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Getting Nature by Vertigo to run

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I've been trying to get Nature by Vertigo, possibly the first ever 3d-accel demo, to run under Windows 7+ x64. Even with a Glide wrapper and Win95 compatibility mode, I get "The procedure entry point DDHAL32_VidMemAlloc could not be located in the dynamic link library DDRAW.dll". As for DOSBox.. I've gotten the VESA/software version running, although it's apparently buggy and missing some 3D features. 320x240 is fast but 640x480 is a little choppy. I haven't gotten 3dfx working in a DOSBox build with Glide emulation - it starts, but it hardly gets past the logo screen.

Anyone else get better results with the DOS/3dfx or Win95 binaries?
added on the 2013-12-23 04:25:55 by phoenix phoenix
Works fine here with the DOSBox SVN-Daum build (http://ykhwong.x-y.net/).
added on the 2013-12-23 08:05:02 by friol friol
Nice find, but I tried yesterday. It starts in the counting start screen, then black screen and nothing.
Works fine with some glide dos games though. Cool!
added on the 2013-12-25 09:21:25 by Optimus Optimus
You have to wait on the "black" screen for something like 5 minutes..... forgot to mention this :)
added on the 2013-12-25 09:51:00 by friol friol
Ahhhh

Btw, that dosbox version supports pentium_mmx, very slowly. Ran Heaven7 dos version with 1fps or less :P
added on the 2013-12-25 10:00:04 by Optimus Optimus
OK, if you do actually wait several minutes for the first screen to finish, the rest runs smoothly. I'll attempt a video capture and fix it up so others don't have to suffer. :)
added on the 2013-12-28 19:15:17 by phoenix phoenix
Youtube Got a capture done, the moment I got it uploaded I noticed that you already managed to get yours online.

Anyway, this is a dump from a 800MHz P3 with V2. Still got the source .mp4 @60fps if someone wants it for their collections.
added on the 2013-12-29 17:13:11 by oasiz oasiz
I'll take a look if I can do some patching.
added on the 2013-12-29 17:31:27 by Gargaj Gargaj
oasiz: You could upload the mp4 to ftp.scene.org (they could put it in /pub/parties/1997/crash97/demo).
added on the 2013-12-29 18:31:59 by phoenix phoenix
Okay so I patched the W32 version to life and it worked fine on my box. Now to test it on some more computers.
added on the 2013-12-31 13:24:43 by Gargaj Gargaj
Okay, here we go.

Note: the 3dfx version does need a Glide wrapper (e.g. this or this), but you also have to delete the GLIDE2X.DLL from the demo directory first.
added on the 2013-12-31 13:41:55 by Gargaj Gargaj
Works like a charm on W7, thanks a lot \o/
added on the 2014-01-03 20:04:49 by T$ T$

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