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Re: Ultima VI. on which CPU/generation machine it runns well ?

Posted on 2019-10-22, 13:00

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

From what I understand, it doesn't even run "fast" on his 486DX-2/66. Maybe he's just expecting too much. The game will never run smooth (i.e. fluid scrolling etc.) because the underlying engine simply isn't able to. It's a tile-based engine with one huge world and tiles are loaded on demand while …

Re: Cyrix 5x86-133 - "DIVIDE OVERFLOW" error on boot.

Posted on 2019-10-22, 12:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Durandal wrote: Any suggestions? 😕 😕 😕 Yes, post a picture of that CPU.

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

Posted on 2019-10-21, 16:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Built myself a second AV booster for the NEC PC Engine. Slightly refined the 3d-printed case and used white filament this time. 😀

Re: How to spot a scam? Could this be a scam?

Posted on 2019-10-21, 12:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My most recent find is this 386 board with a coprocessor. It's sold as working. You can clearly see the damage caused by the battery. Most of the traces are gone above the BIOS chip extending to the corner of the board, the cache and the memory modules are affected as well. The seller asks twice …

Re: VGA benchmark between Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 and Trident 8900D-R

Posted on 2019-10-20, 18:34

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Trident's bad reputation mainly comes from the TVGA9000 series. Those were cheap and slow but heavily used by OEMs back then. So many people thought Trident = slow. The 8900D-R was good, so was the TGUI94xx series.

Re: Use dgVoodoo in pure hardware Windows Me

Posted on 2019-10-20, 18:25

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Your S3 Virge MX 260 has 2 MB of video memory. There's no way to get dgVoodoo to work with that. Also, even the fastest Virge (which the MX isn't) is way too slow to even reach 10% of what a Voodoo card is able to render and the slow CPU doesn't help either. But since it's a notebook and you can't …

Re: Which VLB Video Card to Keep?

Posted on 2019-10-20, 10:02

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Good question, I've never seen a chip saying 9440AGi. It's normally called 9440-1.

Re: Which VLB Video Card to Keep?

Posted on 2019-10-20, 08:30

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

It's cheap because most people think that *all* Trident cards are crap. But the TGUI9400 is actually pretty good. It's on par with the S3 805 but adds a blitter, so Windows is even faster with it. Also worth noting is that the 9400 is pin-compatible with the 9440, so with soldering skills, you can …

Re: Win95 loading SMARTDRV, IFSHELP etc. automatically in DOS?

Posted on 2019-10-20, 08:26

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

auron wrote: i've also come to realize that DOS=UMB isn't set in this default config which is bad for those conventional memory hungry pre-extender games. DOS=UMB makes no sense when not loading EMM386, and the default config doesn't load EMM386. With HIMEM.SYS, you can only use DOS=HIGH. So …

Re: Ultima VI. on which CPU/generation machine it runns well ?

Posted on 2019-10-19, 18:39

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

A 286-16 is already fast enough. Speed issues come from the hard drive access when you wander around, since it constantly loads new tiles. Try loading smartdrv, it should run better then.

Re: For only 2002-2006 era games any benefit to Win Xp 64-bit over 32-bit?

Posted on 2019-10-19, 17:45

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

64-bit XP was actually Windows Server 2003 with the XP stuff ported over. Avoid it. It's hard to find drivers for it and there are several other compatibility issues.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-19, 07:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can simply connect a PSU to the battery terminals. That's what I did on mine when I got it and did a first test.

Re: AW840/CIW8738 - Music issue

Posted on 2019-10-19, 07:44

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Can you play MIDI files under 98SE? If not, either the FM part is muted or the card is faulty.

Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-10-18, 19:37

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Riva 128 because it's a nice card with superb picture quality, is on par with a Voodoo2, and also fits time-wise.

Re: Which VLB Video Card to Keep?

Posted on 2019-10-18, 19:23

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I own a Trident TGUI 9400 VLB card as well. It's not the fastest card, but a good performer. It's about as fast as an S3 805. However, I had problems running DOOM on it, it had completely messed up colors. The ET4000/w32p should be quite a bit faster. If you can, keep both. A single card does not …

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

Posted on 2019-10-18, 19:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finished my Compaq Deskpro EP 6400 today. Tried to keep it mostly original. Pentium II 400 MHz with passive cooling (original), Matrox G450 (was: G200), 128 MB RAM (was: 1x 64 MB; added another one), ESS 1868 sound card (original). Also added a Voodoo 2, a Terratec Cinergy TV/AV capture card, and an …

Re: Need help identifying the synth used for this game.

Posted on 2019-10-18, 12:07

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Trevor0402 wrote: I really love the OST to Super Street Fighter 2 for FM Towns, The linked video shows the 3DO version. Do they even use the same music?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-17, 17:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, I'm sure. This thing was made to be budget. PMRCD.PNG You are right that the external version was more expensive. But that model was the first one to have an SRP of under $1000.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-17, 12:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice to know. I have that Media Vision PAS with SCSI, so I guess I should test them together and keep them bundled. 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-17, 11:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

imi wrote: stop making me all jealous 😁 No. 😜 How you like this one: P4041045.jpg First consumer CD Recorder sold for under $1000 ($999 that is). I really love its colors.

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