Re: D3D 5.0, best card for the job?
Posted on 2013-08-22, 21:28
Not supporting tabe fog breaks the visibility of a ton of games since it was relied on to clip.
Re: Video bios usage in DOSBox
Posted on 2013-08-22, 03:39
Loading the S3 BIOS will also strip the supported VESA modes, which you can then run the good ol' s3vbe20 to restore back :) I dumped my s3 card (and a couple of other cards) and it's a blast from the past seeing them boot together with the CRT shader. Don't forget that loading video bioses will …
Re: Xenon
Posted on 2013-08-22, 02:22
Re: D3D 5.0, best card for the job?
Posted on 2013-08-22, 01:17
That's just little presets to make buggy OpenGL ICDs less upset. Half-Life packs a few vendor-specific cfgs as well (including one for the unreleased PowerVR SG even)
Re: D3D 5.0, best card for the job?
Posted on 2013-08-22, 01:05
I have experience with the similar i751 and I thought its 16-bit banding was horrible, looking far worse than Voodoo. I wouldn't count on that for being a 3dfx substitute. Its control panel isn't even good - just seems to be redundant resolution setting menus. If you want to experience "poor man's …
Re: Game Pads
Posted on 2013-08-22, 00:35
Well, Duck Tales wasn't originally made for the SNES pad.... more like NES pad so 😀
Re: OS-es with weak OpenGL
Posted on 2013-08-21, 21:38
FreeBSD
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 20:04
The reason it's going Direct3D because Microsoft provides an OpenGL ICD that redirects to another (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OPENGL32.DLL or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\OPENGL32.DLL). When a video card's drivers are installed, some lines in the system registry changes to allow OpenGL32 to redirect the calls ( …
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:51
Explain like what? Bullshit how it's "amateur" because it doesn't use technology or extensions that didn't exist in 1999? How would you know how the engine works if you keep falsely claiming there's a wrapper in it?
Re: The Wrapper Collection Project
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:47
I am finding it hard to call pure graphics libraries "wrappers", we'll see. TinyGL could become a standalone wrapper with some clever recoding, shame no one has done it yet. As for MGL, that's just a 2D graphics drawing library that must be linked to and written for and only a few games use it ( …
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:35
Carmack's .plan files never mentioned a wrapper either. The other day he had to tweet debunking some misinformation about the game's allegedly "self-learning and adapting neural network" bot AI. Does he also have to tweet about some random guy's bullshit about a D3D wrapper in Q3A too? There is no …
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:26
Public Q3 source only has punkbuster/mplayer code stripped. The "missing wrapper" in quake3 is just placebo. Try compiling Quake3's public source with VC6/7 and compare Release executable sizes. Including a complete GL wrapper would send it far over 800kb...
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:21
Not even the releases even make a reference or link to any Direct3D term. Dependency walker sure doesn't show any link to d3dim.dll. There is no wrapper within Quake3. It's going Direct3D because Windows detected the game, saw no video, and is taking over.
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:16
The source is open. I can be sure. Not one file in the Quake3 source even drops a reference to Direct3D.
Re: OpenGL-to-Direct3D Wrapper inside Quake 3?
Posted on 2013-08-21, 19:13
Geri wrote: i think this wrapper is inside quake3 itself, Quake3 has no wrapper and ships with no wrapper. As someone who has hacked around its rendering code from time to time I can assure you there's no going to any API but OpenGL from Quake3's end.
Re: 1992 top hardware
Posted on 2013-08-21, 18:59
Windows Sound System cards started appearing more in 1993/94 than 92 too, and they're not necessarily a 'top' card either, despite sounding good on paper what with the 48khz full duplex stuff. Some WSS's have the most annoying drivers ever. Some have really poor chipsets with them.
Re: Dos games with no EXE
Posted on 2013-08-21, 00:58
Even if the disk is damaged, the exe files should still be there, though corrupted. unless the file table is corrupted. then you're screwed. There is no DOS game that is not without binary legally. Whcih reminds me of a certain posters' threads about wanting help for "ScummVM games" that don't carry …
Re: Post your current desktop here :D (56k warning)
Posted on 2013-08-21, 00:54
You know it's going to be Origin exclusive, so it's already a lost cause :( Steam's alright with me, but Origin, GFWL and Uplay are truly evil DRM schemes that exist to capitalize on vendor lock-in and artificial scarcity (especially Uplay with its limited period of downloading). Shame I have to …
Re: What is the best C64 Emulator
Posted on 2013-08-20, 21:39
I don't want just "scanlines". That's been a dead horse beaten in emulators since ZSNES, and is nowhere replicating the TV. I remember my C64 experience being bright, saturated, and a ton of bleed.
Re: What is the best C64 Emulator
Posted on 2013-08-19, 20:44
Any of them do the NTSC CRT phosphor stuff? I didn't grow up on the C64 looking raw and desaturated.
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