Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-05-22, 02:43

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Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never heard of refresh rate being tied to the thickness of scanlines. Think of drawing on newspaper type paper with a felt-tip or fibre-tip pen, if you draw a line fast, it's thin, if you draw it slow it's thick where the ink soaks in. It's kinda the same with …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-05-21, 13:43

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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. I have generally noticed that this is more down to the comparative TLV of the tube and the deflection circuit rather …

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2024-05-08, 17:18

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I'm following this because I also have a similar era Dell Latitude 486, and it worries me that there might be some incompatibility. I have an LX4100D, so it's not exactly the same, but I'm worried enough that I'm not totally sure I want to take the chance on it anymore.

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-04-30, 15:48

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Thanks for clarifying, @ViTi95 and @crazii. And thanks for the great work you're both doing! From Ken Silverman's blog . He wrote NOLFB as a workaround when XP came out because of this issue. The sacrifice is that it kills off all the VESA 2.0 modes: When DOS programs initialize the VESA 2.0 linear …

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2024-04-11, 04:59

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MadMac_5 wrote on 2024-04-10, 21:29: The Serdashop mailing list message from April 2 stated that, yes indeed they are back in stock! Aha. I wonder if this is only from Europe or if there is anyone in the US that is selling these

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2024-04-10, 18:36

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I'm still interested in one of these if you are going to do another run. Seems like you were working on one last year, but then there wasn't any announcement after that. Is it dead? Thanks

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-03-26, 04:19

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ViTi95 wrote on 2024-03-25, 23:03: Unexpected news, I've been able to add FastDoom support for the Hercules InColor video card 😁 That's cool. I guess there's at least one game for that now. It's effectively the same graphics as EGA though, right?

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-03-24, 23:16

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ViTi95 wrote on 2024-03-24, 19:00: [*]Fixed SBEMU support (thanks to Crazii) The Adlib volume is still super low for me, so I'm going to assume that's not related to the SBEMU support issue.

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-02-20, 20:29

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First of all, I think you're confused about what this past update was about; it's not making anything faster per se, it's just removing the built-in framerate limit in the Doom Engine for newer, faster PCs that are able to take advantage of that. It's not giving more speed to slower older PCs. This …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-02-20, 03:52

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If I understand correctly, I think this is pretty much only relevant to running Doom on newer systems, and it's not going to help enough or at all to make it possible on older systems anyway. Not sure how much utility a multiplayer fork of Fastdoom would be if you could only play it on a Pentium+ …

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Re: JK2: Jedi Outcast GOG version and Windows 10.

Posted on 2024-01-17, 04:45

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If anyone is trying to do this, it seems like it works if you just copy opengl32.dll into the "Jedi Outcast\GameData" directory.

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-01-14, 00:59

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How do these new modes work exactly? Are the 640x480 and 800x600 modes double scanned 320x240 and 400x600 like old VGA, or are they single scanned 640x480 and 800x600?

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Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2024-01-12, 05:46

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So you do not miss anything. It's another question what the original intent of the composer of affected tracks was. It was suggested by user spiffythedog that it may have been composed for the AWE32. Perhaps that means that the SC version was an afterthought and they didn't really care about the …

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Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2024-01-12, 02:46

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So, I'm seeing while playing Blood that fluidsynth is missing a bunch of sounds (bank 56) using pretty much any .sf2 file I throw at it. What do I have to do to get complete sounds in Blood? Is it a situation that I would have to seek out and buy a specific SC-55 unit in order to even get the full …

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Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2024-01-11, 22:03

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So, I'm seeing while playing Blood that fluidsynth is missing a bunch of sounds (bank 56) using pretty much any .sf2 file I throw at it. What do I have to do to get complete sounds in Blood? Is it a situation that I would have to seek out and buy a specific SC-55 unit in order to even get the full …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-01-11, 18:43

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PD2JK wrote on 2024-01-11, 17:04: Removed all 29 orange tictacs and put some Panasonic electrolytics on. Test drive went well, next up is to mod or replace the ST TimeKeeper™RAM. DSC_7817.JPG is there a reason you chose electrolytic? I typically just put film caps on there so I don't have to think …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-01-10, 15:34

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Doom engine does nearest neighbor integer interpolation when drawing walls and ceilings/floors. This is confusing to me as I only ever see "nearest neighbor interpolation" as something distinct from "integer," which I see used to describe x-y scaling in simple integer multiples of both axis. When …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-01-10, 01:42

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Some FastDoom news! Doug Johnson has added VESA support for resolutions higher than 320x200 (both direct rendering and backbuffered rendering). https://youtu.be/pgIRHeQ0e_g?feature=shared https://twitter.com/viti95/status/1744676438869975266?t=ErowQOPdBb_LCyh97foLdw&s=19 Awesome news! So, I'm …

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Re: Midnight Commander

Posted on 2024-01-02, 03:43

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Why do you not use Doszip Commander (v2.65 or some older version should work well for dos)? Doszip Commander is an LFN-aware TUI file manager (NC clone) with built-in Zip and UnZip for DOS and Windows https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2023/07/doszip-commander-265/ Thanks! So far I like this …

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Re: Path Variables issue

Posted on 2024-01-02, 03:34

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OK. Nevermind. I realized I have to shorten UTILITIES to UTILIT~1 This has gotten me before!

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