Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset
Posted on Yesterday, 07:55
Is there a comparison of MK8330 and Orpheus that would highlight the differences between these two? I mean "usability" differences, not what hardware it uses.
Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality
Posted on Yesterday, 06:58
Awesome news! I want this card so badly.
Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2022-03-13, 15:11
RaiderOfLostVoodoo wrote on 2022-03-12, 18:41: Another question: Which is the last compatible ATI card? Rage 3D Pro? What about Rage 3D Pro Turbo and Rage 3D Pro Xpert? Are they too new? It's literally in the previous post, in the signature: https://gona.mactar.hu/ATI3DCIF/
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2022-02-15, 10:24
The Cyrix Cx486DRu2's are pretty rare these days. They have this neat little cache flush interposer with them. To maintain pin integrity of those soldered pins, I hope the buyer inserts the pins into another PGA-132 socket. I have one of these cache flush interposer boards which came with a PGA-132 …
Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions
Posted on 2022-02-01, 22:02
Which OEMs used the PCX2? At least of the mainstream brands, Gateway's D6 series from D6-233 to D6-300XL. I haven't looked into Compaqs but wouldn't be surprised if their Presario lines had them (as Compaq had the Midas earlier), or even western NEC PCs Gateway Dimension D6-300XL - a $5000 PC with …
Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions
Posted on 2022-01-31, 22:11
What would be a good CPU for the PCX2? Period correctly, a Klamath P2 233-300 on a 440LX. Many Pentium II OEM systems towards the end of 1997 had PCX2s with them Which OEMs used the PCX2? It looks to me, as if the PCX2 was positioned in some really odd place. A $99 card that required a $600 CPU to …
Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions
Posted on 2022-01-31, 12:21
actually a 686mx 133 Speed on that won't be great either. The PCX2's drivers demand a strong FPU What would be a good CPU for the PCX2? I've just installed a Matrox m3D into my Pentium (non-MMX) 200 MHz machine, run Final Reality and the results are way lower than Voodoo 1s in this machine: 1.21 vs …
Re: Restart in MS-DOS mode in Windows 98 and hangs?
Posted on 2022-01-04, 06:15
Check the properties of "C:\Windows\Exit to DOS.pif", this is the file responsible for restarting in MS-DOS mode. If you can't make it work, just delete it, Windows will recreate it the next time you restart into MS-DOS mode.
Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2021-12-30, 13:48
Putas wrote on 2021-12-30, 13:41: The Fifa 99 demo looks good under SGL and plays nicely (~20 FPS 😀 ) on PCX2: Nice, so we have an addition to the PowerVR list. Have you tried the Future Cop demo?
Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2021-12-30, 06:33
It looks like Future Cop is using the same engine (THRASH) as NFS. So maybe with some hacking it would be possible to run NFS3 on a PowerVR. Forcing Future Strike's powervra.dll into NFS3 just brings a NULL TEXTURE error. I didn't think the thrash drivers were interchangeable anyway given that …
Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2021-12-25, 19:47
It looks like Future Cop is using the same engine (THRASH) as NFS. So maybe with some hacking it would be possible to run NFS3 on a PowerVR. And what about Future Cop? Why it no listed in any list supported/unofficial/debunked? I don't know, I won't be able to test it for the next month, but …
Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2021-12-25, 17:44
It looks like Future Cop is using the same engine (THRASH) as NFS. So maybe with some hacking it would be possible to run NFS3 on a PowerVR.
Re: "Accelerating" Windows 95 with Creative's Advanced Signal Processor (CSP)
Posted on 2021-12-21, 08:06
Given MP3 decompression works quite a bit different from the decoders we have .csp files for, I'm not sure the ASP/CSP would even be able to handle the MP3 decompression algorithm. I still haven't found any information of what the ASP/CSP actually is. MP3 decompression requires bitwise operations ( …
Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware
Posted on 2021-12-04, 13:43
Thanks, it works on 95 OSR2, I don't have currently a machine running vanilla 95. I think the previous summary panel was better, because this one doesn't fit 1024x768.
Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware
Posted on 2021-12-04, 11:43
7.00 doesn't work either. I've checked it with Dependency Walker, and it doesn't show any missing imports.
Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware
Posted on 2021-12-04, 11:26
Is HWiNFO still supported under Windows 95? It stopped working for me with version 7.02 - it doesn't eve display the "startup" dialog. 6.42 still works fine.
Re: My AlphaPC - 164LX with 21164 533 MHz
Posted on 2021-11-28, 21:27
Are you sure this is not the Windows 2000 bootloader? The one on the small boot partition?
Re: mistery late 90s pc case?
Posted on 2021-11-17, 20:24
Y2KBazo wrote on 2021-11-17, 14:32: GL1zdA wrote on 2021-11-17, 08:43: In Win A500. Awesome thanks! Now im just wondering why it has blaster pc on the front. I dont think the inwin cases were used by creative Creative sometimes added badges in their boxes, which you could put on your case.
Re: mistery late 90s pc case?
Posted on 2021-11-17, 08:43
In Win A500.
Re: My AlphaPC - 164LX with 21164 533 MHz
Posted on 2021-11-02, 18:37
Yes, I'm attaching them. One is revision E, one is revision G and comes with many other Alpha HALs.
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