Re: Won't even start up
Posted on 2011-07-09, 19:21
I tried to reproduce your problem, but it works plain fine here.
Re: Won't even start up
Posted on 2011-07-09, 19:11
Works fine here.
Re: is there a possibility to run my app?
Posted on 2011-07-06, 14:49
Nobody reads sticky threads. At least nobody of those who should.
Re: A few minor optimization patches
Posted on 2011-07-06, 12:27
PGO won't do this kind of optimization either. It's more useful to move around branches considering likeliness, speculating virtual calls, inlining selectively and so on, and anyway, integrating PGO to software releases is a real PITA. And there's the issues of having a representative PGO session. …
Re: A few minor optimization patches
Posted on 2011-07-06, 09:49
Here we probably have a game that is not CPU intensive and does lot of sync checks on the p3da, no? Yes, the usual targets of optimizations are games that push the system to limits. I am 150% positive that gcc and msvc would just compile the code as it is written Profile-guided optimization usually …
Re: A few minor optimization patches
Posted on 2011-07-06, 08:07
oprofile does recognize as "anonymous" the executable generated pages. They're usually more than 50% of the overall time so not sure if that anon accounts for the recompiler code. The RENDER_StartLineHandler optimisation was a huge win for the function IIRC Sounds like a compiler problem to me …
Re: A few minor optimization patches
Posted on 2011-07-06, 06:47
my goal is to have a look to the top functions that come out from oprofile on my laptop That's only of use if oprofile can gather information about the generated code from the recompiler. Otherwise your "few percent" are "pretty much zero" which is why I've asked for real benchmarks on this.
Re: CGA w/ Monochrome Monitor Support (Work in Progress...)
Posted on 2011-07-05, 17:25
You're confusing "how game creators thought it should be played" and "how the game was perceived back then by an individual".
Re: CGA w/ Monochrome Monitor Support (Work in Progress...)
Posted on 2011-07-05, 12:57
I don't see how that can be when games were clearly written with color monitors in mind. Quite easy: reproducing what you had available back then. For me seeing sokoban in green monochrome is much more "YES!" than seeing it in cga colors, same reason why i'd never play lucas arts with anything …
Re: Classic (Legal) Dos Games Remakes and Ports - Dune II
Posted on 2011-07-05, 06:25
Re: DOSBox.exe - Entry Point Not Found
Posted on 2011-07-04, 16:24
even though Nicholas Wirth's famous quote says, "All non-trivial software has at least one bug in it." All respect to Wirth but I prefer PEBCAC for a much higher hit ratio. Maybe their fecal matter doesn't stink ... Er what? You can stick your figers in your ears and pretend I didn't say that I …
Re: DOSBox.exe - Entry Point Not Found
Posted on 2011-07-04, 12:59
Well i don't know about win2000/dx specialities but DirectX diagnostics even say I don't have any input devices sounds pretty broken itself and no matter what old version you try it won't work without a recognised mouse/keyboard.
Re: Spelljammer Fatal Error
Posted on 2011-07-03, 16:16
DOSBox configuration file and README.
Re: A few minor optimization patches
Posted on 2011-07-03, 12:15
What speed improvement do you actually get from any of the patches?
Re: Quake & Zelda Classic Error
Posted on 2011-07-03, 12:14
You could try different cputypes maybe that helps for stability. But if the dpmi files are missing it by times means it was only tested on win95 and crashes on real dos systems the same way as in dosbox.
Re: Where i can find HeXen II: Continent of Blackmarsh?
Posted on 2011-07-02, 22:17
It sure sounds to me like you were putting words in my mouth. No I didn't and if you're interpreting quite straight statements that's nothing I care about either.
Re: Where i can find HeXen II: Continent of Blackmarsh?
Posted on 2011-07-02, 21:34
Who said anything about posting it anyway? Where did I say somebody said that? Do you really think anybody is actually going to take the time to look into it, especially if they're not getting paid to do it? I don't know and I don't care. If such information can't provide I assume it's still under …
Re: Where i can find HeXen II: Continent of Blackmarsh?
Posted on 2011-07-02, 21:14
Re: Where i can find HeXen II: Continent of Blackmarsh?
Posted on 2011-07-02, 17:29
Since this is a demo of the game, would it be illegal to post here? Do you see all the copyright signs on the cd? You should be very sure that it's allowed to distribute it before posting that somewhere.
Re: DOSBox.exe - Entry Point Not Found
Posted on 2011-07-02, 16:46
Use 0.74, check your directx version and other drivers and read DosFreak's reply (if you don't know how to check the system path variable try google).
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