PCem

Paintbrush glitch fixed in rev 1489.

VEMM.SYS is targeting the VL82C202 chipset, not the SCAMP.

Pictures please.

Should be fixed in rev 1487.

Good spot! Fixed in rev 1481.

The desktop and mobile Pentium MMX chips are exactly the same performance-wise.

That sounds normal.

It's not exactly encouraging is it?

Another option would be to host the repo here. I need to look into how to do that.

Oh wonderful. I'd missed that announcement. Initial reaction is that switching to Git is probably the least painful move, but I've not really had to give this much thought before now!

Worked on the Mystique a bit more, so here are some more screenshots. I have to admit I'm getting slightly fond of this weird stipply card, which is probably a sign of major illness or something.

To be honest Zip img files work okay in WinImage for me...

Does Menzoberrazan actually work on Windows 9x on real hardware? Might be worth confirming.

Yet more...

Still some bugs, like the player rendering here :

More...

Oh no! We're in teh Matrox

Going back to Commodore, here's a July 1993 advert for the 386SX machine I just added. This is pretty close to the end for them, I think only the CD32 launched between the time of this advert and Commodore going bust the following April. The 386SX machine is pretty obsolete by this point (hence the ...

I have a few gaming and comp magazines from the mid 90s stashed away somewhere at my parents, will have to fish them out at some point. I do have a few scans from Commodore though: Commodore Ad 1989 More Commodore, 1989 Even more Commodore, 1989 They had IBM PC clones out, not sure why they went un...

-Is there really a difference between enhanced Grand Theft Auto and not? I never tried it. It looks like the software version in 15/16/24 bit colour, but faster and with texture filtering. 3DFX GTA apparently only exists because DMA Design were sent a card and hadn't done anything else with it when...

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But to finish things on a lighter note here's a Pentium MMX advert.

I thought those guys were used to advertise the Pentium II only

I think they stayed around for the Pentium III as well!

I never had a GUS. Maybe it's because of this ad. I would read about all sorts of GUS-related issues in lots of readmes and etc... so no regrets. Same here, I had an SB16 and SB 2.0 back in the 90s. While I do now have a GUS, and in the right game it's excellent, I doubt I would have enjoyed the se...

No matter how many threads you create on the same subject, this remains and will always remain impossible. It's not me being mean, that's simply not how computers and emulation work.

But to finish things on a lighter note here's a Pentium MMX advert.

I couldn't find any adverts for the Gravis UltraSound or AdLib Gold. I did find this awful one for the Ultrasound ACE though. I wonder why no one bought the ACE.

It definitely does emulate the CH Flightstick Pro though.

I wanted to post a Sidewinder Gamepad advert, but I couldn't find one; just the joysticks and the weird Freestyle Pro.

It's difficult to say whether PCem emulates a given controller or not, most are pretty generic. I think I can claim Gravis Gamepad emulation though.

A couple of months later and both V2 and Banshee are £99. Also note the Sound Blaster PCI128 at the bottom right, with one of those nasty cheap 4.1 speaker setups.

For more context here's a PC World advert from November 1998. V2 prices are clearly dropping, but there are still some V1 cards available. The G200 seems overpriced to me.

Finally for Voodoo 2 here's a Techworks advert from Christmas 1998. From memory Techworks were the company that kicked off the late 1998 V2 price war - 12MB V2 cards dropped from £249 to £99 in the space of a couple of months. This basically killed the £99 Banshee as a viable product.

By contrast Creative have the hang of things in this November 1998 ad.