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Re: S3 Virge DX and GX memory

Posted on 2013-10-10, 09:29

bytesaber wrote: Is there such a card that was built with GX (Not GX2), and used more than 2MB of SGRAM memory? Think i have one, but not sure about packaging. They looks like SGRAM, but i have to check type at home. Not viewable on photos...

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-09-22, 12:32

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yep, too many graphics cards missing in mine collection at once... You guys have to be too lucky or rich ones... I add mine latest i exchanged for some dead mobos for recycling. Spea V7-MIRAGE = S3 P86C801 with 1MB

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-09-10, 16:27

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got this nice OEM HP GeForce FX 5100 from MSI.... Never heard of such card! Do you have a photo of the chip? No, i didnt removed heatsink. Its just underclocked 64bit FX5200. Even bios have string FX5200. They made them in 2004 for oem. http://www.vgamuseum.info/images/stories/vlask/nvidia/fx5100. …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-09-09, 22:10

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mirror, mirror whos slowest of DX9 them all? Got this nice OEM HP GeForce FX 5100 from MSI....

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-08-28, 13:33

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you guys know if I can plug an 8 bit CGA card on a more modern system (like a K6 or Celeron 400) and boot it on DOS just to test the screen? I haven't touched XT era stuff in like 20 years! Depends on card. Most "modern" ega cards worked for me with Athlon XP on Via KT133. Dual ega/vga cards …

Re: What's cool in your collection?

Posted on 2013-08-04, 11:35

by vlask

in Milliways

- Boxed Fujitsu Sapphire SX2 Some light on this pls - what it is item you're proud of. Google shows nothing same as searching your site... In mine collection i most like original working IBM EGA card (cause in eastern europe its quite rare stuff) and all mine proffesional cards mostly from …

Re: PowerVR Card

Posted on 2013-07-29, 14:34

by vlask

in Milliways

Dont have card (want it too), but pcx 1/2 should be one chip design and Midas 3 chip design. So if your card have 3 chips, it should be midas. Only one high res photo i know is here. /moderator edited to reduce image size

Re: IBM VGA speed

Posted on 2013-07-25, 22:34

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have one, its an 8-bit card and its a bit ornery when run in a non-IBM system. I ran a timedemo of it in DOOM, the result can be found here : http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=34087&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= Any chance to see photo of that card anywhere? Didnt know that it …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-07-23, 16:55

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some of my latest acquisitions: Also I've got Tseng Labs ET3000AX, Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT, 3dfx Voodoo 4 4500AGP, nVidia Quadro 2 Pro, a bunch of old ATI 2d-only cards for PCI and ISA buses and other stuff Most interesting seems to me this one... http://vgamuseum.ru/wp-content/gallery/intel-mxm …

Re: Best AGP Pro cards for gaming

Posted on 2013-05-30, 14:13

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Probably Elsa Gloria II Pro aka Nvidia Quadro if you really want AGP Pro. http://www.vgamuseum.info/images/stories/vlask/nvidia/quadroddrf.jpg But its just renamed Geforce 256. So its much better use some standart stuff like Geforce 2/4, Radeon.... Will be much faster in games. AGP pro have only …

Re: Vintage component with VESA Feature connector

Posted on 2013-05-06, 20:34

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can someone show me the picture of computer component with VESA Feature connector? Such MPEG card, TV tuner, and other than this but not video card. Here you have both and connected - video accel card is Creative Video Blaster. You can check also palcals collection, creative cards there have vesa …

Re: Retro Benchmark Recommendations?

Posted on 2013-04-19, 22:04

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You may try also Tom's 2Dbench from toms hardware. Theres stated that it require win2k, but i tried it on win98se and it works there too. Dunno how it like w95. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/2d-windows-gdi,2547-5.html Download here.... http://www.tomshardware.de/download/Tom2D,0305-26150.html

Re: Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines

Posted on 2013-04-13, 08:51

by vlask

in Milliways

In czech republic we have one museum too. Now there should be 125 games. Sadly i haven't visited it yet.... http://www.youtube.com/user/arcadehry

Re: Recommend a ViRGE/VX video card?

Posted on 2013-03-15, 16:19

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I put nice comparsion of s3 cards on vogonswiki into S3 cards section. Generally dos performance depends most on clocking of cards. You can find DX cards with 45MHz (almost all oems), but they can go to 72Mhz (in chart are 3 clocked dx cards too - 50&66&72MHz). Virge VX are slow because theyre …

Re: intel B75 chipset - cheap and fast?

Posted on 2013-03-06, 16:33

by vlask

in Milliways

No raid support - useless for me, i like mine data and using mirror. Thats only thing i miss on that chipset.

Re: XGI Volari V8 Duo. Do they exist?

Posted on 2013-03-04, 15:57

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Seems like in Russia you will find anything 😁 😉 http://vgamuseum.ru/gpu/xgi/xgi-volari-v8-duo-ultra-club3d/

Re: Help identify MCA hardware

Posted on 2013-03-04, 15:44

by vlask

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you tried the TIGA drivers from #9? Maybe they work with this TIGA based card as well. For RS/6000 mean that this is for workstation ibm computer not based on x86 architecture using RISC cpus and OS AIX, so no chance for running on standart PC - more info at wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki …