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Re: Let's compare youtube game comparisions.

Posted on 2014-08-27, 18:35

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Defender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1b98TKuRPk Arcade is the best, no surprise, gameboy color, snes & genesis/megadrive look like they're running emulators, most others tried to replicate as best they could with the hardware they had to work with, sometimes these have their own charm, then …

Re: Covox Sound Master Reverse Engineering / Replica

Posted on 2014-08-27, 00:24

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Apparently I'm wrong about it having been emulated already, I guess jwk had just done some initial probing into it. Well, to hear what it would sound like in just ay-8910 mode, check out atari st game versions. pc/adlib? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ7SuZtAZLI st/ay: https://www.youtube.com/ …

Re: Covox Sound Master Reverse Engineering / Replica

Posted on 2014-08-26, 18:46

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It has been emulated in DOSBox: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=18571, like the innovation, they merely stuck the ay chip on the isa bus and then regular ay programming to make it go, so that should be similar to the innovation with whatever voltage etc. adjustment needed for hooking up the ay …

Let's compare youtube game comparisions.

Posted on 2014-08-26, 03:38

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I found these exhaustive comparisons really good. Includes skip to time for x machine in the video description. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=let%27s+compare For example, lode runner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQevJwXWY7Q For me, the original apple ii is where it's at, and then …

Re: Gravis UltraSound Files Archive

Posted on 2014-08-25, 17:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It'd be nice to include the special GUS version games that came bundled, like Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. Hunt down someone who still has their copy because those versions are not around online.

Re: Which is worse regarding speed-sensitive games: higher clockspeed or bigger processing power?

Posted on 2014-08-25, 16:05

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You're right, dx 9.0c came out in 04 so from there it should be smooth sailing. I'm liking the idea of the xp/sempron the more I think about it, and I would keep a pii but switch to an unlocked 350 for a speed range of 200-400 and have the xp /w xp 32 bit, pii /w 98se, & the pentium /w osr 2.5.

Re: Which is worse regarding speed-sensitive games: higher clockspeed or bigger processing power?

Posted on 2014-08-25, 01:51

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To note, for the last/latest i7 system, the idea would be it running windows 7 or 8 with the hope that xp games from 2005-2009 will run without issues, otherwise I'd use a sandybridge or ivybridge system to skip the driver support issue, running xp for that range.

Re: Which is worse regarding speed-sensitive games: higher clockspeed or bigger processing power?

Posted on 2014-08-24, 16:18

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From this: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=12319&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=500 I conclude real cga as the only way to go for composite out. And this: http://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_CPU_speed_sensitive_games, along with covering system specific like tandy, want for particular …

Re: Which is worse regarding speed-sensitive games: higher clockspeed or bigger processing power?

Posted on 2014-08-23, 23:37

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Interesting, if Intel had allowed multipliers down to 1x, G3258 would pretty much be able to match CPU speeds all the way back to 97' 97 pii 233-300 1x ~pii @ 235 MHz 98 pii 333-450 2x ~pii @ 470 MHz 99 piii 450-800 3x ~piii @ 705 MHz 00 piv 1.5 6x 01 piv 2.0 8x 02 piv 3.0 11x 03 a64 fx-51 2.2 12x …

Re: Which is worse regarding speed-sensitive games: higher clockspeed or bigger processing power?

Posted on 2014-08-23, 20:34

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This might be a way to get windows 7 drivers to work on xp: http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Drivers-for-%2 … 2-in-Windows-Xp Also: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/183362-w … ears-of-updates

Re: Which is worse regarding speed-sensitive games: higher clockspeed or bigger processing power?

Posted on 2014-08-23, 19:14

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Well, the g2030 you're initially looking at does 8x as well, it's like a PIV 1.8 or xp 1500+ at 800 Mhz.

Re: Which is worse regarding speed-sensitive games: higher clockspeed or bigger processing power?

Posted on 2014-08-23, 16:54

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>My initial plan is to use intel-based PC; that is, Gigabyte H61-USB3 with Intel Pentium G2030. Hence, this thread. Intel came out with the Pentium G3258 that's really good, going for around $66-70. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u380jWhRXTI Motherboard from the youtube video: $75 http://www. …

Re: 486 four-eighty-six or four-eight-six?

Posted on 2014-08-23, 13:23

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I've never heard someone say exksies before. I'm used to hearing exec, short for executable, which makes sense, doesn't bug me, but sayee-tuh/payee-tuh saa-tuh/paa-tuh just sounds stupid to me.

Re: 486 four-eighty-six or four-eight-six?

Posted on 2014-08-23, 03:46

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Another I just noticed, s-a-t-a or saa-tah? p-a-t-a or paa-tah? I hear the latter and cringe. Do they say eyed-e or id-e? No, they say i-d-e, but switch for SATA and PATA.

Re: Which is worse regarding speed-sensitive games: higher clockspeed or bigger processing power?

Posted on 2014-08-23, 01:29

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>My initial plan is to use intel-based PC; that is, Gigabyte H61-USB3 with Intel Pentium G2030. Hence, this thread. Intel came out with the Pentium G3258 that's really good, going for around $66-70. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u380jWhRXTI Motherboard from the youtube video: $75 http://www.newegg …

Re: Calculating game port theoretical max & actual bandwidth

Posted on 2014-08-22, 22:37

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in PC Emulation

Thought was nagging me that the buttons might be tied to the 558's delay, but this link ( http://www.epanorama.net/documents/joystick/pc_joystick.html ) confirms they directly hook up to the ISA data lines, so their speed is how fast one can read the port. It is indeed 500KB/s with a fast enough …

Re: Calculating game port theoretical max & actual bandwidth

Posted on 2014-08-21, 23:20

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After mulling it over realize max speed should be .5MB/s using the button bits(axis bits are tied to the 558 which has a minimum of 24.2us to set) and the cycle charts( http://zsmith.co/intel_i.html#in ) tells how many MHz needed to do it: 8088 @ 12 MHz, 8086 @ 8 MHz, 286 @ 5 MHz, 386 @ 27 MHz in …

Re: Calculating game port theoretical max & actual bandwidth

Posted on 2014-08-20, 12:55

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No, they are full game ports at separate addresses as far as I know. Settable game port address was common, for example: http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/07/garthsc/46/readme.txt http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/drivers/input/gameport/ns558.c http://contents.driverguide …

Re: Calculating game port theoretical max & actual bandwidth

Posted on 2014-08-20, 11:47

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

You're mistaken, they can be set to other than 201h(that dual port game cards were made should have been a hint:)

Re: Calculating game port theoretical max & actual bandwidth

Posted on 2014-08-20, 10:55

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in PC Emulation

Responding to your points in turn.. Trying to work out the maximum isn't over specifying and the target of 22 controllers is lower than max. I'm not sure what you're thinking of, game port isn't tied to video refresh rate. 40us is well under the sampling rate the 150/250us rates used by the …

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