Re: I'm confused.... :s-face:

Posted on 2011-07-03, 17:21

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by megatron-uk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If they're both 33MHz, then they will be exactly the same speed as each other for 99% of the software and games that were available when the 486 was on the market. There will be rare occasions when a game can detect and use the math coprocessor of the DX (eg some flight sims, Quake [but not Doom or …

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Re: I'm confused.... :s-face:

Posted on 2011-07-03, 17:11

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by megatron-uk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Iirc the earlier ones were damaged FPUs but the newer ones were disabled. Why would they intentionally disable the FPU if it is good? They could sell that chip for more money as a DX if it works. I don't think Intel would do that unless there was a problem with the FPU. It's quite common for cpu …

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Re: Jeff Waynes The war of the worlds, either no music or no game in XP

Posted on 2011-07-03, 10:13

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by megatron-uk

in Windows

in Windows

I don't have any answers for you, but I own the game and didn't play it very much - playing as the humans got you trounced over and over again by the martians - but, the CD music is very, very good indeed. It makes the game, IMO.

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Re: Yamaha MU80

Posted on 2011-06-30, 18:25

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by megatron-uk

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

For DOS gaming, I don't think there was any support for anything above GM. Final Fantasy 7 supports Yamaha XG in Windows, but that's about it as far as I recall. If your AWE64 has a waveblaster header, you can pick up a Yamaha DB50/60XG for very cheap which will give you GM and XG compatability. The …

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Re: Do you remember a QuickShot bundle with soundcard, speakers and joystick?

Posted on 2011-06-30, 18:21

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by megatron-uk

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in Milliways

Well, I definitely owned that joystick at one point in time. Didn't come with anything bundled though.

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Re: Voodoo1 vs. Unreal/UnrealTournament (Windows 98)

Posted on 2011-06-28, 13:26

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by megatron-uk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you hear the relay clicking in to indicate the 3dfx output become active?

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Re: AFCM (age, first computer, milestones)

Posted on 2011-06-28, 11:07

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by megatron-uk

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1. 32 1. 286-16MHz, 1Mbyte RAM, 20Mbyte HD, 1.44 FDD, 256Kbyte VGA, MS-DOS 4, no sound. Still have the motherboard! 3. A couple.... Wolf3d. "Wow! 3D scrolling!" X-Wing. Playing a mission and then hearing the imuse soundtrack change to the Imperial March when a Star Destroyer arrives on the scene! …

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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (PnP) length

Posted on 2011-06-26, 11:01

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by megatron-uk

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Ditto my GUS Max - I've put it in the bottom slot of the tower and raised the end up with an old 5.25" drive bay cover (just the right width to support an ISA card!). I owned the card from new and never supported it, so it has quite a bit of sag now (after what, 16-17 years?) - as long as you don't …

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Re: TFT or CRT monitor with a DOS system?

Posted on 2011-06-24, 12:02

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

TFT/LCD. I appreciate my eyes more than I do having CRT native resolutions.

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Re: Core 2 Duo/Quad m'board with ISA slots

Posted on 2011-06-21, 19:32

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by megatron-uk

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The most modern board with full ISA support (eg NMI, ISA DMA) appears to be the Ibase MB800 series: http://www.ibase.com.tw/2009/MB800V.html The MB800H as I and several others use also have an AGP 4X slot. I've not seen anything with Pentium-M, Core2/Core2Quad cpu options that has a fully working …

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound MAX

Posted on 2011-06-21, 12:40

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by megatron-uk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yep, it's a tricky card to get setup!

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Re: Videos grabbed from real Retro PCs.

Posted on 2011-06-20, 17:14

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually, VGA IS the same as component. I've done it in the past. Only the resolutions and cable type change. 1080 is good up to 1920x1080. So for those of us with retro computers, we can set the resolution up to 1200x1024 and still have a little wiggle room. And i think most of us would stop at …

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Re: (Solved) What is this ISA card - it looks like a network card.

Posted on 2011-06-17, 20:29

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you want an ISA network card I'd junk the NE2000 design and go with something like the 3Com 3c509b. The NE2000 reference design had horrible performance. Bear in mind you're going to get about 800kbytes - 1mbyte/sec from a good 10mbit card (like the 3Com), but potentially significantly less with …

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Re: Creative Sound Blaster 16 ISA sound card, quick test

Posted on 2011-06-08, 22:30

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by megatron-uk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

sliderider wrote: What goes in that big, empty socket? The ASP/CSP chip as mentioned above. It was supposed to accelerate speech processing and other signal processing functions, but virtually nothing was ever developed to use it.

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Re: Need Help with finding a old DOS game... again

Posted on 2011-06-06, 07:23

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by megatron-uk

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Blackthorne? http://www.mobygames.com/game/blackthorne

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Re: Most modern motherboard with internal floppy

Posted on 2011-06-03, 13:44

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by megatron-uk

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How about getting a Catweasel PCI floppy controller instead? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Computers_Catweasel

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Re: DB linux cdproblem

Posted on 2011-06-03, 12:58

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by megatron-uk

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

The cue file refers to "HEROES2.iso" - ensure that a file of the exact capitalisation exists. It would work in Windows if the file was "Heroes2.iso", but not in Linux. Also all of the audio tracks have a lower case name "track01.ogg". Check that they match what you have in your filesystem.

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever...and ever......and ever.........and ever............?

Posted on 2011-06-03, 12:32

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by megatron-uk

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But otoh lower system requirements means being able to play it on more hardware :) Personally, I don't mind graphics being more "ugly", as long as the game is fun, challenging and doesn't get bored within 8 hours or so :P I just hope Nintendo announcing a new console for next year motivates Sony …

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Re: SunPC 4.2

Posted on 2011-06-03, 12:25

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by megatron-uk

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Good luck. Oracle screwed Sun Microsystems customers/users over when they started taking over. The download/support section was first to go, then the pricing/support contracts on x86 hardware went all to hell, and they clearly have no idea how to deal with the various open source projects that …

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Re: Ultima Forever Website launched. Free Ultima IV

Posted on 2011-06-02, 18:51

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by megatron-uk

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Hmm... I see a generic domain squatter site.

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