Re: Zeckensack's Glide Wrapper

Posted on 2004-09-30, 23:49

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Man, not both top Glide wrappers hitting problems at the same time! Anyway it's great to hear you're looking at Speed Busters, however I have one request (to throw into the mix): there is a patch for Speed Busters called "spbaddon.exe" which is about 25MB in size. It adds all the new cars (which are …

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Re: How to create a FAT32 formatted partition on your NTFS-formatted disk drive?

Posted on 2004-09-28, 21:04

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Pro Rally 2001 Extreme-G2 M25 Racer There's 3 for me heh! Ice

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Re: How to create a FAT32 formatted partition on your NTFS-formatted disk drive?

Posted on 2004-09-28, 12:35

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You could get a small secondary drive and FAT32 that. I wanted to have my second drive as Win98/FAT32 but then discovered that Win98 would only run on C: so setting up a second drive as D: with it on wouldn't work. Basically you have to install Win98 on a FAT32 drive then upgrade to XP retaining 98/ …

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Virtual PC rumour

Posted on 2004-09-28, 12:33

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There's a rumour that Virtual PC will be improved and ported to XBox2 so XBox1 games can be played on it. More importantly (for us!) is that it might support "advanced graphics card support for the first time - allowing owners of NVIDIA boards to emulate a 32Mb GeForce 3 in Virtual PC, while ATI …

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Re: Frogger

Posted on 2004-09-26, 22:20

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I assume you're talking about the "new" 3D Frogger game. Does it have CD audio (verify by playing it in Media Player)? If so it might be suffering the same problem that some older Windows games I have - the CD audio just doesn't start playing. Examples include Boss Rally, Sega Rally 2 and Sentinel …

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Re: Zeckensack's Glide Wrapper

Posted on 2004-09-26, 13:54

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Zeckensack reports that "Need for Speed 2SE now runs. Perfectly. Yay. Expect a release Real Soon Now." http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/ There's also a bit of a blog thing going there! Ice

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Re: A glide wrapper for DOS programs - part deux (dgVoodoo)

Posted on 2004-09-26, 13:07

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Dege has released 1.31: IV. What's new in v1.31 ----------------------- - Support for Glide 2.11 - LFB handling is rewritten, it means new converters, etc. This version supports write formats RGB565, RGB555 and ARGB1555 natively. - Earlier solutions for multithreading issues could (and did) cause …

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Re: A glide wrapper for DOS programs - part deux (dgVoodoo)

Posted on 2004-09-23, 23:50

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I'll carry on taking my chances then! Regarding POD, well it is a strangely programmed game anyway. Even on my last Win98/Voodoo5 card it locked up when you press Exit then Okay (or whatever the quit option says)! Can you also remind me (either on here or via e-mail) what software you used to debug …

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Re: Zeckensack's Glide Wrapper

Posted on 2004-09-17, 08:28

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Interesting stuff. Yeah the EAR stuff is weird/annoying - there's a new icon in my Control Panel from this game so I presume bundling the game as I did isn't the most reliable way but at least you managed to test the graphics out! Ice

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Re: A glide wrapper for DOS programs - part deux (dgVoodoo)

Posted on 2004-09-16, 11:50

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Hey Dege, don't give up, it's probably ATI's fault (most graphical things on my games seems to be!!). Anyway let me know if you'd like me to collect NASCAR2 together with the patch for you to try out. As I said the game doesn't seem to work (for me anyway, others say it's fine) in XP... and the …

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Re: A glide wrapper for DOS programs - part deux (dgVoodoo)

Posted on 2004-09-15, 20:26

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Hi Dege, Interesting discovery. I was just trying to get the NASCAR Racing 2 3Dfx beta to work. Now this is difficult as: 1. On my old Voodoo5 5500 AGP equipped machine the Glide version doesn't seem to work any more (that machine uses Win98 and a hacked unofficial 3Dfx driver so I'm not suprised …

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Re: A few questions.

Posted on 2004-09-14, 00:36

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There is no DOS in Windows XP. If you're lucky the DOS game will work without any effort (but you need to be pretty lucky!). Otherwise you might need VDMsound to emulate soundcard/DOS CD-ROM driver (at a minimum) or DOSBox to emulate most of DOS. If the game in question used high-res then DOSBox may …

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Re: Some DOS games on XP = shakey-vision, any fixes?

Posted on 2004-09-12, 00:04

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yeah I know, Wipeout XL/2097 is a whole other can of worms. An unthrottled piece of poor programming! Odd given that Psygnosis released it around the same time as Formula 1 (95) which can still be coaxed into working in Windows XP, whereas Wipeout XL runs at a million frames per second! Actually in …

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Re: Some DOS games on XP = shakey-vision, any fixes?

Posted on 2004-09-11, 01:17

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I'm not talking about interferance! Try running either of those games (available at Underdogs) and see if you get the same - the vsync is either out or a rogue frame keeps jumping in every few frames. Could these be using VESA as they run 640x480 res in DOS? I'm still not sure which games do use …

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Re: A glide wrapper for DOS programs - part deux (dgVoodoo)

Posted on 2004-09-06, 20:26

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dgVoodoo seems to work fine on my Radeon 9800XT with Catalyst 4.8 on Screamer2 and Screamer Rally. I haven't tried any other DOS Glide games though. Ice

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Re: Zeckensack's Glide Wrapper

Posted on 2004-09-01, 23:17

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BRally.exe is the Boss Rally game exe. You need Win98 compatibility mode on it. BossRally.exe runs the opening video then calls BRally.exe SetVideo.exe lets you change the graphics card. Direct3D doesn't detect my ATI Radeon 9800XT so I use the following in SetVideo.exe to use Glide: - I know the …

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Some DOS games on XP = shakey-vision, any fixes?

Posted on 2004-09-01, 16:52

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Is there any way of preventing (or minimising) the aweful shakey flicker seen in some high-res (and some low-res!) DOS games when running in WinXP? Examples include Scorcher and Test Drive Off Road (both obtainable from Home of the Underdogs if anyone else wants to have a look!). These can be run in …

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Re: Monitor refresh rate...

Posted on 2004-09-01, 16:49

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I'd like to know if there's a decent fix for this, however some games might use the 60hz as a timer and might run too fast if ran at a higher refresh rate? However DOS games run through DOSBox run at whatever screen refresh rate you have in Windows (which is nice!), but this isn't "official" DOS. …

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NEW PATCH

Posted on 2004-08-30, 23:29

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by VirtuaIceMan

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Dege has updated the Pod/Pod Gold patch to include more versions (as Ubisoft went mental and made hundreds of different exes!). As before the best bet seems to be the 3Dfx Glide version (you need glide.dll and sst1init.dll in your windows/system32 folder for 3Dfx to be detected*) then use Dege's …

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Re: POD on a P4

Posted on 2004-08-29, 16:29

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Having talked to Dege about it thru e-mail it turns out Pod's problem was that it did a check to see what processor the computer is using and then exited as it didn't understand Pentium4! So he just changed the processor ID tag so it passed okay! Annoyingly it has to be done seperately for each Pod …

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