Re: Windows 3.1 Must Have Software -
Posted on 2024-04-21, 06:16
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-04-21, 05:28
You can see the software fallback on the Kyro II kept up with the GeForce 2 without any sort of exotic CPU. I'm certain Aquanox was more fillrate hungry than pushing vectors. PowerVR avoids overdraw and will only show a performance edge in poorly optimized games that are a little full of themselves …
Re: Descent 3 source released
Posted on 2024-04-19, 05:35
Currently there's license picking trouble.. The MIT license mentioned earlier was an oversight
Re: Which AGP 3.3v cards have DVI output and drivers for Windows 98SE, 3.1, and DOS?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 03:38
The "3.1 / 6.22 drivers" throws a wrench into this. They were dead long before AGP.
Re: Is it my really my nostalgia or are you playing it wrong…
Posted on 2024-04-19, 01:29
There are some games that I really liked as a kid, but I just can't get into them nowadays. In most cases, it's because the UI feels too archaic to me, and I can't be bothered with the jankiness. Other times, I simply don't enjoy the gameplay as much as I used to. It is blasphemy that I find Duke …
Re: Did GUI operating systems have a preferred video mode?
Posted on 2024-04-18, 10:02
BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-04-18, 09:15: For example, my Windows 98 SE always booted into 256 colour, 640x480 mode. When I moved to XP, it used 16-bit colour, 640x480 Windows 98 usually bumped things up to 800x600x16 as soon as an appropriate video driver installs. XP advised 800x600x16 a minimum ( …
Re: Gta 1 laggy
Posted on 2024-04-18, 08:23
When you enter a car it'll try to change the cd track and that can hitch some systems
Re: Quake3 colorMipLevels LOD curiosity
Posted on 2024-04-18, 07:43
Yeah that's about right. my v2 shot apparently was picmip 1 oops (though voodoos had been caught messing with the range before)
Re: Descent 3 source released under MIT
Posted on 2024-04-17, 03:44
also before anyone assumes (because there ARE some), no opend3cent from me etc. I don't even know about any D3 content pipelines (should anyone start one, but should be less restrictive/hard bound than D1/2 was). I don't even like descent 3
Re: Descent 3 source released under MIT
Posted on 2024-04-16, 14:39
ACM's an audio codec Interplay had used throughout since around Starfleet Academy and FallOut, and that was also involved with their second-party devs
Descent 3 source released under the GPL
Posted on 2024-04-16, 09:49
https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3 The caveat is that the support for proprietary media formats (ACM and MVE) are stripped out, and it's been "modernized" (i.e. not an as-is historical dump or old project files).
Re: Are VIA chipsets bad for retro games?
Posted on 2024-04-16, 05:23
Depends if you like PCI sound cards and non-3dfx AGP cards. 😀 (regarding MVP)
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards
Posted on 2024-04-16, 05:22
Unreal can't do anything for 8-bit color, that'd likely induce more initialization errors. Unreal's support for 8bpp was stripped out of SoftDrv in 1997
Re: Make Windows 11 look like Windows 98
Posted on 2024-04-16, 03:18
Allegedly Windowblinds could, but that's not shareware anymore (and is a stardock product). No free effort beyond the "classic shell" start button which gets parroted as the solution to solving windows classic dilemmas forever by every self-proclaimed windows expert
Re: Which card would be good for a 386dx40 system
Posted on 2024-04-16, 02:59
The CT3600's more suited for 486s and Pentiums as that's when the SF2 fun happened post-1994. (it's an AWE card sans AWE branding and sans YMF262) Authentic SB16s would probably be too TSR heavy and muffled (and not much advantage taken of as all the 16-bit audio games were later) so leaning towards …
Quake3 colorMipLevels LOD curiosity
Posted on 2024-04-14, 15:03
I've wanted to make a thread on this for a long time. I know I used to demand a shot of this in a few threads before but I procrastinated on making a whole thread about it. I know it's not a professional image quality/mipmap test but it's the one I know with consistent results in OpenGL. This should …
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-14, 04:22
Ozzuneoj wrote on 2024-04-14, 03:18: How did this thing end up SO competitive coming from a company that hadn't previously made 3D graphics chips? ArtX, much like 3dfx, had similar ex-SGI nepotism
Re: Outrageous Installers
Posted on 2024-04-14, 01:45
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards
Posted on 2024-04-14, 01:23
Viper Racing has no software renderer, it's accelerated or nothing. I expect the smoke to be unblended (assuming it gets past caps checks, I never got a PCX2 through to Viper in the day)
Re: Outrageous Installers
Posted on 2024-04-14, 01:16
There's a couple activision-developed games with special effort into their installshields to set the backdrop and atmosphere and they're Interstate 76 and Battlezone. I76 goes through a slideshow of concept art. (NOTE: Battlezone's later rereleases nerfed the installer. I76 Gold remains the same)
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