RReady Rendition Verité Wrapper

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RReady Alpha,January 24, 2024 (untested alpha build)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 124.001.7z
MD5: 242a8a5a255d864026ae25a64bcd9ce3

- Joysticks should be fully functional in dosbox-staging-rendition. Dosclient being in focus causes Dosbox's SDL2 libraries to ignore joystick input.
- Screensaver and monitor idle is disabled while DOS/Speedy3D apps are running.

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RReady Alpha,January 24, 2024 (Fully tested alpha build)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 124.001.7z
MD5: 242a8a5a255d864026ae25a64bcd9ce3

- Joysticks should be fully functional in dosbox-staging-rendition. Dosclient being in focus causes Dosbox's SDL2 libraries to ignore joystick input.
- Screensaver and monitor idle is disabled while DOS/Speedy3D apps are running.
- Both versions of dosbox allow selection of joystick devices. This is done with:
[joystick]
usejoystickids=true
joystickids= id1|[,id2]
id1 and id2 are numbers from 0 to the number of joysticks -1. The id2 and the preceding ',' can be omitted to use just a single joystick. This defaults to 0,1 when usejoystickids=false. The logfile %localappdata%\temp\dosbox-staging-rendition.txt (or dosbox-rendition.txt) lists all available devices along with joystick number after launching dosbox.
- Pressing [ENTER] on Speedy3D (DOS) application exit will no longer maximise the Dosbox console.
- Regression: T*am Apache intro video locks up rendering the game unplayable (Win1124H2, January updates).
- Regression: M*ch Warrior 2 Titanium locks up on mission exist (Win1124H2, January updates).
- vQ*ake may have stability issues with both builds of Dosbox when a joystick is connected.
- Descent II videos should render better on older machines (Dosbox-Rendition, changes not ported across yet to staging).

This should be live on the Microsoft Store in a couple of hours.

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ICR2 runningon HD2000 (with a test build of RReady):
https://youtu.be/tb-LC_wqX7M

The work is incomplete and the build isn't entirely stable, but hopefully I can fix that over next few weeks.

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RReady Alpha February 3, 2025 (Untested alpha release)
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 203.007.7z
MD5: 21b44ad6ea5ed70f99a0bc416d72d651
- Dosbox-Rendition now supports up to 512 MB of RAM. This is forced to 512 MB when renditionEnabled=true in the [rendition] section of dosbox-renditoin.conf. Staging already supported 512 MB but even that now ups the limit when Rendition support is enabled. This currently has no effect on games and is designed to support possible future update to ICR2.
- ICR2 auto-patched. Unpatched versions of the game can now be automatically patched non-destructively (in-memory) by adding icr2unlock=true to dosbox-rendition.conf or dosbox-staging-rendition.conf. This is disabled by default and should not be used at this point.
- Joystick 2 deadzone controls:
[joystick]
deadzone2 = 0 ( This default to 0%)
circularinput2 = false

This release is going into testing and should, barring failures be live on the store before the end of the week.

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RReady Alpha, February 05, 2025 (Fully tested Alpha Release)
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 205.001.7z
MD5: db79e60cf9c50865450a60c14e663bec
- Setting ([Rendition]) icr2unlock=true now patches the cart.exe or indycar.exe destructively. This feature is disabled by default. The in-memory patching used previously could have had an impact on general CPU performance while in the game.
- Dosbox-Rendition memory ([dosbox] section memsize) is no longer forced to 512 MB for Rendition apps. This is true for Dosbox-Staging-Rendition as well.
- Adds deadzone adjustment for second stick:

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(for the second stick)
[joystick]
deadzone2 = 0 
circularinput2 = false

This release should be live on the store (1.0.39) sometime within the next 3 days.

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The state of custom track with RReady (no progress yet):
ICR2's Pavel's Australia 2.0 is here with Cars95.
https://youtu.be/CBzcSvux0-Q

Simpler tracks work with the stock carset or something compatible with it. Riverside 82 works when textures are shrunk and a stock carset is used. The high detail tracks don't work.

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Scorched Planet cutscenes kind of working:
https://youtu.be/0WUdOrfeGNE

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Scorched Planet videos work 100%:

https://youtu.be/6uSY5rp_SGQ

I actually fixed this last week but was too busy with the ICR2 track support to actually upload this and the corresponding alpha release. The ICR2 work is still ongoing.

This is an untested alpha for supporting Scorched Planet in its current state. The Game must be run in FIFO mode (Set SPEEDY3D_DMA=0 before running the game):
https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... tVideos.7z
MD5: 4b942ba81ac74a658993975c309a1373

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Lazy Sunday and back to Scorched Planet.

Scorched planet menus and HUD at 100% (almost):

https://youtu.be/aS85ScBkJ2w

There'll be an alpha release with the following bugfixes and it will go into testing for release to the store before the end of the week:

1) ICR2 brake balance not working for Windows keyboard layouts other than US-English and UK-English.
2) RReady not defaulting to upscaling at maximum resolution when a rendition.cfg file is missing (stock Rendition Dosbox setting, unconfigured). This was broken by windowed mode support.
3) Scorched planet almost 100% (videos, menus and HUD now correctly rendering)
4) Dosbox RAM limits increased, should support up to 1 GB of RAM.

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RReady Alpha, 12 March 2025 (full tested Alpha Build)
Store Release 1.0.40
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https://nirvtek.com/downloads/RReady.Al ... 312.001.7z
MD5: 22d7c73617524cbfb5f55d42d3cf8112

- ICR2 brake balance not working for Windows keyboard layouts other than US-English and UK-English.
- RReady not defaulting to upscaling at maximum resolution when a rendition.cfg file is missing (stock Rendition Dosbox setting, unconfigured). This was broken by windowed mode support.
- Scorched Planet almost 100% (videos, menus and HUD now correctly rendering) with Dosbox-Rendition (non-functional in Dosbox-Staging-Rendition)
- Dosbox-Rendition RAM limits increased, should support up to 1 GB of RAM. Currently forced to 512 MB. The next release will restore memsize selection.
- Rendition AA can be disabled only for apps that whose image quality is badly impacted by RReady’s implementation (ICR2, vQuake 1 & 2 and vHexen II). It will default to disabled in these games unless overridden.