qemu-3dfx
sharedgl
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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qemu-3dfx
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SoftGPU: SW and HW accelerated driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines
There is also https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx pass-through 3D acceleration for qemu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e34mSBxDm7s
- SharedGL: An OpenGL implementation over shared memory enabling 3D acceleration in virtual machines
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Ask HN: Best way to play old games that require Windows 98/XP?
I've been porting this to Nixos all week. Handles glide emulation pretty well
https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx
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QEMU 8.0.0 released
As for 3D acceleration, I've seen this repository (no idea if it works) https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx, and I've also seen that QEMU added the "ati-vga" device, which supports the Rage 128 Pro and Radeon RV100, but those seem to be a bit WIP.
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Parallels vs Crossover on older games
And, here we also have the 3rd option which is less well-known than CrossOver and Parallel Desktop while targeting older Windows games with compatibility issues on modern Windows, QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx for Apple Silicon https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx
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CrossOver support not responding, should I try getting a refund and purchase Parallels instead?
You can check out qemu-3dfx for Apple Silicon macOS. https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx/wiki/Apple-Silicon-macOS-Prerequisites
- Virtual graphic driver for Windows 98 on QEMU/KVM?
- Using qemu-3dfx for Win9x games
- Any chance of a good D3D9 Windows XP paravirtualized driver?
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How do you emulate old Win95 games with 3dfx? And how to set up quicklaunch for it on a frontend?
If you are a true gamer from the late 90' s though, you can and probably will run into an old game that doesn't work on modern windows. PCem is really the only good option IMO, but performance is very limited. Especially with glide and 3d acceleration, even the fastest CPUs aren't able to emulate much faster than a pentium II 200mhz at voodoo 2 at full speed (if you are emulating MMX on top of that forget it). Virtualization is possible but not likely to help as win95 virtualization is very basic and doesn't do much gaming things very well. With that said, there are some pretty crazy virtualization projects out there; here is one that requires you to compile everything from source yourself for basically no reason https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx (have fun).
sharedgl
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SharedGL: An OpenGL implementation over shared memory enabling 3D acceleration in virtual machines
The repository is located at https://github.com/dmaivel/sharedgl. The project is very much still in an alpha stage, with large portions of several OpenGL versions being missing. However, it can run demoes such as glxgears and minetest with decent performance. This project isn't really an effective replacement for VirGL (except for on Windows) due to its current limitations, however it does provide some 3D acceleration in Linux and Windows guests on QEMU/KVM. It should be noted it does not provide 3D acceleration for the entire VM, but rather passes through the OpenGL calls from one process from the VM to the host for rendering.
What are some alternatives?
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
xsuspender - :eyes: :computer: :zzz: :battery: Save battery by auto-suspending unfocused X11 applications.
PCem-ROMs - This is a collection of requiered ROMs files for PCem emulator. RIP PCem 2021
GCanvas - A lightweight cross-platform graphics rendering engine. (超轻量的跨平台图形引擎) https://alibaba.github.io/GCanvas
dxvk - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine
python-shared-objects - CPython extension implementing Shared Transactional Memory with native-looking interface
glrage - OpenGL wrapper for the ATI 3D C Interface and DirectDraw 2
glad - Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs.
softgpu - SW and HW accelerated GPU driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
vmwmouse - VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.1
glew - The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library