Re: Any thoughts on XGI Volari Z7?

Posted on 2016-05-25, 20:39

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Tetrium wrote: Wouldn't a s370 VIA or Intel ES chip be a good combo with such a card? Your probably right, but considering i've got 7 of these which are pretty much brand new I'm looking for as many uses as possible. I'm going to try it in as many "generations" of systems as I can.

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Re: Any thoughts on XGI Volari Z7?

Posted on 2016-05-25, 20:18

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So right now I don't have a more DOS era system to test that will actually post with the Volari Z7 in it. So I took a spare hard drive installed DOS 6.22 on it and copied over Phils Benchmarks to it. The Celeron 800 I was going to use was giving me problems which I didn't have time to work out. …

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Re: Read/Write speeds for floppy alternatives.

Posted on 2016-05-25, 19:46

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by Rhuwyn

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Is yahoo auctions only in asia? I never heard of it until joining this forum.

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2016-05-25, 19:43

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This may be a silly question. Or an already answered question. In the VGA database there are a lot of entries that say "too fast" under 3D Bench. It looks 3D bench only records up to 999.9. Does this mean those folks are making an assumption that because their Pentium4 or Athlon XP or whatever only …

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Benchmarking!!!

Posted on 2016-05-25, 18:57

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So, I've posted a number of threads now in the last month or two, I've looked at a number of the youtube channels, internet video series, sticky threads, etc that there are. I look at the projects that have been started by highly active members and that each one has a diffrent set of benchmarks they …

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Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2016-05-25, 18:47

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So, I beta tested Windows ME back in the day. I agree that it's not near as bad as everyone made it out to be (outside of some buggy drivers to start out with which were smoothed out) but at the same time I never really saw what it did beyond Windows 98SE other then some updated drivers and removing …

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Re: Any thoughts on XGI Volari Z7?

Posted on 2016-05-25, 18:20

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by Rhuwyn

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So other then running Phil's Benchmarks he put together is there anything else you think I should run to gage DOS performance?

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Re: Tweaking a fresh Windows ME install

Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:37

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by Rhuwyn

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I've always failed to see what Windows ME did that Windows98SE didn't. (From a retro perspective). Do you prefer Win98SE or WinME? Whats your reasoning?

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

Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:36

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So I only recently re-entered the retro-gaming/computing hobby. Over the last few weeks i've gone on a spree of finding and buying stuff. Locally I spent about 200 bucks on a total of 21 towers Including a couple very choice retro 486 early pentium systems all the way to a Intel Core 2 Duo that I …

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Re: That poor beige :(

Posted on 2016-05-25, 16:49

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Likely going to the scrap because it is all state owned :depressed: Yes that is a complete Tandy 1000 HX with the manuals, disks, monitor, and joy stick! Maybe many of us Vogons users could write letters to the appropriate people at your university, stating that we are a club of vintage enthusiasts …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-25, 15:01

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Just bought a couple of upgrade/overdrive CPUs. I submitted offers that I thought were lowballing but low and behold they accepted them. Got all three for a combined 50 bucks shipped. http://www.ebay.com/itm/371632625343 http://www.ebay.com/itm/272250189600 http://www.ebay.com/itm/131821553455

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-25, 03:52

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Mr_ppp wrote: Lucky spot bagged me this LS-120 drive. It was listed as a 180mb floppy $_12.png Pleased as its the older Mitsubishi drive (1998) which complements my newer matsushita one 😎 When these were new I worked in a computer store and we highly advocated them. I still wish they had caught on. …

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Re: S3 Vision968 vs. Mach64 for VLB

Posted on 2016-05-25, 03:50

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Very interested in this thread. I've never actually owned a VLB video card before. Jumped straight from ISA to PCI and never looked back, at least not until I obtained a 486 board that had both VLB and PCI. There is a PCI Cirrus Logic 5430 in there now. My understanding is VLB should outperform PCI …

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Re: Socket 3 & 4 PCI Graphics compatibility/buying guide

Posted on 2016-05-25, 01:45

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Did you ever test the GPUs you mentioned you would would be testing upcoming?

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Re: Most rare and most common 3DFX cards in existence?

Posted on 2016-05-25, 01:31

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mwdmeyer wrote: Oh yeah I have an MSI mobo with 8mb Voodoo 3 onboard, runs pretty well actually. Looks like the one on this page: http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/v3.htm WOW....I never knew that there was ever a motherboard with onboard 3dfx. I WANT!!!!

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Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2016-05-24, 21:26

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gdjacobs wrote: Mechwarrior 2 is maybe better on this card than any other. It's really specialized, though. Which happens to be one of my favorite games. I'd get a card specially for it if it was priced lower but I think I agree with everyone that 80 is way too much.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-24, 16:13

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Well guys... I just had a super impulse purchase moments ago. http://i.imgur.com/sSqCcac.png (seller's photo, since, again, I literally just bought the thing minutes ago) For $20? I'll take it! Supposedly working, too! :cool: Damn, I know someone said 20 is reasonable but I doubt I've seen one for …

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Re: That poor beige :(

Posted on 2016-05-24, 16:11

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by Rhuwyn

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There is no way to avoid their being scrapped?

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Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2016-05-24, 02:49

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by Rhuwyn

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I been thinking of trying to get one but it looks like prices for them are INSANE right now. I could pick one up for 80 bucks or so? Does anyone think it would be worth it?

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Re: Read/Write speeds for floppy alternatives.

Posted on 2016-05-24, 02:45

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Welst doing other things somehow my USB floppy died. looked at all the floppys I had tried to write/read with them while trying to get it to work and found that it was making marks in the disk surface itself. AWESOME.

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