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by leilei
Wed 15 Feb, 2023 7:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
Replies: 100
Views: 89621

Re: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)

It's now in C:\Users\username\.pcem\roms (for platform consistency)
by leilei
Wed 15 Feb, 2023 1:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: Future graphics card emulation
Replies: 112
Views: 207875

Re: Future graphics card emulation

Tools about disassembling Verite library binaries could mean anything. like disassembling vquake's to study to attempt to reimplement all the vquake techniques in c for a verite-less vquake port for one use case
by leilei
Sun 12 Feb, 2023 10:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to resize the Dynamic-Size VHD Hard Drive?
Replies: 4
Views: 1569

Re: How to resize the Dynamic-Size VHD Hard Drive?

If it's a Win98 system you'd probably want 4gb-13gb anyway, as most drives on the shelves at the time of 98-98se's release carried that capacity.
by leilei
Sun 12 Feb, 2023 10:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to resize the Dynamic-Size VHD Hard Drive?
Replies: 4
Views: 1569

Re: How to resize the Dynamic-Size VHD Hard Drive?

It's dynamic size only for the file size only (i.e. an empty drive is less than a megabyte). Once it's partitioned and formatted, it's staying that size. You can't change the physical size afterward.
by leilei
Mon 06 Feb, 2023 12:45 am
Forum: General
Topic: Issues with Voodoo3 (real hw vs pcem)
Replies: 2
Views: 1274

Re: Issues with Voodoo3 (real hw vs pcem)

Bingo
https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/phpBB3/view ... 4629#p4629

The only other LLE 3dfx emulator out there is MAME and the LOD's busted there too (as seen very visibly in nflblitz and warfa)
by leilei
Sun 22 Jan, 2023 8:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: windows 98 monitor resoulution and frequency problem
Replies: 7
Views: 2702

Re: windows 98 monitor resoulution and frequency problem

Banshee's when the big resolutions like 1920x1440 started getting flaunted. Larger resolutions than that warranted better cards with better DACs and there wasn't much beyond 60hz for very high >HD resolutions.
by leilei
Fri 06 Jan, 2023 4:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
Replies: 100
Views: 89621

Re: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)

....there's so many other gaps to cover before to even think of getting to "early 2000". PCem isn't obligated to go through the course of Moore's Law. Besides, "early 2000" is already here. The Cyrix III. The K6-3. SBPCI 128. The Voodoo3s that went on clearance. To make it more o...
by leilei
Mon 02 Jan, 2023 2:19 am
Forum: General
Topic: Future sound card musings
Replies: 48
Views: 27300

Re: Future sound card musings

A bump to point out there's now an effort at reversing ESFM to understand it better
https://github.com/jwt27/esfm
by leilei
Fri 30 Dec, 2022 10:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Newbie question
Replies: 4
Views: 1672

Re: Newbie question

PCem doesn't modify the host computer in anyway. The computer's trapped in a window or two and can only change the contents of a mounted hard drive image file (a file that's an .img or a .vhd).
by leilei
Tue 06 Dec, 2022 4:54 am
Forum: General
Topic: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
Replies: 100
Views: 89621

Re: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)

https://twitter.com/canadianbryan/status/1030113304730103808 Open source developers do NOT have to: • Make your issue a priority, just because you say so. • Merge patches, just because someone sent them. • Give you any sort of "timetable", or explanation for why it's "taking too long...
by leilei
Thu 20 Oct, 2022 4:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: No Pentium II (Socket 7) support in Linux Debian
Replies: 1
Views: 839

Re: No Pentium II (Socket 7) support in Linux Debian

Check your ROM file casing.
by leilei
Wed 19 Oct, 2022 3:23 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Fix This Kernel Requires an x86-64 CPU but only detected i686 CPU
Replies: 2
Views: 1013

Re: Fix This Kernel Requires an x86-64 CPU but only detected i686 CPU

https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem/issues/184 for context, the OP is trying to run Android OS and Fire OS, with the intent for tool assisted speedrunning of (likely mobile) video games. (of which PCem will not ever do. PCem emulates desktop computers generally from 1981 to 2000 - extremely di...
by leilei
Fri 14 Oct, 2022 5:49 am
Forum: Development
Topic: will opencl support come to virtual gpu code?
Replies: 2
Views: 2340

Re: will opencl support come to virtual gpu code?

Name one emulator that can do all rendering in OpenCL and is actually faster. PCSX2 once had an OpenCL renderer (2014-2020), it wasn't really faster and had to e stripped for adding too much building complications (conflicting SDKs) and nVidia didn't embrace OpenCL as much as AMD and Intel did, as t...
by leilei
Wed 12 Oct, 2022 3:11 am
Forum: Patches
Topic: [Patch] Floppy drive noises
Replies: 13
Views: 16405

Re: [Patch] Floppy drive noises

no.
by leilei
Sun 25 Sep, 2022 1:26 am
Forum: Development
Topic: is it possbile to develop emulation-virtualization hybrid?
Replies: 5
Views: 3671

Re: is it possbile to develop emulation-virtualization hybrid?

Virtualizing CPUs through brings unpredictable variables from hardware that can be out of reach and hard to debug. Also that's like the thousandth time VM'ing was suggested...
by leilei
Sun 25 Sep, 2022 1:02 am
Forum: General
Topic: v17 released!
Replies: 33
Views: 36928

Re: v17 released!

The Creative card used SDRAM. Reference banshee used SGRAM. References of Banshee being a stripped Voodoo2's a bit of a misnomer as it has a far better memory controller and can handle a scene in Quake3 with far less texture thrash hitching (especially compared to V2SLI) and has somewhat better comp...
by leilei
Fri 16 Sep, 2022 3:08 am
Forum: General
Topic: DPI issue with Windows 98 on PCem
Replies: 16
Views: 3051

Re: DPI issue with Windows 98 on PCem

Without cache penalties emulated, PCem's emulating faster results than what you would find with those real CPUs, especially regarding the Celerons and K6s. Keep that in mind
by leilei
Tue 06 Sep, 2022 12:03 am
Forum: General
Topic: Outside of VMworkstation (which has disorted sound) we don't have a fully working XP emulation yet.
Replies: 11
Views: 2457

Re: Outside of VMworkstation (which has disorted sound) we don't have a fully working XP emulation yet.

What's not "fully working"? I haven't had issues with Voodoo3 and SBPCI on XP. It's a little sluggish but that's how XP was on the 6th gen PCs, and there's always been a slow detection hump to get over after setup that always seems to be forgotten about, especially as many first impression...
by leilei
Fri 02 Sep, 2022 9:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: unable to compile PCem under Linux
Replies: 10
Views: 3561

Re: unable to compile PCem under Linux

8086tiny also doesn't emulate up to the 6th generation of computer hardware...


The whole point of 8086tiny is to show it's possible to have an emulator in some very small piece of code. It's more of a coder flex than practicality.


Also as for PCjs... have you tried compiling a modern web browser?
by leilei
Thu 01 Sep, 2022 2:08 am
Forum: General
Topic: unable to compile PCem under Linux
Replies: 10
Views: 3561

Re: unable to compile PCem under Linux

GUI toolkits' dev files are always big to unload. On the other hand, 1GB's small compared to what you'd have to grab to do any microsoft visual studio compiling on modern windows. It doesn't really matter what target it emulates, as you'll soon learn that there are some 5th gen console emulators tha...
by leilei
Mon 29 Aug, 2022 10:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: No ROMs present! You must have at least one romset to use PCem.
Replies: 16
Views: 29687

Re: No ROMs present! You must have at least one romset to use PCem.

in the google ideal world, every non-https site is broken.
by leilei
Mon 29 Aug, 2022 9:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: [Bug] Monochrome Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 in Socket 7 machines
Replies: 6
Views: 4058

Re: [Bug] Monochrome Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 in Socket 7 machines

The "monochrome" is not a PCem bug, it's an outside-person-who-made-some-"roms pack" error.
by leilei
Mon 29 Aug, 2022 9:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Voodoo 3 drivers Win 95 cannot read on PCEM.
Replies: 2
Views: 875

Re: Voodoo 3 drivers Win 95 cannot read on PCEM.

Voodoo2 drivers don't provide anything for the Voodoo3, and vice versa.
by leilei
Mon 15 Aug, 2022 12:23 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Area 5150
Replies: 1
Views: 1063

Area 5150

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=91938 Hardware capture (for reference/awe) Tried it on v17 and noticed these bugs on a stock XT 4.77MHz+CGA(RGB) configuration Intro- the emulated CGA overscan border not being large enough to make the smooth screen transition Elephant - melts down when electrocu...
by leilei
Mon 15 Aug, 2022 11:26 am
Forum: General
Topic: Game refuses to work - after 10 ISO softwares and running direct from CD
Replies: 11
Views: 2337

Re: Game refuses to work - after 10 ISO softwares and running direct from CD

tk421 wrote: Mon 15 Aug, 2022 7:24 am I really hope this is not the same problem as I had with Homeworld Cataclysm. It never ran no matter what I did.
That sounds like the anti-debugger stuff Sierra started putting in releases since Ground Control and also show up on Tribes 2 and Blue Shift
by leilei
Sun 14 Aug, 2022 9:23 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Game refuses to work - after 10 ISO softwares and running direct from CD
Replies: 11
Views: 2337

Re: Game refuses to work - after 10 ISO softwares and running direct from CD

At this point i'd blame the disc protection. 1999's also when Safedisc/SecuROM started showing up on EA's games and sometimes they may have silent failures. When I've tested 99-02 EA games on PCem earlier, i've had PCem pointed to the host VirtualCloneDrive with my clonecd dumps mounted on them.
by leilei
Fri 12 Aug, 2022 11:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Future graphics card emulation
Replies: 112
Views: 207875

Re: Future graphics card emulation

Quicktime has nothing to do with new video chipsets.
by leilei
Fri 12 Aug, 2022 9:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Game refuses to work - after 10 ISO softwares and running direct from CD
Replies: 11
Views: 2337

Re: Game refuses to work - after 10 ISO softwares and running direct from CD

you'll also need DirectX 7 (minimum) installed for those drivers to work with Direct3D at all. The screenshots you posted show you're using a DX7-dependent driver with DX6.1, which is not going to work. The driver's readme also notes this: This distribution contains Voodoo drivers and control panel...