Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-08-18, 22:56

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No, there's definitely an interest in the amiga in the retro community... at least in the circle i'm part of. There's a newfound guilty pleasure of all those 'up to jump' phoned-in licensed europlatformer games that have inappropriately hot jams (for example). Not to restate the obvious but Amiga …

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Re: Identifying 486 main board

Posted on 2021-08-18, 04:08

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Not seeing a big ol keyboard controller is a little strange on an ancient board of that vintage Not sure if anything unpopulated is actually needed for operation

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Re: Monkey Island DRM is corrupted but cracked game plays fine

Posted on 2021-08-16, 21:25

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This seems about right

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Re: The forgotten companies of computing - New Entry for DTC!

Posted on 2021-08-16, 01:17

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Vertex I owned 2 white box systems from them mid to late 90’s They had a strange history going into the 80’s and sold from the computer shopper as an afterthought to their core business carrying mostly Amptron and Fujitsu their cases were notable for weighing a ton when cases were getting cheap and …

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Re: Art of CGA

Posted on 2021-08-15, 14:50

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This thread infected me, now I see something like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfH3_GWNHpk ... and I want to turn it into a CGA screen, maybe minimally animated, so it looks like road is moving, maybe add an adlib soundtrack lol There are midi files for that, just need the animation 8088 …

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Re: IBM PS/2 MODEL 30 unknown 386 upgrade??

Posted on 2021-08-09, 15:18

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Although not labeled properly remember IBM itself sold upgrades for its own machines, they were good at that albeit expensive

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2021-08-07, 21:19

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Now that the AMD Am5x86 at 180 and 200 MHz has been beaten to death, is anyone up to the challenge to break 20.0 fps on an IBM/Cyrix 5x86? I bet with the peltier 150 MHz may be possible. Damn, I would love to see that happening! Need an adapter to disable all the doodads so you can toss a MediaGX …

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Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning

Posted on 2021-08-06, 15:04

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-06, 13:41: Unless it was a "false flag" by nVidia to gauge interest.... 👹 NVIDIAS new phone 3D graphics company 3DFX

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Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning

Posted on 2021-08-06, 02:55

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Ah, I wanted the Apple car powered by 3dfx

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Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning

Posted on 2021-08-05, 20:42

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leileilol wrote on 2021-08-05, 20:33: subhuman@xgtx wrote on 2021-08-03, 19:42: Did anyone really believe this was even supposed to be a half-baked announcement? Unfortunately i've seen at least three who expressed genuine excitement. Snopes needs a 3dfx category... Print a 3dfx logo and affix it …

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Re: OPTi Tribute system, Opti Chipset, VGA and sound

Posted on 2021-08-05, 14:50

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Doesn’t that board work at 83mhz FSB though? Set FSB to 83mhz, multiplier to 2x Get excellent cache and ram Tweek bios timings And you might achieve “proper” performance

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Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning

Posted on 2021-08-05, 12:05

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This reminds me of the Italian Commodore fiasco all over again Get your commodore pet phone then later a full line of commodore electronics Maybe Jansen watched that video too

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Re: Suggested Sound card for 386SX

Posted on 2021-08-05, 11:56

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p.s. I would also have another system ... the first IBM pc, equipped with 8087, ram expansion and vga card ... in this system all my sound cards would be useless right? Not hardly, any PC can use a soundblaster that has an 8 bit edge connector (either of the 2.0 cards) https://www.google.com/amp/s/ …

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Re: Need help identifying extra socket on 486 SX and posible upgrades.

Posted on 2021-08-04, 16:43

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I also have one of these ICL Ergo Pro C4/33 slimline computers, and no, there was never a cache module installed. Bit of a shame since it could be a nice upgrade path with a DX2 66 MHz. This is it: https://i.imgur.com/POe9V0P.jpg You till will get a speed increase with a 486DX2/66 if you have one …

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Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning

Posted on 2021-08-04, 13:33

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Jansen product has had all manner of nonsense from floor underlayment to security systems to toy puzzles and models, even occasionally resells low end electronics and TVs I can’t wait to buy my USB3 3DFX VGA Stick Also don’t confuse this with a real multibillion dollar player like Janssen One sells …

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Re: Suggested Sound card for 386SX

Posted on 2021-08-04, 13:21

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I have in my pocket: Sound Blaster 2.0 Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 Sound Blaster 16 wich is the suggested for a slow 386sx20? the one that advances I would mount it on the 486dx2… Due to compatibility I would stick with either 2.0 card Functionally the sx20 is bandwidth limited on any of the cards so it …

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Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning

Posted on 2021-08-03, 19:45

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Did anyone really believe this was even supposed to be a half-baked announcement? We will probably get a 3dfx labeled cell phone in 3-5 years sold by the C64 Pet Italian phone reseller company Slow news day on the interwebz, i but if that means "3dfx is back" , bravo clickbait and a cease and …

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Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning

Posted on 2021-08-03, 15:37

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you would still end up with a fast(er) card with the feature set of the VSA100, so basically not even DirectX 7 feature set compatible . So what would be the point ? Hoping to run Quake 2 at 2000fps at 4K ? Ah so it’s impossible to add an external feature set of Ray tracing Shader Cube Map To …

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Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning

Posted on 2021-08-03, 02:52

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You can stack a lot of VSA100 chips even on 28nm lithography. But can they all be packaged together as a single “video card on a chip” functioning together as a unit that runs at a useable and competitive 2ghz + clocking? The slower they are the more that would need to run in parallel to be …

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Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning

Posted on 2021-08-02, 23:52

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-02, 21:17: How many VSA-100 cores can you get on 10mm square of 14nm? ... that might be something like what could happen for only a few megabucks and a lot of chutzpah IBM is working on 1nm stacked 3D lithography How many gigahertz will a 1nm VSA100 operate at? How many …

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