Re: What are some early (pre-quake) 3D (not 2.5d) dos/windows games? (List?)

Posted on 2011-09-05, 15:34

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by leileilol

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MaxWar wrote: I think Quake was the first fps game to use no sprites at all. Quake used 3 sprites - explosion, bubbles, and the occassional light globe. Ironically they had an enhanced sprite renderer with various types of sprites (Half-Life REALLY exploited this for making beams and huds)

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Re: Is this a problem with all Matrox cards?

Posted on 2011-09-05, 00:44

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by leileilol

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It's probably the Matrox drivers and their handling of DIB functions

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Re: What are some early (pre-quake) 3D (not 2.5d) dos/windows games? (List?)

Posted on 2011-09-05, 00:12

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swaaye wrote: Out of this World He's looking for full 3d textured games around the 93-95 era, not 2d vector sexiness

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Re: What are some early (pre-quake) 3D (not 2.5d) dos/windows games? (List?)

Posted on 2011-09-04, 23:35

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Wing Commander 3 (1994) has full 3d space combat IN SUPER FREAKING VGA 640 BY FREAKING 480 Jane's US Navy Fighters (1994) was textured 3d all over the place... but in 1024x768 also don't forget Future Shock (1995), sprite view weapons but model enemies to blast in a 3d world. and VEHICLES! Also, …

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Re: Patch for OpenGL fullscreen bug

Posted on 2011-09-04, 02:35

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by leileilol

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snakesqzns wrote: Note that the artifacting I described above only shows up on the right and bottom when using this shader.[/img] Happens in BSNES for me as well hey, i'd kill to get this effect in my own quake engine! 😀

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Re: Mortal Kombat 3 Controls do not respond

Posted on 2011-09-04, 01:03

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by leileilol

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Try disabling joystick

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Re: PCI emulation (for 3D accelerators)?

Posted on 2011-09-03, 22:31

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by leileilol

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Not saying that I can't do it, but what games actually utilize PowerVR besides Quake II? A hell of a lot more than NV1, that's for sure. Almost every UnrealEngine1 game for example... I have a Youtube channel with video captures of PowerVR PCX2 running games it's intended to, and NOT intended to …

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Re: NVIDIA NV1 Wrapper

Posted on 2011-09-02, 23:47

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by leileilol

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The funny thing, for the PCX2, the SGL header and library WAS available publically, and even mastered onto the Matrox M3D cds. It's been since retracted. Dunno about the NV1 though

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Re: NVIDIA NV1 Wrapper

Posted on 2011-09-02, 22:36

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by leileilol

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sliderider wrote: I tend to doubt they would be willing to provide any technical support for something that old, at least not for free. PowerVR's even like that regarding the PCX2 these days (despite the whole marketing switch focus to mobile/embedded stuff). It's still as confidential as ever.

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Re: best hard drives

Posted on 2011-09-02, 01:19

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by leileilol

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Maxtor Diamondmax 40GB and Seagate 7200.11 all of them

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Re: Recording Creative Game Blaster w/ line-in on modern PC

Posted on 2011-09-01, 23:53

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by leileilol

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It'll also help to record at an extremely high format (96khz, 24-bit)

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Re: Peculiar problem using Windows ME

Posted on 2011-09-01, 15:23

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by leileilol

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Did you try killing any remnant of the Msagent/Scheduler? That was a perf problem in the Win98 days as well

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Re: Where i can find HeXen II: Continent of Blackmarsh?

Posted on 2011-09-01, 14:50

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Delete Opengl32.dll Did that, started it, got past that error, but now i get another one saying pvrh2.exe has stopped working, trying to start it in compatibility mode gives me "could not load gfx.wad" error Extension list overflow. Rename pvrh2.exe to glquake.exe for a graphics driver workaround …

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Re: Where i can find HeXen II: Continent of Blackmarsh?

Posted on 2011-09-01, 01:22

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by leileilol

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Delete Opengl32.dll

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-09-01, 00:38

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by leileilol

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DOOD MAN DON'T THROW YOUR GUESSES OUT IN THE PUBLIC EMAIL THEM FOLLOW TEH RULES I learned that the hard way when I also publically guessed Carmageddon eventually ADG will cover Carmageddon, hopefully with -german switch for the audience.

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Re: My Ultimate M919

Posted on 2011-08-31, 23:54

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by leileilol

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I run mine in 160mhz and get 71.4. I also use 1 WS for DRAM Read. Pro: faster in Quake. Con: hardlocks on soft reset.

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Re: Ideas for a Dos/9x PC?

Posted on 2011-08-30, 22:45

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by leileilol

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D3D HAL override hell Geforces are worst for that

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Re: Problem with LBA on PCChips M919

Posted on 2011-08-30, 22:41

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by leileilol

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Set that 7GB limit jumper in the back of the drive if you haven't.

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Re: Advice needed for Win98 gaming pc

Posted on 2011-08-30, 02:12

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by leileilol

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I wonder if using 3DAnalyze to fake the card as a G400 in the ID stuff would help

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Re: Advice needed for Win98 gaming pc

Posted on 2011-08-30, 00:56

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by leileilol

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The Kyro2 supports EBM but i have neverevereverever tried DK2 on it.

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