Re: Retro Software Development?

Posted on 2022-10-26, 16:17

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by gerwin

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From what I see now, VCFED seems to welcome the really vintage systems. AFAIK talking about things ranging from Pentium 2 to the end of the Windows XP-era, is not a good fit there. https://msfn.org/board/forum/34-windows-xp/ is a reasonable place for the latter. But anything programming related gets …

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Re: Ports of Sonic CD, 1,2 remakes to DOS

Posted on 2022-10-19, 23:44

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For what it is worth, on my site here in the downloads section I uploaded Sonic SVN 16-10-2022 builds for Windows XP. That is for Sonic 1, 2, CD and Mania. Maybe it also works in Windows 2000, I have not tested that. But it does use SDL2 so Windows 9x won't like it.

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Re: Newest possible systems for Windows XP and Windows 7

Posted on 2022-10-19, 20:27

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by gerwin

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Why suggest it when you haven't tried it? Most likely Xeon + motherboard from China issue. Then again, you can manually tweak multiplier and voltage in OS on brandname motherboards. It does not say the brand/type. Just X79 chipset. Until someone verifies from observation that another X79 …

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Re: Newest possible systems for Windows XP and Windows 7

Posted on 2022-10-19, 19:48

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I sure couldn't find one when I put my Ivy Bridge box together. Good to know. Thanks. If we start from scratch, I would still choose something on X79 for Windows XP/7 build, due to vast amount of Xeon options for that platform. You can do MicroATX too, ASRock X79 EXTREME4-M for example. Pop-in GTX …

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Re: VOGONS github

Posted on 2022-10-19, 17:43

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Yeah I think I want to get the latest build environment both VS and mingw situated locally and then see where github is at as far as compatibility. I want to say their environments are the latest Mingw w/posix (so Vista+) and VS2019 may be the only option for a minimum of XP assuming they haven't …

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Re: Newest possible systems for Windows XP and Windows 7

Posted on 2022-10-19, 16:18

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by gerwin

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rasz_pl wrote on 2022-10-19, 16:16: Whats the point when newest windows 11 can run all of the XP/Win7 software perfectly? Why do something? Like, why build DOS machines? How about another topic for questions like that?

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Re: Newest possible systems for Windows XP and Windows 7

Posted on 2022-10-19, 16:14

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by gerwin

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people have managed to install windows xp on much newer systems with good success, even the Haswell (4th gen Intel) drivers exist afaik, even for the IGP. A Haswell (4th gen Intel) Graphics driver for Windows XP x86 and x64 exists yes. Haven't tried it though. I found the intel Graphics drivers …

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Re: VOGONS github

Posted on 2022-10-19, 15:58

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Verified that DelphiDoom-2.0.7.735 works on NT4, just use the GL version. This may be the only currently updated doom port that does work on NT4 except for Doom Legacy if you count that. That is typical for anything Delphi build, being very older-Windows compatible. Don't expect me to comment much …

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-10-15, 18:58

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"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtume Library" "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information". That is most likely an "assert" coded in somewhere, in eDuke32. Giving you that very unhelpful message Reference …

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Re: Windows 2000 vanilla kernel support for Nvidia GeForce 8, 9, 100, and 200 GPUs

Posted on 2022-10-15, 15:25

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I don't use Windows 2000 much past years. But with Windows XP I have a working system with a Geforce GT 710 2GB GDDR5 bought new 2021. Small passive card. Details here . The driver I use now, is stable with everything, even with 3D benchmarks. Some other driver versions seemed to work fine at first, …

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-10-14, 22:46

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For Shadow Warrior it's v4.33b3 but I think that's the last version anyway, nice thing about that ver is it works on 98-ME and XP whereas for 95 and 2000 you have to use v4.32 (which may have a save corruption bug) From my tests back then, SWP 4.3.2 for sure has the savegame corruption. I noticed …

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-10-14, 22:10

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Loaded up eDuke32 r10161 back-port on a bare install of Windows XP with no updates, same issue. May have time this weekend to compile. I just did the same. A fresh stock Windows XP SP3 install on real hardware, with a Nvidia GT 710 that can satisfy the OpenGL requirement. No updates or runtimes of …

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Re: Windows 2000 vanilla kernel support for Nvidia GeForce 8, 9, 100, and 200 GPUs

Posted on 2022-10-13, 02:19

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by gerwin

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Have you searched the MSFN forums?, like this topic for example: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183632-nvidia-gr … dows-2000-2010/

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-10-13, 00:31

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On the topic of Duke Nukem 3D, but without anything Ion Fury: I also uploaded a rebuild and slightly adjusted version of the Duke3Dw port by proasm . Called it v4.4.0.1. This one is a nice alternative for slower systems. But the latest official v4.4.0 has a small bug that makes it crash on Windows …

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-10-05, 20:33

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Ion Fury (software mode) first level and then quitting I received an error which is what caused me to check with dependency walker. This was tested with regular XP SP3 with POS updates and Visual C++ v14.28.29213.0 not that the redist matters in this case. I am puzzled by this. To investigate it …

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-10-05, 01:27

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Did a quick test with Xompie w/ kernel32 (for those who want to use Vanilla XP) option on fury.exe and seemed to resolve the SRW errors above. Are you saying the Fury.exe I provided does not run as-is on Windows XP SP3 (+ POSready updates)? If I was using kernel-ex tricks for it, I would have …

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-10-05, 01:19

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Looks like there are still some calls caused by mingw to Vista specific APIs but at least it's working. Good find. One lead I was following ends at libSDL2.a of all things. libSDL2.a / SDL2.dll v2.0.15 or later has NT6 "AcquireSRWLockExclusive" etc. mentioned internally. I have a few games running …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2022-10-02, 22:49

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by gerwin

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had no free time to post that (you know whom to blame, unfortunately), in general, I grab coreboot sources and made a small utility to tweak PII L2 cache parameters and optionally kickstart the L2 if it hasn't been configured by the BIOS (such as running on low multipliers). Very cool and practical …

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Re: Athlon XP 3200+ FSB problem

Posted on 2022-09-29, 14:34

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by gerwin

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Could be aging capacitors. Meaning they can not cope with anything over 100MHz FSB base clock anymore. Any other CPUs to try?

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2022-09-28, 02:29

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I was curious, and give it a shot to adapt and build the latest eDuke32 for XP. r10161 that is. Download available here: http://www.gb-homepage.nl/index.htm in the "Downloads" section. eDuke32 r10161 2022-09-14 back-ported to Windows NT 5 compatibility, GB 27-9-2022. Updated 28-9-2022: Will no …

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