Until what date is a pc with ISA bus needed?
Posted on 2020-02-01, 04:13
As a descent player from the DX4 days of old (which ran great BTW), this thread's arguments are just popcorn. It's always the same new "but hi res!!" "but 60fps!!!" pattern. Anyway yeah, ISA generally got deprecated ever since AC'97 was proposed. The writing was already on the wall in 1997, much …
Re: A3D Emulation on modern PCs?
Posted on 2020-02-01, 00:23
Some non-Aureal cards and chipsets support the A3D API, like the AudioPCI and Sensaura IIRC. PCem can also emulate the AudioPCI 128 and use the drivers to play early A3D games with the A3D spatialization, and I've played through Half-Life that way.
Re: Cinematic Platformers (Prince of Persia, Another World style games) list
Posted on 2020-01-30, 21:14
Re: SoundBlaster 32 (CT3600) Driver Question
Posted on 2020-01-30, 06:28
Doornkaat wrote on 2020-01-30, 04:08: I haven't tried this but I suspect they won't because your card is a SB32 PnP card and those drivers are used for a card based on the SB AWE64 chip. AWE64 drivers worked fine with AWE32 cards in my experience, though AWE64 mainly didn't ship on floppies (which …
Re: Dithering emulation?
Posted on 2020-01-29, 14:39
You can't enable it on most hardware as dithering got ripped out of DX10-class hardware long ago. Intel's one of the very few that still do it (also their dithering's very, very good) It's probably possible to have some kind of dither post-process shader to work. It definitely wouldn't be like the …
Re: For P1 MMX: s3(1996) or Matrox(1997) ?
Posted on 2020-01-29, 14:35
GTA1's VRAM recommendation's more about using hi-res 16/24bpp modes, it'll be fine.
Re: Visual difference between Glide & Direct3D in W9X era games
Posted on 2020-01-27, 01:07
That would be the video filter i've mentioned a billion times at this point. Be aware about it, and also be aware that you can control it with an environment variable (if you want even more blurry streaking or just want it off). Every Voodoo has them and the intention is to smooth out the dither so …
Re: Vintage Hardware Wallpapers
Posted on 2020-01-24, 01:34
because that place is a corporate squatting of an old australian theme FTP. There's a lot missing than what it used to have...
Re: Visual difference between Glide & Direct3D in W9X era games
Posted on 2020-01-24, 01:07
Unreal's a little complicated, given the different revisions and releases it went through. When Unreal first came out, it didn't have multitexturing in GlideDrv for a few months and it was a pretty bright game that actually resembled the softdrv's appearance well for the most part. I think it was …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-01-23, 02:55
Re: What's a good screenshot tool for Windows 9X?
Posted on 2020-01-22, 21:43
Paint Shop Pro 5 can handle hotkey capturing. It's what I used to do for PowerVR shots as the screenshot functions usually break on that card.
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-01-22, 21:39
It's also a DotEmu port. Given how much they don't even care about their thrown-up Neo Geo emulator+roms releases being lazy, badly configurable emulators worse than NeoRageX, I wouldn't hold any trust in them either. SNK's certainly regretting it.
Re: AGP Card for MVP3 motherboard (FIC PA-2013)
Posted on 2020-01-22, 02:56
When I think of the Savage line, I think of graphics glitches in D3D/GL stuff and frequent hardlocks on certain motherboards, so best of luck with that. Also if you're bleeding into 1999, go with the V3 anyway. V2SLI=V3=V2SLI is a lie. V3 doesn't thrash as hard, doesn't interlace, and has a greater …
Re: Customize Windows XP to look like 95
Posted on 2020-01-22, 02:47
XP doesn't even get to boot on a 486 due to a lack of certain CPU extensions, so this concern trolling argument is just for the sake of it. Also the "slow shell" is an IE4+ feature designed for Win95 that's integrated by default on Win98 and after. It's no ME/2000/XP thing, and has little to do with …
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-01-22, 02:11
Running everything bare on Windows 10 isn't what OP asked for, but listing problem games and workarounds to run them from windows 10, which includes virtual machines. Goal posts moving much? Also virtual machine software can update and regress guest support. VirtualBox's no longer a good "run game …
Re: VGA games with only 16 colors
Posted on 2020-01-20, 01:59
The Dynamix Incredible Machine/Toons games also do the VGA640 palette thing at a lower vertical resolution, and are often mistreated as 4:3 modes in emulation (or at least i've always remembered them looking fairly letterboxed on real CRTs of the time, it wasn't like 640x400@70 VESA modes)
Re: Lithtech game performance
Posted on 2020-01-20, 01:56
Re: AGP Card for MVP3 motherboard
Posted on 2020-01-19, 10:21
how much hassle is it to have 2 Voodoo cards in one system? Not hassley at all as long as you install V1 drivers first then V3's, and then for the finicky V1 wanting games (such as I76 Gold for example) you should be a ble to toss the V1-relevant Glide DLLs in that game and you should be in V1-land …
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