Re: Any benefit to upgrading the BIOS on a Voodoo3?
Posted on 2020-10-17, 11:13
I concur 😀
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-15, 17:26
Skanque wrote on 2020-10-15, 14:57: I almost forgot that I had an addition to the ASUS collection. An awesome collection! congrats 😀
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-15, 10:37
After discovering that my OSSC third-party unit is not that great at above 1024x768 input (ghosting and noise), I ordered an official one from https://videogameperfection.com . Damn you COVID-19 for making me buy a third-party unit (fast local shipping) rather than an official or Kaico built one ! …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-15, 10:35
A reproduction 3dfx mousepad:
Re: mSATA to IDE Trouble
Posted on 2020-10-10, 22:54
Perhaps you have a fake JM20330? I'm using a different mSATA to 2.5 IDE board: https://www.ebay.com/itm/193463459831 you might want to get one.
Re: mSATA to IDE Trouble
Posted on 2020-10-08, 04:30
They are operating modes for the IDE interface. Go into the BIOS and look for an option to disable UltraDMA.
Re: mSATA to IDE Trouble
Posted on 2020-10-07, 21:30
I had to disable UDMA with my JM20330 mSATA IDE converter and force PIO mode 4 (this on a VIA686B).
Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread
Posted on 2020-09-25, 19:09
According to https://k.kramerav.com/downloads/manuals/vp-728.pdf the Kramer VP-728 seems much less capable than the OSSC for the purpose of DOS gaming: - no mention of 640x400, so 320x200 games will probably be sampled at 720x400 leading to artifacts (doubled pixels). OSSC handles that problem by …
Re: Is a Voodoo 2 worth the cost
Posted on 2020-09-19, 09:01
I agree, unfortunately the Voodoo 1 I bought is currently lost in the mail (which is sad as it was a pretty good deal at 40E). So I decided to buy this Voodoo 2 as a temporary replacement.
Re: Is a Voodoo 2 worth the cost
Posted on 2020-09-18, 10:57
Thanks everyone for your replies and insights. I have decided to buy one at the reasonable price of 80E, to be used as a complement to my current Voodoo 3 2000 PCI or FX 5900 XT.
Re: SSD with winxp and ide adapter
Posted on 2020-09-10, 18:51
If you can disable UDMA in your BIOS and force PIO mode 4, consider this 2.5" SATA SSD (+3.5" adapter): https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=44406&p=808477#p808477 It has been working very well for me so far. One drawback is that mSATA drives are beginning to be more difficult to find and …
Re: Is a Voodoo 2 worth the cost
Posted on 2020-09-09, 16:27
Does the amount of RAM have a effect on game compatibility (8 MB, 12 MB)?
Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.
Posted on 2020-09-09, 07:36
Not in my experience and not by a long shot. Every GeForceFX card that I have tried has an uncanny smoothness to its DOS output that is not a VGA signal issue, it most certainly has to do with how it's outputting 320x200 and text just never looks crisp to me regardless of whatever card or monitor …
Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.
Posted on 2020-09-09, 06:01
I'm very impress by the Geforce FX series picture quality. For retro build they are my first choice for picture quality. After that comes Voodoo 3, Tnt2, Geforce 2, 3 and 4 and S3 Virge DX. ( not S3 Virge GX2 and not S3 Trio 3D/2D and absolutely not the S3 Virge Trio64) Like i said Matrox Millenium …
Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.
Posted on 2020-09-09, 05:57
A photo of a corner of an OSSC line-doubled 640x400 form Voodoo 3 VGA to 1280x800 image on a Philips 252B9 that scales it to 1600x1200 . Looks pixel perfect to me! Excellent :-) BTW does this IPS panel have ghosting? It commonly manifests as a luminous patch in the bottom right corner that shifts …
Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread
Posted on 2020-09-07, 19:56
Indeed :sweat_smile: Also the last generation of cards with drivers for Windows XP (that even include OpenCL 1.2 support)! BTW I have tested in the same configuration a card of this era, the AMD R9 380X and without an EDID it will always output the image as 800x600@60 Hz, even over VGA, when in …
Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread
Posted on 2020-09-07, 19:26
I am pretty certain that you have inverted your 720x400 and 640x400 sampling pictures . 640x400 sampling should be the one that displays correctly (proper letter width in Doom status bar) when VGA card is in 320x200 . EDIT : I am really not sure with there are no sampling artifacts in your 1:1 VGA …
Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga
Posted on 2020-09-06, 15:09
Maybe that's a quirk of my motherboard then. But neither Windows 98 or XP would boot with it in UDMA mode, the Linux kernel has tons of errors too. Disabling UDMA solves these issues completely. It's not the cable either, using a regular drive in UDMA mode works fine.
Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga
Posted on 2020-09-06, 15:03
If you can disable UDMA in your BIOS and force PIO mode 4, consider this 2.5" SATA SSD: Re: mSATA ssd adaptor in old pc It has been working very well for me so far. One drawback is that mSATA drives are beginning to be more difficult to find and expensive.
Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread
Posted on 2020-09-06, 11:02
I found out an interesting behaviour of the GeForce GTX 960: when the VGA output is directly connected to the monitor, it outputs 1920x1080@60 which is not helpful. However when connected to the OSSC instead, it produces a correct picture without doubled pixels when 320x200 (such as DOOM) is sampled …
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