Re: Wrong colors on BIG ENDIAN in games/apps which use 15,16 or 32bit video modes

Posted on 2020-01-29, 23:17

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> qReverse This library seems to be aimed at doing a fullscreen "mirror" operation, which is not the operation that is needed here. qReverse has SIMD for NEON/SSSE3+, but PPC would require AltiVec? It looks like AltiVec does have a byte permutation (shuffle) instruction, though.

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Re: Ways to dump memory to a file->

Posted on 2020-01-26, 16:12

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the dosbox debugger. Guide to the DOSBox debugger

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Re: Do the newest 3rd gen zen 2 ryzen's still have problems with dosbox?

Posted on 2019-08-29, 23:40

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DOSbox doesn't use hardware-assisted virtualization. You may have it confused with Virtual PC, dosemu, ntvdm, etc.

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Re: Test suite for Win32s/WinG?

Posted on 2019-06-05, 00:45

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If you have problems with WinG, please run the wingbug.exe file in the bin directory of the SDK and send the generated report to ...

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Re: Getting Final Liberation CD-version to work smoothly in 64 bit Windows 7 SP1 with videos. . .

Posted on 2019-05-24, 00:20

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😎 "unofficial patch" -> quasi-official. GoG was using my patch, AFAIK.

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Re: DOSBox debugger - my laptop has no pause key->

Posted on 2019-05-09, 22:11

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try using the onscreen keyboard

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Re: Getting back to retro software "reverse engineering" - tips for reading, tools, tutorials etc?

Posted on 2019-04-24, 21:40

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https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=HOWT … rse_Engineering also memory scanners (CE / MHS) and hardware breakpoints are life savers... https://old.reddit.com/r/REGames/

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Re: Using DOSBox programatically (automation with Python)

Posted on 2019-03-02, 18:56

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A. Screenshot the dosbox window then use OCR on the image. B. Modify dosbox source code. C. Use standard game hacking techniques. D. Custom shell program in dosbox that echos output to a file? The JPC-RR is a emulator that may better align with your goal(s). http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/ …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2019-01-30, 00:10

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http://danika.jukor.net/opera1063win95.html Known Bugs: Nothing reported yet I'm very surprised this doesn't crash and burn by way of an unbalanced stack. At best, renaming "DuplicateTokenEx" to "DuplicateToken" causes the function call to always fail. Renaming "InterlockedCompareExchange" to " …

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Re: cnc-ddraw 1.3.0.0

Posted on 2018-11-20, 15:34

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Welcome to VOGONS.

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Re: Why does stopping "explorer.exe" fix certain games?

Posted on 2018-10-17, 22:24

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@Azarien 1. DirectDraw is the *ONLY* way to get *EXCLUSIVE* access to the system palette. DDraw's exclusive access is not exclusive anymore. Hence it is a DDraw bug. 2. DDraw-to-Direct3D wrappers allows for the ~300,000 palette lookups per frame to be GPU accelerated. This is a performance issue, …

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Re: multi threading

Posted on 2018-10-16, 02:59

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Track 16 possible inputs using AVX-512. 😲 https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/ … _emulation.html

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Re: Warhammer: Dark Omen Freezing on Voodoo II!!

Posted on 2018-09-12, 21:14

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"tshoot.exe" in Dark Omen folder == graphic card trouble shooting switches... but I don't know if any of them help here.

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Re: Info about the owner of others webs of 3dfx

Posted on 2018-09-06, 22:14

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Interview of fans or collectores of 3dfx and ex-workers of 3dfx... what have you tried? It took just a couple of minutes to spot that the probable owner of http://hw-museum.cz visited some other forum 2 hours ago... https://community.hwbot.org/profile/22924-havli/

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Re: multi threading

Posted on 2018-07-11, 22:42

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no. 1. most instructions depend on the output of prior instruction. 2. the real cpu is already speculating, where possible. 3. 300+ cycles needed for synchronization between threads, every time.

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Re: utility that logs what files and where and registry changes of installers

Posted on 2018-04-17, 21:12

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Microsoft's Attack Surface Analyzer (for Windows Vista and beyond)

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Re: What's about legal information?

Posted on 2018-04-17, 21:04

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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html I would like to bundle GPLed software with some sort of installation software. Does that installer need to have a GPL-compatible license? >> No. The installer and the files it installs are separate …

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Re: Detecting time in BAT file under DosBox using IF

Posted on 2018-04-16, 21:49

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I don't believe Dosbox 0.74 returns a correct time... DOSBox DOS timer overrun bug CMOS clock patch (dates not changing when left overnight)

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Re: .IMS and .MDR

Posted on 2017-11-08, 22:44

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scummvm might be of interest: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/SCUMM/Techn … ence/iMuse_data https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/tree/maste … nes/scumm/imuse https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/tree/maste … cumm/imuse_digi

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Re: Star Trek Generations: video won't play

Posted on 2017-10-25, 20:46

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try extracting this to your game folder https://web.archive.org/web/20120208102025/ht … timr/cvid32.zip from the makers of cinepack http://www.probo.com/cinepak.php afaik this codec was disabled in windows over security concerns...? so probably don't want it in your system32 folder

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