Thought aaron giles already did a full software voodoo emulator with MAME

You're right, but that implementation is much more complex than needed for our purposes (also emulates voodoo2/banshee, way more complex than voodoo1);
moreover, there's the source code license issue...

Any MMX or SSE optimizations in mind? Are you even going to emulate the characteristic Voodoo dither and all the switches? Emulating the Voodoo1 in software is already an ambitious goal.

well, I was thinking about running the rasterizer on another thread, should be quite straightforward to do

Kekko, when will be a binary version available?

When it's finished.

wd, I know, but I've asked kekko, not you. Perhaps he will make a binary for test purposes only, BEFORE this project will be completely done.

Yes and the first thing needed is people asking when it's finished.

I had not much free time lately, but I'm still working on this.
Most of the games pass the detection routines now, some of the directx games crash on ddraw and need further debugging, while others are sending geometry data and textures to the chip, so they're working! (more or less)
there should be some good news in the coming days... meanwhile, enjoy this screenshot from tr3:

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Keep up good work Kekko!

This is very cool, I wish you the best of luck with it! grinning face

awesome project you have there!!! keep up the good works amigo!

you can do cycles=max 105% in dosbox 0.74

By the way, shouldn't 3dfx emulation be done by another core in order to get any speed up effects compared to software mode?

Thanks for your efforts kekko, keep it up!

kekko,
I'll donate some $$ to get this working and integrated into DOSBox. Send me your Paypal.

Awesome idea!

As I anticipated, we have some good news, and sooner than expected...
Aaron Giles has just updated mame's voodoo code license to a BSD license, starting from patch 0.139u2.
I would like to thank Aaron and Stiletto for their support.

valnar wrote:

kekko,
I'll donate some $$ to get this working and integrated into DOSBox. Send me your Paypal.

Awesome idea!

hehe, thank you, but I can't accept; I'm working on this on my spare time and I don't know if and when this will be finished. For this reason I'm looking for some help.
Donate to the dosbox project instead, but only if you manage to convince them to help me winking face

You threw your own head into the swamp, now you gotta pull it out yourself winking face

Donations to the project are spent on the server costs, so not lost in pizza.
But yeah maybe money-feed kekko once he's finished, otherwise he always
has the feeling of responsibility which hurts the fun factor.

wise words, my friend grinning face
p.s. just kidding about the donation-for-help, I believe we all know and appreciate all the efforts spent to keep this project up and running grinning face

So far you managed to get the chip detected right ? You haven't started on working on the texture stuff or do you have something there already ?