SarahWalker wrote: ↑Wed 19 Aug, 2020 6:28 pm Trio 64V2/DX is a ViRGE variant.

Ah, ok. Strange they'd keep it in the 'Trio' family. Thanks for the info

In any case, after getting them in and testing - one card is actually a Trio64 and the other is DOA - doesn't output video. :'( that's ebay for you...

I picked up a S3 Trio 64V2/DX (actually two by a weird circumstance), is there a major difference between this and the Trio 64+ for emulation?

Well, I miss the Maxi Gamer Phoenix. ;) BTW why isn't there an emulation of the Onboard S3 Trio64 for Endeavor and Zappa? Owned one of them in the mid 90s when Win95 came out. Is there a difference between selecting that board + selecting the Trio64 card that is emulated vs an 'onboard trio64'? Fun...

Spent some time today and finished it (proofreading pending). Just wanted to get everything from the text file on there first before I start adding anything extra (like the flags suggestion from earlier). If anyone's bored enough to skim over it as well to catch errors, would be appreciated :) if no...

just a question, would you be ok with an MD5/SHA1 of the correct ROM files on it?

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...

From a cursory glance, it seems most of the strings throughout are hard-coded within the source itself so not an easy task. How I would add translation support: you'd have to essentially create a class that would load a language file (like a giant JSON or what have you), put all of the strings from ...

What would the USB 'connect' to? A host port?

Yea, why don't you just port it? It's just a few buttons, right? Copy, paste. Chop, chop. Now off to make a 'goo-ey' interface using visual basic to track down some IPs.

Yeah, that's looking good to me. I know documentation has been an issue for many people so an alternative perspective on it is good! Links are mostly okay, but note one of them links to a site with ROM images, which is something I'd rather not have. I missed that, I apologize. Will be more diligent...

Hello, I have started a documentation rework here: https://github.com/gen-angry/docs-pcem/blob/master/README.md Before I continue, just wanted to poke Sarah to ask if this is something that would be added? I understand either way :) best to make a sample then ask before finishing it all and getting ...

Or alternatively I can just take the path of least resistance. https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem Nice. :) Path of least resistance is oftentimes the best way. I also noticed you killed off the issue tracker, probably smart. I use it myself for a 'noteboard' of sorts but am not sure if there...

I have a 3700X host running a K6-2 300, 128MB RAM, V2 SLI, S3 VIRGE, SB AWE32 guest. I use Win95 with Rain installed. Perfectly? Na, there are a few apps that can cause it to slow down. However, it does work for most games without an issue. I would say it more depends on what you're trying to do wit...

I came across this: https://kallithea-scm.org/

Maybe an option for self-hosting?

I don't like the whole git pushing either and I use git and Github for my code and I find version control as some complicated suffering with web-based repositories getting random functionality regressions. Dropping a post with a diff here feels comfortable enough I know years down the line there's ...

I like and use Github myself, it has the option to do unlimited private repos on the free tier which the majority of mine are. If you go this route, TBF, aside from the 'general chat' board - pretty much this entire forum could be replaced with their issue tracker for bug reports and pull request sy...

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 und...

Upgraded from my trusty 6700K:

3700X w/ Gigabyte Aorus Elite
16G DDR4-3200
RTX 2060

Have not tried to see how far I can take PCem but I'd imagine not too much further than my old machine anyways.

Hi. It's been a long time since I've posted or tried PCem, and now I'm running v15. All is superb except this issue. It seems like the IDE stuttering issue is still present and it's a really big annoyance for gaming with PCem,, all games have stuttering every time the IDE HDD is accessed. I've prob...

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Thanks update time!

I am sure v15 will be a big success. I am not sure which kind of CPU speed I would need to run a K6-2 cpu, but that would be really interesting to know. I am currently waiting for the new 9th gen laptops to be available for purchase. I would have purchased the new Alienware area 51m laptop by now, ...

I disagree. Pentium II covers 1998/99 gaming and most game won't work in virtual machines Not because we need accurate CPU timings, but because those game work only in Windows 9x, and I believe there are no virtualization programs for those OS. You do get with virtualization with games that run fin...

Virtualbox is virtual machine software, PCem is an emulator - they aren't really the same thing at all. Does this happen with real 486DX hardware? It's odd that it only happens with 486DX CPUs. This sort of thing leads me to believe that it's an actual bug with them or the recompiler (which is slate...

Thanks sounds great. Can't wait to give it a try! I have quite a game library that I can use to put it through it's paces once you feel comfortable releasing it.

Will the weirdness that sometimes happens with slower 486s be fixed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scan-Line_Interleave

tldr: makes it act as if there's two voodoos in the machine.

Saw this on reddit, figured you all might be interested in reading about this:

http://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html

Doesn't look too difficult to assemble, just time consuming to do it right. At some point, I'll probably pick one of these up to play with.

IMO, you'd be better off using something like VirtualBox for XP.

PCem's "max specs" is kinda low for it to be of any real use - I had XP on a real 300mhz machine and well, I couldn't actually do anything with it lol.

Are you sure it's because of my old PC? In situations when it's running smooth 60 fps it's still running slow. It's not lagging in those moments but it's like in slow motion. Yes. AM3 CPUs are extremely lackluster when it comes to IPC performance which PCem needs. I have some slowdown issues runnin...

I bought a shiny new Ryzen laptop the other day. Preliminary results - in software Quake under PCem v14, a Ryzen 5 2500U at 3.3 GHz gives about 2/3rds the performance of a Core i7-7700k at 4.4 GHz. Make of that what you will! Ryzen refresh has been a pretty decent bump in power/value over it's prev...

Nice deal thanks!