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Re: EMM386 causing games & apps to freeze?

Posted on 2016-03-27, 20:55

in DOS

in DOS

thanks , Ive done some tidying up in regards to EMM386 , as well as replaced MSCDEX with SHSUCDX, which helped bring the conventional memory to a more acceptable 592k as opposed to 550 before, and Aladdin works too. not perfect, but does seem to work well enough for the games I tried. Of course one …

EMM386 causing games & apps to freeze?

Posted on 2016-03-27, 14:28

in DOS

in DOS

Im trying to set up my PPro machine and as part of setting up Win95 , Im also setting up its DOS mode. However , I've come across an issue where optimizing EMM386 causes some games such as Aladdin or even some programs like the AWE64s diagnose program to freeze , completely locking up the machine. …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-19, 13:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a Sony CRX215E1 CD-RW drive for use in my PIII machine, which was using a rather noisy and low quality Liteon DVD which actually caused some FMVs to stutter (its either breaking down a bit , cheap , or both) , while I lose the DVD playing ability, considering none of the games I run on this use …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-15, 18:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When it comes to ATI cards from this generations the Radeon X1950XTX is the card to have just like the Geforce 7900GTX is the Nvidia card to have. The Radeon 1950XTX is really worth to add to the collection as it's the fastest single GPU DX9 card ever made! :) agreed , its a great card, if a little …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-15, 13:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought some more crap! :) First a Radeon X1950XTX, I already have one but wanted one more for Crossfire benching. I have missed at least 3 X1950XTX cards going for 1-10 euro on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera but this time I diddnt miss it, the price was ~8 euro. Very nice! I remember reading some …

Re: Whats the best Video card for a Pentium 3 500 System

Posted on 2016-03-13, 21:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would go with either a Geforce256 , a Voodoo3 or a Matrox G400 .

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

Posted on 2016-03-13, 16:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

tried to get my PowerVR PCX1 card to work in my PIII machine. It seems to have some detection issue where the PVR tab is missing, and no Windows based SGL games work , even though the device manager recognises the card. I think its probably one of the IRQ/PCI conflicts the PowerVR is known for.

Re: Reference VS OEM cards

Posted on 2016-03-12, 11:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

depends on the manufacturer in question , a card by Creative , Diamond, Asus , Hercules, etc is going to be as good or better than a reference card, and much better than cards made by the likes of , say, Sparkle. reference cards (the kind meant for OEM systems by Dell , Compaq , HP , etc), are …

Re: Geforce3 Ti 500 vs Geforce 6200

Posted on 2016-03-07, 20:23

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

if your goal is to play Win9x or early Win2k/XP games, the GF3 is the better option , especially in terms of compatibility (Splinter Cell for instance will display its shadows correctly on a GF3 , but not on a GF6200). later XP games are not going to be fun with either, so I guess the final answer …

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

Posted on 2016-03-04, 11:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

managed to get the Audigy2 ZS to work on this Dimension 8100. apparently several Dell models had issues with the Audigy/Audigy2 (seems to be early P4 models) , mostly this freezing issue. The fix is an Audigy BIOS fix from the Dell website. As expected, the card seems to work fine after this BIOS …

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

Posted on 2016-03-03, 19:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

upgraded my Dimension 8100 a bit . went from a 1.4ghz to 1.7ghz P4 , managed to find a bunch of RDRAM sticks for next to nothing, bringing the total to 2GB , replaced the GF2Ti with a Geforce3 (standard version , not Ti). Also added in a Voodoo2 12MB SLI setup , although Ive got to use unofficial …

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

Posted on 2016-03-03, 18:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

upgraded my Dimension 8100 a bit . went from a 1.4ghz to 1.7ghz P4 , managed to find a bunch of RDRAM sticks for next to nothing, bringing the total to 2GB , replaced the GF2Ti with a Geforce3 (standard version , not Ti). Also added in a Voodoo2 12MB SLI setup , although Ive got to use unofficial …

Re: For a good DOS gaming machine... is the Pentium III Tualatin overkill?

Posted on 2016-03-02, 22:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

its a bit of an overkill but it will help with some later DOS games like Duke3d or Shadow Warrior.

Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2016-03-02, 14:25

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Can you compare that PIV to Athlon64 3200+ on Socket 754 or Socket 939, and use ATI videocard ? I hardly believe in that, I saw years ago that Athlon 2500+ Barton was far faster than PIV 2.8 on ASUS P4P800SE. it depends on what games and applications are running. I suspect that later games might …

Re: Do you use retro keyboards/mice with your retro builds?

Posted on 2016-02-28, 20:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use a retro keyboard and mouse for all my retro systems , from the P166 to the Core2Duo , which I control with a KVM switch. the keyboard is a Dell AT102W mechanical keyboard ( https://deskthority.net/w/images/e/ec/Dell_AT102W_beige.jpg ) , works quite well . For the mouse I use a Microsoft …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-23, 18:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got one of those at 1.7Ghz paired with a Geforce 3 TI500 (it's the one in my sig) If i remember correctly i was able to score something between 7000 and 7500. Not sure if this is a good indicator for anything when compared with tualatins, but it isn't a bad score i believe. if I remember …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-23, 08:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Never seen one of these before - didn't know the first P4s look just like Tualatins! The P4/1.4's also ran like Tualatin's... at about 1ghz. And a lot more wattage. A harbinger of Prescott I suppose ;) I might actually benchmark this machine against my 1Ghz SMP PIII , just to see how they compete …

Re: 3DFX/Glide Exclusive Windows Games?

Posted on 2016-02-22, 19:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nuclear Strike is one I can think of, and its only compatible with the Voodoo1 , or V2 with a patch.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-22, 19:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

got myself a Dell Dimension 8100 , one of the early S423 P4 machines from 2000 , the machine was missing some parts, and was a quite filthy (the first thing you should do when getting an expensive new system , is tie it to a pickup truck and drive it through a swamp or a jungle apparently) , so I …

Re: Artex's Build of the Week (Valentine's Day Bonus Build!) - "Back to Black" (aka - Devil Inside)

Posted on 2016-02-14, 21:46

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

you've just built the machine I wanted in 2004, very cool , the 6800 series are really nice (generally between the GF3 and GF8800 I would prefer ATI , but the 6800 is brilliant). just get Doom3 to run on it (apparently its possible to run Doom3 on Win98 and ME), and youre good to go 😜

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