Re: What should I go with for a P3 rig?

Posted on 2014-09-09, 20:22

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fine, I'm getting a bit tired of this AGP overclock problem so many is talking about with no facts to document it with. This weekend I'll test all my AGP cards (and I have alot) in my ASUS P3B-F Tualatin 1400mhz (FSB at 133mhz). I've never had any problems I can remember. Normally a FX5950 Ultra is …

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Re: Ok, I'm building a new DOS rig from scratch.

Posted on 2014-09-09, 19:11

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

keropi wrote: some user preference customizations 🤣 That is important! That is also why I approve of a Geode 200-MHz CPU 😀

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-09, 13:49

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Outcast released mid 1999 Minimum : MMX 200, 32MB RAM Recommended: PII 300, 64MB RAM These seem generally ok, however this is a strictly software rendered game thanks to its voxel technology. So anybody who thought they could skimp on a better CPU and just buy a powerful GPU got the short end of …

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Re: Slot 1 Intel 440Bx Build

Posted on 2014-09-09, 12:46

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by vetz

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

133mhz FSB is not a problem with the overclocked AGP bus, most cards have no problems from my experience.

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

Posted on 2014-09-09, 12:36

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Went through all the PowerVR games and tried to find demos for them. Those I could find online I downloaded and tested on my Super Socket 7 rig with AMD K6-III 500, 128MB RAM, Matrox Mystique 220 and a Matrox M3D PowerVR card. I used the Mystique so I easily could see if the game was running in …

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Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-09, 09:40

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

List the games you know which had crazy system requirements for its release. Please list the requirements as well as time of release. Cybertroopers: Virtual On for PowerVR released mid 1997. Minimum: Pentium 166, 32MB of RAM Recommended: Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB of RAM, PowerVR card The software …

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Re: What should I go with for a P3 rig?

Posted on 2014-09-09, 09:36

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

P3B-F imo 😀

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Re: Win95 choppy mouse pointer

Posted on 2014-09-09, 07:45

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I haven't noticed any differences in Win95. What I do notices differences is using a serial mouse compared to a modern PS/2. It's so bad that I can't play with a serial mouse, meaning my gaming systems except my 386 only use PS/2-

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-09-09, 07:21

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Vetz... is that the $50 BIN ASUS P/I-XP55T2P4 from USA that I had somehow forgotten to follow up on? (guess I didn't like the ebay's buyer protection program... doubles the cost for overseas) Nope, I bought my board from Germany. http://www.ebay.de/itm/Mainboard-ASUS-P-I-XP55-T2P4-4x-PCI-4x-ISA- …

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

Posted on 2014-09-08, 23:12

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by vetz

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leileilol wrote: Klingon Academy is still on the list and should be removed. That's Direct3D and definitely not UnrealEngine. Removed. I didn't remove it last time since I don't think you replied to my follow up question: Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

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Re: Has anyone ran Privateer 2 on a real system?

Posted on 2014-09-08, 22:30

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by vetz

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in DOS

No need to go find your CDs, it's available on archive.org https://archive.org/details/P2DEMO_201407

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

Posted on 2014-09-08, 22:10

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by vetz

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Found, tested on a M3D and uploaded the following PowerVR enabled demos: Fifa 98: Road to World Cup Hardwar Metal Fatigue Moon Racer Monster Truck Madness 2 Nightmare Creatures PureVex Star Trek: Klingon Honor Guard Sub Culture The Fifth Element Tomb Raider Turok Ultimate Race Pro Virtual Tennis ( …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-09-08, 19:04

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some recent purchases: IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet MCA https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57506833/vogons/diverse/ebay/IBM_LAN_MCA.JPG Roland MPU-IMC https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57506833/vogons/diverse/ebay/MPU-IMC.JPG Matrox MGA PCI manual (for the early Ultima cards) https://dl. …

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-08, 16:30

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by vetz

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Here is my boxed collection (I've got more as jewel case)

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Re: Has any one tried the new IDE SSDs yet?

Posted on 2014-09-08, 08:25

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm telling you once you tried a modern SATA drive (Seagate) + 32 GB limit through SeaTools + SATA to IDE adapter you won't have storage problems anymore :) Why use SATA to IDE adapter when you can use a S-ATA PCI card with much higher transfer speeds and no size restrictions? The only reason I see …

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Re: Creative VBMP400 Information/drivers?

Posted on 2014-09-08, 06:50

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

brostenen wrote: Now. Were and how to Upload the manual to the drivers archive, credit Francisco for it? My Vogons login does not work for this. You contact the person behind this stuckified thread: VOGONS Driver Library

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Re: powervr not working with tomb raider

Posted on 2014-09-06, 14:45

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sounds like your running an older patch and the Gold version of Tomb Raider. If you run into problems like this always search on Google Groups: > Well I got the generics drivers and the apocalypse 3d drivers. I tried > running tomb raider gold with each of them, and both times i got the error > " …

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Re: powervr not working with tomb raider

Posted on 2014-09-06, 11:08

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you installer Tomb Raider in another directory than C:/tomb? If yes, read the readme.txt of the PowerVR patch to see hoe to fix it.

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Re: powervr not working with tomb raider

Posted on 2014-09-05, 19:20

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think you are too quick to come to your conclusion. Try another host card and try another computer first.

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ECS SI54P AIO full manual

Posted on 2014-09-05, 08:39

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did a full scan of the Phoenix BIOS version of this board. I couldn't find it online: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57506833/vogons/diverse/SI54AIO/SI54P-AIO_Pheonix_BIOS.pdf http://www.mediafire.com/view/6flumrtbnb9dsma/SI54P-AIO_Pheonix_BIOS.pdf AWARD BIOS version manual available here: …

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