Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-08-23, 21:45

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Well not particularly a retro rig, but still - it's big ftp://78.47.153.163/pictures/dos_on_tv/toasted.jpg and fullscreen: ftp://78.47.153.163/pictures/dos_on_tv/fly3.jpg I put a 5.25" floppy box in front as size reference. The rig behind is my P166MMX system on 430HX.

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Re: Can I do it?

Posted on 2011-08-22, 07:03

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by elianda

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Well if it should be mid 2000 using Win2K, then a very common setup would be Geforce2 GTS, SB Live! 1024 or Value and 512 to 768 MB RAM, a DVD-ROM / CD Burner Combo drive and a 10 to 15 GB HDD, like the IBM DTTA or DTLA series. You may consider pairing this with Voodoo2 SLI.

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Re: Question about NTFS compression / Disk cache

Posted on 2011-08-21, 14:22

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Remember to defragment your files after compression or you run into the 64 kB chunk fragmentation problem. It is also mentioned here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/NTFS#File_compression Without defragmentation you will get a lot of small free clusters, which may be filled with later …

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Re: Dial-up to ethernet?

Posted on 2011-08-20, 09:23

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Megabuild6 of Dosbox features NE2000 network card emulation through WinPCap. So you get a emulated network adapter that is physically your hosts network adapter. This way you would get network directly without dial-in.

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Re: Videos grabbed from real Retro PCs.

Posted on 2011-08-17, 15:13

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by elianda

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Some small update, I uploaded a capture of the Kukoo2 demo mentioned here earlier to YT: http://www.youtube.com/user/elianda?feature=mhee YT converted quality is not so good, so you might not notice that the checkerboard in the upper area has some texture.

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Re: How to create images of 360kb floppies in DOS (hd-copy / vgacopy fail)

Posted on 2011-08-15, 17:17

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by elianda

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It should work. It is the usual way when putting a MFM Controller with FDD Controller into a Pentium based mainboard. Or SCSI controllers with FDD controller.

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Re: Videos grabbed from real Retro PCs.

Posted on 2011-08-06, 15:50

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That's a bit disappointing... You could try playing games at 1280 x 720p? It makes hardly a difference when watching, but the Colossus is compatible with this mode and encoding and storage requirements are also lower. And you should be able to record at 60fps which does make quite a difference when …

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Re: Videos grabbed from real Retro PCs.

Posted on 2011-08-06, 14:30

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I recently bought a Hauppauge Colossus HD HDMI capture card. Features and picture: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_colossus.html It is targeted for recordings from game consoles. - S-Video cable is optional. - no HDMI cable included. - no 1080p mode support. The card comes with driver, …

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Re: Retail GeForce 256 rare? GeForce 2 GTS common as dirt?

Posted on 2011-08-01, 23:29

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As downstripped as the MX is, it was the best selling cards of it's time. I owned a GF2 MX400 with 64 MB DDR and it wasn't too bad upto 800x600 at 16 bit color. The core was as fast as a GF2 GTS. (Ofcourse the 64 MB RAM amount is questionable). It targeted the value market just as the TNT2 M64 and …

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Re: LCDs, VGA, and refresh rate

Posted on 2011-07-29, 21:13

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by elianda

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I got a Belinea 101735 (111714) TFT from Maxdata. It is rather old, but supports 50 to ~85 Hz (officially 60 to 75 Hz) and runs then also at this refresh rates. The mode just have to fit into frequencies it is capable off, so at 640x480 it need at least 56 Hz, at 800x600 50 Hz and at 1280x1024 goes …

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Re: ProSonic 16 and Mozart. What is known about these cards?

Posted on 2011-07-28, 17:14

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Even at best, it had nothing interesting to distinguish it from the sea of common Opti-based SBPro clones. But what's more, the damn thing just didn't work right. Compatibility was sketchy, and on a lot of the games that did sorta work, it was pretty common for the digital effects to just... quit …

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Re: 133 MHz Challenge - 5th/6th gen CPU per clock performance

Posted on 2011-07-25, 19:30

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by elianda

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I would like to add a source of pure information about cpu internal behaviour and the corresponding speed effects: http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/cpuwar.html Also check out the other pages from this guy, f.e. for the 7th gen CPUs. I think this fits your benchmarks as background information very …

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Re: How to run Stacker V4

Posted on 2011-07-24, 01:29

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I really wonder, if anyone has ever seen the Stacker compression hardware accelerator card in reality as shown in this advert: http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/w … 7/stac-card.jpg And what PC is of equal speed compared to using such a card?

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Re: Videos grabbed from real Retro PCs.

Posted on 2011-07-23, 17:16

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A short one: Joop 2 by INC Europe, some demo with VGA hardware tricks Full Framerate: ftp://78.47.153.163/video/joop.mkv Half Framerate: http://www.youtube.com/user/elianda?feature=m … u/0/TiZzp-LrWNE

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Re: Videos grabbed from real Retro PCs.

Posted on 2011-07-23, 11:56

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Someone remembers Cronologia / Cascada? Low Quality YT Version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzfZ23TFR3A Full Length, nearly 47 minutes of Action, every part runs to the end, second part starts at approx. 25 mins. Read about Spacepigs infiltrating the scene and Meet Yoghurt Man ! Ofcourse HQ …

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Re: Old hardware is ridiculously durable

Posted on 2011-07-21, 15:29

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I tried playing MP3s on an Intel DX4-100 486 but it just couldn't cut it. In a 486 system properly configured with the write-back version of the Intel DX4-100, you should be able to just barely play a 128 kbps, 44 kHz mp3 without any down-scaling in Winamp using wave-out output. No skipping. This …

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Re: Ideal graphics card for Socket 7 setup

Posted on 2011-07-20, 14:09

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by elianda

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I would also suggest to use a GF2 based card (not MX). Preferrably a GF2 Pro with 64 MB. The point there is, that you get the TnL advantage, a card that is more than fast enough (GF2 scales very well upto about 1 GHz+ CPU) and GF2 takes only about 18W power. And power draw can be the cause of …

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Re: Game for taking image quality shots for 1st gen cards?

Posted on 2011-07-18, 23:04

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How about the X demo benchmark? To be able to not only compare the speed of the different cards but also the image quality produced, you can turn on the screenshot capture option. If you have this option turned on X will try to safe one screenshot per scene of the demo to the directory "c:\cap". …

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Re: Videos grabbed from real Retro PCs.

Posted on 2011-07-17, 21:17

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by elianda

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RichB93 wrote: Thanks for the videos, they look fantastic! You should capture the 3DFX intros 😁 😁 Well, how about Dethkarz? ftp://78.47.153.163/video/dethkarz.mkv

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Re: Original Driver CD for TerraTec AudioSystem EWS64S

Posted on 2011-07-16, 12:01

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by elianda

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Make sure you read the thread about the EWS64XL for a correct setup of the TTM file, by default there are no effects like Reverb/Chorus activated I would also recommend to use GM_9MB.94B (8886992 Bytes) for some first impressions.

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