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Re: Generic/uninteresting yet rare video cards?

Posted on 2024-02-03, 17:13

Some rare video cards that I know: PCI versions of the S3 ViRGE/GX2, Trio3D and Trio3D/2X. The AGP ones are very common to find. Cirrus Logic GD-5480. Of these, I managed to get the S3 Trio3D/2X, which are usually uninteresting for Windows but comes with VBE 2.0 onboard and has an insane amount of …

Re: S3 Trio 3D AGP 320x240 73hz problem

Posted on 2024-01-31, 00:19

All S3 cards have "fixed" screen refresh rates for VESA video modes with resolutions lower than 640x480. The best you could do is to load UniVBE 6.7 (which supports the vanilla Trio3D without any patches or hacks) in DOS then use UniRefresh or VBEHz to set the refresh rate for 320x240.

Re: Multiple computers, one set of speakers.

Posted on 2024-01-21, 15:14

Sphere478 wrote on 2024-01-11, 02:31: There’s been a few threads asking about this, I got this 3.5mm jack mixer. It works pretty good! Heads up. 😀 Got one of these passive mixers for my retro computer and I'm impressed, it can handle all four inputs from multiple sound cards quite well. 😁

Re: Midi sounds different in DOS and Windows?

Posted on 2024-01-13, 18:32

As Tiido mentioned, DOS games have their own MIDI implementations for the OPL2/3 FM synth while Windows uses a generic one that it may not be ideal for everything. It is also likely that the device used for listening MIDI files with WMP or any other Windows software isn't using the FM synth. P.S. …

Re: Battle Arena Toshinden running too fast on retro rig

Posted on 2023-12-27, 16:52

in DOS
Try adding SET FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=2 environment variable to see if it does the trick. What will do is that the screen will be swapped every two vsyncs, meaning that the framerate will be capped to the half of the screen refresh rate (30 FPS if it is 60 Hz).

Re: Tomb Raider 1 - Voodoo 2

Posted on 2023-12-27, 16:46

This is kind of an old thread, but I got Tomb Raider running on a P3 1Ghz system with 2 Voodoo 2s in SLI. I used the 3_03_00_beta_w9x_dx7 drivers and then put the Glide2x.dll and the Glide2x.ovl files in the game folder. The game was patched using the 3dfx patch, the Rush patch will lead to instant …

Re: GeForce3 vs GeForce4 Ti compatibility?

Posted on 2023-12-24, 14:34

In DOS, compatibility for GeForce3 and GeForce4 cards are nearly the same except whether the VBIOS includes the EGA 8x14 font or not. The only real problem that I can think of is that there are many variants with larger VIBIOS (up to 64 KB), giving you less space for UMB and/or the EMS page block.

Re: SB64AWE memory size in Dos games

Posted on 2023-12-21, 13:18

What still confuses me is the cards with no ram expansion and only a 512KB ROM, how can the games upload samples, to where? The ROM is read only and no other memory is on the card? With the exception of few variants, AWE64 cards has non-standard headers for RAM upgrade. To easily get around this, …

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