Re: Doubts about ATI rage, SiS and others with 8MB

Posted on 2024-01-18, 01:41

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by Rikintosh

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Phew, that really must have chugged badly on Rage XL. I know it's a slightly revised Rage Pro but that tech wasn't very impressive in 97, by 2001 it might as well have belonged to the ancient Egyptians. Yes, at the time I had made a video for YouTube, but I lost that channel (a time when there was …

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Cool ATX Case Design Recommendation?

Posted on 2024-01-18, 01:38

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by Rikintosh

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I have some great motherboards that need a cool ATX case, I don't care if they don't make them anymore, or it doesn't exist on the market anymore, I'm even willing to make one from scratch, but I wanted design references.

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Re: Doubts about ATI rage, SiS and others with 8MB

Posted on 2024-01-17, 18:49

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by Rikintosh

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Did you have a Rage 128 8 MB by any chance? Yes, I have it on my Compaq Presario 1800XL It is unclear if your laptop has a Mobility M1 or Mobility M3. The M1 is based on the Rage Pro, where as the Mobility M3 is based on the Rage 128 Pro. The Rage 128 Pro (or the non-Pro for tha matter) is a …

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Mod to Run GTA 3 on Hardware Below Recommended

Posted on 2024-01-17, 00:46

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by Rikintosh

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I read some topics about how to run gta3 below the minimum requirements, especially on 8MB vram (in the case of ATI Rage 128), I spent some time developing improvements for the game's performance, because I like playing on period-correct computers, and I wanted to play on my Compaq lappy. If you …

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Re: Doubts about ATI rage, SiS and others with 8MB

Posted on 2024-01-17, 00:42

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by Rikintosh

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For anyone interested, I created a mod with performance improvements for GTA3.

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Re: Doubts about ATI rage, SiS and others with 8MB

Posted on 2024-01-17, 00:39

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by Rikintosh

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Putas wrote on 2024-01-15, 04:00: Did you have a Rage 128 8 MB by any chance? Yes, I have it on my Compaq Presario 1800XL

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Doubts about ATI rage, SiS and others with 8MB

Posted on 2024-01-14, 17:23

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by Rikintosh

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I'm trying to create an optimized build of GTA3 to run on these video cards. I know it seems stupid, or a waste of time, but the reviews at the time massively point out the fact that GTA3 had very high specifications for the time, and I agree with that. This made me remember, that a long, long time …

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Re: Any viable way to have 3dfx on a low budget?

Posted on 2024-01-12, 21:56

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by Rikintosh

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Voodoo 1 is best option for P-133. I saw them sold for around 50-60eur a few months ago but could go as high as 100€. Not sure what is the going rate in your part or what price range would be good for you. I live in Brazil, and they are extremely rare here. Importing one would be difficult, I've …

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Re: Any viable way to have 3dfx on a low budget?

Posted on 2024-01-12, 20:41

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by Rikintosh

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kixs wrote on 2024-01-12, 20:18: What is the CPU installed? P54c @ 133mhz

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Any viable way to have 3dfx on a low budget?

Posted on 2024-01-12, 19:41

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by Rikintosh

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in Marvin \ Video

I have a slightly complicated case: I saved a computer that has an Intel Advanced/?? (AV?) it has ATI Mach64 CT onboard, but it connects (through an internal cable) to a capture card that has a VGA output. It is a disgrace for any 3D game (even though it has cool 2D performance). I thought about …

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Is it possible to stop an msdos program without this warning?

Posted on 2023-06-24, 18:09

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by Rikintosh

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Is there any way to simply hit the X button, and have it exit without asking it? (on Win 9x)

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Re: Help with Windows Explorer + Shell32 not showing icons!

Posted on 2023-06-22, 06:43

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by Rikintosh

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Best advice, is to not use it, but If you must its best to start off with clean installs and clean sources. MSFN is a better place to look for information for this. I doubt anyone here uses this outside of experimentation. I've tried it before and found that it bogged my systems down and made them …

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Help with Windows Explorer + Shell32 not showing icons!

Posted on 2023-06-22, 03:46

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by Rikintosh

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I was using 98se2me, and playing with the files, I realized that explorer and shell32 were from windows nt, not windows ME. So I took the files from a clean install of ME and transplanted them to my 98 (with 98se2me) the problem is that only that side "web page" is displayed, the icons do not appear …

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Re: If MS-DOS had a dingle/theme song, what would it be?

Posted on 2023-06-19, 23:20

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by Rikintosh

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Wow this unlocked my memories of Computer Chronicles even though it wasn't shown in my country, I watched it through youtube in 2008. off topic: I like these "production songs", I don't know the exact name of it, but they are songs for television and commercials, some didn't need a license to be …

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Re: If MS-DOS had a dingle/theme song, what would it be?

Posted on 2023-06-19, 19:50

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by Rikintosh

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But was there any documented specification of which default note/tone? Let me explain the scenario: I'm building a "super " ms-dos with a boot screen, and I want to spruce it up with a boot sound, and I want to be sensible when doing this, I mean, I'm not going to put the boot sound of playstation 1 …

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If MS-DOS had a dingle/theme song, what would it be?

Posted on 2023-06-18, 19:31

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by Rikintosh

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I was wondering, Each version of windows (retro) has a music, or a sound, characteristic, usually the startup sound, but if MS-DOS had one, what would it be like? I think an msdos jingle would be something in OPL. I imagine something like apogee intro and lucas arts intro. I don't think microsoft …

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Re: Is Windows 3.1 limited to win32s?

Posted on 2023-06-18, 13:58

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by Rikintosh

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Some very early Windows software came bundled with runtime versions of Windows; a minimal version of windows automatically loaded when the program was launched. I suspect designing something like that around Windows 95 would be rather inefficient and unwieldy. I don't even know that it is possible …

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Re: Is Windows 3.1 limited to win32s?

Posted on 2023-06-18, 04:57

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by Rikintosh

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Some very early Windows software came bundled with runtime versions of Windows; a minimal version of windows automatically loaded when the program was launched. I suspect designing something like that around Windows 95 would be rather inefficient and unwieldy. I don't even know that it is possible …

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-17, 02:01

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by Rikintosh

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Yes, they were doing something years ago, but I don't know their current whereabouts. There was even a guy who created an NTVDM64 for windows 10.

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-16, 17:57

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by Rikintosh

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I have a slightly controversial opinion. I believe that a good way would be to enable NT to run what 9x runs. If NTVDM were tweaked to behave a little more like dosbox, that would be great. Although there are already discussions about this and this implementation would be difficult because ntvdm and …

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