Fabien Sanglard takes on Strike Commander

Posted on 2014-01-23, 17:43

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For long-time readers, Fabien Sanglard needs no introduction as the man who wrote those MASSIVE source code reviews of Doom, Quake, Quake II, etc. His latest is on Strike Commander, where he reverse engineers the game in an attempt to add Oculus Rift support. http://fabiensanglard.net/reverse_ …

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Re: The Wrapper Collection Project

Posted on 2014-01-23, 16:27

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Possibly off topic, I am curious about your thoughts on collecting wrappers for audio APIs, namely Creative Lab's ALchemy, ASUS's DirectSound 3D GX 2.0, Realtek's 3D SoundBack Beta and C-Media's Xear3D EX that restore support for DirectSound3D + EAX extensions hardware acceleration for games in …

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Re: The Wrapper Collection Project

Posted on 2014-01-23, 16:18

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TitaniumGL has had another update or two recently. A Windows-only update in December, followed by updating all its ports to supported platforms in January. Uploaded (what I saw at least) to the FTP. For those who want to download it, please visit http://titaniumgl.tk

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-01-23, 16:10

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I am having trouble connecting.

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2014-01-23, 16:09

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I assume that's a Midas 3 driver? Seeing as PCX1 and 2 are also Midas cards it might be confusing if you don't use the 3. I had already included those on Vogonsdrivers in my big PowerVR driver compilation, but I guess it doesnt hurt to upload them as single files too. Yeah, that's what I'd …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-01-23, 05:29

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FYI: Mirrored jpaana's Bitboys / TriTech Pyramid3D TR25202/TR25203/TR25204 drivers mentioned on Beyond3D.com to VogonsDrivers.com for safe keeping. 😀 http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=533 http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=532

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Re: DriverGuide.com’s Not-so-surprising Scammy Tactics

Posted on 2014-01-23, 02:53

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Well, even if you change the user agent string, there's still a captcha to deal with. Still, much preferable to the alternative. I agree that they could catch on. However, that guy's blog post has been up since April 2013...

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2014-01-23, 02:49

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For those Midas owners who stumble upon this thread, you can now also find the drivers from DriverGuide here. They've yet to be tested AFAIK: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=530 http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=531 A bit more info here: http://forum.beyond3d.com/ …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-01-23, 02:24

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PS. When you do a search: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/dosearch.php?q=minigl The "Added" dates returned are garbage. Not that it matters. Furthermore, it would be aesthetically pleasing if these aligned more. I'm looking at the spacing for the Artist Graphics... http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/index. …

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Can you identify these 1989-1991 video cards? (SPEA, Vermont Microsystems)

Posted on 2014-01-23, 01:44

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http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=2194 Read down the comments (and follow some of the links contained in them) and you'll see that so far, we've identified them as: - (prototype?) SPEA Graphiti HiLite. Unknown which exact model (Graphiti HiLite? Graphiti HiLite Pro? Graphiti HiLite 1024?) - Vermont …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-01-23, 00:55

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Been lurking here for a long time and finally posting. I spent several hours getting my old lunchbox EISA 486 networked (in DOS, using MS client and what turned out to be a very obscure ISA nic) last night and had help from the driver library! So I went through my old floppy collection and found a …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-01-22, 19:56

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Hi I've send you a PM containing a link for the following: ViewSonic Monitor Installation Disk U.S. Robotics I-modem Configuration Manager (Version 1.2.2) U.S. Robotics Fax and I-Modem Driver Disk (Version 3.7) U.S. Robotics Fax and I-Modem Driver Disk (Version 2.0) Sysgration Window Mouse Driver ( …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-01-22, 19:55

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Gona wrote: Just uploaded: […] Show full quote Just uploaded: Ati 3D Rage Pro SDK 4.1 (for ATI3DCIF API) http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=497 and ATI3DCIF.DLL collection http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=498 Forgot to comment. w00t!

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Re: 6 Button Gamepad Trouble

Posted on 2014-01-22, 19:38

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For those who discover this thread later, I made a thing. DriverGuide.com’s Not-so-surprising Scammy Tactics

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Re: Phil's "Playing GOG.com games on your MS-DOS Gaming PC" Thread

Posted on 2014-01-22, 19:33

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(Am I the only one who generally prefers concise text writeups to videos?) Nope. I can read and understand 100x faster than how long some of these tutorial videos are. I don't mind them, but I hope they don't start taking precedence over normal text/screenshot tutorials. No offense to Mau1wurf1977 …

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DriverGuide.com’s Not-so-surprising Scammy Tactics

Posted on 2014-01-22, 19:03

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http://blog.abettergeek.com/software/windows/driverguide-coms-not-so-surprising-scammy-tactics/ However, all this being as it is, the real kicker is that Driver Guide doesn’t force this on non-Windows users. All you have to do is change your browser’s user agent string, which for Firefox can be …

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Re: So I made a legacy 98SE PC, nothing too special...

Posted on 2014-01-22, 18:29

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I honestly didn't think the ATI card could do a wrapper-emulated 3dfx (very well anyway) The more modern wrappers, starting from Zeckenseck's would demand a pixel shader-supporting card anyway. At least there's that slew of immature UltraHLE-era (1999) wrappers that would work on the R128, XGL-200 …

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Re: Can anyone identify this video card?

Posted on 2014-01-22, 01:40

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Appears to be Gainward Power 3D II based on searching on the FCC ID printed on the card. Here's another videocard collector who has one, if memory serves he has a VOGONS account perhaps. http://www.yjfy.com/museum/video/Gainward.htm That's a 3DLabs Permedia 2 chipset, BTW.

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Re: Where were you when the world was DOOMed?

Posted on 2014-01-21, 20:35

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I don't remember how I got a hold of it. We did a bulk order of shareware floppies around then, it may have come from that. It may also have come from a fellow computer nerd at school. Or it may have been a download from Prodigy Online Service that I waited until early in the morning to download. …

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Re: GNBNA MEL Fatal Error #10

Posted on 2014-01-21, 19:17

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Jorpho wrote: It might help if you told us that GNBNA refers to The Great Naval Battles Of North Atlantic. A long-ass time ago we had a thread where we noted what game name acronyms stood for, for those unfamiliar with them. Not sure where it got to, but this REALLY needs to go there. Never woulda …

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