Re: Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit with nvidia 7800 and glide?

Posted on 2007-03-20, 01:06

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by swaaye

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Can't get NFS3 working on my 8800 with zeckensack's driver. I followed the guide on his site exactly, too. I got high res with D3D though, by renaming the D3D dll file to voodoo2a.dll (or whatever that file is). In the registry I then changed the card info to 3Dfx and Voodoo2a I believe. As if it …

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Re: Star Wars Screen Entertainment

Posted on 2007-01-24, 22:03

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by swaaye

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🤣. Yup that's it! I believe it's an "Intermission" screen saver.

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Re: Best DOS video card?

Posted on 2007-01-23, 21:29

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by swaaye

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One thing I want to say about Matrox cards is that not only do they have fast DOS support with good VESA, but Matrox released BIOS updates for basically all of them over the years. These updates fix various DOS issues I believe. ET4000 and the S3 chipsets were the standard back in early/mid '90s DOS …

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Star Wars Screen Entertainment

Posted on 2007-01-23, 21:24

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by swaaye

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in Windows

Hey, does anyone have this super old screensaver? I can't for my life find my disks or any backups of it. I wanna set up a Win3.1 machine and try it out again.

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Bioforge and the palm reader

Posted on 2007-01-02, 20:37

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by swaaye

in DOS

in DOS

Would someone explain for me, in extremely simple terms, how to get the robot w/ severed arm to open the door in the beginning. I can't get this working even after reading walkthrus! The computer always says I'm using a bad code (only code in Dane's logbook).

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Re: "Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-12-27, 21:34

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by swaaye

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I imagine it's unique to every game. I believe though that many probably fall back to plain DS3D sound placement. Maybe EAX2 emulation. Some audio chips do EAX2 emulation (Realtek, for example). EAX 3+ aren't open standards like EAX2.

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Re: "Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-12-06, 22:54

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by swaaye

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It means it won't sound right, most likely. A3D 1.0 isn't nearly as neat as 2.0 anyway. Lots of games use EAX higher than 2.0. EAX is by far the most popular standard and is supported by almost every modern game. EAX 3 on up adds more than just new reverb too. It does obstructions, for example. …

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Re: The Windows 9x PC

Posted on 2006-12-02, 23:08

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by swaaye

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in PC Emulation

Any CPU A Voodoo5 Monster Sound MX300 512 MB RAM

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Re: "Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-12-02, 23:07

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by swaaye

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There aren't any cards that do A3D 2.0 as well as a Vortex 2. Creative's cards wrap A3D 1.x to EAX.

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Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-11-22, 22:22

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by swaaye

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Voodoo3's lack of real AGP support is also a plus though. The cards are very lenient about what board/chipset they run on, unlike many many other 3d cards. Voodoo3's 3D should be more than adequate for older games. If it isn't fast enough you aren't playing games that really fit in the VOGON …

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Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-11-21, 18:42

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by swaaye

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It can get tricky trying to get an optimal DOS and 9x box. I'd suggest not mixing PCI and ISA audio. Pick one or the other. A good DOS PCI card is Diamond Monster Sound MX300 (Vortex2), cuz it fairly decently emulates Sound Blaster PRO and it has a waveblaster connector. I used it with Wing …

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MechWarrior 2 3dfx edition

Posted on 2006-11-14, 21:05

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by swaaye

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in PC Emulation

Anyone get this running with DGVoodoo or anything else? I have it running on a crust bucket rig, but was wondering if the emulators/wrappers had managed to get good enough to run it on a modern puter w/o Voodoo1 card.

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Re: Demanding games for DOSBOX? *Conroe test*

Posted on 2006-10-27, 20:00

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by swaaye

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

SSE are broken down into 2 instructions on A64 and P4 because data path is only 64-bits wide (and SSE can operate with 128bit operands). Core2 increases the bus width to 128bit. So will K8L I hope :) Yah from the slides from AMD presentations I've seen, AMD's definitely making some changes with …

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Re: Peer-review: Retro-PC gaming system specs

Posted on 2006-10-27, 19:52

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by swaaye

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I was referring to the DOS VGA core, which is a super fast 128-bit design. DOS Glide support is trickier, but I know there are hacks and other methods to get many older games working. There's a page on the web out there dedicated to getting Tomb Raider running, for example. Undoubtedly the best way …

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Re: Demanding games for DOSBOX? *Conroe test*

Posted on 2006-10-19, 19:02

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by swaaye

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

have you guys seen how unbelievable fast Conroe/Allendale/Merom are for SSE ops? OMG! The thing scores like almost 3x faster than a P4 in the straight SSE test in Sandra. Of course that doesn't happen in real-world stuff, but you can bet that it is indicative of just how seriously they took SIMD in …

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Re: Analog modem users.... is still here?

Posted on 2006-10-19, 18:57

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by swaaye

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I haven't used a modem in 6 years probably. The last one I messed with personally and not for business was a USR Courier I got for $2 and wanted to mess with. Basically, once I got on the WWW and the global Internet in ~1994-5, I gave up almost entirely on dial-up BBS's immediately. But, what do you …

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Re: Peer-review: Retro-PC gaming system specs

Posted on 2006-10-19, 18:31

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by swaaye

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IMO I'd just go with a Voodoo3,4, or 5 instead. The image quality gets a lot better and they are faster of course. And you can save PCI slots, reducing from 3 to 1! And this is a big plus in some old mobos! Nice to be able to throw in a PCI NIC, PCI UDMA100 card, and PCI Sound card too! The Voodoo3 …

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Re: Do we have any way of getting SETVER functionality?

Posted on 2006-09-10, 17:44

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by swaaye

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Isn't VirtualPC free now?

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Re: Dosbox and midi emulation

Posted on 2006-09-06, 21:10

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by swaaye

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in DOSBox Development

yeah u really want to use scummvm instead for these Lucasarts adventure games. DOSBOX is an emulator while ScummVM is a native interpreter for the game.

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Re: My new retro PC

Posted on 2006-08-26, 21:34

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by swaaye

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Get a 5.25" and paint it. Works nice. Just gotta get the faceplate and lever off.

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