Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-08, 17:40

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by mothergoose729

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(disclaimer : I may have a distorted point of view because i work in the network field for a cloud company) I know nothing about VR, so i can't really talk about it. About cloud gaming, Infrastructure used to be expensive. Because copper analog landline telephone system was expensive. Most western …

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Re: Intel CPU sweet spot for DOS games and pre-2000 Windows games on Socket 370

Posted on 2023-02-08, 17:11

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The Ezra T is plenty fast for games up through about 2000, but if the game uses FPU at all you might consider staying with P3 or using a C3 nehemiah instead. The difference between the ezra T and the nehemiah is that the nehemiah can execute two FPs per clock cycle making it twice as fast for …

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Re: What is this...THING?! o_o ("BitchinFast 3D 2000")

Posted on 2023-02-03, 22:47

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by mothergoose729

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The funny thing is this thing actually happened. There was a chip called the Lucid Hydra 200 that allowed the user to combine a Nvidia card and an AMD card in multi-GPU configuration. They did it by intercepting the Direct3D calls and selectively delegating them to each GPU. It goes without saying …

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Re: What is this...THING?! o_o ("BitchinFast 3D 2000")

Posted on 2023-02-03, 19:48

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by mothergoose729

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The funny thing is this thing actually happened. There was a chip called the Lucid Hydra 200 that allowed the user to combine a Nvidia card and an AMD card in multi-GPU configuration. They did it by intercepting the Direct3D calls and selectively delegating them to each GPU. It goes without saying …

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Re: Windows 98 640x400 Support?

Posted on 2023-01-31, 18:50

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by mothergoose729

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This is a known issue with later Geforce cards. There might be other solutions, but here is what I have done 1) If it works in DOS, use DOS. 2) In windows XP and later OS you can define a custom resolution and display timings. I don't know if there are tools for windows 98. Sadly, DOS isn't really …

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Re: Windows 98 640x400 Support?

Posted on 2023-01-31, 18:11

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by mothergoose729

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This is a known issue with later Geforce cards. There might be other solutions, but here is what I have done 1) If it works in DOS, use DOS. 2) In windows XP and later OS you can define a custom resolution and display timings. I don't know if there are tools for windows 98.

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Re: Intel CPU sweet spot for DOS games and pre-2000 Windows games on Socket 370

Posted on 2023-01-25, 16:48

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Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-01-25, 16:46: mothergoose729 wrote on 2023-01-25, 16:35: Most windows games don't use FP at all but some do. Several video card drivers did use the FPU to assist in 3D rendering, especially T&L on hardware prior the nVidia GeForce 256. True, so probably want to use a card with …

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Re: Intel CPU sweet spot for DOS games and pre-2000 Windows games on Socket 370

Posted on 2023-01-25, 16:35

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The Ezra T is plenty fast for games up through about 2000, but if the game uses FPU at all you might consider staying with P3 or using a C3 nehemiah instead. The difference between the ezra T and the nehemiah is that the nehemiah can execute two FPs per clock cycle making it twice as fast for …

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Re: Pentium 4 chipsets for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2023-01-24, 18:44

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All of the intel chipsets should work really well, the 865p chipset just has the most features. 865p will have SATA 1.5 which is really nice if you are planning to use an SSD boot drive. Some 845 chipsets will have USB 2.0 support (the E and G series I believe). There might also be limitations on …

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Re: Old GOG games are slowly getting killed

Posted on 2023-01-04, 21:02

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Knowing GOG they'll wait until the community finds a fix and then integrate it without much visibility to the original source of the fix. They are right in a way that MS should update their sdb and fix their files/shims since MS is supposed to care about backwards compatibility but if they don't …

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Re: Terminator 2 arcade game

Posted on 2023-01-04, 01:49

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by mothergoose729

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I have had success with some old games by creating a separate FAT16 partition and running them from there. Whether or not the drive is in LBA mode hasn't effected any games I have tried. Works even if the primary partition is much larger. I think I reserved like 10mb or something.

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Re: Some sofware to do fake EGA scanlines?

Posted on 2022-11-28, 18:17

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by mothergoose729

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Greetings, someone knows exist some software that make scanlines to EGA modes? similar to verde for CGA http://www.abadiadelcrimen.com/verde.html and 3.0 with ambar, white, blue.. http://www.360k.es/?p=58 I know i can use a scanline generator, or connect a 15khz screen, but i was thinking in a …

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Re: Personal ultimate retro gaming pc

Posted on 2022-11-18, 06:51

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by mothergoose729

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I don't want to alarm you, but it looks like there is a snake in your case.

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Re: Your Top 10 Windows 98 Games?

Posted on 2022-10-30, 17:04

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In no particular order Half Life Unreal Quake 2 Command Conquer Red Alert Starcraft Fallout 2 Placescape Torment Thief Rollercoaster Tycoon Serious Sam FE

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Re: Ultimate Windows XP Build (Intel E8600 / GTX 980Ti / 24" Asus ProArt display / X-Fi Titanium)

Posted on 2022-10-11, 03:20

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by mothergoose729

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Nice! I have 980ti in my XP build. It works great on anything 2002 or later I have tried. Plus with the right version of nvinspector you can force super resolution and other fun stuff.

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Re: Best Game compatibility Win98se Computer Build ?

Posted on 2022-09-25, 18:24

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Super socket 7 is not the first pick for compatibility with windows IMO. It's probably the second most flexible setup for both windows AND DOS, but it's not the best for either. It's just good at both. If we are aiming strictly at 1997ish-2001ish era PC gaming, no DOS at all, and compatibility is …

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Re: What keyboard do you use for Windows 9x?

Posted on 2022-09-16, 03:57

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by mothergoose729

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I use a beige cherry board with mx silent reds. It support ps2 with a passive adapter. Close to perfect for me.

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Re: DOSBOX on a GSYNC display - it's pretty great!

Posted on 2022-09-03, 19:32

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When talking about what games are "supposed" to look like you are often just talking about what games looked like when you were a kid as you remembered them. This is a problem with all games but particularly for DOS - what display is "true", did the artists of the game care at all about that stuff, …

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Re: DOSBOX on a GSYNC display - it's pretty great!

Posted on 2022-09-03, 01:59

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by mothergoose729

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Interesting, but... DOS games were never designed for "crispy perfect pixels" as the monitors of the era had flaws that these games exploited. The only way to take advantage of this is to either get a real era-specific CRT for that title or proper CRT emulation. They definitely weren't crispy, nor …

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Re: Intel CPU sweet spot for DOS games and pre-2000 Windows games on Socket 370

Posted on 2022-08-26, 16:42

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IMO the ideal hybrid CPU is a VIA Ezra T or Nehemiah, but with the price and rarity of slotket adapters I think it is hard to recommend it. Speed sensitivity is just not that important. I would choose a platform that makes sense for the games you want to play, and then think about how you can slow …

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