PCem uses several threads:

- one for the CPU and sound emulation
- one for the video emulation
- one/two for Voodoo emulation, doubled with SLI enabled

I've never seen the American Megatrends logos swapped on the WinBIOS. neat

Pretty much all of my early computers (long dismantled since) have been recreated in this pretty well, save for a couple of specific ISA/PCI video cards and boards (one of them's a MegaPC just for the familiar Phoenix parts for an unrelated US OEM currently undumped, and the M919 isn't there as the ...

It *might* be possible to do a (forbidden, unsupported) DOSBox 0.74 Win95 guest to run DOSBox 0.74 with that emulator in there within a PCem Win98 guest. (Maybe, at the highest K6 you can run) There's also the old "dosemu" to consider on the Linux guest side. oh how I don't miss those old "dosbox po...

USB passthrough would probably be a huge headache for platform support. I can see it being a big benefit for emulating the better USB version of the Interact Hammerhead (vintage and close enough to the typical modern gamepad and carries the 3dfx brand cult appeal), as the gameport version drivers br...

In reality though, about *all* 1997+ 3d cards are "bottlenecked" by the CPUs of their time; the Voodoo2 just gets added mysticism because of certain high benchmark numbers from simpler looking games *cough*forsaken*cough* from certain enthusiasts because it makes the Voodoo2 look like it ages well (...

An intel Core something beyond 4.2GHz after 2013 should be enough for the PMMX233 stuff. K6 stuff varies (i've only been able to 100% for some games after turning my cool filter code off :( ) However there'll always be the windows startup stutter with the recompiler. HLT-spam stuff helps that a bit....

The "programmability" part of the Rendition's the intriguing part of the card to me. Actual hardware is unstable though (freezes). Latest drivers can run Q3 somehow.

- If you use FAT32, you will experience some slowdowns in certain circumstances, as found in this thread: To be clear, those slowdowns are more related to SmartDrv not being loaded from within DOS and Duke3D not knowing how to cache on a FAT32 drive without that or VFAT As for large hard disks, I'v...

Maybe rename or split "Pentium-based" to Socket 4 - Socket 5 - Socket 7?

Years for sound cards and video cards?

Passthrough USB would probably throw huge wrenches of complications into multiplatform and building. I'd think these patches were about getting some warning markings off some devices and prepping it for future potential USB device emulation (as in emulating Intellimouse and certain gamepads/joystick...

You've got to look at it from a practicality standpoint. Console/handheld emulators emulating IR is more important for functionality than how infrared was for PCs as there's plenty of games that rely on IR functionality (i.e. for linking, wiimotes etc). PCs weren't the same. There's probably some co...

Probably because it's not worth the effort for all the funny wonky affine texture mapping the Laguna3D's notoriously known for. That's all it would lead to. No further video cards could derive off of that point. Direct3D support is common with about every 3d card already listed, and basic support of...

Dunno if it's too much visual clutter or usefulness, but maybe country flags for each computer model's availability in the table (where applicable i.e. US/EU for Packard Bells, UK for Amstrads, but nothing at all for Xi8088/anonymous XT or so)? Just a little idea since the formatted list so far has ...

Where would it infrared to? Use pass-through to host infrared so you could...infrared to some ancient laptop? Probably too impractical to bother with IMHO. I've hardly used IR on my laptops, probably the most IR i've ever done was with an ancient 3-button wireless mouse in the 90s, and a couple of U...

Even if i'm on github already, i would still prefer to use the patches subforum to plop a diff here. Not a fan of git and the insisted forkery by design.

You don't use the Windows-intended MinGW makefiles to build for linux. Please read README-LINUX.txt

Same. I'll take RagePro/Verite/MGA/Glint/Rush over Voodoo5/NV* any day. All 1st gen 3D are a curious treasure and PCem's the most appropriate project for such implementations. Not graphics card related, but I feel like I should also shout-out the recent strides of ParaLLEl on RetroArch for doing 'up...

...the previous Voodoo to V5 is literally the Voodoo5, and it's already majorly different from Voodoo3 (as explained in the OP) and 2020 doesn't have a consumer-grade CPU to emulate a Voodoo5 anyway. I'm sure even weird Quantum3D Obsidian variants are off the table (like the single board SLI V2 on A...

Well that's a very misleading topic title...

It's ARM. PCem has an ARM dynarec since v15. We'll be fine.

Yes. but if you're trying to get me to share binaries that can be produced easily, it's not going to happen. There's reasons why most things made for linux are source downloads only (with downstream repos for specific operating systems providing binaries instead)

I';m sure that patch will get looked at when Sarah's in the 3dfx mood later on. It's also relevant for Voodoo3 because that offers options to switch this dither subtraction on and off overall (as "Alpha blend quality" in the 3dfx Tools panels) I have no glide conformance tests to know if the dithers...

On the DOS gaming side, all that I know with Mach32 support is LineWars II for a special accelerated drawing mode, which is probably similar to the mode it has for early S3 cards (which works) I believe Sarah and leilei have an excellent plan and design for future PCem development. I think you're ov...

Providing a binary wouldn't be necessary when it's pretty quite trivial to compile. It's not MAME. I believe apt-get installing the dependencies takes longer than to configure/make PCem v16. Though if Raspbian had it in the repo, it'd probably be through Debian and debian downstream always makes sec...

For V16, a stock Raspberry Pi 4 can get 100% on Doom on a i486DX2/50, but can also attain 100% in Quake on AM486DX4-120 (and not much else at that speed)

V2SLI still texture thrashes harder though (more than a single card), and that can still be felt on slower CPUs and PCem properly emulates that thrash problem... I have a P2 system with a V2 and a V3 and V3 still shows quite some gains over V2 there, especially thanks to the new memory controller. I...

Kyro wasn't mentioned and before anyone does mention, i'd say this also falls under "Hahahahahaha". Can you imagine the CPU cache choking on the 8-pass texturing with that house demo? Yeah. Also it doesn't support the SGL stuff either and the actual card has had buggy drivers (for the first few year...

A HLT-spamming "cooling" tool like Rain and Waterfall should help. Remember that in Win9x at idle, old processors were constantly loaded which doesn't get along with PCem's dynarec.

Well... "Good" in that it was a popular common OEM card *cough*eMachines*cough*Compaq Deskpro*cough* and a lot of 99-00 Direct3D games were tuned for it in mind. I believe XP supported it out of the box as well

I had a Rage Pro somewhere. I recall it did alpha blending through software and it'd look noticeably noisy (especially in motion). The GL ICD on the last driver would bring flashing textures in idTech3 stuff. Turok looked awful.