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PowerVR-SGL-Wrapper v0.1.0 BETA for Windows

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Reply 20 of 24, by starlord

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Thanks for the answer. Would be cool to post clips of those games when working.

Reply 21 of 24, by VirtuaIceMan

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Colour me interested (as I have a Matrox M3D and a handful of games I can try)... including an actual commercially released copy of Moon Racer that I found on eBay luckily!

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Reply 22 of 24, by ralonsoj

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Oh, it’s a Moon Racer clone—what a gem! Thanks a lot for the help, really appreciate it. But yeah, taking it step by step. Right now I’m focusing on all the SGL demos, and hopefully I’ll upload a video in a few days showing how the implementation is going.
Sadly, since I don’t have a PowerVR card, I’m relying on YouTube gameplays—some of them even from people here on Vogons—as reference. Just working with that.
My main goal is simply to get things working and make it look reasonably close to the original. I’m already pretty happy with that for now. I’ll polish it more later on.

By the way, does anyone know when a newbie can send private messages on Vogons?

Reply 23 of 24, by marxveix

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ralonsoj wrote on Yesterday, 17:16:

By the way, does anyone know when a newbie can send private messages on Vogons?

Dont know exactly, maybe 100 replays / posts and it opens it, maybe something else, at one point it opens if you use your Vogons account.

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Reply 24 of 24, by VirtuaIceMan

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Here's some footage I took at high quality of a couple of games:

Moon Racer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOG1SLNYVI
Ground Master (not a good example as it's an PCX1 game running badly on PCX2/Pentium 4, from the NEC PC 3D Engine driver CD): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThPoVjv1yp8

Other games I have: Purevex, Revolte, Virtual On, Ultim@te Race 1 track and 3 track (inc. Gateway edition).

Other useful PowerVR related people on here:

vetz aka RetroCompaqGuy on YouTube (helped with finding some software) see videos here (some PowerVR ones in there): https://www.youtube.com/@vetzRetro

Tuxality was working on a PowerVR wrapper and got so far into getting Virtual On to work, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rk-wo2wewM there's a long thread on Is this the possibility of a Power VR SGL Wrapper? but his wrapper didn't release

My PC spec: Win10 64bit, i7-4970K (not overclocked), KFA2 GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, Creative Soundblaster ZXr, 16GB RAM, Asus Z97-A motherboard, NZXT 410 case, ROG Swift GSYNC monitor