Re: MiniGL Specification

Posted on 2022-02-24, 16:06

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MiniGL's more of 3dfx's stopgap idea really. GLQuake was made on proper OpenGL hardware (Intergraphs) on NT at the time. Carmack had big Trinity (id Tech 3's early codename) plans set later that year with intent for requiring full GL spec compliance (Q3TEST flushing MiniGL for good 2 years later) …

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Re: Volo's Gamepad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (official thread) (Starting shipping 31.08.2021)

Posted on 2022-02-24, 15:57

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Be safe, Volo.

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Re: MiniGL Specification

Posted on 2022-02-22, 20:08

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The lack of a "formal" standardizarion of MiniGL was such missed opportunity. :disappointed: For a time, both the graphics accelerator manufacturers and other game companies were trying to follow id software with what they were doing with OpenGL. 3dfx and PowerVR would only bother implementing what …

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Re: Replicas of Covox Speech Thing, FTL Sound Adapter and SiliconSoft SoundJr

Posted on 2022-02-22, 13:27

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The economically most sensible solution would be a small STM32 µC in a parallel port dongle with external power supply. It could be programmed to imitate virtually all the other parallel port dongles. Makes sense. If combined with an OPL3 FM chip, perhaps the STM32 would even be powerful enough to …

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2022-02-17, 14:07

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I was wondering... Do any of you know of a VGA-to-HDMI or VGA-to-DisplayPort converter that makes use of the Adaptive Sync (a.k.a. FreeSync) feature in many modern TFT monitors? I'm asking this, since I'm not sure if most standard TFT monitors actually show a 70Hz signal at 70 frames per second. Or …

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Re: Any interest in a SDL-less "abstract" port?

Posted on 2022-02-15, 09:53

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You might want to look into the uefidoom project, which is a Doom port to a UEFI payload, making use of the standard UEFI framebuffer and Intel HD Audio. This effectively makes Doom a modern-day PC booter game. :grin: You might be able to reuse some of this code to allow your fork to boot directly …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-14, 22:13

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ah yes, we used to be subscribed to Computer!Totaal back in the day, and I remember Planhold advertising in every monthly issue of that magazine with a lavish full-page ad. They really gave off a "premium PC clone builder" vibe.

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-02-13, 13:59

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rasteri wrote on 2022-02-13, 10:54: Honestly, I usually pay for the game on steam or GOG and then just obtain the original CD/floppy images by *cough* other means. The developer gets more money this way anyway ☝️ This is the way.

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Re: Texelec.com - that was nice

Posted on 2022-02-12, 22:06

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That's good to read. And also good to share such positive feedback! :thumbsup: (To be honest, your topic title came off as a bit sarcastic to me, but I'm glad that wasn't your intent at all. :sweat_smile:) I haven't ordered anything at Texelec yet, but I have ordered stuff on Serdashop.com (a.k.a. …

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Re: Replicas of Covox Speech Thing, FTL Sound Adapter and SiliconSoft SoundJr

Posted on 2022-02-12, 21:46

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In another thread, @dreamblaster said he was going to work on a CVX5 and asked for suggestions on what improvements to make over the earlier CVX4 design. Adding support for these variants would be an interesting suggestion indeed. I also asked for Disney Sound Source and Stereo-on-One compatibility. …

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Re: Newly made PCMCIA sound card

Posted on 2022-02-10, 17:32

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I'd be in for any new repro or fpga based solution that does not use ISA or the printer port. A bit off-topic, but would a parallel port sound device on a PCIe parallel port card work for you? I got some success with that, and yes, in pure DOS, even though the parallel port wasn't listening on the …

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Re: Raspberry Pi gets 64-Bit OS support officially

Posted on 2022-02-09, 22:07

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By the way, my personal favorite CM4 project is the CM4_MATX, a micro-ATX motherboard that you plug a CM4 module into. https://github.com/TheGuyDanish/CM4_MATX The main developer has gotten pretty far with his design, but he needs help from knowledgeable hardware engineers to work on it further. …

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Re: Raspberry Pi gets 64-Bit OS support officially

Posted on 2022-02-09, 22:03

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(Waiting for a Raspberry with SATA connector) You might want to go for a Raspberry Compute Module 4 and stick it on a third-party board that has the interfaces you want. Jeff Geerling has reviewed quite a few of those third-party boards on his YouTube channel. Some of those boards even provide an …

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Re: Raspberry Pi gets 64-Bit OS support officially

Posted on 2022-02-08, 20:39

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How is the RAM consumption though? Do you really wanna upgrade a low RAM model? Jeff Geerling actually has some numbers on differences in RAM consumption, in the comparisons he did. This link fast-forwards to the relevant part: https://youtu.be/ET-DJLnNX-Q?t=143 On a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with 512MB …

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Re: Raspberry Pi gets 64-Bit OS support officially

Posted on 2022-02-08, 10:47

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Phoronix has posted benchmark results, comparing Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit with Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit on a a Raspberry Pi 400 with 4GB RAM. Spoiler alert: the 64-bit OS outperforms the 32-bit OS in every benchmark, some slightly, others considerably. It's definitely worth upgrading to the 64-bit OS if …

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Re: New 3dfx Glide API implementation called "Grover" to be integrated in Linux

Posted on 2022-02-08, 10:11

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its strange with all the improvements that linux still only has 1% of steam I guess there is less motivation than ever to invest in ports, when they're having the compatibility implemented for free. @Pierre32 this isn't the percentage of games on Steam that have a native Linux version. Pickle was …

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Re: CVX-2 : covox adapter

Posted on 2022-02-08, 09:59

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The best would be to do a Disney sound Source like, With a bigger buffer and increased output frequency. A nice improvement over the original DSS would indeed be the ability to adjust the FIFO buffer size and the output frequency. The original DSS had a fixed 16-byte buffer and a non-adjustable …

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Re: CVX-2 : covox adapter

Posted on 2022-02-06, 22:40

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I'm thinking of making a CVX5, any suggestions for changes/improvements compared to CVX4 ? CVX5 would be available in larger amount, it will take a few months though How feasible would it be to include Disney Sound Source compatibility in a CVX5 design? I know you already mentioned that a DSS clone …

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2022-02-05, 21:04

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IIIRC MEGAEM requires protected mode to be active when it's loaded, because it specifically checks which utility is being used (EMM386, QEMM, etc) and patches it in memory with hooks to itself. It's a very hacky way of doing things (it relies on privilege escalation!), but gives it free reign to …

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Re: Nostalgic media thread: old pictures and videos of computer fairs, trade shows, magazine ads, TV commercials, etc.

Posted on 2022-02-05, 20:52

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That looks like a lot of fun. And yeah, download speeds of 100 mbit/s, that must have felt surreal back in 2002. Most households don't get speeds that high even now, 20 years later. Campus broadband was a pretty sweet thing, for those who had access to it. Who knows. If you take the power of …

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