Re: How to make a Pacman game on MS-DOS??

Posted on 2016-10-11, 21:31

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A start might be to get QBasic and look at the example program called nibbles.bas which is usually bundled with it iirc. It has similar functionality to what a PacMan clone might require. You will need to learn some BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC , which most programmers have no doubt …

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Re: SUN computers, what can you do with them? Should I get one?

Posted on 2016-09-25, 19:13

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Video will be 13w3 connector and possibly require sync on green compatible display

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Re: How rare is this vga card?

Posted on 2016-09-07, 14:45

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brostenen wrote: So my only question left, are still how rare this card is. 😀 I doubt there is another card in existence with the same serial number 😉. Its a one of a kind!

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Re: Adding Visual Studio .sln file to Source control?

Posted on 2016-09-06, 22:41

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The solution file should most definitely be in source control. Especially if your end product is in anyway a windows compatible binary built with VC or derivative :) The solution file doesn't contain the projects, it holds references to them. A solution can contain multiple projects from multiple …

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Re: The 604 overkill build!

Posted on 2016-09-05, 10:24

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Server versions of 2k allow for 32 processor (core) systems if memory serves. For all intents and purposes, the shell of 2000 is the same between all versions. Most anti virus software will NOT run on servers versions, but this was intentional as those companies wanted to price gouge you. It's easy …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-31, 18:29

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It would have been cool if win98 was able to use multiple CPUs... NT 4.0 should run on it, and could use 2 processors (possibly even 4, I forget now). Yes NT server could run a fair number of CPU's. Normal NT is limited to 2. Same with Windows 2000 (professional = 2 cpu, server = more than 2) which …

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Re: The funny/stupid computer photo thread!

Posted on 2016-08-31, 18:13

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keropi wrote: amiga 1200 "tower" version: ... Brilliant! They could have at least mounted it on the inside 😵

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Re: Reccommend me DVD playing software for Windows 95

Posted on 2016-07-28, 08:26

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Intervideo WinDVD was the first to software decode DVD at an acceptable playback rate... I think. Unsure what the min spec would be for early version, however win95 isn't really DVD era, more win98. You may need a decoder card (e.g Creative PC-DVD dxr3), I needed one in 1998 but can't remember my …

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Re: Slot 1 CAD Workstation

Posted on 2016-07-26, 07:35

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Or get a MLA (Multi link adapter). Then your not limited to either Oxygen or #9, can use the 1600sw with any card. Not mine... but you get the idea.. http://sishardware.com/imgs/a/a/g/j/t/sgi_1600sw_17___3__wide_screen_1610_lcd_w_multilink_video_adapter_1_lgw.jpg P.S All your questions seem to be …

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Re: What's this electronic component?

Posted on 2016-07-17, 13:41

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It looks like a diode? [EDIT:] Incidentally, electrical components marked with L on boards tend to be Inductors.

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Re: Could someone explain the difference between page flipping and v-sync

Posted on 2016-07-15, 12:39

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What elianda describes is called double buffering (drawing to a buffer while displaying another one, and then flipping between the two so that a frame is displayed in its entirety without the risk of displaying a portion of the next frame, avoiding the tear, which is being populated in a region safe …

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Re: Could someone explain the difference between page flipping and v-sync

Posted on 2016-07-15, 11:13

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That makes sense and I always thought that's how it worked. But why have an option to disable it? Does that mean you would see the image being drawn? Under the right conditions, you would see image tearing as the framebuffer updates at a different (faster/slower) rate than the OpenGL 'page'. [EDIT …

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Re: Fly to the Moon!

Posted on 2016-07-14, 15:15

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Thats pretty cool. Comments on github are hilarious too. Its all pretty pointless, and nothing more than an academic exercise. NASA seem to have a habit of open sourcing software. ( http://www.nasa.gov/press/goddard/2015/march/nasa-goddard-releases-open-source-core-flight-software-system-application …

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Re: Photo software speed troubleshooting

Posted on 2016-07-04, 09:04

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It sounds like it is threaded to be honest (which isn't surprising). The reason I asked this was because batch processing a set number of images and examining the time taken *could* give a indication as to what is happening. Per pixel processing (such as increasing/decreasing exposure or applying a …

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Re: Photo software speed troubleshooting

Posted on 2016-07-03, 12:24

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That leads me to believe that te preview function isn't multithreaded and more cores won't help that part at all.. That's not great, this is exactly the kind of process which could leverage threading for great success. If they haven't threaded this, I wonder if any of it is threaded for …

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Re: Is your pentium 3 faster then mine?

Posted on 2016-07-02, 21:13

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Oldskoolmaniac wrote: is it a single slot? I use to have a server with 4 p3 xeon's at 800mhz with 4gb of ram that thing was a beast. And which server was that? Sounds lurvly. Was it a HP by chance?

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Re: Comeback for AMD?

Posted on 2016-07-02, 13:04

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Well, I'm not the dev so... https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=54601&sid=c64f5395a6d898f195712fdeb1f98cd6&start=20#p280269 What the dev is saying there is that they tried to implement a CUDA 8 driver, which hasn't gone too well. They seem to think the problem is with with the cards' …

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Re: Photo software speed troubleshooting

Posted on 2016-07-02, 11:41

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Hmmm. Agree with Aideka, its probably win10 then :(. Can you process your RAW's (i.e process one raw some filters or exposure etc and then do the same with the same raw on the other system. Compare how long it takes to do this. It should be similar-ish). If its just the 'import' functionality (i.e …

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Re: Photo software speed troubleshooting

Posted on 2016-07-01, 21:16

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Nothing of importance or speciality is being unleased from your card by this software. It will all be down to the parallelism of your machine. ... Cores & Effect. P.S The min requirements on the website say 1024 x 768 XGA so a bit of a give away o.0. You'll probably get the same performance with a …

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Re: Perception of speed

Posted on 2016-06-30, 12:35

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Yup, I had a few 'Images of the day' posts there :) http://www.flipcode.com/archives/08-29-2002.shtml http://www.flipcode.com/archives/09-11-2003.shtml http://www.flipcode.com/archives/01-16-2004.shtml http://www.flipcode.com/archives/09-19-2004_fire3d.shtml Thought as much :). This was also the …

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