QEMU Classic Retro Games From Install to Play on MacBook Air M1 -- Dreams To Reality (3Dfx) (1997)

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Dreams to Reality (1997)
Duration: 22:17
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CRYO Interactive Entertainment Dreams To Reality (1997) was a unique PC game in fantasy, puzzle-solving and great CD music. The Game also comes in several versions, DOS SVGA, Windows GDI & DirectDraw and lastly the most attractive DOS 3Dfx Glide accelerated version. Fast forward 25+ years to modern days, state-of-the-art PC/laptops deliver more than enough the computing power to play any version of this game.

QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx proudly achieves perfect preservation for Dreams To Reality (1997) outside of x86 PC on Apple Silicon macOS. All versions of this game work perfectly in pristine condition on QEMU virtual machines and for this video, the most attractive DOS 3Dfx Glide accelerated version was selected for demo.

The unaccelerated versions, DOS SVGA, Windows GDI & DirectDraw, aren't that bad compared to 3Dfx DOS version. They have real shadow rendering which is strangely omitted in 3Dfx DOS version but lack bi-linear filtered texture mapping and in some levels fogging, a fairly common trade-off for software renderer.

Lastly, let's hope "the other camp" would catch up with the lone-wolf qemu-3dfx in Game Preservation beyond typical x86 PCs. Many of those projects tend to DREAM big and lost in REALITY. The infamous "freaking fast 3Dfx recompiler" is now 0xDEAD. Till then, QEMU offers the *ONLY* solution for playing Dreams to Reality with 3Dfx acceleration on Apple Silicon macOS.



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