Re: Why wasn't the Amiga popular in North America?

Posted on 2013-05-08, 14:44

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They're looking at it from a backwards perspective, while those of us who actually lived during those times thought that those graphics were outstanding compared to what we had been playing previously. We had a forward looking perspective. Most of them didn't see the progression first hand from the …

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Re: Just an idea I had for the forums...

Posted on 2013-05-08, 14:38

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I agree with robertmo like it is good like it is now. Another forum I frequent has a special subforum for beginners. New users may only post there for the first two weeks. I guess that helps the moderators since all garbage posts and spam just ends up in one subforum and does not pollute the …

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Re: Whats with the shipping costs from USA???

Posted on 2013-05-08, 12:23

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I also think that one of the reasons why USPS is doing so bad compared to post services in other countries (eg Europe) is that shipping within the US is relatively cheap compared to the huge distances. In Europe domestic mail travel a much smaller area. They know how much uproar it would be if they …

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Re: What OS for PII 266 96/97 Rig?

Posted on 2013-05-07, 21:06

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Win98SE gets my vote.

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Re: Whats with the shipping costs from USA???

Posted on 2013-05-07, 14:45

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Shipping from the US just increased almost 100% on many international products. It is insane. They charge 12 dollars just to ship a CD with case. On most weight and size classes they are even more expensive than the Norwegian post office (which is quite impressive since Norway is one of the most …

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Re: Benchmarking, need advice.

Posted on 2013-05-07, 10:56

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If you need any help, footage or benchmark test from me to use in your work just let me know.

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Re: Benchmarking, need advice.

Posted on 2013-05-07, 10:20

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That some sweet purchases, but I still think you're a bit crazy to buy those games in full boxed version just to test them 😉

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Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2013-05-06, 22:00

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Some first impressions of Pentium Overdrive @100mhz + Creative 3D Blaster VLB (comparing to AMD 5x86 @ 160mhz) - Fatal Racing / Whiplash: The game with the biggest noticeable performance increase. Impressive. - Battle Arena Toshinden: Around 2 FPS increase. - NASCAR Racing - Noticable improvement. …

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Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2013-05-06, 20:03

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Finally time to do some more testing. I can confirm that the footage seen in the video of Actua Soccer is software mode. I found the problem. Apparently I have a version of Actua Soccer that is made for the 3D Blaster PCI and with VLB support broken. If VRITB170.CGL is present in the folder the game …

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Re: Covox speech thingy!!!

Posted on 2013-05-06, 16:23

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Damn that sounds nice. If you were to make more, how much would you charge? 😉

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Re: Why wasn't the Amiga popular in North America?

Posted on 2013-05-05, 20:12

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The Amiga isn't the only machine that has gotten different sales in the US compared to the rest of the world. For consoles Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) and the Playstation 3 were/are much popular in Europe compared to the US.

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Re: Anyone gotten Descent II to run in S3D mode on Virge MX+/GX2?

Posted on 2013-05-03, 20:13

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Powerstrip 3 says: Engine & Memory: 83mhz RAM is 10ns SGRAM

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Re: Signal output quality difference S3 Virge vs Matrox Mystique

Posted on 2013-05-03, 20:10

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keropi wrote: Is the S3 card a brand named one? or just an "oem" built? It's an Appian Duet. So a branded card. I wonder though if it was like this when new or if age has made the output this bad.

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Re: Signal output quality difference S3 Virge vs Matrox Mystique

Posted on 2013-05-03, 19:55

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Virge cards were usually cheaply built and sold for cheap too. Unless it was from Diamond, in which case it was cheaply built and then sold for a lot of money. :) Yes, exactly. You should be picky about which card you get IF you want to run a Virge on a daily basis. Here is my STB Velocity 3D (S3 …

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Re: Signal output quality difference S3 Virge vs Matrox Mystique

Posted on 2013-05-03, 19:42

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h-a-l-9000 wrote: Did you use the same VGA cable for both? Yes, same cables, same capture card/settings.

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Signal output quality difference S3 Virge vs Matrox Mystique

Posted on 2013-05-03, 19:37

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Just wanted to show people the difference in signal output quality between a typical S3 Virge card and a Matrox card: This is software mode 640x480 in SCREAMER. I want to point out that all my S3 Virge, except my STB Virge VX (which is better) has the same issue. https://images2.imgbox.com/97/92/ …

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Re: Anyone gotten Descent II to run in S3D mode on Virge MX+/GX2?

Posted on 2013-05-03, 18:58

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Works fine for me, you did run s3dsrvr before, right? And tell me frequency of your MX+ please :happy: Frequency is reported in Powerstrip 2.78 as 14.3 mhz? I troubleshooted some more and I just downloaded the S3DRUN version from your website and the game now works if I run it from Windows. …

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Anyone gotten Descent II to run in S3D mode on Virge MX+/GX2?

Posted on 2013-05-03, 17:06

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I've tried on three different machines. I get the same error as seen in the attached screenshot. This happens on three different systems. One Socket 7 430TX, one Socket 7 MVP3 and one Slot 1 440BX. DOS version 7 installed on all computers. I try running it with s3drun with the cards. The game does …

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Re: Planning to Build a New Computer - Want Some Advice

Posted on 2013-05-02, 20:02

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In before the rage that you bought Windows 8 😜

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-04-30, 15:58

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dirkmirk wrote: I saw that videoblaster, does it playback MPEG videoes & VCDs? I think that is its main function, but I'll see when I get the manual + drivers. Very hard to find much info about it online. It is a curiosity to add to my 486 and full length ISA cards are always fun 😉

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