Re: Does TerraNova:SFC not have SVGA modes in-game?

Posted on 2015-12-16, 23:48

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UNIVBE and SVGA requirement is strictly for the 640x480 256 color menus as you noted. Unfortunately, the game will not go beyond 320x400. I was quite perplexed by this as well when I first played the game, but I guess it had to do with engine limitations. It may have been based on the same engine as …

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Re: Question about giving away stuff.

Posted on 2015-12-14, 20:28

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Agreed! Don't overthink this, but at least make sure to keep the stuff that makes you the most happy. I still keep my Dreamcast around, although I never really play it these days. And yet, last weekend I had a blast playing some Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and Virtua Fighter 3. I don't think I had …

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Re: Optimize Quake and GL_Quake for a 486?

Posted on 2015-12-14, 11:42

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Loving the back and forth in this thread. While I really have absolutely nothing to add, I enjoy reading everything you guys write!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-12-14, 11:38

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I got this bad boy the other day: http://s11.postimg.org/3u46rl6zj/PB190053.jpg http://s11.postimg.org/todzhd6zj/PB190055.jpg It was brand new, shrink wrapped and I bought it for 15 Euro from a local store that I happened to be passing by. It is just as terrible as it looks, but I couldn't help NOT …

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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2015-12-13, 15:29

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It's not a good game, but it's also not a totally bad game, if you exclude the entire first chapter (which is simply atrocious). By 2000 it was terribly outdated even gameplay wise. I think had it come out in late 1998 or early 1999 the reception would have been far better, even if it came out …

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Re: 2.6ghz on a 1.4ghz tualatin celly.

Posted on 2015-12-10, 10:52

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If you go about thinking that way, yes it is pretty useless. But this kind of overclocking is just insane. It's meant to be a showcase and nothing more, it's directly related to the "Because I can" mentality that a lot of computer enthusiasts share. I find it incredibly impressive that a 1.4 …

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Re: What can cause installers to never start?

Posted on 2015-12-09, 23:36

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Logitech software is also to be blame a lot of times!

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Re: Video for CPUs - The Software Decode Reference Thread

Posted on 2015-12-07, 12:59

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Loving this thread! It'd be neat if you had some K6-2+/K6-III+ CPUs for comparison, I wonder if on-die L2 cache helps in any meaningful way.

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Re: Phil’s massive Windows 98 SE graphics benchmarks project

Posted on 2015-12-06, 16:51

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I too think that there might be something wrong with the TNT2, it should be more competitive I think. I find it hard to believe for example that on Expendable you're hitting a GPU bottleneck with a TNT2 Ultra scoring 53FPS (56FPS on Anandtech's PIII 600) and the Voodoo3 keeps scaling all the way up …

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Re: Suggestions for High End 2004 Build?

Posted on 2015-12-05, 17:13

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You could go the Athlon 64 route with Socket 939 (or even FX-55!) and the Athlon 64 4000+ on the CPU side of things. As far as GPUs go, I think the obvious choice for 2004 is the 6800GT or 6800 Ultra and you could grab a couple of them and SLI them with a proper motherboard. 1GB of RAM was also …

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-12-01, 15:05

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Guess he forgot. Care to pick from where I left off leilei?

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Re: Looking for Pentium 4 motherboards

Posted on 2015-11-30, 23:14

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@OP I got an Intel D875PBZ and think it's excellent. I wanted CSA gigE and the 875 chipset. I put in a P4 3.4 HT Northwood, which is the fastest my board revision works with. P4s are so cheap these days that it was almost free lol. 98SE works well with it. No audio/gameports on mine though. …

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Re: 2.6ghz on a 1.4ghz tualatin celly.

Posted on 2015-11-30, 18:03

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Arctic wrote: I would love to see some benchmarks! It should get close to low voltage / cache celeron Ms! No way in hell that's happening. At these kinds of frequencies they are lucky if they can get a CPU-Z validation score. The score tyuper posted has a SuperPi result which you can use to compare …

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Re: 2.6ghz on a 1.4ghz tualatin celly.

Posted on 2015-11-30, 16:54

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Insane results, that's for sure.

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Re: Cyrix Instead - Desktop Build

Posted on 2015-11-29, 11:14

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This takes me back to the days I first joined in here. I had just found a complete socket 7 system with a Cyrix 6x86 PR166 and an S3 Virge and was trying to get the most out of it. It was a good experience, since it taught me how to work around autoexec.bat and config.sys setups. After a few months …

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Re: Failed Windows 3.1 system blamed for shutting down Paris airport

Posted on 2015-11-28, 15:25

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My pulmonologist still uses a Pentium 75 with his equipment. I chuckled the first time I saw that, I really wanted to offer him something faster so that I could grab that system instead. :lol: A couple of weeks ago I visited a otorhinolaryngologist to check out why I couldn't breathe properly. I …

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Re: QDI TwinMagic

Posted on 2015-11-28, 15:17

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Damn, this looks sexy. 🤣

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-11-28, 15:16

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Vyothric wrote: Hugo III, Jungle of Doom You may continue! Rod Primitive wrote: Darude - Sandstorm 🤣, the joke doesn't really work that way mate.

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-11-28, 12:26

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Filename guess.png File size 6.95 KiB Views 1574 views

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Re: AMD K5 - enable write allocate

Posted on 2015-11-28, 00:16

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I merely mentioned Quake because it is the de facto test and really easy to set it up. I played through Wing Commander 3 on my K6-III+ 550 and I'm pretty sure there were some points with a lot of action in which I saw the framerate take a slight dive. Swaaye, you could give MDK a try, it has some …

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