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Also, very impressive collection Jonas!

My oldest is Rage integrated in Powermac 6500/300, and my newest is Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition. What I am observing is that if I force the game to use the ”Apple Software Renderer” engine of RAVE, I get similar behaviour as in Sheepshaver. This is good - I can fix bugs locally on my Pismo...

Thank you Jonas, that is great information to have. Everything you see on screen is rendered as either a textured triangle or gouraud triangle. I am not doing any 2D bitmap operations. I tried drawing the text using RAVE’s bitmap functions but observed slightly worse or same performance on...

Yes that is a good idea - I suspect some of the issues I’m having are related to my accelerator selection code so I will improve that a bit and let the user pick.

Yes I have one, I'll make sure to include it in a future update. It is not beautiful though!

Version 1.4 has been released with some general improvements to gameplay and performance. https://phlogios.itch.io/blokzrave/devlog/717280/gameplay-fixes Stay tuned for more improvements to performance.

Version 1.3.2 should work in Classic Mode on Tiger, give it a try and let me know if it works!

Welcome to the site, I am also new here, and also a game developer. Just saw this thread now. I look forward to trying your pacman game! Compile it for PPC too if you can.

Greetings! I have released a new 3D game for Mac OS 9. https://phlogios.itch.io/blokzrave It is a free tetris-like game with 3D graphics, designed to run on an original iBook or newer. Let me know what you like or hate about it. For the programming nerds out there: the game is written in C++...

Do we know the actual cause of the freeze, and if not, is there a way to find out what exactly is happening at the moment of freezing?

is there anyway to debug these system freezes?

Thank you Joevt and thank you MacJunky for taking the time! I don't understand much about how the PCI stuff works so I'm super impressed by what you are doing. I'm going to be able to test a voodoo2 card in a few days to verify that at least those work on 6500 (and not just on 6400 and TAM). It...

With the ATI Rage 128, multiple drivers work, I have tried every driver version from the oldest to the newest I think. But they all freeze in quake - I have not been able to fix that issue. If anyone here has a 6500 or a TAM, please try running Quake RAVE with a dedicated GPU and let me know if...

The issue with loading extensions was resolved by undoing the patch (zapping PRAM). I did try that version of the driver you linked now, but it does not display an image on my monitor unless I also install the 9200 firmware upgrade (rom extender) from gona.mactar.hu

I have tested installing MacBugs but it does not help as the system freezes without displaying MacBugs and becomes completely unresponsive so MacBugs cannot be invoked manually. The only thing that the computer responds to is the force reboot key combo.