Re: ykhwong's latest build?

Posted on 2015-01-11, 04:32

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Artifacts in other video renderers, like for openglnb? Surface, overlay and direct3d - lower part of the OMF quit text isn't drawn. You can see it whan you scroll the screen with Enter. Openglnb - same as ddraw. Plus OMF runs in 800x600 mode (both fullresolution and windowresolution are original). …

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Re: ykhwong's latest build?

Posted on 2015-01-11, 01:36

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Ddraw renderer is worse (screen artifacts with One Must Fall 2097) etc...

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Re: Installing XP on ga-g33m-s2 using 2TB drive

Posted on 2015-01-10, 21:27

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AFAIR - the jumper is the Western Digital HDDs "feature". It shifts the 512-bytes sector number to 1 so the first WinXp partition starts from the 65th sector (not 64th) and hits 4-kbytes borders. Still you can easily miss this border with the 1st partition end or with the 2nd partition... So the …

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Re: Installing XP on ga-g33m-s2 using 2TB drive

Posted on 2015-01-10, 21:03

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If your partition isn't aligned and you use WinXp - some (or all) of 512 KB sectors will be read/written at 2 commands. And you will get 13%-50% speed loss. Use HDD vendors utils to fix this. Or you can use this.

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Re: Best glide wrapper for 9x?

Posted on 2015-01-10, 16:31

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If you have a DX9 videocard - use nGlide. I can't test new versions (my Radeon X850 PE is dead) but all old versions are fully Win9x compatible. For DOS glide games (glide2x.ovl) you can use dgVoodoo or GliDOS.

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Re: Installing XP on ga-g33m-s2 using 2TB drive

Posted on 2015-01-10, 01:53

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"2 TB" drives are really 1.86 TB ones (2*10^9/1024^3) so WinXp don't have troubles with them. And you have missed the source of trouble. It's not WinXp, it is MBR (master boot record) limitations. The partition offset and the partition sectors number are 4-byte long so you can't address 2+ TB (2^32* …

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Re: ykhwong's latest build?

Posted on 2015-01-08, 22:31

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By the way, is there a way to suppress all these DOS_AllocateMemory/DOS_FreeMemory messages?

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Re: Need For Speed Porsche 2000/Unleashed and Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 no go on my PC

Posted on 2015-01-08, 22:24

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IMHO, just install Vista 32-bit as the second/guest OS (WinXp not supports your chipset/videocard) and try these games in it. Then again, Win8=*censored*.

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Re: CD cannot be found - Windows XP (grand theft auto 1 dos version)

Posted on 2015-01-08, 21:20

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notindeed wrote: how can i get nglide to work with dosbox (or a different glide wrapper). Install the DOSBox with Gulikoza patch. As the example - this version. Set [glide]/glide="true". Delete glide2x.dll/glide2x_64.dll from the DOSBox directory. Install nGlide/other glide wrapper. Run a glide …

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Re: CD cannot be found - Windows XP (grand theft auto 1 dos version)

Posted on 2015-01-08, 01:54

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DOS glide games can't initialize properly in WinXp NTVDM. You must use the DOS/Win9x environment. Or you can use something to translate glide2x.ovl calls to glide2x.dll. DOSBox or Glidos do the trick. So - your attempts are hopeless.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-07, 21:23

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Got 19" CRT. Samsung Syncmaster 957DF. Unfortunately it have the build-in VGA cable and this cable is damaged (red color only if I bend the cable)... I'm not sure I will find someone with enough skill to fix this (mount the DE-15 connector to the monitor shell and attach all wires to it). So - maybe …

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Re: AMD x5 133 + 3Dfx Voodoo1 troubleshooting

Posted on 2015-01-07, 17:27

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Maybe this motherboard not supports PCI bus mastering at all? Well, the obvious test is - to try this Voodoo1 in another PC.

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Re: Asus P5A don't boot

Posted on 2015-01-07, 13:08

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Connect the PC speaker, it must beep something. The other solution is a PCI POST board.

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2015-01-03, 13:39

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Screamer 2 don't have the Voodoo2 executable. It have "Voodoo1 only" s2_3dfx.exe (1 Dec 1997, 1031 KB, crc32 - 2f963d57) and statically linked s23dfx.exe (1272 KB, crc32 - abde5417). It looks like Voodoo3/4/5 can run "Voodoo1 only" games, Voodoo2 can't. *Censored*. "Back compatibility", my a***...

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2015-01-02, 21:05

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Tnx.

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Re: Is Need for Speed III supposed to have fog?

Posted on 2015-01-02, 17:52

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Well, the Voodoo3 NFS4 patch is manual. You replace 3ddata.exe/3ddata.dat. As the result - the Voodoo3 entry is added in the registry and 3dsetup.exe correctly detects/initializes a Voodoo3. The second thing - you must manually replace voodoo2a.dll. So - install the Banshee patch then not copy …

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Re: Is Need for Speed III supposed to have fog?

Posted on 2015-01-02, 11:11

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NFS3 with glide2x renderers (voodooa.dll, unpatched voodoo2a.dll, Banshee patch voodoo2a.dll) - fogging is ok. NFS3 with glide3x/d3d renderers (d3da.dll, Voodoo3 patch voodoo2a.dll) - no fog. Tested with a real Voodoo2. Maybe Voodoo3 results are different but I doubt it. P.S. You must run the …

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2014-12-30, 10:40

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philscomputerlab wrote: Does the Steam version contain a disc image / based on DOSBox? Dunno. I prefer cds/cd-images.

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2014-12-30, 07:05

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Have tested Voodoo2 + XMS-only MS-DOS 7.1 + old glide2x.ovl versions. As expected - no luck. CPU was downclocked to 1.6 GHz. 2.50 from 1.02.51 and 1.02.50 freeze even w/o black screen, right after the dos/4gw banner. All others versions - black screen freeze, no 3dfx logo. P.S. Well, 2.50 from rc2 …

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Re: Just curious..what is your oldest computer still in daily use for actual work?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 14:05

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Socket 478, P4 3.2E.

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