Re: Modern graphics on a 486

Posted on 2012-11-15, 23:33

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by feipoa

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Ati rage 128 pci run well in opengl. For me i 've used these PCI graphic cards: Voodoo 1 voodoo 2 voodoo 2 sli voodoo 3 3000 (the best forme) Kyro 1 64 mb (ok but slow, bad drivers?) Ati Rage 128 (fast on opengl game and i don't know why i can't to use direct 3d?) Geforce 2 mx 440 (geforce 2like) …

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Re: Which graphic cards work with GLQuake under WinNT?

Posted on 2012-11-15, 11:54

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by feipoa

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Just create a shortcut to the .exe file. Add -width 320 -height 200 at the end. You can also add -bpp 16 if you would like 16bit colors Yup, that method works, however that resolution had issues for me. 640x480x16 works great though. In case anyone else runs into this issue, I found that name of …

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Re: Which graphic cards work with GLQuake under WinNT?

Posted on 2012-11-15, 07:28

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by feipoa

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The reason I asked which GL cards work with GLQuake is become that Quake readme file mentions that only some GL accelerated cards work with GLQuake. I have solved the mystery with the Matrox G200 and GLQuake in WinNT. The issue was with the GLQuake.exe version which came with the Quake1-Windows …

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Which graphic cards work with GLQuake under WinNT?

Posted on 2012-11-14, 16:04

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by feipoa

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Aside from 3dfx cards, are there any other graphic cards which will work in GLQuake under WinNT 4.0? Wrapper OK but not preferred. NT4 only went up to DX3. After the success of getting Quake II OpenGL mode working on a 486 with a Matrox G200, I decided to try GLQuake, but it hangs around at the …

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Re: 486 IDE controller performance

Posted on 2012-11-14, 07:33

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by feipoa

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What does that EDO DRAM read speed option do? That was hidden before wasn't it? I'm not sure. Yes, it was hidden before. I'm hoping that it increases the EDO RAM speed when EDO RAM is installed. Default is 4-2-2-2, but there is the option for 3-1-1-1. I'll eventually get to testing this. Maybe …

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Re: A sad day...

Posted on 2012-11-14, 04:37

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by feipoa

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P.S. A pic found elsewhere on the Internet of the Logitech Mouseman Pro that I STILL use -> http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Mice-and-Pointing-Devices/Bring-back-the-old-Mouseman-3-button/td-p/571534 . Best damned ball mouse ever made, and the buttons are super-easy to push and sensitive :) I've NEVER …

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Re: Good NICs for retro rigs?

Posted on 2012-11-14, 03:58

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by feipoa

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feipoa wrote: The other open questions is if an Intel NIC will perform any better on a 486. The performance of an Intel Pro 100S was the same as the 3Com 3c905C-TX-M on a 486 (Cyrix 5x86-133/4x).

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Re: Modern graphics on a 486

Posted on 2012-11-14, 03:34

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by feipoa

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Textures max, 8-bit OFF: 7.8fps Thanks for testing this. Very comparable results: Cyrix 5x86-133 (2x66) WinNT 4.0 Matrox Millennium G200 16MB Quake II Timedemo1, 640x480, OpenGL 7.6 fps AMD X5-180 (3x60) Win98SE RIVA TNT 16MB Quake II Timedemo1, 640x480, OpenGL 7.8 fps The logical next step now is …

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Re: Modern graphics on a 486

Posted on 2012-11-14, 01:29

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by feipoa

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When I tried a Voodoo3 2000 in my SiS 496 board there was a major performance jump when I moved from a Am5x86 160 to POD @ 100. Ironically, while the POD was clearly fastest for 3D games, it measured slower elsewhere because the L2 cache wasn't working right. Which motherboard was this? When I …

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Re: Calling on all CPU's for the Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2012-11-14, 01:18

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by feipoa

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Sounds like a complicated mess, but hopefully your numbers will not be skewed. Yes, Athlon 500 arrived today. It is the last full CPU needed for me to test. Now that I have figured out how to get OpenGL results for the 486's and non-MMX 6x86 chips, I still have a bit more work to do on this.

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Re: 486 IDE controller performance

Posted on 2012-11-14, 00:22

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by feipoa

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I started with a stand-alone programmer; It worked. Then I tried AWARD Flash Memory Writer v5.0; It worked. Lastly, I tried UNIFLASH v1.40; It also worked. So for my BIOS, UUD2012B is working well.

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Re: 486 IDE controller performance

Posted on 2012-11-13, 15:01

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by feipoa

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A photo of the added BIOS features and arrangement by category: cache, RAM, PCI, ISA, etc.

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Re: 486 IDE controller performance

Posted on 2012-11-13, 14:46

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by feipoa

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Newborn babbies are up at odd times and so are the parents - especially when they learn to flip onto their belly! I've added my hacked rearrangement of the Biostar MB-8433UUD BIOS. All options included. It seems to work well. This is a major accomplishment - 128 MB cacheable range on a MB-8433UUD. …

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Re: 486 IDE controller performance

Posted on 2012-11-13, 10:41

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by feipoa

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And here is what the actual BIOS screen looks like now. To confirm write-through L2 works, I added 128 MB of RAM, set SRAM TAG to 8+0, L2 to WT, and ran CTCM7. It works. To verify further, I booted into NT4 and ran CPUMark99. The score is what it should be for all 128 MB cached! My plans now are to …

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Re: 486 IDE controller performance

Posted on 2012-11-13, 10:38

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by feipoa

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Must be your lucky day. I was able to successfully mod your BIOS using MODBIN for award bios version 4.5x. http://www.ryston.cz/petr/bios/modbin63.zip Hah! It looks like we were working in parallel on this. I too found that modbin63 from that same source. It is the modbin63 which works with AWARD …

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Re: 486 IDE controller performance

Posted on 2012-11-13, 00:07

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by feipoa

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Bus Mastering is 'Disabled' for it and I can't enable it - it allows me to change the value, but after applying (F10) it reverts to 'Disabled'. Is this normal? I think that is normal if the feature is unsupported. Try playing around with the AWARD BIOS editor. Your UMC chipsets are somewhat on the …

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Re: Modern graphics on a 486

Posted on 2012-11-12, 12:27

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by feipoa

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Quake II Benchmark, Timedemo 1, 640x480, Default OpenGL Cyrix 5x86-133 (2x66) Matrox G200 16 MB (driver version 5.07) WinNT 4.0 7.6 fps No 8-bit 7.9 fps No 8-bit cl_gun 0 8.2 fps No 8-bit gl_flashblend 1 8.6 fps No 8-bit gl_flashblend 1 cl_gun 0 9.2 fps No 8-bit gl_flashblend 1 cl_gun 0 cl_ …

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Re: Modern graphics on a 486

Posted on 2012-11-12, 11:30

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by feipoa

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yeah, I called it gl_gun instead of cl_gun

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Re: 486 IDE controller performance

Posted on 2012-11-12, 11:27

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by feipoa

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Would it be possible to force your L2 cache to write through using a ROM editor and burning a custom flash ROM? Maybe using a program like this one? http://awdbedit.sourceforge.net/ I also figured that the only way to have a chance of getting L2 write-through working was to have it set in the BIOS …

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Re: Modern graphics on a 486

Posted on 2012-11-12, 08:41

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by feipoa

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The commands are cl_particles 0(1 default) cl_gun 0 (1 default) I found this page which details all the quake 2 commands, the 3 biggest affect on frame is the gl_flashblend, cl_particles & cl_gun commands Quake II v3.20 says the gun and particles commands are unknown. The Voodoo3 on a socket 3 is a …

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