Re: Locating PureVex DEMO for PowerVR
Posted on 2014-04-16, 11:32
and no, I don't have it either. (OR continents of blackmarsh )
Re: A 2000 not so "budget" gaming build.
Posted on 2014-04-16, 04:18
IMO "not so budget" for 2000 would probably mean splurging on first-gen Williamette hype and puting in a 3D Prophet II, Sound Blaster Live 5.1 + LiveDrive and going for the dreadful RDRAM and a Windows ME/2000 dualboot, all ready for hotly anticipated titles such as 007:World Is Not Enough, Obi-Wan, …
Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.
Posted on 2014-04-15, 21:56
Aren't final Windows releases 'beta' enough? Sarah doesn't have to support the fantasies of 'window's beta' kids.
Re: Quake TimeDemo no FPS
Posted on 2014-04-14, 22:09
Re: Finding a Wormhole Saver
Posted on 2014-04-14, 12:35
I know there's a similar scene in Future Crew's Unreal. There is a 1997 palette cycling screensaver called 'Electric !" that did a similar thing. AfterDark (Mroe After Dark to be specific) has a similar module called Tunnel but that's in the shape of a rectangle.
Re: YT Video: Building a retro gaming PC for Splinter Cell!
Posted on 2014-04-14, 00:38
And then there's a bit of confusion since certain ports were handled later by Ubisoft Shanghai that made some compromises and alterations to the PS2 and GCN ports. UnrealEngine2 in its earlier days was notoriously fussy about hardware as well - like UT2003 doesn't work on half of the hardware UT2004 …
Re: Suggest/Help me build a retro gaming station
Posted on 2014-04-14, 00:18
You can never have a computer that manages to run TD3 at the correct speed (not even with slowdown programs) and can run Porsche Unleashed, though I can clearly see the motive to have a system that runs a particular lineage of NFS games... However there's some who swear by disabling the cache on …
Re: Dosbox, CRT 17", 320x200... please.
Posted on 2014-04-13, 23:14
vgaonly also doubles the resolution (well actually more like properly emulates the VGA scanlines which requires 640x400). vgaonly is there for some of the few games (but mostly demoscene products) that really pinch the VGA registers for some effects.
Re: M$ to patch 17 year exploit for Dos and Windows
Posted on 2014-04-13, 00:56
Re: Voodoo3 Pentium4 project
Posted on 2014-04-11, 22:40
You mean a V3 3500 TV? 😀 Don't get the wrong idea though. V3 couldn't have run Tribes 2 much better than the Rage128 (T2 is one bloated unoptimized game), and Halo wouldn't have worked at all since that game was very fussy about some things (like not being able to run in 32-bit color for one).
Re: Ideal system setup for each era of retrocomputing
Posted on 2014-04-11, 00:05
The PCX2 is bottlenecked by the bus transfer speed going from PCI to your host card, which is great for an addon role since it doesn't rely on a pass-through cable and won't cause the signal quality to go down. 😀
Re: Ideal system setup for each era of retrocomputing
Posted on 2014-04-10, 22:33
For the fast Win9x rigs I would also pop in a PowerVR PCX2 card as a reasonably slow bottleneck for the few speed crazy Direct3D games (and adding ability to play the SGL ones), but unfortunately that's not a card that would work with a Geforce properly. Using the D3D HAL on PowerVR is optional and …
Re: F117a Stealth Fighter 2.0
Posted on 2014-04-10, 00:12
monnow wrote: then downloaded stealth fighter. there's your problem right there monnow wrote: Native or emulated? IDK? Serial, PS/2 or USB Keyboard? WTF? Motherboard? BIOS? WTF? […] Show full quote Native or emulated? IDK? Serial, PS/2 or USB Keyboard? WTF? Motherboard? BIOS? WTF? Speak English big …
Re: Are there any open-source game engines for msdos?
Posted on 2014-04-08, 23:43
.flac support would be anachronistic, since the audio files would be disproportionately larger than the game's core. Wouldn't .wav be an ok substitute? It wouldn't be. Have you ever had a pre-1997 mixed-mode game CD where there was a <10mb game and the rest are used for huge uncompressed audio …
Re: After Dark screen savers
Posted on 2014-04-07, 02:16
The special themed packs generally are AfterDark 2.0 (1992) or 3.0 (1993+) modules which should be installed before 4.0/Deluxe. Windows 95 support wasn't implemented until 4. 3.2 had the ability to work in 95's system tray, but since it was still 16-bit it didn't support the kernel's password …
Re: UT2004 stutter
Posted on 2014-04-06, 23:14
covering gameplay/technical/modding, etc, if anyone's interested. Two great sites for UT fans. Though unfortunately there's only two people remaining at both sites that seem to know what they're talking about. Wormbo and Meowcat come to mind. Most of the others are just there for the Ballistic …
Re: A ykhwong build's font question
Posted on 2014-04-06, 23:02
output=ddraw or output=direct3d (in third-party builds with the d3d patch)
Re: Are casual games dead?
Posted on 2014-04-05, 23:55
yeah, those young self-proclaimed members of the "pc master race" tend to be the whiniest and fussiest of the bunch, spoiled by emulaiton, and percieving older video games as something without any value. Harvester just came to steam. Guess what half of the threads are about?
Re: Megaman X PC
Posted on 2014-04-05, 23:21
That's not completely true. SNES had things easy with a sprite engine that dealt with additive and subtractive blending natively in 15-bit color. PC's powerful enough to brute force all that blitting through the CPU (SNES wouldn't be able to do it that way), though with 8bpp packed pixels, lookup …
Re: F117a Stealth Fighter 2.0
Posted on 2014-04-05, 23:14
Native or emulated? Serial, PS/2 or USB keyboard? Motherboard? BIOS? DOS version?
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