Re: Patch for OpenGL fullscreen bug

Posted on 2011-09-07, 16:24

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BTW1.: the scanline effect looks a bit too strong with this shader for my taste. At least I can't remember any real sreen that showed completely black space between scanlines. If visible at all, this should be a more subtle effect. But that will most likely strongly depend on the age and/or type of …

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Re: Direct3D patch (Host)

Posted on 2011-09-07, 15:29

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gulikoza - amazing job! CRT.D3D.fx looks great :happyhappy: Just tested this shader on two different setups (rendering at 1280x1024 on both): NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 (on a Core2Quad 2.84GHz w/XP Pro SP3) - Fast and smooth... works just fine NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE (on a Core2Duo 2.66GHz w/XP Pro SP3) - …

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Re: Patch & Test Build - CGA w/ Monochrome Monitor Support

Posted on 2011-09-07, 14:44

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might look good with the CRT shader :pppt: :pppt: I just tried ykhwong's latest build, which includes both of our patches... and yes, it does!! :D (click image for the full size) By the way, ykhwong's build comes with its own d3dx9.dll, which seems to break things with shaders... Fixed with d3dx9_ …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-09-05, 16:24

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How the hell do i know this game? I know i saw review of it recently Did you reviewed/shown it recently Clint? man, this is spooky - I had the exact same reaction when I watched the episode just now, hahah. Never played it back in the day, but i'm sure I saw a recent video review somewhere. Kind of …

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Re: Configuring Dosbox on Win 7.

Posted on 2011-09-02, 14:16

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1) -userconf: post your command line? 2) vertical squashing: setting aspect=true should fix it. of course, optimal results would depend on your resolution, "output=" setting, and scaler used.

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Re: Patch for OpenGL fullscreen bug

Posted on 2011-08-30, 03:42

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snakesqzns wrote: Shown here using the bsnes OpenGL.CRT shader: (image) dear snakesqzns; I don't know where/how you came up with this, but IT LOOKS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN. please, if any coders here can help this man, do it, for the love of the retro gods. THINK OF THE CHILDREN! …

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Re: Experimental patch: An attempt to improve PC Speaker emulation accuracy

Posted on 2011-08-29, 19:20

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Yeah that was a cool "new" death sound, very C64/SID-like ;) There were a few quirks in other games as well, was going to post but then I noticed your latest change - it fixes those too. Nice! One thing still sounds different with your newest change, the "grabbing" sound in Alley Cat (when you hang …

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Re: Experimental patch: An attempt to improve PC Speaker emulation accuracy

Posted on 2011-08-29, 15:46

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Don't have a machine that can run Digger natively, but the "original" one is definitely how I remember it sounding. Also, found a video of Digger running on a real IBM PC (except for the video card) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFU1_ijINXc ; check out 3:49 for the death sound. The recording …

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Re: Experimental patch: An attempt to improve PC Speaker emulation accuracy

Posted on 2011-08-29, 15:01

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Now however, the death sound in Digger seems to break. Samples attached; the "original" one is how it should sound.

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Re: Experimental patch: An attempt to improve PC Speaker emulation accuracy

Posted on 2011-08-29, 05:16

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^ hats off! Does that go instead of, or in addition to, the patch in the OP?

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-08-29, 02:47

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@Gemini - sure, a game's mileage may vary with the cycles setting, but since DOSBox has to have some consistency in emulating hardware - and games had to have some consistency in using it - it isn't completely up in the air... ~280 or so does work best for the vast majority of 8088 games, and …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-08-28, 22:58

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I don't see how any game can require anything slower than a 4.77mhz 8088 since that is the baseline CPU for very old DOS games. exactly, hence my surprise that any game would need such a low cycle count. ~280 cycles makes most games run as they would on a PC/XT with that cpu. Of course, the game …

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Re: Patch & Test Build - CGA w/ Monochrome Monitor Support

Posted on 2011-08-28, 21:46

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Thanks for posting the first-ever reply since I put up the patch, haha. Yeah, tough crowd in this thread :) For some reason the attachments aren't visible until you log in, unlike the other DOSBox forums, so maybe that's why people aren't seeing them. Figured there would be some interest, based on …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-08-28, 21:31

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Haha, a game that needs *100* cycles? That's... around one-third the speed of a 4.77MHz 8088 normally 😳

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Re: Experimental patch: An attempt to improve PC Speaker emulation accuracy

Posted on 2011-08-28, 18:23

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NY00123: oh yeah - for now the ability to switch between the two modes is perfect. Just trying to think how to help this progress beyond experimental stage, precisely because I'd really like to see it committed into DOSBox (trunk) someday :) Anyway, As of now, most of the time, the speaker's volume …

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Re: Experimental patch: An attempt to improve PC Speaker emulation accuracy

Posted on 2011-08-28, 14:24

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some thoughts about fixing Digger w/ this patch... I have a hunch that an extra conditional check or two would fix it: the end-of-level music tries to produce non-square waves by modulating the speaker cone position (changing the on/off values *really* quickly, so that the physical speaker doesn't …

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Re: Experimental patch: An attempt to improve PC Speaker emulation accuracy

Posted on 2011-08-28, 04:19

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VERY NICE! This seems to fix many things, a lot of them way more basic than Keen's sfx. Tried some games that use the PC speaker for simple one-note music, and all of them sound better w/ this patch - i.e., successive notes of the same pitch can be distinguished. Heck, if you just open GWBASIC and …

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Re: EGA Doom

Posted on 2011-08-27, 03:36

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Jorpho wrote: VileRancour wrote: too bad I never got too much work done on my ANSI DOOM idea... You mean like text-mode Quake? Nah none of that aalib stuff (or even "real" ANSI)... just a graphics replacement WAD, with all the sprites / textures / etc done in TheDraw using the 8x16 VGA text-mode …

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Re: EGA Doom

Posted on 2011-08-26, 03:44

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F2bnp wrote: You know, what always bugged me is why Wolfenstein 3D wasn't released with an EGA option. EGA was the plan, but it was actually Apogee who convinced them to switch to VGA... hard as it is to believe 😁

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Re: EGA Doom

Posted on 2011-08-26, 03:34

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So this is just a WAD with new graphics? Doesn't actually reduce the memory or processor requirements? I was tempted to try thison my 286 but it looks like it still won't work yep, just a WAD with modified palettes. I think I actually tried to do something like that back in the '90s but dropped it …

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