Re: Question about hardware acceleration Win9x
Posted on 9 minutes ago
nVidia cards hate palette changes in accelerated DirectDraw surfaces, so for 8bpp gaming i'd probably use any other non-nvidia card. Not sure if JK has a dib fallback switch
Re: A question regarding PC Controllers and Button Prompts
Posted on 29 minutes ago
Nintendo were the first ones to pioneer the typical four button layout, with the SNES controller... the Playstation came later with their symbols, and the Xbox much later again with the same letters arranged differently. Nintendo's been doing the reversed letters since the NES. XBOX didn't invent …
Re: A question regarding PC Controllers and Button Prompts
Posted on Yesterday, 13:36
Yep, nintendo always did that. those b holes and then there's also the sony confirm button swap between circle and cross differing in some regions to be aware of
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2024-05-31, 05:56
I'm thinking something along the lines of the Wing Commander/System Shock origin smallfont
Re: Matrox graphics card
Posted on 2024-05-29, 00:39
DOS SVGA/VESA games tend to have palette issues on Matrox cards (not just the millennium) Errius is right. MW2 should work if the version of it checks out. There was even a bundle: Mystique != Millennium Mystique was later (1996) and actually had MSI and Direct3D support to accelerate some games
Re: GoldSrc D3D rainbow lightmap bug
Posted on 2024-05-27, 19:11
It probably looks better in GL as the overbright luxels get shifted out so the color range is better for 565
Re: Need Help Buidling LucasArts Adventure Machine
Posted on 2024-05-27, 19:08
You could use a CPU like the AMD K6@500mhz or Pentium 233 or AMD Duron@600mhz. that would mean scumm hardlocks LucasArt's 90s 3d fare is pretty light on the capability (i.e. Jedi Knight has no blending functions or tricks beyond vertex color modulation), so I'd think a Pentium is fine - even for …
Re: GoldSrc D3D rainbow lightmap bug
Posted on 2024-05-27, 05:10
natural phenomenon of the RGB565 texture format as the green bit is a larger range. There's no option to change this for D3D afaik, doesn't have to do with overbright or screen color depth
Re: Change the number of sound FX channel(s)
Posted on 2024-05-24, 00:54
IRQ != sound channels. It just means it read your BLASTER variable and panicked because DMX (Doom's sound engine) doesn't do IRQ>9. Reconfigure your AWE to use a lower IRQ. Doom mixes sounds in software.
Re: Voodoo/TNT2/GeForce or Voodoo/GeForce for Windows 9x?
Posted on 2024-05-20, 01:52
nVidia and compatible aren't words I think ever belong together (given how much issue threads they've spawned and "meant to be played" gaslighting from the marketing), so both TNT and Geforce are equal to me, though TNT overlaps a bit with the Voodoo on the 3d game coverage. Geforce did have some …
Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"
Posted on 2024-05-20, 01:46
The (year) 2000 US had a big ushering in entry level computers (ram-starved p3 celerons etc) and DOS was very much dead in the mainstream by that point. It's all about the internet, getting on the internet, internet, also the internet
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2024-05-20, 00:43
On a CRT, a higher refresh rate usually had thinner scanlines so it'd be comparatively darker than a 60hz mode that SVGA would tend to be, with 640x400 being the common exception.
Re: Retroarch
Posted on 2024-05-19, 14:41
Apple is restrictive to anything that might serve as a VM environment, and there's no xbox core
Re: List of DOS games with VESA resolution support 640x480x256 and higher.
Posted on 2024-05-19, 09:24
If you read the context of the post, it was in reference of Build's vesa capabilities, not SVGA games overall. 1995's build games all had older code predating the VESA2 implementation
Re: List of Currently Free Games
Posted on 2024-05-17, 06:47
Re: What does it take to run Brutal Doom with complex maps on GZDoom with acceptable (24+) framerate?
Posted on 2024-05-17, 05:55
Prboom+ doesn't have decades of baggage to support competing standards of extending game logic (among other things). OTOH, not being able to run Brutal Doom is a plus for a myriad of reasons...
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-15, 00:05
Anything after 1997's far from period correct for DOS to me so I find that a weak argument...
Re: Software defined hardware graphics card?
Posted on 2024-05-13, 01:00
Today's CPUs ain't got the juice to emulate a Geforce2, and so a FPGA can't either
Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?
Posted on 2024-05-12, 10:16
it's more like they implemented their brush drawing routine off their transparent water routine which is strictly made for 64x64 (for tiled turbulence), and gets a bad read on any other size and they left that as-is obvious right from the starting level's window. ref_soft in quake2 is a bit of an …
Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?
Posted on 2024-05-12, 07:05
revolstar wrote on 2024-05-11, 17:12: On a somewhat related note, Phil posted a video about software rendering last week 😉 ah, explains that thread of a sudden unrealistic prospect of software rendered gta3 on a tualtin for performance.
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