Re: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 3D-Acceleration

Posted on 2021-09-19, 15:44

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As the description says, it supports MMX instructions, so there would be a performance benefit when running on MMX CPU's. MMX is SIMD, and given 3D calculations heavily involve matrix and vector operations, SIMD would benefit the performance immensely (at least x4 for vector ops, possibly more for …

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Re: How low can you go with modern, user-friendly Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 11:42

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Show me where in this thread I have been unhelpful. Without any replies to you of course. You see I'm a person who calls out bull shit when I see it. Really? You really need someone to call you out when you are being a dick on this very topic itself, and you are also wrong to boot? You call out …

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-18, 11:41

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Highly unlikely a 4GB file would be loaded in it's entriety. It would be streamed and buffered. If that was the case, the file size limit would be the size of RAM of the computer, which is not the case. Also given Win9x is bugged with more than 512MB without patching, and even then 2GB is the …

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Re: History of nVIDIA Graphics cards Vol. 2 GPU competition

Posted on 2021-09-18, 11:32

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The graphics card pictures in this article are based on my graphics card collection, but I also borrowed some of the pictures. I would like to express my sincere thanks! Now take a photo with an nVIDIA graphics card to conclude this article. yjfy.jpg In September 2014, nVIDIA China learned that I …

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Re: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 3D-Acceleration

Posted on 2021-09-18, 11:25

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A bit off topic... what are the benefits of adding these third party OpenGL libraries to Win 9x, in particular, for games? Good question, I wonder the same. As the description says, it supports MMX instructions, so there would be a performance benefit when running on MMX CPU's. MMX is SIMD, and …

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-12, 15:19

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Alternatively, a Raspberry PI is also excellent for this task. Raspberry Pi is proprietary, expensive and overly complicated ... PI Zero with GPIO header pre-soldered is 13 GBP? ... without header, even cheaper? Pi Zero WH supplies wireless too. IoT and all that... However, as a developer, you'd …

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Re: Talking to ISA / PCI?

Posted on 2021-09-05, 08:00

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How difficult is it to "talk" to ISA or PCI? Or I guess more accurately, how does one go about talking to an ISA or PCI bus? In DOS, not difficult, ISA has direct access, PCI there is a layer between iirc, but DOS applications are pretty close to the metal. In windows ths is no longer the situation …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-21, 22:12

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Snapped up this AST Advantage! 7303 Desktop PC for a really good price. Will make a nice restoration project. Just looks like it needs a good clean. Not too badly yellowed. All I know it has a Pentium 133mhz CPU and a 64mb RAM. Not sure what sound is on board. Interestingly it has 2 USB ports on …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2021-08-20, 16:36

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As a brit in North America, I am frequently mistaken for Australian, I think it's just any accent that's not "BBC English"(oldskool) is thought to be Australian. So to help out Australia's international image I always reply "Pass the vegemite cobber and watch out for the drop bears, nah, yeah?" ;) …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-20, 15:25

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Theres always a crank on these forums isnt there? Someone else asked if it was actually silver or metal and because I dont know for a fact, I cant say. Someone else mentioned it could be shiny plastic like his , but it definitely isnt. I have never seen a mouse like this so any info from people who …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-20, 15:08

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Its definitely not plastic. Its a metal shell fitting on top of the mouse. Its pretty heavy too. It is silver... What else would a silversmith use? Theres always a crank on these forums isnt there? Someone else asked if it was actually silver or metal and because I dont know for a fact, I cant say. …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2021-08-20, 14:51

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I'm a Brit (well born in US, but raised UK), while not "Queens English", my accent is pretty 'British' with hints of 'west-country' ('pirate' speak). I was in San Antonio once and a waitress said to me... "You English is very nice, you must be Australian"... I'm still confused about that question …

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Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-08-07, 17:20

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leileilol wrote on 2021-08-07, 13:21: darry wrote on 2021-08-07, 08:28: EDIT : Just saw that somebody beat me to this one . Leaving it up for questionable back story. 🤣 don't worry, CGW did this exact thing an April 1998 ago 😀 Yeah, I think they even made a movie about it. No tie-in game, so still …

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Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-08-06, 18:49

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Womb Raider

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Re: vintage open world games

Posted on 2021-07-28, 19:25

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Carmageddon was an early game that I remember I enjoyed exploring... trying to reach places/platforms without totalling oneself, looking for big ramps etc. I played that before GTA. hmm, probably not what you mean when you say open world. o.0

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Re: vintage open world games

Posted on 2021-07-28, 19:09

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Errius wrote on 2021-07-28, 18:48: I was going to mention Terminator. Interestingly it didn't get an Amiga release. Was that beyond the machine's capabilities? A 3D open world game from the early 90's on an Amiga... Nevaaaaar !!!!

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-07-21, 10:51

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Went to e-wate yard and got this interesting 486. It works, only HDD and Dallas (of course) are gone. It has SB2.0 and Sony CD-ROM with Sony proprietary bus. The only ordinary thing inside is 512kb Trident VGA... I am looking for cache and CMS upgrade now 🙂 That's a designer Colani case... very …

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Re: Would you be interested in an x86-based alternative to the Raspberry Pi, optimized for retro gaming?

Posted on 2021-06-21, 22:04

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That is correct; a product like this would primarily find use in applications that demand massively parallel floating-point operations ... For the OS, we'd ideally acquire a Win98 volume license on the secondary market, but barring that, we could sell systems that dual-boot FreeDOS and ReactOS with …

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Re: Tyrian like DOS game around 1995-1997?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 11:40

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Could it be... Idinaloq If you haven't played it and like shmups, I would highly recommend it.

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Re: Does "distribute" mean 'selling' in software EULA legalese of the 90s?

Posted on 2021-06-01, 17:03

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ianal IMO, In answer to your question, selling is a form of software distribution , however there are other means which fall under distribution , outside of selling or directly profiting from it. Distrubution, in software contexts, means any form of getting software to an end user, including among …

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