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Reply 21 of 31, by vetz

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Sorry, but I had to change apartments on a rather short notice and I had to pack all my retro stuff away in a storage locker. At the moment I do not have the possibility to test it out, but I'll let you know when my situation changes.

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Reply 23 of 31, by RaVeN-05

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You can add ATI 3D Rage

Well i think this might be potential
Team Apache ATI 3D Rage Version
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.g … m/c/2OrNICOqeZc

after examining files of Team Apache i found that it mentions about rage in exe's and ati3dcif.dll

and it has "ATI_NATIVE" variable

Cant find way to get ATI 3D Rage in renderer selection menu.

Maybe there a way to force it.

I think it planned to support , but dropped at some point, unknown reasons to me, not googled it more detailed ...

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Reply 24 of 31, by vetz

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I own the bundled ATI version of Team Apache (https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/team-a … CoverId,139805/). I cannot remember that it had ATICIF support, but instead was running on Direct3D. Where did you find mentions of ati3dcif.dll?

Even ATI's own website says its D3D: http://web.archive.org/web/19980519124545/htt … ey/tapache.html
EDIT: They list Deathtrap Dungeon and Formula 1 with D3D as well, so might not entirely correct.

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Reply 25 of 31, by RaVeN-05

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Well, the Team Apache Retail release, after installing, go to directory with the game, in files you can find :
"ATI_NATIVE" - mdrivers.dat, mprofile.dat, mprofile.exe
"ATI3DCIF.DLL" - mprofile.exe

Can you check you ati version ?
Checked demo it has nothing

One user at google groups mentioned that
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.g … m/c/2OrNICOqeZc

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Reply 26 of 31, by RaVeN-05

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A2 Racer
https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/a2-rac … eCoverId,56182/
Has cover with Power VR

Last edited by RaVeN-05 on 2020-12-15, 18:55. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 27 of 31, by RaVeN-05

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Battle Arena Toshinden Creative 3d Blaster PCI patch have ATI 3D Rage Strings inside tsd.exe "ATI 3D RAGE CARD DETECTED","3d rage" , tried to run it on Ati 3D rage IIC gives no results because it tries to find CGL files

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Actua Soccer II […]
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Actua Soccer II

50 %

Cgl

Have you ever seen a match between Robocops against Terminators? No? Well, now you can play with one of the teams!! The game is better than AS1, but as I said before, the football players seem robots behind the ball. - David

Possible it can be really CGL?

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Reply 28 of 31, by RaVeN-05

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International Rally Championship
in exe file "ral.exe" main exe to start game there is too often ATI3DCIF mentions

ATI3DCIF_RenderPrimList_lib ATI3DCIF_RenderPrimStrip_lib ATI3DCIF_RenderSwitch_lib ATI3DCIF_RenderEnd_lib ATI3DCIF_RenderBegin_l […]
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ATI3DCIF_RenderPrimList_lib
ATI3DCIF_RenderPrimStrip_lib
ATI3DCIF_RenderSwitch_lib
ATI3DCIF_RenderEnd_lib
ATI3DCIF_RenderBegin_lib
ATI3DCIF_ContextSetState_lib
ATI3DCIF_ContextDestroy_lib
ATI3DCIF_ContextCreate_lib
ATI3DCIF_TexturePaletteAnimate_lib
ATI3DCIF_TexturePaletteDestroy_lib
ATI3DCIF_TexturePaletteCreate_lib
ATI3DCIF_TextureUnreg_lib
ATI3DCIF_TextureReg_lib
ATI3DCIF_GetInfo_lib
ATI3DCIF_Init_lib
ati3dcif
ATI3DCIF_Term_lib

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"ral.cfg"

; nofiltering 1 ; To disable bi-linear filtering - might speed up some of the slower
; 3d cards by a few frames eg Rage II

Tried it on ATI 3D Rage Pro card seems it not wants to use ATI API, don't know how to force it.

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Reply 29 of 31, by RaVeN-05

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Motor Mash
I think there is just trash files leaved by programmers, and there is lot of video card potentially can be supported, but seems none of them really, need to checks:
game loads mcga.bdd file if i replace it with one that supposed to support API i trick to thing it right driver, right now i have results:
3dfx Glide, (cannot start driver)
Ddraw (probably Direct3D),
Mystique MSI,
ATI3DCIF, (KERNEL32 can't be loaded, DOS can't use win32 dll hehe)
S3 Virge
Will check others later, but really doubt any can work, all of them for windows, game is dos, if one can find 3dfx dos right driver?

I can run game with ATI 3D Rage API but all graphic was screwed
http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/wrappers/files/B … IF/RAGE_DOS.BDD
with file above , renamed as mcga.bdd

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Reply 30 of 31, by VirtuaIceMan

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I'm still hoping Vetz might surface with footage of the NV1 Daytona USA version

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Reply 31 of 31, by VirtuaIceMan

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Interestingly there's an expensive Japanese Diamond Edge 3D 2200XL NV1 on eBay at the moment, and the photo of the CDs shows one with Daytona USA written on it in Japanese, so it may have been released with more NV1 cards in Japan.

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