First post, by Maraakate
- Rank
- Oldbie
This is somewhat of a crosspost from my 3D Glasses w/ 3DFX thread. Someone mentioned that the Glasses themselves (but not the box!) will work with H3D and other protocols.
In any event, I got a pair of SimulEyes CIB and here's my findings:
The SimulEyes uses a VGA passthrough to a break out box. It's supposed to take 4 AA batteries, but I was able to use the box just fine without them. The manual states some monitors may be able to power the device without the need of batteries. However, I did notice if there are batteries inserted and they are turned on the shutters dim a bit. My guess is to help alleviate ghosting effects which appear to be about on par with Sega Master System 3D Glasses. In other words, it's acceptable.
The pack-in comes with Descent II: Test Flight, Slipstream 5000, Whiplash, In Pursuit of Greed and Rise of the Triad: Dark War. I have only tested Descent 1 and ROTT so far. Descent 1 requires the v1.5 and a copy of LCDBIOS (linked at the end of this thread) and the parameters lcbdios /hrefresh /lcdrun:descentr -LCDBios -SimulEyes to start the game. They ignore -640x480 and other high res forcing commands.
ROTT works fine, but requires a special version of the game binary included with CD. I will try to see if I can make a binary patch for those interested. It's biggest gripe is there is no music if the glasses are enabled. This is also outlined in the manual!
Quake 1 is apparently supported, see http://www.mindflux.com.au/news/quake3d_lcd.html. I was unable to get it to work under DOS. I noticed there was some new slightly odd modes available (320x238, 640x398, etc) in the video menu and if they are chosen the white sync lines appear but they never alternate. I viewed the source code to the qlcd utility and you have to run profile.exe to get the video mode. No matter what I tried it never works.
Here are some files I have found:
LCDBios v1.21x
SIMBios v1.27
SGToggle 32 for Windows
QLCD (for use with Quake 1)
MPM3DB (Older version of QLCD according to source code review)