Re: Is there any progress on 3dfx emulation?

Posted on 2023-06-13, 21:12

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by cyclone3d

in Windows

in Windows

After thinking about this more, it would probably be easiest to: 1.Have DosBox pass the calls to a Glide wrapper. No need to re-invent the wheel. 2. Add some multithreading capability to DosBox. Why have everything be on only a single thread? Why not split the load between different threads? Sure …

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Re: Is there any progress on 3dfx emulation?

Posted on 2023-06-13, 16:43

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by cyclone3d

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in Windows

There are good 3dfx wrappers for Windows games. I don't know if any of them are open sourced though. It really would be best to have hardware passthrough to d3d for stuff like DosBox instead of complete software emulation for 3d acceleration. Complete software emulation would absolutely tank …

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Re: Windows 7 on a Prescott P4, does it run ok?

Posted on 2023-06-11, 20:00

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sure it will "run" Windows 7, but it is going to be major suckage compared to anything even remotely recent. Years ago, I would have to work on P4 computers that were running Windows 7 and they made me want to do something similar to chewing on shards of glass because the people that had them for …

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Re: Windows 7 on a Prescott P4, does it run ok?

Posted on 2023-06-11, 17:45

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Please .. just NO!

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Re: What Headphones do you use when listening to Music recordings ?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 23:44

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Sennheiser HD600VB.

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Re: Any Optical Drive Bay Caddy Supports 2.5" IDE Drive?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 19:18

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does it necessarily have to be able to use an IDE HDD? I'm seeing caddy's that are IDE on the laptop side and SATA on the drive side. That honestly would be a lot more useful unless you have an IDE drive you really want to use. It's for formatting and copying files to a 200MB 2.5" IDE hard drive. I …

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Re: Any Optical Drive Bay Caddy Supports 2.5" IDE Drive?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 15:10

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does it necessarily have to be able to use an IDE HDD? I'm seeing caddy's that are IDE on the laptop side and SATA on the drive side. That honestly would be a lot more useful unless you have an IDE drive you really want to use.

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Re: A noob question: Would recompiling the Win9x files make it faster?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 05:02

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Software

Win9x is so incredibly fast on newer hardware that there really isn't a point anyway unless you want to run it on "period correct" hardware. That being said, I would love it if there was a Win9x kernel that supported SMP. That would be really sweet.

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Re: How much should I actually be paying for a first generation Sound Blaster?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 04:57

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

I've yet to find a single game that plays worth a shit on a stock PC/XT which supports soundblaster (PCM audio) There are a couple for adlib. If you broaden the scope to "turbo XTs" then it works ^ This. At minimum, early sound cards really needed a Turbo XT or XT/286 hybrid system to start taking …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-09, 01:54

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got this new old stock Microsoft wireless serial/ps2 mouse quite some time ago but hadn't had a chance to try it out properly. Turns out, it's a great mouse as long as you use a good mouse pad because if you don't you can't accurately position the mouse cursor. I think this might have been a …

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Re: How much should I actually be paying for a first generation Sound Blaster?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 06:27

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

Do you guys know if that listing on eBay marked as "CMS upgrade for CT1350" will work without modification on the CT1320? I was under the impression they were just those two chips, but is there more to it? The 1320 only needs the 2 chips which should be available way cheaper than the set for the …

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Re: Need a new socket 775 motherboard

Posted on 2023-06-08, 06:20

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A good LGA1366 setup would be even nicer than LGA775. If you really want 2x x16 PCIe slots that can run at x16 at the same time on LGA775, the options are going to be pretty limited.

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Re: SATA optical drives - why no audio interface?

Posted on 2023-06-06, 17:15

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is because later OSes are capable of converting the CD audio samples into data so it can be transferred from an IDE/SATA/USB cable. When the built-in audio decoder was used extensively on older CD driver, CPUs at the time weren't able to mix those samples in software without having any kind of …

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Re: Clarification on definition of abandoneware on Vogons.

Posted on 2023-06-05, 21:58

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Software

Or maybe just remove the link and put a reply in there saying why the link was removed instead of closing the thread outright. Would the thread have been closed if the person had posted a link to the same thing that linked to vogonsdrivers? The reason I made the OP a more open question is because I …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-06-05, 19:32

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by cyclone3d

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And it's only gotten worse, on 4k displays I can barely even see the cursor. Which is definitely a scaling problem with your operating system, because I can see it just fine on my 4K monitor (Chrome, Windows 11). Although I do agree that not having an option to use the regular system cursor is a …

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Re: Clarification on definition of abandoneware on Vogons.

Posted on 2023-06-05, 04:55

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Software

The thread that got closed was somebody asking for Dr. Sbaitso which was made by Creative and was only ever provided with the install disks for some of their ISA sound cards. Those driver disk images are available on Vogonsdrivers, for whatever that's worth. Simply put: If a letter *does not* …

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Re: Clarification on definition of abandoneware on Vogons.

Posted on 2023-06-05, 04:51

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Software

The thread that got closed was somebody asking for Dr. Sbaitso which was made by Creative and was only ever provided with the install disks for some of their ISA sound cards. It is literally included in the install disks and was never available in any form other than on those install disks. Closing …

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Re: Calcification on definition of abandoneware on Vogons.

Posted on 2023-06-04, 15:31

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Software

If a piece of software was only available with hardware and NEVER sold separately, is it ok to let people know where to get it if they ask? I think the nuance here has been missed by the replies. A recent thread was closed on abandonware grounds because someone asked about a utility that to my …

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Re: Calcification on definition of abandoneware on Vogons.

Posted on 2023-06-04, 15:30

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Software

maxtherabbit wrote on 2023-06-04, 14:58: leeme get uhhhhhhhhhh calcification Stupid phone autocorrect. I didn't even notice it before I posted.

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Clarification on definition of abandoneware on Vogons.

Posted on 2023-06-04, 00:25

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Software

Can we get some clarification of what abandoneware is according to vogons? My thoughts is this: It is software that was sold by itself and not only available as part of the software suite that was provided with a piece of hardware. If a piece of software was only available with hardware and NEVER …

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