social.tchncs.de is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A friendly server from Germany – which tends to attract techy people, but welcomes everybody. This is one of the oldest Mastodon instances.

Administered by:

Server stats:

3.8K
active users

#DirectDraw

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
Pop'n'Hops<p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> We are based on Whitchurch Road in <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/cardiff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cardiff</span></a>. We sell <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/beer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beer</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/cider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cider</span></a> and have a ten tap <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/DirectDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectDraw</span></a> keg system and approx 500 beers for take out. We have 30 <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boardgames</span></a> for playing whilst enjoying a beer. </p><p>We used to sell <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vinyl</span></a> too, it will return next year. </p><p>We host monthly <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/wingspan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wingspan</span></a> board game nights, <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/beertastings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beertastings</span></a>, <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/meetthebrewers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meetthebrewers</span></a>, <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/quiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quiz</span></a> nights and bring your own vinyl evenings. </p><p>We also host our local <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/homebrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homebrew</span></a> club every other month.</p>
FiXato (fallback)<p>I love it when the community does what the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/developers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>developers</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishers</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> won't.<br>Here's an example I ran into last night while figuring out why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Popcap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Popcap</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EA</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bejeweled3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bejeweled3</span></a> claimed I didn't have enough video memory: <a href="https://github.com/cheez3d/popcap-patches" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/cheez3d/popcap-patc</span><span class="invisible">hes</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cheez3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cheez3d</span></a> for example patched the executables to remove the signature, memory and hardware acceleration checks.</p><p>A better solution ended up being to drop in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DirectDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectDraw</span></a> DLL ddraw.dll from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WineD3D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WineD3D</span></a> project though:<br><a href="https://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.</span><span class="invisible">frag</span></a></p>