Mig's Little Corner

A guide of gaming on older graphics chips Key words: #retro, #retropc, #videocard, #gaming. Introduction In recent years, the trend of retro gaming has become much more popular. While people of certain age come back for nostalgia reasons, certain young users may also step into such territory in search of root or evolution of their favorite franchises. Although emulators like dosbox has become mature enough to run the retro titles fine, real hardware is still sought after among the gamers. In this article the author classifies older graphics chips into several classes, while giving some tips on gaming. 如果你手头正好有台比较旧的电脑, 想拿来玩玩游戏的话, 可以参考本文. The classification of graphics chips 1. 远古/Ancient 这类显卡的特点是不支持D3D, 或者D3D兼容性极差, 拥有1MB~4MB的VRAM, 通常跑着Windows 95/98. 部分显卡拥有自己的API, 在这些专用的游戏里方可展现显示芯片的实力. ATI Mach32/Mach64系列 Aliance ProMotion AT3D Chips and Technologies S3 ViRGE系列/Trio3D, Cyrix MediaGX(据说是去掉了3D功能的ViRGE核心) Trident 94xx/96xx (ISA/PCI), 9750/9850 (PCI/...

Originally published on NetEase blog. Solving the issue of East Asian character set on certain Archos players: illustrated by the case of Archos Gmini XS100   Introduction 爱可视(Archos)针对欧洲市场发布的若干产品, 例如Gmini XS100, Archos 104这一类的随身听, 固件中并没有包含东亚语言, 故将含有这类字符的ID3信息一概显示为乱码. 虽然Archos的用户手册里提到了"Foreign Character Set", 但无论是硬盘里还是从archive中看到的Archos官网, 都没有手册中提到的.4fz字库文件. 本文旨在解决这一问题. 关键字: 爱可视; 随身听; Gmini XS100; Archos 104; 东亚语言支持; mp3tag. Certain Archos DAPs that were originally released for EU market did not include native support for East Asian languages in the factory firmware. Thus rendering all these characters as garbage. While Archos did mention the existence of several .4fz files for foreigh language character set, the exact files are nowhere to be found on device itself or on the archived website. In this article the author aims to solve such problem. For illustration purpose, an Archos Gmini XS100 has been used. keywords: Archos; DAP; Gmini XS100; Archos 104; East Asian...