Another video in the "3dfx Voodoo shootout" series. This time Drakan: The Order of The Flame!

http://youtu.be/Qcw4TT-48u0

Another General MIDI shootout!

Roland vs Yamaha in the Game Descent!

- MIDI devices with LCD displays featured
- Thumbnail of MS-DOS PC
- Phil switching back and forth between Roland and Yamaha
- I believe I got every single song from the Game
- Just over 17 minutes of Descent General MIDI awesomeness

Enjoy: http://youtu.be/DqLDSt-Jz_Q

Sooooooooo, which one do YOU prefer?

The 3dfx-Benchmarking should also be done with:

K6-III+ @400Mhz
PIII 500 Mhz

Doc

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The 3dfx-Benchmarking should also be done with:

K6-III+ @400Mhz
PIII 500 Mhz

Doc

http://www.philscomputerlab.com/voodoo-2-and- … ng-project.html

60+ pages of data!

Enjoy 😀

Creative ALchemy restores EAX and 3D Audio when running old games on Vista and later.

In this video I am explaining what ALchemy is, where to get it from, how to install it and how to configure your games using Far Cry and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory as examples.

Creative ALchemy Guide

AWE64 Gold in Descent: What do you think?

Roland SC-55 vs AWE64 Gold Descent

Restoring 3D Audio and EAX in Vista and later versions of Windows with Creative Alchemy. With a 5.1 system that sequence is so awesome. Bullets zipping past and behind you.

Creative ALchemy F.E.A.R.

philscomputerlab wrote:

AWE64 Gold in Descent: What do you think?

Roland SC-55 vs AWE64 Gold Descent

EMU8000 synth obviously shines here. And Yamaha sounds better than Roland in Descent too.

Yup that's cool!

I find it very hard to call for a "better" one on nearly each of those videos. (doom is an exception, roland >> *)
There's always a part of each song I prefer on one module/sound card compared to the other.
I'd rather have a piece of yamaha bass, some roland treble and some AWE effects all together 😁

Great answer!

It's 1993 again: Here I recorded all the music from the old MS-DOS game DOOM and played with the Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold.

The video is almost an hour long so perfect for letting it run in the background while listening to it. List of songs with time markers in the description.

All Doom music on AWE64 Gold

Lots of new videos!

Starting with this one, not quite retro, but I always run out of USB ports!

In this video I am reviewing a USB 2.0 and 3.0 front bay device I ordered from eBay.

It only cost A$ 13.99 including postage and offers 2 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 3.0 ports. It comes with two leads that connect to the USB 2.0 and 3.0 motherboard headers.

USB 2.0 and 3.0 front bay device review

Old computers often have BIOS limitations that cannot handle large hard drives.

Using Dynamic Disk Overlay software these barriers can be overcome.

In this video I am demonstrating how Dynamic Disk Overlay can be used to install a 32 GB harddrive in an old 386 computer.

Dynamic Disk Overlay tutorial: Large hard drives in old computers

Doom is too demanding for a 386, but it is great at comparing performance as it really stressed the entire system.

The results are at the very end of the video.

It's a good game to test old retro parts and I like to document the performance so others can use it as a reference. Be it for tuning their emulators or for comparing their retro computer and checking if everything is ok.

The hardware components are shown in the video, so are some common DOS benchmarks.

CPU: AMD 486DX-40
Motherboard: FX-3000
RAM: 8x1 MB 70ns SIMM
Controller: GoldStar Prime 2
Storage: 2GB CF card formatted with a single 512MB FAT16 partition
Floppy: USB Floppy simulator
Video: TSENG ET4000
Sound: Sound Blaster Pro 2
OS: MS-DOS 6.22
Mouse: Logitech 7.3 Mouse driver with serial mouse

Doom timedemo on a 386 DX 40 MHz

Wing Commander is a game that is very speed sensitive. Is your PC too slow and it will be a slide show, is your PC too fast and you will find it difficult hunting down that last remaining enemy 😀

It's a good game to test old retro parts and I like to document the performance so others can use it as a reference. Be it for tuning their emulators or for comparing their retro computer and checking if everything is ok.

The hardware components are shown in the video, so are some common DOS benchmarks.

CPU: AMD 386SX-33
Motherboard: M396F VER 2.2
RAM: 4x1 MB 70ns SIMM
Controller: GoldStar
Storage: 2GB CF card formatted with a single 512MB FAT16 partition
Floppy: USB Floppy simulator
Video: TSENG ET4000
Sound: Sound Blaster Pro 2
OS: MS-DOS 6.22
Mouse: Logitech 7.3 Mouse driver with serial mouse

Wing Commander on a 386 SX 33 MHz

And this one was a lot of work and is quite special to me. It's about Far Cry! Do you know it's now just over 10 years old? I believe it's still processing, it's my first 2160p30 production and the upload was 9 GB and took days, so well worth waiting for the higher resolutions to become available as YouTube processes the video.

It is 10 years ago that Far Cry launched.

What a great game and so I just had to do a video covering Far Cry!

It is quite technical because running a 10 year old game on modern computers has some challenges.

Topics I cover:

- Buying the game on Steam, GOG.com and eBay
- The specifications of the computer I used
- Configuring the video and sound options
- Enabling 16x AF texture filtering
- Creative ALchemy for restoring surround 3D Audio and EAX environmental effects
- How to enable HDR High Dynamic Range
- Black screen issue when loading the game
- Corrupt textures on some Nvidia drivers
- Patches and version differences
- Mods
AMD64 64 bit patch and Exclusive Content

I then cover the game sort of like a review:

- How the story begins
- Basic controls
- Use of the compass
- Health, armour and sprint bars
- Using the binoculars
- Switching weapons mode
- Swimming and diving
- Vehicles
- Enemies raising alarms
- Different ways of approaching the game
- Using stationary turrets

Far Cry (2004)

Played some Doom yesterday and took the opportunity to record gameplay and music played on the Roland Sound Canvas SC-55!

Link to the video: http://youtu.be/tykAn_7aRP4

I did use cheat codes to make it a bit easier 😊

Typing idkfa gives you health, all weapons and keys.

To jump from level to level I used idclev followed by episode and map number with no spaces. E.g. idclev 12 gets to the second map in the first episode.

I configured the controls WASD + mouse. Using a TSR utility novert.com you can disable moving forward / backwards with the mouse.

I must say it was a joy to play! I used an old Logitech MX500 something mouse with a USB > PS/2 adapter for better gaming 😀

USB data transfer to slow in your Windows 98 machine?

Using a PCI USB 2.0 controller you can get 20x the transfer speed!

The controller is cheap and based on an NEC chip with 5 USB 2.0 ports. The driver ships with the Windows 98 SE disc and only the USB storage driver is needed.

Video review with benchmark results: http://youtu.be/avNkCG4LBU4

Another Dynamix game with fantastic music on the Roland MT-32. Quite a few custom sound effects as well: http://youtu.be/vj_J_OvJ6OI

More videos from the last few days:

Police Quest 2 Intro with a Roland MT-32: http://youtu.be/B9ePH7QmaNQ

Police Quest 3 Intro with a Roland MT-32: http://youtu.be/d_FM29jxvto

In this video I am comparing a very fast 386DX 40 MHz with an average 486SX 25 MHz with ISA graphics card. Who will come out on top? http://youtu.be/3fcPxAO1FeU

Build log of a Super Socket 7 based Retro DOS Gaming PC: http://youtu.be/-NLEIwzavtg

In this video I am showing you benchmark results of all my 3dfx Voodoo cards in the game Unreal: http://youtu.be/8C9cS_hidig

Cards used are:

- Voodoo
- Voodoo 2
- Voodoo 2 SLI
- Velocity 100
- Voodoo 3 2000, 3000 and 3500 (all AGP)
- Voodoo 4 4500 AGP
- Voodoo 5 5500 AGP

System used is:

- Slot 1 AOpen AX6BC
- Pentium III 1.1 GHz
- 256 MB PC133 SDRAM CL2
- Windows 98SE
- DirectX 9

The gameplay footage was captured on the same machine with a 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 at 1024 x 768 resolution with an AVerMedia GameBroadcaster HD.

The older and slower cards have limited amount of memory and therefore do not support high resolutions.

This is a comprehensive video in which I am building a Retro DOS Windows Gaming PC based around the ECS P5GX-M motherboard featuring the Cyrix / Geode GXM-200 processor.

http://youtu.be/H60UIo5ApEA

In case you are after something specific here are topics and time markers:

Intro (0:0)
Overview of parts (0:49)
Time-laps of building the PC (6:06)
Finished building (7:37)
BIOS options (8:01)
Benchmarks with cache enabled (11:50)
Old games with cache enabled (12:35)
Disabling cache in BIOS (13:23)
Benchmarks with cache disabled (13:36)
Analysis - Benchmarks with cache disabled (13:55)
Old games with cache disabled (14:17)
Even slower with memory timings (15:15)
Jumpers to set frequencies (16:08)
Multiplier options (16:32)
Benchmark results in chart cache enabled (17:27)
Benchmark results in chart cache disabled (18:33)
Conclusion + Time-laps Windows 98SE + drivers (19:31)
Monkey Island OPL2 (25:04)
Monkey Island Game Blaster / CMS (27:56)

In this video I am showing you benchmark results of all my 3dfx Voodoo cards in the game Unreal Tournament: http://youtu.be/PDsrqwgI2Og

Cards used are:

- Voodoo
- Voodoo 2
- Voodoo 2 SLI
- Velocity 100
- Voodoo 3 2000, 3000 and 3500 (all AGP)
- Voodoo 4 4500 AGP
- Voodoo 5 5500 AGP

System used is:

- Slot 1 AOpen AX6BC
- Pentium III 1.1 GHz
- 256 MB PC133 SDRAM CL2
- Windows 98SE
- DirectX 9

The gameplay footage was captured on the same machine with a 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 at 1024 x 768 resolution with an AVerMedia GameBroadcaster HD.

The older and slower cards have limited amount of memory and therefore do not support high resolutions.

3D Realms Anthology Review: http://youtu.be/thzgfPfzoa0

- Great value
- Nice launcher
- Games all use DOSBox including Raptor (GOG.com is Windows base) which means you can play this on a Retro DOS Gaming PC

ICY DOCK DuoSwap MB971SP-B Review: http://youtu.be/UvrmmGH-cBY

- Quite expensive
- Well built
- Takes 2.5" and 3.5" drives together
- LED lights for power and activity
- LED lights not too bright
- Drives fit flush with the bay

I picked up the 3D Realms Anthology.
I already have some of the games but the price was fair 😀