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Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.

Posted on 2016-08-10, 16:35

in PC Emulation
It was brought to my attention that the Crystal Dream 2 demo (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=462) does not work on PCem. I tried with V11 and various older versions, and you only get as far as the setup menu. It seems the emulator does not respond to the keyboard. I think the same happens in …

Re: Full-screen mode

Posted on 2016-08-09, 18:32

Can I say that with digital technology displays the Visible area = Active area? There is no need for overscan. Well, if we are talking about a fully digital system, so using DVI, HDMI or DP, then there can be an exact mapping of pixels in the signal to the actual screen. So the visible area is a …

Re: Doom 2016 is the living proof...

Posted on 2016-08-09, 17:49

in Milliways
Could you name some DX titles that run smooth for you? Anything that can run faster than my screen's refresh rate runs smoothly for me. And I disagree with you about there isn't that lot of a difference among APIs. And I am not a programmer. I am a programmer :) I am just saying that the …

Re: Full-screen mode

Posted on 2016-08-09, 17:33

The overscan you are talking about is actually the frond and back porch which can be made smaller and used for more active pixels. I disagree. I think you are missing a 'phase'. Front porch and back ports are part of the horizontal sync pulses during the 'blank/retrace interval', see here: http:// …

Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Posted on 2016-08-09, 17:03

in Milliways
Win10 is likely to be the os of perpetual updates Yes, they want to go for a 'rolling release' model. Which seems to make more sense in this day and age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release and duck tape fixes more than any os before it. How so? If anything, issues get fixed in a better …

Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Posted on 2016-08-09, 16:36

in Milliways
3. It screwed up my Windows 7 games for Windows 10 install. None of the EXE files ported over and my old installer didn't work anymore. I had to re-download the updated installer to get it to work properly. Welcome back Freecell, Solitaire, Chess, Mahjongg. (Freecell is my JAM when I'm bored.) Why …

Re: Full-screen mode

Posted on 2016-08-09, 14:06

Isn't that part of the front/back porch part of the sync signal? Back in the 90's I had the image touch the border of the CRT, it had sharp corners, LG flatron. Not really. In fact, on VGA you can program how much of the border uses the background colour (which is why you still see black around the …

Re: Doom 2016 is the living proof...

Posted on 2016-08-09, 13:52

in Milliways
I do, as I was part of the team that designed the PS4 graphics API. I cannot say too much due to NDAs but it is not Mantle. Do you feel like AMD tried to claim too much credit in the media with the Mantle API? Their introduction made it almost sound like both Xbox One and PS4 were using Mantle, or …

Re: Doom 2016 is the living proof...

Posted on 2016-08-09, 13:24

in Milliways
Vulkan might gain ground on gaming industry because of Linux and Valve's Steam machines though I doubt it. The exact same argument went for OpenGL, but not much resulted from it. also the craze to port Android games to PCs might work in Vulkans favor too, since Vulkan works on Android while DX12 …

Re: Full-screen mode

Posted on 2016-08-09, 12:35

Anyway, I want 4:3 with top and bottom touching the screen edge at all times so super-scaled and interpolated is still the way for me. That is not how it is supposed to look though. Sadly DOSBox does not support the border. But on real CRTs there was always a border area around the visible area. …

Re: Doom 2016 is the living proof...

Posted on 2016-08-09, 12:21

in Milliways
This is like a free upgrade and I only wish more games took advantage of the Vulkan API. I think Vulkan will remain a minor player, much like OpenGL before it... The situation hasn't changed: PS4 uses its own custom API, Xbox One uses DX11 or DX12. Windows can use either DX, OpenGL or Vulkan. OS X …

Re: Comeback for AMD? [Polaris]

Posted on 2016-08-09, 11:04

in Milliways
Not sure if the HDMI 2.0 affects many people who buy these cards, since I imagine they will mostly be using whatever FullHD monitor their Acer or whatever came with. I suppose this sort of card would be interesting for a HTPC: the relatively low power means it won't generate a lot of heat, and can …

Re: Doom 2016 is the living proof...

Posted on 2016-08-09, 10:26

in Milliways
...that Direct-X sucks, sucked always and will always suck (OpenGL was way way better). And that Direct-X 12 is just snake oil, a poor bait excuse for luring pc gamers to w10. Heh, okay... How does DOOM prove any of that, seeing as it has no DirectX renderer, so there is no way to compare APIs in …

Re: Full-screen mode

Posted on 2016-08-08, 21:07

Can such a window be technically called a separate graphical mode? Yes, I suppose so. I thought it would still be a 320x200 mode with the software writing within a 200x200 subregion? Not necessarily. You can reprogram CGA/EGA/VGA/Hercules so that a scanline is actually just 200 pixels wide in …

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