Re: SEGA Saturn anticiaption thread :)

Posted on 2012-12-10, 21:58

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The machine definitely has some great games on it but I have to admit personally I was a bit disappointed with it. That being said I'm not massively fond of the 32-bit era; my PSone sits around gathering dust whilst my MegaDrive gets all the use. My Saturn currently sits here unloved. Still, I'm …

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Re: 3D Acceleration Comparison Episodes

Posted on 2012-11-28, 16:55

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Your English was perfect. Not only that but the the narration was really interesting and it really added to the video in my opinion! 😀

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Re: New Stuff :D

Posted on 2012-11-15, 21:20

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Ahh, my mistake. The mobile chips are pretty special though. I find my Air to be powerful enough for most things and it has a TDP of 18w! I can use it all day without it even warming up, unless I decide to do some heavy work. The HD 4000 graphics will even play TF2 and it has QuickSync for hardware …

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Re: New Stuff :D

Posted on 2012-11-14, 21:36

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I can't remember the exact figures but Sandy Bridge was approximately 20% faster on average than the Nehalem architecture (which itself was a fair bit quicker than the Core2 architecture) and Ivy Bridge was about 15-25% faster than Sandy Bridge again.

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Re: New Stuff :D

Posted on 2012-11-14, 06:28

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by RichB93

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True, although I'm surprised how much faster clock for clock newer generations of chip are. My 1.8GHz ULV i5 Ivy Bridge in my MacBook Air hauls serious ass.

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Re: Found a desktop style Baby AT case, future P1 build

Posted on 2012-11-14, 06:26

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I have an M530 with a 166 non MMX and a COAST module. Tough little board. It's seen life in so many configurations and my brother put it through a lot of abuse; still rock solid though!

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Re: So I'm thinking of building a semi-portable LAN gaming rig...

Posted on 2012-10-25, 10:00

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Dolphin will always struggle on an IGP I'd have thought. Not sure about AMD's solutions but I do rate Intel's Ivy Bridge. My MacBook Air has one of their ultra low power chips and the HD 4000 graphics still play TF2 at respectable settings.

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Carmageddon for iOS Released!

Posted on 2012-10-18, 11:03

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Anyone else played this yet? Absolutely fantastic port of the game.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-10-18, 10:23

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Ok, so today I met with a guy through Craigslist and bought an ATI Rage Fury MAXX for $40. It's in great condition and even has the original driver CD. These things seem rare enough that I figured finding one locally was too good of an opportunity to pass up, so I went for it. I don't have a system …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-10-16, 17:50

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I too had the PPC bug. It was a bad idea. PPC Macs suck now. Love my Air though 😀

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Re: Portable forensics computer anyone

Posted on 2012-10-14, 08:16

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Look to all be standard ATX too. I'd love to get my hands on one of these and plop an i5 in there. Would make an epic LAN rig.

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Re: Yamaha S-YXG50 SoftSynthesizer for Windows 98

Posted on 2012-10-13, 23:09

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by RichB93

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I mentioned it somewhere else on here and I need to find it in my backups but I have S-YXG 100 plus I think it's called, which has VL technology. Can upload if anyone wants it.

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Re: Technically impressive FM synth music

Posted on 2012-10-07, 22:21

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mills26 wrote: I mean the drums are pcm, the rest is awesome, the chip is far better than the opl2 and other chips in making different sounds. Have to admit I didn't hear them at first. Whoops 😜

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Re: Technically impressive FM synth music

Posted on 2012-10-07, 21:20

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Nope! That's the amazing thing. The Mega Drive only has a single PCM channel that Streets of Rage only uses for SFX. What you're hearing there is mostly the YM2612 with a hint of SN76489. Yuzo Koshiro built the music engine for the game as well as composing the soundtrack and he really managed to …

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Re: Technically impressive FM synth music

Posted on 2012-10-07, 20:49

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Shocked that no one has mentioned Streets of Rage 2 on the Mega Drive. Yeah it's OPN2/YM2612 but my god it is something else. Hearing your Mega Drive pump out these tunes is really something to behold. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJfSz06Qtco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFcdQObbT8o http://www. …

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Re: VLB VGA card - which BIOS settings might impact it?

Posted on 2012-10-03, 00:06

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By default all unregistered users are called 'Anonymous Coward' on /. 😜

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2012-09-30, 09:16

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I was 7 at the time and I remember my brother having a: Pentium 166MMX Voodoo 4MB 32MB RAM xGB HDD (can't remember!) AWE 32 32x CD-ROM I'd play Tank Racer, Ignition and my favourite, Test Drive 5 on that. And possibly Need For Speed II SE.

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Re: Maxi Gamer VooDoo2

Posted on 2012-09-28, 21:28

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Yup it is. 2 cards with 2 VGA passthrough wires too. It was originally sold as a single card but they've put stickers on the box to indicate it contains a second card.

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Re: Maxi Gamer VooDoo2

Posted on 2012-09-28, 18:51

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by RichB93

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Someone bought these all up and are selling them at crazy prices. I bought one of them from the original seller and I paid about £10 for them new and sealed.

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Re: The Ultimate 3D Accelerated Supported Games List (Early proprietary APIs - NO 3DFX/GLIDE)

Posted on 2012-09-21, 06:15

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by RichB93

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Can you give me any more info on the versions? From what I can tell it's just a retail disc. I've owned various MixMan discs in the past however and they don't do anything special apart from play multiple audio streams so I still highly doubt there's a version especially for NV1 cards.

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