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The most MIDI's anyone ever heard out of a Dreamcast had been through that synth coming with the web browsers like Planetweb, which had a limited patch set and sounded rather basic. Wouldn't be surprised if audio capabilities were exaggerated as much as what CLX2 gets all the time though, so much …

Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 00:59

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

Supersampling the screen was something mutual with the others so it's not a 3dfx only idea (FSAA hype was off the charts before pixel shaders hit). 3dfx's gimmick that didn't go through was FXT1 texture compression though :) FSAA/SSAA itself was a bit gimmicky only because it was a slow, brute force …

Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 01:10

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

I can't speak for everyone but my point is that fixed function T&L was more valuable as a marketing tool than as a hardware feature. You could say that for any big featured graphic advancement years ahead of the games that use them. It only got more gimmicky after DirectX 10, because how are you …

Re: ATi RagePro OpenGL files

Posted on 2024-05-03, 01:07

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

I believe rage's noise dither follows a 1D lookup table. If you want better dithering on an ATI card you'd have to jump ahead to R300

Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-05-02, 02:33

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

rasz_pl wrote on 2024-05-02, 02:17: even GLQuake uses glTranslatef(); glRotatef(); glScalef(); and afaik those are automagically TnL powered when possible. Of those functions, only glTranslate was used for drawing the sky.

Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-05-01, 21:22

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

is there a 'hwtnl is a lie' going on here because please do tell that to the v5/intel/tnt2/savage/kyro gamers in late 2002 who can't play bf1942 Also bear in mind, all of Quake3's transforms and lighting are entirely software calculated (regardless of hardware - this is by design) and most …

Re: Video/Audio stuttering

Posted on 2024-05-01, 01:20

by leileilol

in DOSBox General

0.74-3 had a lot of reworking of cycles=max/auto because CPUs got tremendously faster since the previous version

Re: What would you do different?

Posted on 2024-04-30, 04:11

by leileilol

in Milliways

just backup a little more and avoid mmos

Re: Doubts about ATI rage, SiS and others with 8MB

Posted on 2024-04-29, 00:55

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

, rectangular textures can also be compressed. I have never seen a rectangle VQ either - only squares ever. When the PVR plugin saves a non-square texture, VQ compression isn't available. ( When Quake3 was ported, all the tall textures got chopped up into square 256's, for example.) Maybe you're …

Re: PCem forums - registering issue

Posted on 2024-04-28, 08:19

by leileilol

in PC Emulation

there's recently been spambot attacks, bots that think the pcem place is a fine way to market WoW GoLd and roof replacements, so I am not shocked the registration is currently disabled.

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-27, 18:31

by leileilol

in Milliways

Want silly? Do the high jump glitch (jump when cycling a weapon as soon as the ammo numbers are set). That'll open new opportunities of fun

Re: Doubts about ATI rage, SiS and others with 8MB

Posted on 2024-04-27, 18:04

by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

November 1998 (DC JPN)/September 1999 (DC US/Neon 250)'s well after June 1998. PowerVR1 had no implied texture compression. DC’s VQTC can even compress palette textures, which I don’t think it’s possible with S3TC? how are rgb565/ argb1555 / argb4444 paletted formats? Furthermore the official PVR PS …

Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-27, 17:52

by leileilol

in Release Announcements

the pi cmake/makes like every other debian linux box. It's just more that it's the popular SBC with a lot of clout-chasing on figuring out new things to do with it and then that'll have a butterfly effect - the problem with Pis being resold with mass copyrighted materials included is real. The SC-55 …

Re: Retro City Rampage DX

Posted on 2024-04-27, 01:04

by leileilol

in DOS

twiz11 wrote on 2024-04-26, 23:39: I know its not an old game It's 12 years old. The dos build was 2015 and it works. Despite the name, it really needs more of a 586 to play (FPU heavy)

Re: Does Counter-Strike 1.6 on Steam run stable enough on modern systems?

Posted on 2024-04-26, 07:40

by leileilol

in Windows

of course it's stable. It had a major update late last year. For modern systems, flogging old warez repacks is irrelevant - unless you really want to play against cheaters and get hacked.