Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2019-08-31, 02:01

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by kolderman

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7800 lacks compatability with older titles, and honestly for games like FEAR and doom3 I would have gone for a s775 system with a much more powerful card. By 2005 s478 was long in tooth. Looks great though.

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Re: Socket A and AGP Voodoo 3 ?

Posted on 2019-08-31, 01:56

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by kolderman

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Athlon XP probably has 4x AGP/1.5v so the Voodoo 3 won't work anyway (and may cook something)... The board I have has Universal AGP, so 3.3 is supported. That is not the issue .. Not all universal agp supports 3.3v. Many just have overload protection and that's it, some not even that. Personally I …

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Re: General A3D tweaks?

Posted on 2019-08-30, 20:26

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by kolderman

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What card do you have? Does your driver software have an equalizer? I know the control panel for the Diamond MX300 does as well as a few other settings...might want to play around with them to see the effect.

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Re: There is no successor to Warcraft II

Posted on 2019-08-30, 11:07

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by kolderman

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I also played the hell out of wc2 in the 90s, ipx and all. But I tried to go back and play it but could not. I just don't yearm for that gamestyle anymore. However a strategy game I can go back and play is warlords2...and it's many sequals including battlecry. Without the resource management its …

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

Posted on 2019-08-30, 07:19

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Haul!

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-08-29, 20:01

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by kolderman

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Only if you insist on non pnp.

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI low FPS in Windows 98se when moving the mouse in game

Posted on 2019-08-29, 08:41

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by kolderman

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I thought win98 was supposed to speed up when using the mouse 😁

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Re: Windows 98 Unnecessary Overkill

Posted on 2019-08-29, 03:20

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ System Specs

> but I'm actually looking into making a computer that will be way over the needs for windows 98. But what are your needs? What games do you want to play on it?

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Re: I forget there are those unlike us

Posted on 2019-08-26, 20:34

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by kolderman

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Sounds like my first PC - 80mb / 2mb / 512k (vram), later upgraded to 4mb ram. I notice on a lot of current gaming forums (e.g. reddit), the majority seem to sneer at playing games even from the late 2000s (10+ years old now), because the graphics don't have some pixel shaded effect or whatever. …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI and 1024x768

Posted on 2019-08-26, 19:43

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by kolderman

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Dude, you need a dictionary. It's RENDERING THE IMAGE. IN MEMORY. The exact same triangles, the exact same textures, the exact same image. Are you TRYING to troll here? This is too wrong. Why do you think framerate increases with a v2 sli? Because the rendering work is spread across two cards. Yes …

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Re: Casio GZ-70SP unboxing

Posted on 2019-08-26, 07:19

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ Sound

Man I would love a pair of these. Any good midi recordings?

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

Posted on 2019-08-26, 02:58

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mister Xiado wrote: Don't you just hate driver sites? Driverguide used to be reliable... Does archive.org count a driver site? Because I find it works very well most of the time and I like it a lot.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D on AWE32 with custom soundfont under DOS

Posted on 2019-08-24, 19:52

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by kolderman

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How many other games can this be extended to? Can I drop in any sf2?

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D on AWE32 with custom soundfont under DOS

Posted on 2019-08-24, 03:00

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by kolderman

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Yes but my question is does awe32 mode *use* the soundfont? I load a soundfont under windows when it boots up....but if I select awe32 sound it won't make use of it, I need to select midi. Are you actually changing the way the driver talks to the emu8k so it synthesizes from the ram?

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D on AWE32 with custom soundfont under DOS

Posted on 2019-08-24, 02:52

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ Sound

> Music card to AWE32 I thought this mode just used onboard samples, and its only via the mpu401 emulation can you take advantage of soundbanks/fonts. Or am I missing something here!

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Re: AWE 64 Gold Installation error

Posted on 2019-08-24, 02:49

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by kolderman

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I would say try a different driver....but if windows is not even seeing unknown devices it does not bode well. Pity as the gold is a stellar card.

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Re: AWE 64 Gold Installation error

Posted on 2019-08-24, 00:59

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ Sound

Have you tried a different ISA slot?

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-08-23, 06:50

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by kolderman

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I'm not sure about the name. Isn't the original awe64 the "legacy"? And yes spdif (minijack, rca or toslink), opl3, and rear bracket are essential to making this worthwhile. Although how will spdif work.....will a mixer take in the emu8k (which itself takes in opl3) and digital sound and output …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-08-22, 07:19

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by kolderman

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Do we have to donate our awe64 to get one? I am currently using a Gold and would never destroy that but I have a number of plain ones. How much will it cost?

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Re: Hypothetical: Most coverage in a single system

Posted on 2019-08-21, 02:19

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

manbearpig wrote: You didn't mention an FDD but if I wanted something for DOS games, I would want to be able to use the disk if I had stumbled upon one. Good luck finding a working floppy disk today.

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