Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games
Posted on 2020-03-11, 10:17
… flashing solid colors with sound, im on windows 10 with AMD RX 550. did uninstall and delete folders and registrys, download …
Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games
Posted on 2020-03-11, 12:20
… flashing solid colors with sound, im on windows 10 with AMD RX 550. did uninstall and delete folders and registrys, download …
Re: 486 CPU upgrade
Posted on 2020-03-11, 16:35
The absolute best processor you can get in there would be an AMD P75 Overdrive. I recently bought one from ebay and it works very well on my Alaris Cougar. I would add a small fan to it, though. It does tend to get a little spicy...
Re: 486 CPU upgrade
Posted on 2020-03-11, 17:14
… best processor you can get in there would be an AMD P75 Overdrive. I recently bought one from ebay and it works …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-03-12, 03:39
The non-vintage AMD tower. BTW have picked up many 2007+ computers for around $20 each lately but no Pentium, P2 or P3 for a year or better. Yes this is not vintage yet but will be in 5-10 years... maybe...
Re: I don't understand all the hate for the Nvidia FX series
Posted on 2020-03-12, 07:29
… dying, I killed two 6800 series card by just using them. AMD were pushing TeraScale hard at the time. The Radoen 7000 …
Re: Scarface graphics issue
Posted on 2020-03-12, 11:22
Strange, it works fine here. Could you check it plz with the MS WARP output? It'll be slow but the point with that is to check if the rendering is as expected. My tip is, you have and AMD card, on which dgVoodoo reportedly works improperly. Solid colors instead of textures and such. 🙁
Re: Versions 2.55+ with Need for Speed textures issue
Posted on 2020-03-12, 11:29
Yes, it's a known issue. dgVoodoo 2.55+ is unfortunately broken on AMD cards for some reason (solid colors instead of textures). I still …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-03-12, 22:34
Went back to SA but found nothing good other than Autocad 2002 full retail box with serial # and key (no dongle needed). Also a retail boxed Win7 and retail boxed Office 2010, both with disks, papers and keys. edit: think they were dropped off with that AMD tower or just a coincidence...
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-03-12, 23:52
The non-vintage AMD tower. BTW have picked up many 2007+ computers for around $ …
Re: Slot 1 GA-BX2000+ Motherboard problem
Posted on 2020-03-13, 17:51
… it going again but if not ill be back to AMD for my "fast" w98 system.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-03-13, 22:12
… -battery-replacement/ Wow ! That is very cool !! I have a DTK PEM3301 w/AMD 386DX/DXL-40 and 64k cache. Has a very similar BIOS …
Re: Latest chipset / motherboard with dual floppy support
Posted on 2020-03-14, 17:24
… RAM (that's a bit of a disadvantage now), but it supported the Amd Phenom II X6 cpus, quite old, but still perfectly fine …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-03-14, 21:25
… . Glad the Intel board in my Gateway and the MSI AMD board in my Compaq only have a handful of bad ones …
My Tyan-based Super Socket 7 build
Posted on 2020-03-15, 13:01
… ) mainboard with VIA MVP3 chipset with the patched "Steunebrink BIOS" AMD K6-2+ (!) 550 MHz CPU, overclocked to 600 MHz, 2.1V VCore …
Re: Small capacity SSD PATA/SATA benchmarks
Posted on 2020-03-16, 00:07
… . I selected 2 motherboards to bench with right now: [*] Gateway BAT4IP3 (420EX) w/ Amd 5x86-WB 133+ (Bios supports 2GB drives, but turns to …
y2k rebuild with P III and Voodoo 5 5500
Posted on 2020-03-16, 10:54
… appropriate - back in 2000 I had mine running with a SuperSocket 7 and a AMD K6-III+/550. Plus the majority of the newer boards …
Re: Rounding out the collection..
Posted on 2020-03-16, 21:04
… on modern hardware or windows 10. Occasionally I will use a 400Mhz AMD K6-2 rig - this machine is built around a VIA VPX motherboard …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-03-17, 09:18
… (which most people perferred back in the day) along with AMD 5x86-133, S3 Trio, etc. It has been in use …
Re: What would be better for Windows 98-era gaming?
Posted on 2020-03-17, 14:43
Pentium-3 500mhz with an Intel BX440 motherboard was the CPU / Motherboard combo to have back in 1998 https://youtu.be/Tyq5outONbI Or something like this for AMD. https://youtu.be/K5vYD0JMD_A
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