Rage Pro would be a very sweet card to have! Despite being known for bad driver quality, it never let me down in any game I tried between 1997-2001. Very good to hear about the (small? big?) possibility of emulating it some years in the future.

My main problem with using this GUI on Windows would be fact it uses SDL for input which on Windows refers back to DirectInput from what I know, which according to Microsoft themselves should not be used for keyboard because it breaks when the host OS is set to a keyboard layout that is not English...

After all, that's what integrated drive electronics is supposed to mean, with later controllers being yet another layer of abstraction (afaik)

I have a 286 with internal IDE (SCAT chipset). But since the chipset is from 1989, it's on par with the 486 timeframe. That makes you half-right :D :o Can you post a pic of the motherboard? I never seen a 286 with an onboard IDE controller :o It's on storage, unfortunately (it was my first PC and n...

I have a 286 with internal IDE (SCAT chipset). But since the chipset is from 1989, it's on par with the 486 timeframe.

That makes you half-right

You have saved me a weekend of coding, thank you!

What still needs testing? Everything?

Thanks for this patch!

Sarah: I'm guessing this last patch wasn't merged yet because it messes a with mem.c just for this chipset?

Tested this game in various configurations, including dynarec pentium and interpreter 486 and in all of them the 3d rendering fails. I've changed almost all settings and there was no effect in the rendering. Attached two screenshots showing what happens. Probably a CPU bug? Works in DOSBOX and in re...

It turns out it also happens with the Endeavor, but the BIOS simply doesn't strictly check the configuration. I know that PCem mostly ignores Super IO settings in some emulated systems. In this case, a UM8669F Super IO device is emulated while both the Endeavor and Zappa use the National Semiconduct...

PCem supports the Advanced/EV (Endeavor) intel motherboard, but the BIOS doesn't have CD-ROM boot capability. The Advanced/ZP (Zappa) motherboard is nearly identical, except for not having optional onboard audio/video which PCem doesn't emulate anyway. The ICs, memory map, etc, are all equal. After ...

A lateral bar for most status indicators would be nice, since we now use wide screens and all computers that PCem emulates use 4:3 graphics

It's trilinear filtering, not triple buffering.

From the screenshot it seems that one of the problems with LOD is that it isn't "smooth". It seems to only change after an entire texture repetition, not mid-texture.

Sent you a PM with a link to the PDF containing the description of the OTI-037C registers, sorry for the delay.

Sorry for taking over the topic, win3200, I hope that you get your PC working. The award 286 clone seems to be the right starting point to implement your machine in PCem. @Battler: Sure, I will PM you with both the video and system bios. Although I think that they are fairly generic. Also, in PCem v...

I was able to emulate another korean PC (Hyundai Super 286-TR) that uses the same 82C235/82C710 chipset just by dumping the bios and loading it on PCem. Works fine except for the occasional "Memory refresh error" on boot, which is skippable.

Just a quick note: when running at 100% with an emulated Pentium, anything less than Infinite cache makes peformance worse than in the real computers I own.

I dumped the BIOS from an old 286 of mine (Hyundai Super 286-TR) which used this chipset and it actually worked! Only problem is that sometimes "refresh timing error" is displayed after POST, but it is 100% stable after lots of testing. Thanks!

I'm guessing that BIOS label only shows that a PS/2 mouse was detected, not a serial one (I doubt the BIOS tries to detect serial mice, because the ports are not dedicated)

I'm am using Advanced/EV without any major problems, it is very similar to the Advanced/ZP board I've had in the mid-90's. Most of these intel boards didn't even have the PS/2 extension bracket installed anyway, I've never seen one until those cheap AT K6-2 boards appeared. Slight bug with MACH64/Pe...

qemu, VMWARE, VirtualBox all have had security advisories.


Off-topic: ZSNES was great for its time and constrained resources, higan is best for modern machines simply because of accuracy (even after all the NIH syndrome problems)

There's also the problem of actually achieving resolutions like 320x200 on a modern operating system. Windows, its drivers and modern video card may get in the way, even if all is OK with the monitor. The way to do this is doubling pixels and having black bars when the native resolution isn't a mult...