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Title: Voodoo Graphics in DOS
Post by procerus on 17.01.05 at 18:10:14

After years of fighting to keep to a single gaming PC I have finally given in and am building a DOS box. My new GeForce 6800 GTS doesn't support refresh rates other than 60Hz in DOS so I have bought a KVM switch and have built up my old P3 600 as a DOS games machine.

I want to play some of the DOS glide classics that never even made the transition to Voodoo2 (games like Blood and Whiplash). So I have installed my first 3Dfx card, a Diamond Monster 3D, into the machine. I don't want to install Windows so I'm dual-booting DOS 6.22 and DOS 5.

I assumed that all I needed to run the games on my Voodoo1 was to have the glide2x.ovl file somewhere in my path. But the games complain that they lack a "dll" and tell me to download the files from 3Dfx.com!!!

What files do I need where in order to run a Voodoo Graphics card in DOS? ???

Thanks. :)

Title: Re: Voodoo Graphics in DOS
Post by gamma742 on 18.01.05 at 06:38:41

I have similar plans as soon as I get my 100SB from Chosen_One. My plans are start with DOS 6.22 Then a Win98SE upgrade as I still have win 3.1 and on the upgrade search I point it to disk 1 on the floppy. This way I have DOS and Win98SE, with DOS only games I can launch them from a short cut from within 98 exiting to DOS and on exiting the games it restarts windows. This keeps all the CDRom, Sound Card & mouse drivers on the dosstart.bat file.

Curious, What do you need DOS 5 for?

Title: Re: Voodoo Graphics in DOS
Post by procerus on 18.01.05 at 17:21:12

***Update***

I've got Screamer Rally running perfectly in DOS glide on my Monster 3D!!! So it's a configuration issue specifically relating to the 3Dfx version of Blood. No surprise there since it was always a beta patch that frustratingly always crashes my Voodoo2 just as you think you've got it working. I will get it working on my Voodoo Graphics. It just needs a bit of fiddling with. ;)

And gamma? I don't need DOS 5 for anything. I also don't need QEMM and NetRoom and 386MAX and UMBPCI.SYS and so on. I just play with it all for fun. AFAIK there never was a game that needed more than 610K of Conventional Memory and Himem and EMM386 give me more than that. I'm just nostalgic for the bad old days, is all! ;D

And, man, do I envy you that 100SB!