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Reply 380 of 1104, by Stiletto

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lolo799 wrote:

I can do it next week if you are still looking for it.

Great, thanks again!

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Reply 381 of 1104, by leileilol

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I noticed that this is no longer fun

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Reply 382 of 1104, by Stiletto

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leileilol wrote:

I noticed that this is no longer fun

swaaye's been doing this, dunno why. *shrug*

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Reply 383 of 1104, by swaaye

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OK the thread has been upgraded to fun again. I didn't realize I was killing the mood. 😀

Reply 385 of 1104, by Stiletto

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Thanks! 😀

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Reply 387 of 1104, by subhuman@xgtx

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Stiletto wrote:

Attached: "The Archaeology of PowerVR", also known as "The Early History of PowerVR"

Extremely educational. I hope this will be conserved for years to come.

Big thanks both to you and the author. I'd love to see more about the Midas arcade/developer hardware. Also to you Lolo for uploading the M3D cds 😀

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Reply 388 of 1104, by Stiletto

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Well, I didn't exactly ask permission, but hopefully he will think it's okay. He still retains his copyright.
Not sure how or why we had it, though it seems as if it used to be public.

[EDIT] Actually, it's going away. Sorry about that.

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Reply 389 of 1104, by subhuman@xgtx

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Looks like the Neon250 still Retains support for SGL even though it is said Gen2 dropped support for Infinite Planes?

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Reply 390 of 1104, by Putas

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Infinite planes should be just subset of SGL.

Reply 391 of 1104, by Stiletto

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Quoting myself in another thread - I'd love to someday see a copy of the Neon250 driver CD, high-res PCB scan and a dump of the video BIOS! 🤣 (Perhaps NitroX Infinity has already done this and I haven't been paying attention.) With Dreamcast/NAOMI being emulated, perhaps a Neon250 emulation might not be all that difficult to add to MESS or Bochs or even DOSBox should someone be properly motivated... and more testcases for Dreamcast video emulation is always a good thing 😀

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Reply 392 of 1104, by leileilol

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I'd love to see a PowerVR SG.

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Reply 393 of 1104, by Putas

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Stiletto wrote:

Well, I didn't exactly ask permission, but hopefully he will think it's okay. He still retains his copyright.
Not sure how or why we had it, though it seems as if it used to be public.

[EDIT] Actually, it's going away. Sorry about that.

Does this mean it should not be exposed? Like if I would want to enrich article on my web...

Reply 394 of 1104, by Stiletto

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Putas wrote:

Does this mean it should not be exposed? Like if I would want to enrich article on my web...

I've been asked by the author to no longer share it. This extends to others.

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Reply 395 of 1104, by leileilol

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Koolsmoky's PowerVR PCX2 Control and Advanced Setting patch were a bit hard to find...

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Reply 396 of 1104, by d1stortion

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Anyone care to explain the necessary steps for getting UT GOTY to work on PCX2? 😀

Reply 397 of 1104, by leileilol

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UT GOTY 432 has worse lighting than UT 400 for some reason, but anyway:

Install KernelEx.

Uncomment the lines in SGLDrv.int

Hexedit SGLDrv.dll, look for appPow, change those MMMMM's into NNNNN's (forgot which way around was this)

Run UnrealTournament.exe in default compatibility mode (still lost on why KernelEx affects SGLDrv to function....)

Select PowerVR SGL for Windows

you should then see this.

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Reply 398 of 1104, by d1stortion

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Doesn't work 🙁 refuses to start. I removed those slashes in SGLDrv.int and changed "appPow@@YAMMM@Z" to "appPow@@YANNN@Z" in SGLDrv.dll, did you forget anything else maybe?

Now it showed the following: critical error, assertion failed, WinClient.cpp line 354 a.s.o.

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Reply 399 of 1104, by leileilol

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Starting it with KERNELEX perhaps?

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