Re: One Must Fall 2097 YouTube Video
Posted on 2013-05-10, 11:13
Malik wrote: and the ability to salvage fallen opponent's parts from previous battle and use it in future battles. Are you sure about that? If so can you explain how this works.
Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris
Posted on 2013-05-08, 13:15
I've bought a few items from that guy too, wish we had more sellers like him as it would make the world a much, much better place, for a few people anyway. The 286-25 is a fascinating item, so thats a 25mhz bus? Does that thing has external cache? Its a great board with the 30 pin ram slots and a …
Re: What would be some good retro builds for someone on a budget?
Posted on 2013-05-05, 00:18
I dont think its unrealistic to pick up anything from an early pentium up to a pentium 4 system for nothing, or next to nothing, this stuff gets thrown out of all the time or has been stuck in a garage for 10 years, I'd check garage sales and local tips. If you wanted an authentic dos machine and …
Re: ECS Elite UM8810PAIO REV:2.1
Posted on 2013-05-04, 08:54
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3-Vintage-CPU-Inte … 1#ht_500wt_1288 That AM5x86 P75 might be exactly what you need.
What Dos Menu programmes exist?
Posted on 2013-05-03, 23:07
Back in the day(1993) we had a 386 machine with a dos menu included from the comuter shop, when the computer booted up it went to this menu which had two tables/rows and you had pages, all the menu entries could be edited and it was simply typing in dos commands to run each programme, on exiting a …
Re: N64 emulation - does anyone else share my dissatisfaction?
Posted on 2013-05-01, 10:26
I think its criminal that the best output available for the N64 was composite video, not even s-video, thats what really puts me off the old console.
Re: USB to PS/2 Converter or KVM Switch
Posted on 2013-04-30, 21:21
Those two switches look exactly the same ard probably are, I've got a 2 port version of the above and it works okay. The problems seem to be, you've got both computers running and switching between the two fine and dandy, you shutdown one computer, monitor goes into standby mode and switching back …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-04-30, 08:46
I saw that videoblaster, does it playback MPEG videoes & VCDs?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-04-29, 07:49
He's got great taste thats for sure!
Re: 486 Retro Gaming Build
Posted on 2013-04-27, 07:58
Where did you get that cyrix chip from? That must be extremely rare.
Re: Anyone have/use Sigma Design's RealMagic ISA MPEG decoder? Games list?
Posted on 2013-04-17, 07:44
If you dont have the passthrough cable would a vga switchbox do the job like with a voodoo card?
Re: 486 Retro Gaming Build
Posted on 2013-04-16, 21:24
The cyrix 5x86-120 is definately the best cpu you have, I always assumed you needed a modern PCI mainboard to run that chip as they have specific jumpers for the cpu but someone did have success running the cyrix 5x86 in a vlb board The next best cpu is the AMD 5x86-p75 which is actually 133mhz but …
Re: Help identify my 486 motherboard?!
Posted on 2013-04-15, 20:57
Thats a socket 3 so that means 3.3V cpus can be used? As long as you find the jumper to switch the voltage. Hmm... coin battery & 72 pin ram slots, looks like an interesting VLB board.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-04-14, 20:26
Damn, Just wondering why you've got so many cards of the same chipset? Especially something lke a Vodoo Banshee not something I would consider collectable.
Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)
Posted on 2013-04-07, 10:36
Good to see someone else try a 3D card on a 486 system! In my experience the best CPU to use is the Pentium overdrive 83mhz, I use a Voodoo3 on my machine but I dont think it would be any faster for this class of machine compared to the voodoo1. For reference at 640x480 in Quake timedemo I got 27. …
Re: History of the GPU
Posted on 2013-04-05, 22:14
The G400 also introduced Environment Mapped Bump Mapping (EMBM), which provided better texture representation. For those with slightly deeper pockets, a higher clocked G400 MAX at $250 ensured you had the fastest consumer card in the market until GeForce 256 DDR-based boards such as the Creative …
Re: Creative 3D Blaster VLB price
Posted on 2013-03-30, 07:27
That latest 3D Blaster did'nt sell at its $500 reserve price, I've got a few theorys #"I used this card in my system many years ago and it has been stored ever since. It was working when pulled, but no guarantees on its functionality", On a $500+ vintage part you need assurance that it works, no …
Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?
Posted on 2013-03-27, 20:02
The performance of this player is outstanding and to my surprise it even allows you to watch divx, wmv and other formats in DOS. So far i have had much fun with an MPEG-1 video in fullscreen. Gonna test a bit more, but looks like this is really the best solution ever. :blush: Big thanks to you! It …
Re: Creative 3D Blaster VLB price
Posted on 2013-03-27, 11:17
name=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 If anyone is curious to how the supported games perform on the 3D Blaster VLB, it is running on a AMD 5x86 P75-S 133@160mhz (says roughly equal to a Pentium 90 in the video, but it is more like the Pentium 75 tbh even overclocked) in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch …
Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?
Posted on 2013-03-24, 20:06
Yeah got a mpeg decoder card and you'll be able to run vcd/352x288 mpeg videos without issue, I just bought one for my 386DX40 waiting for it to arrive in the mail, the one I bought is a sigma designs realmagic but most of them dont come with the vga passthrough cable so keep that in mind as in you …
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