Re: SMP enabled games (pre-2005)

Posted on 2012-02-03, 17:42

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by McMick

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All the id games back to Quake 1 support SMP (well, multithreading at any rate). Another is Rowan's Battle of Britain (it's playable if you get the BDG -- BoB Developer Group -- patch). Also MiG Alley by the same company.

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Re: Any Abit BX6 2.0 owners out there?

Posted on 2012-02-03, 17:38

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by McMick

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I can't see anything wrong with the caps, but I know it's a possibility. At any rate, with 3 128MB DIMMs in the first 3 slots and 1 256MB DIMM in the 4th slot, it shows 640MB so I'm going to call it good. It's stable with the P3-500 and that's all I care about at this point. Thanks for the …

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Building 4 Systems

Posted on 2012-02-03, 12:00

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by McMick

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PCChips M919 3.4B/F / AM5x86 133 / 32MB EDO / S3Virge 4MB / Voodoo 1 4MB / AWE-32 / Win95c Asus TX97-XE 3.01 or Shuttle HOT-555A 3.2 / P233 MMX / 128MB SDRAM / S3VirgeDX 4MB / Voodoo 2 12MB / AWE64 Gold / Win98SE FIC VA503+ 1.2A / K6-2 500 / 512MB SDRAM / Voodoo 3 2000 16MB / Voodoo 2 / SBLive! / …

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Re: Audigy vs. Onboard Realtek HD Audio -- which is better?

Posted on 2012-02-03, 11:33

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by McMick

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I've decided to stick the Audigy into a P3 retro system I'm prepping. Thanks for all the replies!

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Any Abit BX6 2.0 owners out there?

Posted on 2012-02-03, 10:11

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by McMick

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I have one of these boards and it's giving me lots of problems. I built the system in 1998 or 1999. It started life with 1GB of RAM but immediately there were problems so it wound up with 768MB of RAM. Recently the system was retired by the customer I built it for and he gave it to me "instead of …

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Re: Audigy vs. Onboard Realtek HD Audio -- which is better?

Posted on 2012-02-02, 23:21

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by McMick

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This is my onboard audio chip, ALC889: http://www.realtek.com/products/productsView. … nn=4&ProdID=173 So the audigy has better specs that that? I find that hard to accept. The audigy is 12 years old!

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Audigy vs. Onboard Realtek HD Audio -- which is better?

Posted on 2012-02-02, 22:51

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by McMick

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I have some sort of audigy card, SB0090, that came with a front-panel thing with all kinds of gold-plated plugins and things, including firewire. The audigy itself has gold plated hardware all over it. Very blingy. My question is, does it do anything for me that my onboard Realtek HD Audio doesn't? …

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Re: Windows 95-98 era benchmark util

Posted on 2012-02-02, 12:52

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by McMick

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I found a link to a disc image of Winstone and Winbench 96: http://wwww.archive.org/details/PCMagBenchmark And here's 3DMark99Max: http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/1465

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Re: Fire and Darkness by Singularity Software

Posted on 2012-02-02, 10:12

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Sune Salminen wrote: If you open FIRE.LOG you can see it uses Direct3D, not OpenGL. Ah, you're right -- but if you have a Voodoo or Voodoo 2 or a Glide wrapper, it will use Glide. I love this entry I found in my fire.log: Clock speed = 3021.207764MHz approx <-- 🤣@"approx"

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Re: Anyone here into EGA cards? I found a NEW one on Ebay

Posted on 2012-01-31, 12:58

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by McMick

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I have no desire to use an EGA card in any of the computers I'm building, but it was what I had in my 286 originally so I thought I'd look it up. Then again, I do have an IBM 5150 that's non-functional, maybe it would be OK for that, if I get around to restoring it...

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Anyone here into EGA cards? I found a NEW one on Ebay

Posted on 2012-01-31, 11:47

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by McMick

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Everex-659A-EV659A-EGA-CGA-Mono-Video-Graphics-Enhancer-Card-NEW-w-WARRANTY-/110816007345?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19cd2614b1 It has a day left at the time of this posting. I'm not trying to be a shill, I just thought it was funny that anyone still had an EGA card new …

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Re: Retro Gaming Box -- help me build it!

Posted on 2012-01-30, 16:51

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by McMick

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Secure that shit, Hudson. Get a 486 going, it'd cover that range better than Pentiums would.

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Re: What to do?

Posted on 2012-01-30, 12:46

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by McMick

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I guess you'll simply have to be content to play 3 great games for Windows 98 😉 Seriously though, what were these games' titles? Were they full versions, or simply shareware/demos?

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Re: Best and worst portrayal of hacking/computing by Hollywood?

Posted on 2012-01-30, 03:06

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by McMick

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Weird Science has my vote. The work they did in that movie produced results you'll never get in real life.

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Re: Fire and Darkness by Singularity Software

Posted on 2012-01-30, 02:50

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by McMick

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What's KNP? LOVE the sig btw!

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Fire and Darkness by Singularity Software

Posted on 2012-01-29, 18:35

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by McMick

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Does anyone remember it? It was a Windows Glide game that shocked everyone with its awesomeness when the demo versions were made public. It won awards, etc. but never got produced because the developers wouldn't play nice with the publishers who showed interest. I'm mentioning it here partly for …

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Re: Need help replacing "screeching" hard drive

Posted on 2012-01-29, 15:18

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by McMick

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GPartEd is linux-based boot disc which does everything you need it to do, is easy to understand and use, and is completely free: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ I'd recommend it to everyone over Ghost for everything besides image file creation, which it doesn't feature.

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-01-29, 01:50

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by McMick

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feipoa wrote: Which version of the Cyrix did you have AWE64 issues with? The standard 6x86, a 6x86L, a 6x86MX, or a MII? Thanks. As far as I know, all Socket 7 Cyrix/IBM processors had compatibility problems with the wavesynth of the AWE-64.

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-01-28, 11:19

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by McMick

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Cyrix, haha, I have four or five 686 chips laying around. They used to run very, very hot. If you didn't buy a good brand of heatsink/fan for them, they would overheat quickly. They were the first CPUs I ever had to use thermal grease on. Just for laffs, try using an AWE-64 card on one 😀

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Re: Trident 9440 vs. S3 Trio/Virge

Posted on 2012-01-27, 05:15

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by McMick

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Cirrus Logic -- Maybe THAT'S the card with the incompatibility that I'm thinking of. I'd completely forgotten about that company!

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