OK thank you both and for your very detailed reply Brostenen :) The 286 was still there today so I snagged it (yay!, maybe I will post pictures if I do not blow it up by accident :P) but I see that it has 1MB of protected memory (640k base memory with 384k expansion with chips in motherboard) but I …

It sounds pretty confusing written down and I have it pictured in my head but I will try to explain :P I saw a vanilla 286 for sale today at the local car boot for dirt cheap but without the HD. However the only interface it uses is the SDSI attached to an ISA card on which the serial ports are too. …

Thank you for your replies everyone and for your detailed post as well Kisai :) It has helped me understand the wrapper much more and is lots of interesting points to take in and think about! So does this also mean that 16 bit color modes and DirectDraw are emulated on Vista and later for those …

This one is just for curiosity, as I want to take a closer look about how this wonderful program works :) I've been trying to find out what the word "wrapper" means and I do not find anything more than vague answers. Even the FAQ that comes with the program does not have specifics. Either that, or …

Just a heads up if you do go for the CD/DVD version of Half life 2, portal, Deus Ex: HR, Sims 3, Mass Effect 3 then make sure the CD key has not been used, if it has been used and it says something like steam or origin client needed then you have just bought a dud for a lot of money :P I think there …

I am not too sure if it will fix the issues you are talking about but have you tried DgVoodoo2 Directx Wrapper? http://dege.freeweb.hu/ As well as emulating the old D3D it can also emulate Glide, enabling you to play games in this mode as well. What you do once it is downloaded is copy all the dlls …

Ah, there are tonnes of games to choose from that run happily on dual core and are awesome games too like the others mentioned above, but I will try and narrow it down a bit :) Red faction 1 and 2 Sims 1, 2 and possibly 3. SimCity 3000 and 4000 Deus ex (Or Deus Ex GOTY, same game but with all …

Thanks for the replies, I had always thought that GPU rendering was simply an added layer that was taken off with software rendering. It's cool to know that they were actually two different programs written nearly identically 😀

In a lot of old windows games up to around Directx8 I think, there was an option where you could select software rendering if your video card was somehow not up to the job. That option in settings was as much a staple of old games as finding an adobe reader installer bundled on the CD :P If I am not …

LOL thanks for the replies again :) Does anybody know what the last Windows 3.1 released game was? Because I picked up a game today called Betrayal In Antara and it had the year of 1997 as it's release. I was a bit shocked because I thought many had moved to Win 95 by then :o Although it runs like …

Ok, i will just have to be watchful and see what happens :/ Did 3dfx ever make any Isa video cards, or was Isa seen as very obsolete when the first voodoo came out? There are many on other forums who say just pci and a few say they did make Isa cards but no conclusive answer. With many 3dfx games …

Thanks very much! I find irqs a little confusing but the page you linked to cleared it up a lot :) Good news is motherboard arrived today with amd 486DX2 installed and i set it up quite quickly but the bad news is when I formatted the 270Mb drive with fat 16 it came across a few bad sectors but only …

Thanks again! 😀 another 2 questions just sprang to mind One of the switches on the card allows you to turn IRQ 9 on or off. Should I enable it? if I do decide on the trident do I have to turn off the embedded trio32 with one of the motherboard jumpers, or just leave it on?

Hi, first post here :) I'm going to be building a 486 computer with dos 6.21 and windows 3.1 but the motherboard I am looking at already has an S3 Trio32 embedded onto it. But being the person I am I really want to try out the old trident 8800cs I have stored away :P I have been reading the forum …