Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2017-02-02, 23:55

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by CapnCrunch53

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I watched the Lumina episode and related videos today! Was great seeing your car featured. I always enjoy seeing clean, well-kept examples of ordinary, "boring" cars (which I guess is the reasoning behind the channel's name).

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Re: Fatal Racing 3DFX - Weird Refresh Rate?

Posted on 2017-01-26, 00:16

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by CapnCrunch53

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I used the SST_SCREENREZ variable and I now get picture on the CRT! I'm not sure what the syntax for that variable is supposed to be though; none of the google results give details. Is it =640x480? Setting it to =640 and =640x480 both seem to work for me. Only issue is that it pushes the image off …

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Re: Fatal Racing 3DFX - Weird Refresh Rate?

Posted on 2017-01-25, 23:48

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by CapnCrunch53

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Ok, so I've tried setting the refresh rate using SST_SCREENREFRESH. I've confirmed I'm doing it right by testing it on the LCD and seeing that it definitely did change the rate. I've tried setting it to 58, 59, 60, 73, 75, and 85, and my CRT does not like any of them. I wonder if it doesn't like …

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Re: Fatal Racing 3DFX - Weird Refresh Rate?

Posted on 2017-01-25, 14:54

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by CapnCrunch53

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I see. Didn't know about the environment variables, but found a list of them online. I assume SST_SCREENREFRESH = 60 is what I would want. I'll try it tonight. Thanks!

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Fatal Racing 3DFX - Weird Refresh Rate?

Posted on 2017-01-25, 02:25

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by CapnCrunch53

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I wanted to play Fatal Racing on my Diamond Monster 3D 4MB, and I have the unofficial 3DFX patch for it. Every time I launched fatfx.exe, it would show the 3DFX splash screen, then a black screen on the demo video. Then it would show the main menu, and if I start a race, I'd get a black screen again …

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Re: Keyboards that pass the n-key or ghosting test

Posted on 2017-01-08, 02:26

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by CapnCrunch53

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Unicomp Classic-104 (PS2): TE UIC RWN JUS VER TE LAY DG ...Yikes.

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Re: Odd mod jumper on SB32 CT3600

Posted on 2016-09-22, 15:49

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by CapnCrunch53

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My CT4380 AWE64 has a green wire as well. Don't have a pic of mine, but googling and looking on Ebay, mine definitely isn't the only one. Example: http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/awe64.jpg

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Re: Lucky me!!

Posted on 2016-09-02, 15:38

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by CapnCrunch53

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Wow, talk about lucky! Guess you owe your friend another bottle of Jack!

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Re: Melon's New Ol Socket 7 PC

Posted on 2016-08-17, 11:11

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by CapnCrunch53

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Awesome system! Should give you a lot of enjoyment. Pass through works, but I have no idea if its doing anything in games xD Does anyone know how to test it? If you disconnect the passthrough once the game is running, and you have video coming from the Voodoo, then it's working. If not, then it's …

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Re: What is the fastest sound card for Super Socket 7?

Posted on 2016-08-15, 14:50

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by CapnCrunch53

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Wow, the Audigy LS sucks! I have one in my Voodoo2 machine, guess I should swap it out, I should have a Live! or an Audigy 2 ZS somewhere that I could use instead. I also never knew about the WDM vs VXD drivers; is there an easy way to check which version is installed?

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Re: Post pic's of your onboard video benchmark

Posted on 2016-07-27, 14:58

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by CapnCrunch53

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Thought I'd try on a spare laptop at work: Sony VAIO PCG‑GRT390ZP 16" 2.8GHz Pentium 4 (Northwood, 533MHz FSB) 1.25GB DDR-333 GeForce FX Go5600 Windows XP Pro SP3

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-04-10, 23:51

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by CapnCrunch53

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Learned a lesson that's probably painfully obvious to people smarter than me: when you buy used electronics, double-check that the power supply is the correct rating. Went to play some Warcraft on my Thinkpad 365XD, and it would only power up on the battery (which holds about a 10 second charge). …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-10, 21:17

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by CapnCrunch53

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kanecvr wrote: Here's my attempt to run the G1 is SLi with the OC windforce I got two weeks ago: Every time I see those Windforce cards, they look like they say "WINOFORCE", which I think is pretty funny.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2016-03-23, 04:08

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by CapnCrunch53

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Quick little update on my Thinkpad: Turns out the PCMCIA cover was not missing; I didn't know that it pivots underneath the slots, so to me it looked like it was missing! I removed the CMOS battery today; was not happy with having to peel the shielding sheet back and damage the glue, but it looks …

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Re: Oldtimer 2016...

Posted on 2016-03-11, 15:58

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by CapnCrunch53

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Very cool! Awesome to see the younger kids enjoying the older tech. Also some very nice cars there!

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2016-03-11, 15:23

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by CapnCrunch53

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Pretty sure this is spam: Industrial Shoebox

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Re: Any use for Power Mac G4's?

Posted on 2016-03-11, 05:13

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by CapnCrunch53

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There have recently been discovered ways to run OS9 on the FW800 PowerMac actually. I think there are actually two ways; one is to downgrade the firmware to fool it into thinking it is a FW400; I believe there is a newer solution that just allows it to work natively, as well. Just wanted to put that …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2016-03-10, 05:40

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by CapnCrunch53

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Do to some things happening in my life, I decided I wanted a nice, portable MS-DOS laptop to game on when I don't want to/can't break out my desktops. My main stipulations were twofold: I wanted an active-matrix display, and I wanted FM synthesis (so no 486 laptops with only PC speaker). I've always …

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Re: Audio Lag in Half-Life (Audigy LS SB0310)

Posted on 2016-02-05, 20:46

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by CapnCrunch53

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Bad drivers maybe? You'll need Full Acceleration to avoid audio lag on any game because anything but that incurs a massive software audio buffer, way more than what's really needed to prevent underruns on a fast system... Just to clarify, you're saying I need the Full Acceleration setting in the …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2016-02-05, 07:49

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by CapnCrunch53

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This guy: http://www.vogons.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=32745 Examples: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=46483#p475596 http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42346#p475595 http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=46415#p475592 Posted in a bunch of threads in the Windows …

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