Smacker movie problems fixed, still getting cmdfifo crashes though. This one's with expendable demo after playing for a while Bad CMDFIFO packet 739c294a 00267010 Bad CMDFIFO0 35ad2108 NVR try opening I:\VMTest\Emu\nvr/fickj--Demos.fic_va503p.nvr PIC1 : MASK B8 PEND 00 INS 00 VECTOR 50 PIC2 : MASK 0...

Makefile has a typo with 82091aa.o. Another short list, getting CMDFIFO crashes, assuming FIC HDC+PCI issues messing with the V2, issues also occur on Winchip2 interpreter. FIC VA-503+, AMD K6-2/300, ViRGE/DX 4mb, Voodoo2 SLI, AWE32, Win98SE Working: Grand Theft Auto (DOS 8/24/3dfx and Windows) NASC...

Not just FIFA - i've seen this occur on a few other Smacker videos in other games (Shogo's monolith video, Croc2 demo's intro video, etc) here's a short working list AW430VX, Pentium MMX 233, 128MB, Mach64GX, Voodoo2 SLI, SBPCI128, WinME Working: Clusterball G-Police Half-Life (1.0.0.9) Metal Gear S...

OK i've went through the whole PC-DOS mini image FIC VA-503+, AMD K6-2/300, 64mb, ViRGE/DX 4mb, SBPro 2 (IRQ5 DMA1 220H), FreeDOS "PC-DOS MINI" HD image (Full of demos on a launcher with FreeDOS) Working: 3-Demon Abuse demo Aladdin demo Alien Breed Tower Assault demo Alien Carnage sharewar...

Testing the big load of DOS demos on the freedos-powered "PC DOS Mini" hard drive image, i've been getting loads of JemmEx crashes that occurs on 430VX Pentiums, FIC K6/2s and the WinChip interpreter with a large amount of demos which does not occur on the V14 release.

I certainly wouldn't oppose to an option to limit hard drive access speed. I already sort of did a slow down the floppy controller in my noise patch.... Heck, for even more accuracy, one could go as far as to add support for a hard drive database file to match names, speeds, and dimensions (......an...

gladstone wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr, 2019 6:05 am

leilei wrote: ↑Thu 25 Apr, 2019 7:36 pm It does work on a Pi3b at least. I can 100% a 486SX16 on most things but there's a big VC4 video output bottleneck in Raspbian...

Did you try with the opengl driver (raspi-config)?

yeah, not without a big thermometer icon appearing though.

If it's the softkey/smartsaver one from 1999, that seems to work fine for me? Can use the VB-based launcher in Win98 to install and run games without hangs on K6/2 in the current tree and PMMX233 on the V14 release. Maybe your CD is scratchy all along!!!

It does work on a Pi3b at least. I can 100% a 486SX16 on most things but there's a big VC4 video output bottleneck in Raspbian...

Noticed with Unreal Gold there's a bad CMDFIFO crash with the Voodoo2 that happens on AudioPCI but not AWE32. I think the FIC is causing the AudioPCI and Voodoo2 to fight. I did hear some crackly distorted noise before it crashed PCem. Couldn't seem to reproduce it on 430VX. Bad es1371_outb: port=f8...

Those makefiles probably weren't updated as codegen_backend.c is now codegen_block.c

The makefile does have an absolute path to a mingw install for Wx. other than that, it compiles fine (for gcc 4.7.2 win32 anyway)

I tried to time it against the bootup seek of my drives and a DOS scandisk surface scan after booting from a Win98 startup disk. It's possible the notyet hack I needed to do made the seeking slower somewhere (there is an unwanted bug of the drive not responding sometimes, I tried to raise the speed ...

Seems to work fine from my end with those settings? id anthology release though (also not cracked fyi)

There is a sound bug when picking up the gatling gun though

Samples in this second post for attachment limit reasons. Extract to samples/leilei_35/ and the drives should make noises

Here it is, my hacky simulated floppy drive head noise code and samples! Notes/bugs: - Only works properly for 100ms sound buffer length - only cares about 3.5" as I haven't recorded any 5.25" drives at this point - Hard drives and keyboards heard in previous videos are not here - There's ...

Bumping this to say I haven't progressed since patch _14. The dithersub being slow in the interpreter kind of killed my motivation and the changes after _14 still aren't perfect as I still couldn't match against the big table. i'm also unsure on how to test the bit to enable/disable dithersub withou...

My instinct would go toward installing at least the Virge display driver from the DirectX6 driver bundle, and then deleting the conflicting device for a redetection later.

Yep. The mouse polling rate is significantly lower on old serial and PS/2 mice. It's also an added compatibility benefit as there's some old games that *really* don't like fast mice, some with a badly implemented mouse filter...

Warcraft 2 works if you delete UNIVBE.DRV.

Maybe changing the LBA setting in the BIOS would also help booting.

It's in "BIOS FEATURES SETUP" Go to the boot sequence and keep hitting PGDN until you read CDROM,C,A If you have an OEM Win98se CD, it'll boot now. However make sure you partition your drive with FDISK first if you haven't already. Yes, 1, 1, 1 yes etc. Reboot and then repeat the same boot...

The current dynarec has a strange issues with idle Windows 9X so don't panic over the stuttery startup. We all get that.

That's........already what it does. A lot of this is frankly overkill for dragging the video card from CGA and sound card from none in their combo boxes.


The only preset profile I can realistically see is one for an Xi8088 PC for downstream convenience/compliance of a basic open XT clone.

I don't have those later X-Wing games, but have you tried slightly earlier Voodoo2 drivers pre-DirectX7? I.e. V3.03.00 The DirectX 7 beta (V3.03.00b) and latest V2 driver (V3.02.02) makes some Direct3D HAL regressions with a few late Direct3D games like AvP which came around the time of Alliance, fo...

I don't think supporting many specific proprietary formats are the way to go though. I'm on the CloneCD side of things where the same image could also double as a bin/cue and i've .ccd'd most of my copyprotected games (and sometimes, works in PCem if I use VirtualCloneDrive with them - but not alway...

omarsis81 wrote: ↑Tue 22 Jan, 2019 6:43 pm Useful patch! Though I'd never seen 1.68 nor 1.72 disks!

IIRC i've only seen those from Microsoft...

You might also want to look into trying the ATI Mach64 as well, which emulates faster for me but i'm not a fan of its textmode fonts.


IIRC Win95 doesn't ship with a TGUI9440 driver, though DirectX 3 should have one.

The currently released recompiler does hiccup with the Windows desktop a lot, you're best waiting for the major rewrite to be finished.

The software rasterizer in Microsoft's OpenGL32.dll was always slow though. it's kind of a miracle they squeezed that performance - while being perspective correct - out of 3d maze on a Pentium at all! The video backend you choose shouldn't matter for the screensaver as it's going to through to GDI ...