Hi guys!
don't get me wrong I really love those remakes of old cracktros and intros but I can't get the point why they require such new hard- and software.
I am all in for retro, so I am a retro gamer and therefore use old machines to play on.
Most of the remakes that are past 2000 do not work on my machines, they require stuff I don't have or have not figured out yet.
The really early remakes like the "horizon cracktro" requires a Pentium 166mmx, directx5 and uses direct-draw. This cracktro looks and runs fantastic on really lowend win95 machines.
The later stuff requires Pentium 4 and greater with WinXP DX9 and OpenGL 1.5? ore greater but why??
The do not look better, they are not smoother so why is that ? are they "emulated" in realtime ?
On my actual and final machine for most of my retro stuff including writing floppy disks and connecting to the rest of my retro-hardware and the software-depot on my 8TB NAS I ran into a quirks that matrox seems to have not support propper vsync in opengl, so the newer stuff is not smooth at all.
Because only some very early cracktro-remakes are working in win9x, I had to switch to Win2K. Win2K and DirectX7 seems to be a plattform that some of these remakes tend to work. That is because they rely on OpenGL instead of D3D so DX8/9 is not the issue here.
Some of these complain a missing dll that is part of .NET but even after installing it these don't run either.
To bad crazyk's atari remakes completley do not work, don't know what they rely on.
So that whole thing makes me think about..."why not compling it on my machine" ?
I downloaded some purebasic sources had wanted to compile them. On my setup (WIN2K) I can make use of Version 5. Every PBSource I downloaded through a different error on me. I can't understand what the problem is, I was not able to fix a single one.
So what is the goal here:
- I want to make more cracktro-remakes to work on (my) retro-machines!
How do I want to do that?
- Manipulate the PBsource in order to compile on my setup
- Switching from opengl to D3D7 or even better DDRAW
What do you tink about that? Is that even possible or are there restrictions that make this unrealistic?
Thx for a short reply.
Best regards
Doc
