Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-02-22, 16:49

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Rally-sport. Unlike for liqmat, rally-sport is one of my creative outlets and also the most profitable of them, although not really. Good driving physics, good screams of spectators, a great modder community. Doom gets too much attention to be interesting to me.

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Re: Next New PC I Buy...

Posted on 2018-02-22, 07:58

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It's a massive waste of board space to put standard pci and isa slots onto a machine that isn't going to be compatible with most operating systems or drivers that the hardware requires. Your pc can run numerous isa and pci era operating systems and in many cases make full use of old pci hardware …

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Re: Programs for building software (dos, windows 9x)

Posted on 2018-02-22, 05:38

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I benched the c compilers more. Same setup as last time but now running on my 3.3 ghz haswell xeon and a pentium 90 laptop, the siemens pcd-5nd. Both in plain dos. xeon ow = 364 vc = 318 dmc = 299 tc = 279 pc = 274 mc = 244 p/90 ow = 26 vc = 26 dmc = 24 mc = 22 tc = 19 pc = 17 The laptop is …

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Re: Programs for building software (dos, windows 9x)

Posted on 2018-02-20, 04:45

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I benched some older c compilers and some newer ones for comparison. The older ones were pacific c 7.51, microsoft c 5.10, and turbo c 2.01. Newer ones were visual c++ 1.50, digital mars, and open watcom 1.9. All compiled a c program for dos, a software rasterizer spinning an object on screen. …

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Re: Time wasters / "casual" games

Posted on 2018-02-19, 16:53

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C++ is my no. 1 time waster. As for games, rally-sport. Type rally, hit space, drive.

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2018-02-19, 02:14

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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that work is being done as we speak to port pcem's cross-platform interface to 86box.

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2018-02-18, 19:49

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I released the sixth version of pcbi. I considered a windows port but at the moment a focus on linux is more beneficial. The new version improves on current features and ties up loose ends here and there. - Minimal redraw for opengl + other render speedups. Only renders when and what's needed. Runs …

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Re: Installing DOS / Windows on external drive for older PC

Posted on 2018-02-17, 10:03

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In linux, use qemu to install the os into a raw disk image and dd to write the image onto the hard drive.

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Re: Replacing IDE hard drives with something more modern

Posted on 2018-02-16, 21:30

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Ozzuneoj wrote: Consumer grade SSDs haven't used SLC NAND for years. Fujitsu released a consumer slc ssd just over two years ago.

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Re: Programs for building software (dos, windows 9x)

Posted on 2018-02-16, 19:29

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No extenders in the earlier dos tests, otherwise native win32 in these recent ones. I used the native linux port of wcl386.

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Re: Programs for building software (dos, windows 9x)

Posted on 2018-02-16, 17:08

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Some days ago I found that ow runs better in win32 with 486 than with pentium optimizations on post-pentium hardware, like 40% better. Still kinda mediocre performance but a clear issue as well. I think none of the other compilers did this, but I forget if I ran the benchmarks in just wine on my …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-02-16, 06:52

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Demoed my app to build a retro pc to my girlfriend and advertised pixelmusement's dos videos to her. The app received the mild praise it deserves and she didn't give a toss about the dos videos, never does.

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2018-02-15, 16:26

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No plans for 86box. Barely some for windows.

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2018-02-15, 01:08

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I don't do shader programming so I wouldn't know. Meanwhile, the software renderer in pcbi wasn't able to handle the extra textured geometry without dropping frames. On that note, I released the fifth version of pcbi. Github isn't suited for my workflow so I migrated the code from there into the …

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Re: Programs for building software (dos, windows 9x)

Posted on 2018-02-14, 12:43

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Yep, it was the same for those earlier versions, though what ultimately prevented it from working here was that a forgotten piece of code migrated from another project along with some other code was explicitly setting that option to a non-console version if compiled with vc. Not so useful here.

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Re: Programs for building software (dos, windows 9x)

Posted on 2018-02-14, 01:34

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Cool. Looking at vc6 in relation to the nonoptimizing vc7, it may be that vc6 (or some of its optimizations) is more suited for the pentium than for the k6. I updated the file with exes compiled with 486 optimizations (_4.exe) if you want to test those, http://personal.inet.fi/muoti/eimuoti/tmp/w32_ …

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Re: Programs for building software (dos, windows 9x)

Posted on 2018-02-13, 23:45

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I'm guessing the vc compiler needs a toggle somewhere to make a true console program, and I didn't set that toggle. Those exes need to be run something like hw_vc6_p > t.txt, and after 20 seconds the complete output will be in t.txt. I tested the files on a fairly fresh win 95 (c) installation …

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Re: Graphics card brand and quality.

Posted on 2018-02-13, 19:22

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It's also about intended purpose. I'd favor models built for professional reliability over gamer gear that was to be obsolete the next summer. Also by the way look for models where the manufacturer was aiming to prove itself or the tech and overengineered.

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2018-02-13, 07:56

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I don't know about that. It's not too slow to render 200 textured triangles on modern hardware. The current, unoptimized software renderer, sure.

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Re: Programs for building software (dos, windows 9x)

Posted on 2018-02-13, 02:34

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I have some older systems but they're drydocked, no hard drives or os installed in them. The executables (compiled with pentium optimizations) do run in win 95 and are there: http://personal.inet.fi/muoti/eimuoti/tmp/w32_test.zip. The vc ones run as a silent background process for the 20 seconds, so …

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