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by UPerschke
Tue 17 Sep, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem minimum software requirements?
Replies: 7
Views: 2025

Re: PCem minimum software requirements?

terub56 wrote: Tue 17 Sep, 2024 1:14 pm ... but it's imposible to load floppy disks.
https://vfd.sourceforge.net/
by UPerschke
Sun 05 Nov, 2023 2:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem vNext Builds
Replies: 5
Views: 13322

Re: PCem vNext Builds

Thanks.
by UPerschke
Thu 31 Aug, 2023 6:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
Replies: 103
Views: 120486

Re: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)

I guess tk421 choose a poor example of a game from that era to make his point. There are other games from that era that require a machine faster than PCem, and are not compatible with contemporary Windows, and are worth playing. Fans of those games would look to alternatives, a physical retro PC fr...
by UPerschke
Tue 29 Aug, 2023 6:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
Replies: 103
Views: 120486

Re: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)

I really hope the 13th gen Intel laptop CPUs can do the job. Unreal Tournament (1999) is always fun to play, but it would be nice to get it running at 100% in PCem. VMWare runs the game fine, but PCem is so cool. Just curious why would one want to use PCem for this game, aside cool ? It does run na...
by UPerschke
Tue 29 Nov, 2022 5:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
Replies: 103
Views: 120486

Re: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)

MichaelJManley wrote: Wed 16 Nov, 2022 8:32 am I know that change was not a well received one, but I wanted parity with the Linux version.
Which commit introduced this change? I cannot find it via Github search.
by UPerschke
Tue 22 Nov, 2022 5:27 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: How rip or save BIOS from PCs?
Replies: 4
Views: 7788

Re: How rip or save BIOS from PCs?

Depending on compatibility you may be able to use Flashrom. https://www.flashrom.org
by UPerschke
Wed 14 Sep, 2022 5:51 am
Forum: General
Topic: How to Detect PCem Programmatically?
Replies: 16
Views: 4535

Re: How to Detect PCem Programmatically?

Why not invert the question? Try to detect the others by intrinsic or otherwise unique devices/features, and if it's none of them it has to be PCem. Unfortunately, that won't work, at least not reliably. I can't even tell automatically if I'm running in a VM or not (I boot straight to DOS on the sa...
by UPerschke
Tue 13 Sep, 2022 5:14 am
Forum: General
Topic: How to Detect PCem Programmatically?
Replies: 16
Views: 4535

Re: How to Detect PCem Programmatically?

Why not invert the question? Try to detect the others by intrinsic or otherwise unique devices/features, and if it's none of them it has to be PCem. Bochs: It has a unique feature not needing any guest ressources: port_e9_hack. https://bochs.sourceforge.io/doc/docbook/user/bochsrc.html section 4.3.4...
by UPerschke
Thu 14 Jul, 2022 6:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Doubts about PCEM possibilities with COM ports
Replies: 3
Views: 1578

Re: Doubts about PCEM possibilities with COM ports

KeiDash wrote: Wed 13 Jul, 2022 10:25 am DosBox-X not works with PCI or PCIe parallel ports boards
PortTalk to the rescue, at least up to WinXP hosts.
KeiDash wrote: Wed 13 Jul, 2022 10:25 am Many many thanks for your reply, It has been very usefull
You're welcome.
by UPerschke
Tue 12 Jul, 2022 5:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Doubts about PCEM possibilities with COM ports
Replies: 3
Views: 1578

Re: Doubts about PCEM possibilities with COM ports

Not sure if PCem is what you should aim for, since you seem to mix up parallel (LPT) and serial (COM). I have used physical COM ports with vanilla DosBox to quite a degree of success, regardless if the host bus was ISA, PCI, PCIe or USB. https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Configuration:SerialPort If you th...
by UPerschke
Fri 25 Feb, 2022 7:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Change of resolution with Voodoo 2 card + Pentium III emulation ?!
Replies: 20
Views: 19320

Re: Change of resolution with Voodoo 2 card + Pentium III emulation ?!

also note the post dates. Blade of Darkness DOES work on PCem v17's V3 emulation fwiw. Yeah, noticed for both. 16 bpp V3 vs. 32 bpp dgVoodoo2 ;) Yet PCem doesn't have to hide, of course. At least I am dedicated enough though to try getting games playable on native prior PCem or VM, for reasons like...
by UPerschke
Wed 23 Feb, 2022 8:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Change of resolution with Voodoo 2 card + Pentium III emulation ?!
Replies: 20
Views: 19320

Re: Change of resolution with Voodoo 2 card + Pentium III emulation ?!

I don't think Blade of Darkness ever supported the Voodoo2. It has selectors dedicated to Glide for V1+V2, D3D for V1+V2, and D3D for V3+Banshee. I say that because this game does not work under Windows 7 or 10 unfortunately... thank you greetings ! Maybe not trying hard enough ;) Aside the game be...
by UPerschke
Fri 19 Mar, 2021 7:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Need suggestions: Best Win98 guest that can run DX9
Replies: 12
Views: 6831

Re: Need suggestions: Best Win98 guest that can run DX9

Thank you! As for Voodoo 3 3000, what could be recommended settings? There's something called Voodoo type (Voodoo Graphics, Obsidian SB50 + Amethyst (2 TMUs) or Voodoo 2). Then there's framebuffer memory, texture memory, render threads, bilinear filtering, screen filter, SLI, recompiler, etc. A bit...
by UPerschke
Mon 01 Mar, 2021 8:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Need suggestions: Best Win98 guest that can run DX9
Replies: 12
Views: 6831

Re: Need suggestions: Best Win98 guest that can run DX9

Understood.
FIC VA-503+
K6-III as fast as your host CPU can do without noticable drops
3DFX Voodoo 3 3000
Sound Blaster PCI128
128 or 256 MB RAM
Win98SE
That's quite comparable with real hardware, e.g. in this thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=36407
by UPerschke
Mon 01 Mar, 2021 7:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: Need suggestions: Best Win98 guest that can run DX9
Replies: 12
Views: 6831

Re: Need suggestions: Best Win98 guest that can run DX9

I would not recommend to use PCem for either at all. I would use VMWare Player instead. Max Payne: Officially supports Win2k and is known to run under WinXP, although unsupported under latter. Half-Life: Although the release version requires Win9x, it does run on WinXP with the latest offline patch,...
by UPerschke
Sun 07 Feb, 2021 7:08 am
Forum: Development
Topic: v17 compatibility & bug list
Replies: 77
Views: 88212

I-Magic iF22

Banshee: Screen goes black then OS freeze (mouse cursor visible)
Voodoo 2: Working

Patch 3.3 was installed.

Otherwise same conditions as in my EA F1 Championship Season 2000 reply.
by UPerschke
Sat 06 Feb, 2021 10:46 am
Forum: Development
Topic: v17 compatibility & bug list
Replies: 77
Views: 88212

Eidos F1 World Championship

Banshee: OS freeze at start
Voodoo 2: Working

Same conditions as in my previous reply.
by UPerschke
Sat 06 Feb, 2021 9:56 am
Forum: Development
Topic: v17 compatibility & bug list
Replies: 77
Views: 88212

EA F1 Championship Season 2000

Banshee: OS freeze at start - Both main binary and f1config.exe Voodoo2: Working, but presumably CPU bottlenecked Recompiler: No difference if enabled or disabled Ctrl+Alt+Del: No impact Hard Reset: Working OS: Win98SE DirectX: 7.0a Voodoo2 driver Voodoo2 Driver kit Version: 3.02.02 Glide Driver Ver...
by UPerschke
Sat 06 Feb, 2021 9:06 am
Forum: Development
Topic: v17 compatibility & bug list
Replies: 77
Views: 88212

X-Scooter (or XScooter or X Scooter, not sure)

Banshee: Distorted character models, both with and without recompiler. Voodoo2: Working, both with and without recompiler. Voodoo3: Working Cannot compare to a real Banshee. Could not find any pics online for comparison either. OS: Win98SE DirectX: 7.0a Voodoo2 driver Voodoo2 Driver kit Version: 3.0...
by UPerschke
Fri 15 Jan, 2021 6:23 am
Forum: Development
Topic: Lotus 1-2-3 Division overflow on IBM XT
Replies: 4
Views: 4066

Re: Lotus 1-2-3 Division overflow on IBM XT

Copy protection maybe? Not sure.

Regardless if that's the cause DIVEFIX might help: https://www.pcorner.com/list/UTILITY/DIVEFIX2.ZIP/INFO
by UPerschke
Fri 02 Oct, 2020 4:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: Personal Deskmate 2 for Tandy 1000hx
Replies: 17
Views: 12967

Re: Personal Deskmate 2 for Tandy 1000hx

IMHO it doesn't matter for the copyright status whether they monetarize it or not. They don't plan to monetarize I guess because their trademark was canceled in 2006. But Tandy still exists: RadioShack. Hence the software is still part of their copyrighted assets, even if they wouldn't have the sour...
by UPerschke
Mon 17 Aug, 2020 4:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: Future graphics card emulation
Replies: 112
Views: 244907

Re: Future graphics card emulation

SarahWalker wrote: Sat 15 Aug, 2020 7:47 pm firstly, it's a Trio64V+ rather than the regular Trio64 that PCem currently emulates.
It's a Trio64: http://intel-vintage-developer.eu5.org/ ... /INDEX.HTM
by UPerschke
Tue 04 Aug, 2020 2:57 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Translating PCEM
Replies: 7
Views: 7203

Re: Translating PCEM

Translations should be well thought of if you really want to go down that road. It's not just the code changes to implement some kind of language file import. Tom Scott once went on a rant about this worth watching imho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY Not sure though how much of his exp...
by UPerschke
Sat 19 Oct, 2019 5:08 am
Forum: General
Topic: What computer processor to emulate pentium mmx and up with PCem well?
Replies: 20
Views: 26074

Re: What computer processor to emulate pentium mmx and up with PCem well?

There's still that Direct3D 6-7 primary device gap that VM software can't touch. Also as for VirtualBox, they're retiring the video device that brings 2K/XP OpenGL passthrough pretty soon. (the other newer devices don't have a 2K/XP guest additions driver (yet?)) Just a side note: It's possible sur...
by UPerschke
Mon 19 Aug, 2019 7:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Using vintage email clients
Replies: 4
Views: 6309

Re: Using vintage email clients

Indeed. You'll never solve this problem within Win9x, no matter how you turn it. You need some intermediate system with TLSv1.2 which acts as an IMAP or SMTP/POP3 proxy/relay and/or cache, regardless if it's WinXP, *nix or something else. Data flow would roughly look like this: E-mail provider <---I...
by UPerschke
Sun 18 Aug, 2019 4:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Using vintage email clients
Replies: 4
Views: 6309

Re: Using vintage email clients

Those will likely never get a connection nowadays due to lack of TLSv1.2 support. TLSv.1.0, SSLv3.0 and older are outdated and usually no longer available. Most providers have also removed abilities for unencrypted connections alltogether. You can try to change your POP3/IMAP/SMTP settings to SSL/TL...
by UPerschke
Thu 20 Jun, 2019 9:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Possiblity of implementing cache emulation
Replies: 14
Views: 16873

Re: Possiblity of implementing cache emulation

I think perfect cache emulation is something we all like to have with PCem Why? There is no speed gain from it. On a physical computer speed gain with cache arises from the fact that cache memory is several orders of magnitute faster than DRAM. In PCem all emulation is taking place in it's host DRA...
by UPerschke
Mon 03 Jun, 2019 6:04 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: v15 compatibility & bug list (WIP)
Replies: 72
Views: 104611

Re: v15 compatibility & bug list (WIP)

SarahWalker wrote: Mon 03 Jun, 2019 5:22 pm Windows will try to limit the total number of cores actively being used at any one time to keep the turbo frequency up. That's just how the scheduler is designed to work.
How influential would it be to disable core parking and fiddle around with frequency scaling and/or affinity?
by UPerschke
Wed 22 May, 2019 7:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: [OT-ish] fitting Linux distros?
Replies: 8
Views: 11528

Re: [OT-ish] fitting Linux distros?

szadycbr wrote: Tue 21 May, 2019 8:25 pm UPerschke , true , and i only ask for 32bit as i think leilei meant to use it within PCem :)
Ohhh, gotcha. Thanks. Then Clearlinux is out of scope.
by UPerschke
Tue 21 May, 2019 8:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: [OT-ish] fitting Linux distros?
Replies: 8
Views: 11528

Re: [OT-ish] fitting Linux distros?

so the latest wont work with voodoo This is a general problem with all distros continued after 2011. I've not seen a backport either. I did not consider discontinued distros because many of them don't run on recent hardware. if it has 32bit distro then it is surely pae and needs cmov It's 64 bit on...