Re: Socket 7 build with overclocking

Posted on 2015-01-23, 13:25

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The main difference between K6-2 and K6-III is the L2 cache. K6-III have a 256 KB full speed on-die cache. K6-2 have a bus speed (100 MHz is the limit) motherboard cache. Unfortunately K6-III cache isn't the best friend of overclockers...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-22, 05:06

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe I'm wrong and forgot something but the 50 MHz FSB (P75 (1.5x50) and P100 (2x50)) wasn't supported on my FIC PA-2013... Unfortunately can't retest this, the MB is long ago dead (the layer cracked when I connected an IDE cable). Nope. You are correct. I spoke too soon. On second glance, the …

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Re: Old Win ME pc and Opera browser version

Posted on 2015-01-21, 16:49

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Opera 10.63 works in Win98SE/WinME w/o any KernelEx. The only trouble is - you must update Win98SE msimg32.dll for transparency effects. I will test Opera 11.x later.

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Re: 486 halts on boot (HDD issue?)

Posted on 2015-01-21, 09:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, theoretically 486 MBs BIOS must support extended Int13h (or Large) and up to 7.44 GB HDDs (255 heads, 1023 cylinders, 63 sectors). 19 GB is too many... AFAIR 28-bit LBA support (and HDDs up to 137 GB) are added later, around 1996...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-21, 05:31

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just picked up a FIC PA-2013 Super Socket 7 Motherboard (2MB cache version). Nice thing about this board is that it's an ATX form factor. So you can go from a K6-III+ all the way down to a Pentium-75 without having to worry about finding an AT case or a PS/2 pin header to slot adapter or any of …

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2015-01-21, 01:42

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in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

As was tested above - P4 3.2 GHz can't break 2 Voodoo2 Win9x drivers versions: 3.02.02 and 3.03.00. All others can't detect the card w/o downclocking. So maybe older Voodoo3 drivers are affected too... Unfortunately statically linked glide games ALWAYS use oldest versions of Voodoo1 drivers. And …

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2015-01-20, 17:14

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in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Well, the only "must have" file for DOS glide is glide2x.ovl. You don't need glide2x.dll or any other file. And yes, 3dfx drivers are CPU speed sensitive. Both DOS and Windows. Unfortunately. We need someone with good DOS coding skills to find the reason of this speed dependency. And the fix.

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Re: game Stonekeep begins to freeze after some time playing

Posted on 2015-01-18, 00:39

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Ice sharga following? It's a well known Stonekeep bug. AFAIR the solution is simple - 180-turn and move backwards.

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Re: Battle Arena Toshinden NO CD DETECTED

Posted on 2015-01-17, 10:33

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Strange. I have tested the game with DOSBox (Kekko Voodoo1 emulation). It works perfectly w/o cd in a drive. And the 3dfx patch replaces tsd.exe and setup.exe so all protection will be removed... The only difference - I always use virtual cd (A120% FE) and just use "mount d i:\ -t cdrom".

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-01-16, 23:42

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in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

Can't see any difference.

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Re: NWN1 versus ATI

Posted on 2015-01-16, 08:19

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in Windows

in Windows

To run the game with ATI/AMD card - disable Catalyst A.I. Or rename nwmain.exe to something else then run it. Or delete nwmain.exe profile in atiogl.xml and restart the OS.

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NWN1 versus ATI

Posted on 2015-01-15, 21:20

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The question is simple. Is "Environment Mapping on Creatures" works correctly with ATI/AMD videocards at all? Radeon HD2600 Pro Agp - no models with this option on. Radeon HD4890 - same. Radeon HD7770 - same. Question #2 - what OGL extension is needed for the "Enable Shiny Water" option? Tnx.

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Re: Soldier of Fortune II Startup Crash Fix

Posted on 2015-01-15, 00:16

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Atiogl.xml is used only if Catalyst A.I. is on. It looks like the SoF2 entry was already here for HD4650, you just disabled it.

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Re: Soldier of Fortune II Startup Crash Fix

Posted on 2015-01-13, 23:23

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in Windows

Q3 games suffer from the OGL extensions limit? Strange. The proper way is to replace %s to %p. If the game uses PunkBuster or something similar - it will fail the integrity check. Then you must use the most proper way - add this game to atiogl.xml and enable Catalyst A.I. This is the entry in atiogl …

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Re: EF 2000 2.0

Posted on 2015-01-13, 18:29

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

Yes, I was wrong. The last build uses glide=emu automatically...

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Re: EF 2000 2.0

Posted on 2015-01-13, 17:45

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EF 2000 2.0/GFX+ patch uses statically linked glide. So - glide=true not works, only glide=emu.

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Re: 386 mainboard basic questions

Posted on 2015-01-12, 02:07

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, the only port on 386-era motherboards is the keyboard DIN. All others must be added with ISA cards. The progress is the very slow thing. 😀

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2015-01-11, 23:43

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in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

idspispopd wrote: Or should I call it a day and change the data on Mobygames from S3 MeTaL to Direct3D? No. Mobygames is beyond any help long ago. *Cutted by the internal censorship* and *again censored*... You post this info here, this is enough.

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Re: ykhwong's latest build?

Posted on 2015-01-11, 11:19

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in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

test with this build: http://hackipedia.org/Projects/DOSBox-X/dosbox-x-20140125-201539-commit-13aa2844a0355b699a44abf30c56faf5c9383e1c-win32.zip. That's the same version as imported to Ykhwong's. Tnx for this link. All outputs work ok with OMF2097. The only "bug" is - if [render]/char9=true then …

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Re: ykhwong's latest build?

Posted on 2015-01-11, 07:24

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in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

DOSBox-X surface, ddraw, openglnb - works ok with OMF2097. Ddraw: "Failed to create ddraw surface, back to normal surface". Overlay - ctd. Plus there is something about "Illegal read from 658ddf9/658ddf8, CS:IP 0:0". P.S. I hope link from this post is the actual version.

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