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Fleet Defender Video Cards

Posted on 2021-07-14, 00:37

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Does anyone have any suggestions for 2D video cards to run MicroProse's Fleet Defender? Historically, I've had trouble running it on systems with Cirrus Logic cards. More recently, my S3 Trio 64 equipped system refuses to run it, which seems odd since I though the Trio 64 ran everything. In any …

Re: Riva 128 vs TNT vs M64 Pentium MMX

Posted on 2021-07-14, 00:30

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Sorry for the rather ranty post, but your last statement made so much sense to me that I could not resist sharing my unsolicited opinion . Feel free to disagree with anything I have said or to correct me if I have somehow misinterpreted you . I don't disagree at all. You captured what I was saying …

Re: Mixed Voodoo 2 SLI setup driver question

Posted on 2021-07-10, 04:09

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I've been running the Fast Voodoo driver with my mismatched 12MB cards for about three years. It runs fine with everything I play. However, yes, the built in overclock, does not work well with some cards and can cause some significant degradation in image quality.

Re: Riva 128 vs TNT vs M64 Pentium MMX

Posted on 2021-07-10, 04:06

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I use a Creative-branded TNT PCI with 16MB in my P233MMX. It runs very well with everything I've tried up to Unreal. I had been considering buying a Riva128 or a Rendition card to replace the TNT for "period accuracy," but based on some of the comments above that doesn't sound like a worthwhile " …

Re: Mismatched Voodoo2s in SLI

Posted on 2021-07-10, 04:01

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Not to bring back old threads, but I was finally able to figure this out. The Fast Voodoo driver has some sort of default overclock built in, you can disable it by setting everything to "default." Once I did that, everything got better instantly, much better image quality.

Re: How to identify this 486 motherboard techmedia UMC um8498F

Posted on 2021-07-10, 03:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm just come back to this thread. I had a bunch of crap come up for the past several weeks, so I'm just now getting back to this board. I think I either have a misconfiguration issue or my board or processor is dead. Before checking back here, I read through all the silk screen on the board and …

Re: How to identify this 486 motherboard techmedia UMC um8498F

Posted on 2021-05-12, 16:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

evasive wrote on 2021-05-12, 16:18: Nope, otherwise we would have a bios string already and possibly an ID. Alright, I'll see what I can do. My 486 CPU arrives next week.

Re: How to identify this 486 motherboard techmedia UMC um8498F

Posted on 2021-05-12, 01:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought one of these recently with the i/o headers. The corrosion from the battery was no big deal. I'm awaiting a 486 CPU to give it a test. Has anyone had any luck getting a system based on this board to run?

Re: ISA vs Socket 5/7 bus speed

Posted on 2021-01-04, 18:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Understood. I'll take a look for a bios option to see if I can change the divider. The computer is a late-1995 or early-1996 build, so I would hope there would be some type of accommodation for the 50Mhz FSB so the OEM could sell Pentium 75 systems using the same base components.

ISA vs Socket 5/7 bus speed

Posted on 2021-01-04, 03:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been playing around with underclocking my Pentium 100 system and I've run into an odd problem when I run the CPU at 75Mhz. At that speed (50 Mhz FSB) my Aztech isa sound card starts dropping and holding notes. The problem goes away at the 60Mhz FSB, so it has to be related to the FSB speed I …

Re: Falcon 3.0 Build

Posted on 2021-01-04, 02:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can use setmul on the 233 and I do, but my preference is to have a computer that's more period appropriate for these games.

Falcon 3.0 Build

Posted on 2021-01-04, 02:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm planning to build a computer aimed at Falcon 3.0, Fleet Defender, and the Sierra Aces series through Aces of the Deep DOS. I have a Pentium 100 and a Pentium 233, so I don't need a build that can handle any later DOS titles--probably 1993 at the latest. A 486 would seem to be they way to go. The …

Re: Was Deus Ex rough on contemporary hardware?

Posted on 2021-01-02, 02:55

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

In the summer of 2001 I played it on a PII-350 with 192MB RAM and a GeForce 256. I remember it being fine at 1024x768, and I think I made almost all the way through the game at that time. I later played it on an T-bird 1.4 with 512MB and the same video card. Definitely better. Either way I never had …

GOG WC1 in DOS

Posted on 2020-12-29, 18:53

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I tried transferring my copy of Wing Commander 1 from my GOG Games folder to a folder on one of my DOS PCs. When I try to start the main game in DOS, I get a searching for disk error accompanied with an activation of the floppy drive. When I try to start Secret Missions 2, the computer restarts. I …

Re: Upgrading P75 with powerleap + voodoo2. How powerful will it become?

Posted on 2020-12-02, 12:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If it's Opti Viper, it's probably going to be an exercise in frustration. I have an early socket 7 opti viper board, and my upgrade from a Pentium 100 to a Pentium 200 made very little practical difference in my mind. There's also a driver problem with the chipset in Windows 98. I've never tried …

Re: Upgrading P75 with powerleap + voodoo2. How powerful will it become?

Posted on 2020-12-02, 00:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does you P75's motherboard have cache?

Re: New/Next Projects

Posted on 2020-12-01, 03:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok. It's probably 100% the video card drivers causing the issues for the older XP games. Guessing. A Geforce 6800 or 7900 series might be best for the early XP games. Are there any specific games causing problems? Medal of Honor Allied Assault is the first one that comes to mind. It performs well …

Re: New/Next Projects

Posted on 2020-11-25, 02:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What, if anything do you have as external MIDI modules? What kind of games do you want to run that you can't run now? No MIDI modules. I didn't have MIDI when it was new, and I've never felt like I missed out on anything based on what I've heard of MIDI in some of my favorite games. I don't think …

New/Next Projects

Posted on 2020-11-25, 00:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm trying to figure out what direction I should take for my next build/project. Currently, I have four retro computers on my desk: A late-95/early-96 vintage Zenith-branded Pentium 100 Mhz with an OptiViper chipset and a Diamond-branded S3 Trio64V+ and Aztech sound card for DOS 6.22/Win 3.11 A …

NFSIII:HP Add On Cars

Posted on 2020-07-25, 04:56

in Milliways

in Milliways

There were several downloadable add on cars for Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit in the late-90s: Ferrari 456, Jaguar XKR, Lister Storm, etc. They used to be readily available on several sites, but I can't seem to find them anymore. Does any have a good lead for where I might be able to find them.

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