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

Posted on 2021-04-22, 05:28

Discovered another game that has Creative 3D Blaster (Creative Graphics Library) code - Star Fighter 3000. At least, the demo does - with a few bugs. Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2021-04-22, 05:16

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

First, LazyGameReviews (Clint Basinger) is working on a 3D Blaster VLB video. Any chance anyone can loan him the game discs? Second, I just found another game that supports CGL by accident - Star Fighter 3000. Or at least, the demo. The demo teases that support is coming in the full version, but the …

Re: Pentium OverDrive 83 on Asus 486SV2GX4 rev 2.0, problems with floppys and other storage devices

Posted on 2021-04-21, 23:45

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I actually just upgraded a system from a POD63 to an Am5x86 133. The AMD is faster at stock clocks and blows the POD63 away at 160MHz. If the POD could be overclocked to 100MHz I'm sure it would regain the lead but sadly it wasn't even stable at 83 I'm not sure what your point is, but I'm sure it's …

Re: Pentium OverDrive 83 on Asus 486SV2GX4 rev 2.0, problems with floppys and other storage devices

Posted on 2021-04-21, 22:14

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IMHO overdrives aren't worth it. ....nowhere near a "real" Pentium. I disagree. You get Pentium floating point performance on a 486, so something like Quake will run well, and it has twice as much cache as the usual 486. So, if you have a 486 w/VLB + PCI that you like, the 83MHz overdrive is pretty …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-21, 22:07

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

WTF Aztech? Can this be a factory soldering error? Or maybe this card has been recapped at some point, and this is.. an oversight? Regardless, I will add some solder to these two before trying the card in a system.. It looks like someone figured out they could do the job faster (and skip soldering) …

Re: VESA feature connector devices

Posted on 2021-04-21, 20:40

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

There were a few Vesa to very old LCD projects around 2003-5, main one was probably at tweakers.net https://web.archive.org/web/20071219202302/https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/799377 all I could find on todays web is this with 2 somewhat detailed PDFs, one in German, other Polish: …

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

Posted on 2021-04-19, 19:25

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A while back I bought this Evergreen AcceleraPCI Pentium III 1.0GHz upgrade card, but it was one of those "dream hardware" sales with no photo. When the unit arrived, the heat sink/fan assembly was hanging off of it and there was a loose capacitor in the box, with some other capacitors about ready …

Re: 486-era Gimmicks PC

Posted on 2021-04-17, 22:21

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I still wouldn't say the PC-FXGA was a gimmick. Yeah, the PC-FX was a kinda flop of a console, but it wasn't a gimmick. It has a 3D accelerator that is used by something like a total of 4 games. PC-FX was canceled early because NEC was backing Dreamcast. If you go through archive.org and look at …

Re: 486-era Gimmicks PC

Posted on 2021-04-17, 19:06

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-04-17, 18:52: I still have my TG16 with CD expansion and around 100 games. Kinda one of my favorite consoles. This is an example of a console that didn't get a whole lot of games, but most of them were quality - very different from what we saw for PC-FX.

Re: 486-era Gimmicks PC

Posted on 2021-04-17, 17:16

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As there won't be much front space left, there's another option. Install any SCSI card with external header and get a CD-ROM tower. Ludicrous but cool in its own way. I have to use a panasonic/matsushita drive with the 3DO Blaster. I have tested, and so far it works with any drive I've tried that …

Re: 486-era Gimmicks PC

Posted on 2021-04-17, 17:15

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

weedeewee wrote on 2021-04-17, 10:17: While you're at it... throw in a pcmcia/cardbus adapter 😀 PCMCIA is near-ISA and CardBus is near PCI, not sure where the gimmick part would come in. I use a CardBus to PCI bridge from laptops to add extension cards (have added a 3dfx this way).

Re: 486-era Gimmicks PC

Posted on 2021-04-17, 07:42

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’m confused as to why you’re explaining what the PC-FX console is - I’ve had the PC-FX GA in this system for years. :) The console was a flop, and the card is a gimmick. The bottom photo has it hooked up to a composite monitor. Did you skip reading the post maybe? It currently has an ISA backplane, …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2021-04-17, 05:21

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

Does anyone have the video BIOS for the Creative Labs 3D Blaster Cirrus Logic Laguna CL-GD5464 PCI (CT6320 or CT6381)? I need that video BIOS specifically.

Re: 486-era Gimmicks PC

Posted on 2021-04-16, 21:45

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So what is the full spec of this build? Another gimmick (if room) would be to put in a ReelMagic card for some MPEG decoding with the few games supporting it. It doesn't have a full spec - that's why I made this thread. I'm planning to swap the ISA backplane + Intel 486 DX4-100 WB on a half-size …

Re: 486-era Gimmicks PC

Posted on 2021-04-16, 21:42

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

weedeewee wrote on 2021-04-16, 21:37: Nice. Could use this as well... https://cdii.blogspot.com/2019/10/philips-med … ernational.html 😁 Yeah, I've been trying to find one for 5 years. 😀 Not sure it will happen. 🙁

486-era Gimmicks PC

Posted on 2021-04-16, 20:04

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, I'm working on an idea for a gimmick PC, basically something that has a lot of gimmicks from the 386-486 era (1989-1996 roughly, and yes, I realize that overlaps Pentium). Here are some examples of items in my collection that I'm talking about: TechMedia speaker case Gimmick: it sounded bad, and …

Re: S3 ViRGE deep dive

Posted on 2021-04-15, 18:51

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

Putas wrote on 2021-04-15, 18:08: Heh, a quick look at my screenshots, and I knew better in 2011. Many blending errors were fixed indeed. My memory does this too. I would really like to try one out, maybe see if I can patch S3D stuff to work with it.