Re: A noob question: Would recompiling the Win9x files make it faster?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 21:51

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by Rikintosh

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User32/GDI were always accelerated in hardware with the right drivers and hardware. That's why "Windows Accelerator" cards predated 3D accelerators. Companies like S3 and Matrox built their empire on Windows acceleration. Yes, I know, but imagine a world where the Windows GUI has the same aero …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 15:46

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by Rikintosh

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3. I liked the ME's USB, Network, fast boot, and (I could be wrong) NTFS support. Is it possible to have all this in the 98? - Windows 98 has USB support, only lacks support for USB storage - but it can be added - I have no idea what you liked about ME's network support - there's no important …

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Re: A noob question: Would recompiling the Win9x files make it faster?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 15:41

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by Rikintosh

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Maybe make use of some technologies that appeared after the development of 9x, like MMX, SSE, 3dnow, VESA, openGL acceleration... I think you are conflating the OS itself with third-party drivers. OpenGL drivers for Win9x do exist, and some of them include MMX and 3DNow!-optimizations (not sure …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 01:35

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by Rikintosh

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There's even a thread on here somewhere about taking a second look at ME because of "quality of life" features like builtin PKZIP extraction support, builtin USB storage support, and of course a broader array of stock drivers for late 90s hardware. Personally, I never used it, but I had already …

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A noob question: Would recompiling the Win9x files make it faster?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 00:18

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by Rikintosh

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Sorry if I'm sounding stupid, I was just wondering, with the advanced compilers that we have today, the advanced optimizations that we've developed over the last 30 years, if maybe recompiling some win9x files could squeeze out a little more juice? I know that 9x is not open source, but there are …

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What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 00:11

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by Rikintosh

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I don't mean to sound stupid with this question. Just for the record, I was a victim of ME, it traumatized me deeply, I was 11 or 12 when I got my P166 MMX, and it had ME, numerous BSODs and problems, system restores, formatting, and I had no knowledge about that, so that terrified me, until the HD …

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Re: Matrox MGA 200 AGP, I cant find drivers!!!

Posted on 2023-06-07, 20:22

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by Rikintosh

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I think I'll have to reprogram the chip on an eeprom burner, I tried the procedure, and ended up with a bunch of artifacts

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Re: Matrox MGA 200 AGP, I cant find drivers!!!

Posted on 2023-06-07, 16:46

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by Rikintosh

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1) First of all clean the AGP contacts with stationery eraser and reseat card in slot. 2) Matrox cards sometimes lost software pins-parameters. Search for Matrox BIOS and PINS recovery. There was official utility for PIN recovery, and some threads here and other forums with non-official methods - …

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Matrox MGA 200 AGP, I cant find drivers!!!

Posted on 2023-06-07, 15:16

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by Rikintosh

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I have a matrox mga g200a (at least that's what it says on the chipset), I've downloaded drivers from matrox and vogons drivers library, but the installer can't find my card. When trying to choose the driver manually through the device manager, it alerts me that it is not the ideal driver, I install …

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EISCA Fan, anyone know it?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 00:25

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by Rikintosh

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I was looking at the manual for my HOT 590P, and I found this "EISCA" connector, I didn't find anything about it on the internet. I deduced it's a connector to connect some kind of thermometer to monitor temperatures. I have some thermistors that I removed from a 2008 imac, but I think they are 2- …

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Re: ISA Blaster: A software-defined ISA Card

Posted on 2023-06-01, 00:47

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by Rikintosh

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I don't understand much about this, but I think an ideal world would be a card that connects via riser to several ISA slots (or PCI32) and this card emulates several solutions, such as cd drives, floppy disk, hd, sound card , network, ps/2. It would be like a compatibility filter between modernity …

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Why did old TVs have audio noise?

Posted on 2023-05-10, 02:23

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by Rikintosh

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I was playing some emulator games, like sonic and super mario world, but even using filters and shaders, I felt that the experience was not complete. It was then that I remembered that ALL TVs I played with during my childhood had a typical noise, even with headphones on. This noise was constant, …

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ISA Blaster: A software-defined ISA Card

Posted on 2023-05-01, 21:04

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by Rikintosh

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Found this on youtube, and thought I should share this on vogons. I really like this guy's idea. "A Raspberry Pi Pico based ISA card and we configure it to work as a USB mouse interface card, using a modified version of the CuteMouse DOS driver." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HuxukpbsAE

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A Tip: The perfect tiny machine for retro gaming

Posted on 2023-04-21, 23:16

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by Rikintosh

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I've been looking for a long time, an easy, cheap and quick solution to play mid 2000 era games, typically XP and Vista games. I didn't want a huge rig with dual gtx 9800 consuming a nuclear power plant and heating my room, but at the same time, I wanted to be able to play the games with nice …

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I bought a beautiful sony vaio, but it doesn't have agp or pci express, now what?

Posted on 2023-03-29, 21:47

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by Rikintosh

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I found one of those sophisticated japanese sony vaio desktop, I thought it was beautiful as soon as I saw it, it has a pentium 4 processor, and an intel 950 chipset with the poor gma950. No agp or pci express. Wanted to play some old games with a minimum of dignity, are there viable pci 32bit …

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Re: IDE to Sata adapter, any tips?

Posted on 2023-03-24, 02:33

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by Rikintosh

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I found a dual-track adapter here at home, I had to completely resolder it to work because the solders are terrible. It worked ok, but it took up space inside the case, I didn't get to do benchmarks because it definitely couldn't stay there. Then I found one that I had bought to use on my ps2 phat, …

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Re: IDE to Sata adapter, any tips?

Posted on 2023-03-24, 02:28

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by Rikintosh

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rasz_pl wrote on 2023-03-23, 02:48: why sb when it already has onboard sound? the onboard sound is not very good quality (weak bass, sounds like cheap sound)

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IDE to Sata adapter, any tips?

Posted on 2023-03-23, 00:47

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by Rikintosh

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I have a small MSI Mega PC computer, which has a single PCI slot, and only IDE connections, I want to use a 1TB HDD on it, and I can't use a sata pci controller card, as that would use the only pci slot it has , I want to use the pci for a sound blaster, so the solution I found was the sata ide …

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Re: Nvidiagate: which models are affected?

Posted on 2023-02-26, 23:26

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by Rikintosh

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Regarding the GeForce 8800 series, they all had the same reference heatsink, even the 8800 ultra used the same one as the others, the only thing that changed was the position of the fan and the plastic for decoration. I can say this with total certainty because I Quadro FX 5600 had more beefy …

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Re: Nvidiagate: which models are affected?

Posted on 2023-02-26, 02:36

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by Rikintosh

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One thing I wonder, which gets dismissed on the PS3 video because for the PS3 it's not feasible : is it possible to "fix" the video cards by using a much beefier aftermarket cooler ? PS3's GPU underfill becomes useless at ~70°C. Like felix said here, it's not really possible to improve the cooling …

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