Re: Creative Voodoo2 Testing

Posted on 2014-02-08, 00:10

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by eraH_retired

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here is what I've done. * Installed Windows 98 SE * Installed DirectX 9 * Installed IE6 * Installed Windows 98 SE SP2 * Installed all drivers * Installed the Voodoo2 drivers last, after a restart, Windows boots up to the desktop and then locks up. Voodoo Drivers, 3dfx Voodoo2 V3.02.02 from http:// …

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Re: Creative Voodoo2 Testing

Posted on 2014-02-07, 07:33

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by eraH_retired

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What I've tried so far: USB drive with DOS and GTA installed. Copied glide2x.ovl into its own folder and set the path to include this folder. Ran GTA and chose 3DFX as the graphics option. Message comes up, "What 3dfx card?" I also tried copying the glide2x.ovl directly into the GTA\GTADOS folder, …

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Re: Creative Voodoo2 Testing

Posted on 2014-02-07, 04:50

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by eraH_retired

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I installed the card at lunch time, and when I got home after work the monitor has stopped working. So not sure when I will be able to get a replacement. Thanks for your help so far.

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Re: Creative Voodoo2 Testing

Posted on 2014-02-06, 22:00

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by eraH_retired

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks, I have GTA, so I'll try that in DOS.

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Re: Creative Voodoo2 Testing

Posted on 2014-02-06, 21:45

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by eraH_retired

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll have a play tonight and get some specifics. I installed the card and then the FastVoodoo2 drivers, and then I can't remember 😒 I think I tried some 3dfx demo's and they wouldn't run. Is Windows 98 the best OS to use for testing?

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Creative Voodoo2 Testing

Posted on 2014-02-06, 19:44

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by eraH_retired

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had a Creative Voodoo2 card since about 2000 but have never got it working, and it was a returned card from a computer reseller I used to work at, so I don't know if it's faulty or not. It's now time to either get it working or bin it. The only oldish hardware I have to test this on is an EPoX …

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Re: Using MESS for NeoGeo (AES) with filename

Posted on 2014-01-18, 04:42

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by eraH_retired

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

0.152. Will do, thanks.

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Using MESS for NeoGeo (AES) with filename

Posted on 2014-01-11, 22:15

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by eraH_retired

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

I was wondering if anyone has managed to load NeoGeo games with MESS, using a filename instead of the softname? This works; Copy code to clipboard 1 messpp.exe aes -cart kof94 This doesn't; Copy code to clipboard 1 messpp.exe aes -cart roms\kof94.zip 2 FATALERROR: Device Cartslot load failed: …

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Re: Help with mounting

Posted on 2014-01-06, 01:15

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by eraH_retired

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in DOSBox General

Might not make a difference, but it's normally a backslash instead of a forward slash, e.g. Copy code to clipboard 1 mount c c:\dosgames\df -freesize 1000

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2013-12-22, 23:20

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by eraH_retired

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in DOSBox General

They rolled the site back to what it was, so I don't think it will be too long before the scraper is rolled back to the old one. You could probably do it yourself looking back through old posts on this thread.

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Re: Games Database with Hashes

Posted on 2013-09-26, 23:16

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by eraH_retired

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Yeah, don't think I will carry this on. The internet doesn't need another game database, maybe one of the existing ones (http://thegamesdb.net/, or http://www.archive.vg/) will add support for filenames/hashes.

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Re: Games Database with Hashes

Posted on 2013-09-20, 20:09

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by eraH_retired

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Did you know DFR uses hash's to identify games and choose the appropriate config file, that's where I got the original idea from. This is just extending that idea and centralising it so other applications can use it. Plus, if you are going to do a filename to gamename database, you might as well use …

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Re: Games Database with Hashes

Posted on 2013-09-20, 19:15

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by eraH_retired

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Thanks Ronald, you were one of the people I was hoping to year from :blush: It's got nothing to do with piracy, it's to help front ends identify games reliably and download game information. Say you own and have installed Duke Nukem 1, Episode 2. It's in a folder called DUKE2. Instead of the front …

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Games Database with Hashes

Posted on 2013-09-19, 20:23

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by eraH_retired

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I've been playing around with Slim Framework to see if I can get a web API going for DOS games, and I've got the basics working. These are a few of the API calls (probably heaps of bugs still) Get game information by game id or exe hash Update existing game information Search for games Add games Add …

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Re: DosBOX and CPU priority in Task Manager

Posted on 2013-01-24, 01:59

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by eraH_retired

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in DOSBox General

There is a setting in the dosbox.conf file that sets this. It's called priority under the SDL section.

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Re: Future Retro PC Project

Posted on 2012-12-12, 09:09

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by eraH_retired

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Buy your RAM now, as soon as RAM gets superseded, the price goes up, e.g. DDR3 RAM is now cheaper than DDR2. Well, at least where I'm from. I found this website a while ago, and has eerily similar specs to the system you are building. Might help. http://ecogamer.co.uk/viewposts.php?viewtag=Test% …

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Re: Epox Drivers - Anyone got a backup

Posted on 2012-07-25, 21:31

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by eraH_retired

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in PC Emulation

Ended up manually downloading the drivers.

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Re: Epox Drivers - Anyone got a backup

Posted on 2012-07-24, 23:36

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by eraH_retired

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in PC Emulation

That URL brings up an error, I did try another archive.org URL for epox.com.tw but it kept looping back to the same page.

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Epox Drivers - Anyone got a backup

Posted on 2012-07-24, 22:45

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by eraH_retired

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in PC Emulation

I'm trying to build a retro gaming PC using an EPoX EP-8K5A3+ motherboard. Does anyone know of a backup of their website/FTP server for drivers? The OS is Windows 98SE.

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Re: Your first high performance pc.

Posted on 2011-08-06, 22:30

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by eraH_retired

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Round about 2000/2001; 1Ghz Athlon Thunderbird, 512MB RAM, Videologic Vivid!XS Kyro II, 40GB HDD. Didn't think it was that awesome at the time, but it probably was. Bought the CPU and RAM off a guy at work, they 'were delivered to the wrong address', too naive to realise something dodgy was going on …

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