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Re: Budget King AMD-K6 with 3DFX Voodoo Banshee

Posted on Yesterday, 19:51

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It seems like Microsoft only released the K6-2 speed patch for the OEM release of Win95 for this reason. Win98 was about to come out and they wanted users to use that instead. So the patch really was intended to keep their OEM customers happy while waiting for Win98. So it was possible to buy one of …

Re: Another Windows privacy breach

Posted on Yesterday, 13:22

in Milliways

in Milliways

They don't want the user's data. Most of the user's data is noise to a company, or noise to an intelligence agency. But if they can get the user to accept a program that processes that data, and market this program as something new, call it something catchy, like AI. (this stuff they are advertising …

Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-05-21, 20:47

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in Milliways

Also I think at the time most people were really focused on whatever gave the best performance (or value) at the time, and weren't very brand loyal. I remember around the early 2000's there were camps of "nVidiots, FanATIcs, and 3dfx Lamers" who roamed the forums, but these people were the minority …

Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2024-05-21, 13:36

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If Windows Millennium had been left out. Then there would certainly have been many users who switched from Windows 95 and 98 directly to Windows XP and then criticized and asked why DOS mode was missing. Those would also have been the ones who didn't know what the Windows NT line was exactly. From …

Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2024-05-20, 16:34

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Indeed after Win95 was released, the need to drop out of Windows to DOS diminished quite quickly. The DOS inside Windows was highly compatible and flexible, better compared to Win3.1. There were few applications that could not run. So pure DOS really became infrequently used as time went on. By the …

Re: Budget King AMD-K6 with 3DFX Voodoo Banshee

Posted on 2024-05-16, 17:41

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yeah, I would also have to say that the K6-3/3+ was not a budget CPU either. For the short time it was available, it was hardly cost competitive given the poorer performance compared to the P3 and other available options. More people used K6-2 or celery if they cared about cost. The K6-3 cost more …

Re: Warcraft 2 DOS Version: Disc Access Error at installation

Posted on 2024-05-13, 19:27

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I suppose the physical CD is good enough to work properly. Did you try swapping the CD-ROM drives? You could just copy over the files from the other computer to rule out an issue with the installer. You could also ensure that no other kinds of TSRs are loaded than the minimum. For example, no smart …

Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 18:19

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in Milliways

With the TNT/TNT2, there was a real challenge to 3dfx by Nvidia, and there were glowing reviews. At that point, you do realize there were still many 3dfx titles being played, and then the general inertia favored 3dfx at that time. The Voodoo Banshee / 3 was an okay increment to the product line …

Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 16:00

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in Milliways

My complete 3D upgrade path as far as i can remember was: Diamond Monster 2 > Voodoo 3 2000 > Geforce 2 Ultra > Geforce 3 Ultra > Radeon 9800 Pro > Radeon X800XTPE > Geforce 8800 GTX > Geforce 280 > Geforce 580 > Geforce 690 > Geforce 1080 > Geforce 2090 > Geforce 3090 > Geforce 4090 I think that's …

Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 13:06

in Milliways

in Milliways

3dfx, despite loosing market share near the end, was still quite popular. Their downfall was due to financial mismanagement and happened suddenly. The voodoo 4/5 was too little too late, rushed and not enough to save them financially from their bad decisions. So frankly it was a surprise. If they …

Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 21:27

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Here's Digger, a DOS game that uses 640x480 16c and runs smoothly on a 286. Played it many times way back in the 90s on my 286-12. Originates from KC85 platform? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37BA-uh31ro I had to look up what you meant by this, because that is not classic digger for sure. This is …

Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 20:56

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Well yes, high resolution was available, even before SVGA was standard. But this was expensive at that time, when the 286 would have been popular enough. Games picked up more color first, then a bit later, higher resolutions. The 286 kind of missed that boat in favor of the already cheaper 386+ …

Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 19:31

in Milliways

in Milliways

I think the fact that some games run on a 286 and have SVGA support is just a side-effect of that they were 16-bit games. No one was buying SVGA to put on a 286 when SVGA was cheap enough to buy to play some games. SVGA was popular when 386 was mainstream. It was around when Windows 3 was getting …

Re: Pentium 60/66 are DOS Only?

Posted on 2024-05-01, 14:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The P60 when it arrived was expensive. This also ended up being the start of the transition period away from DOS. If you were buying one then, you could even have been in the market for Windows NT. But then even Windows 95 was a bit late for it, but was very ideal at the same time, as long as you …

Re: Pentium 60/66 are DOS Only?

Posted on 2024-05-01, 13:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the focus of discussion of this post is not on whether it is possible to install win95/win98 or xp on a Pentium60 (which I will certainly try to do out of curiosity) but whether in your opinion it is a machine that expresses its potential at 90% in the field of pure dos Your topic title asks "if …

Re: Pentium 60/66 are DOS Only?

Posted on 2024-05-01, 03:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In my memory, if you had a P60 and 16MB of RAM when Win95 came out, you were doing pretty good. We didn't even have that. As far as today, it's just a matter whether you are running something like a more mature win32 app, or something that requires min Win95. In '95 there weren't exactly too many …

Re: Can someone tell me what all these parts are worth as a single lot

Posted on 2024-04-30, 22:57

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in Milliways

I agree that there are unknowns, like what the video cards are, which you may find something nice. Mice are handy to have for old systems. I wish I could be more positive about the motherboards. Presence of damage, or mentioning of needing some work, isn't really "working". Did you get some picture …

Re: Is it safe to connect to internet under Windows 95 or 98SE?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 00:21

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

There aren't really any services enabled by default on Win9x, unless you configure with file sharing turned on or turn on the message program -- which you probably shouldn't. I don't remember any remote exploits in the network stack itself. I think I remember there being issues with IGMP maybe …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-10, 13:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The first wave seems to be arriving... https://twitter.com/RetroTechChris/status/1777452393598206083 VCFED grumpy old fart society pronounces themselves unimpressed lol (Damn I hope they've got a sense of humour) https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/pocket-386.1247640/ Mine apparently got out …

Re: Motherboard Identification

Posted on 2024-03-13, 15:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps an elaborate effort to sell some knock off chips? It's not the only time this has happened right? Dump that bios...

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