Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-02-09, 21:57

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by vlask

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Mirror, mirror, whos smallest and slowest of them all? Smallest PCI card i seen and also slowest - it has no vesa 2 support and 3,8FPS in quake 1 320x240. In windows it is moderate fast, but never seen slower pci card in dos.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-02-08, 20:05

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by vlask

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Hercules (working) from SiS. So far oldest SiS card i seen....

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Re: Video Card Solder Failure

Posted on 2013-02-08, 19:26

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by vlask

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Got recently 2 Quadro cards based on GF4 Ti and both had typical broken image artefacts. These older cards just worked more years, before they died on this. Never ones usually die after 3 years. And doesnt care from whom you buy them. Card makers don't care and customer must buy new one.

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Re: This video card connector used for?

Posted on 2013-02-03, 19:35

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by vlask

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Typical use was connecting mpeg1 acceleration cards. You need cable - got one card with it too. On top is video card, bottom is vga card....

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Re: GeForce 6 Series Incompatibilities with Older Win9x-era Games

Posted on 2013-01-26, 22:51

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by vlask

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X-wing Alliance have broken every text font when using anything never than FX line of cards.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-01-14, 18:51

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by vlask

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Quadro with DDR memory.

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Re: EGA monitors - which one to buy?

Posted on 2013-01-02, 18:36

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by vlask

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So i got AOC, price was in the end 3x more than SUN (someone wanted it too - auction site), but got it today and its working fine. CGA and EGA modes are ok, just dunno why's there that color changing - maybe for background in text resolutions, cause in ega or cga graphical modes it loose some …

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Re: computing timelime

Posted on 2012-12-25, 11:24

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by vlask

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found this on my desktop, not sure where it's from You have hint where it is from in bottom right corner of image. It's mine work, but one of earlier versions. Now its more updated with much more cards. Visit http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/history-tree and there you find 2 sizes of image ( …

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Re: EGA monitors - which one to buy?

Posted on 2012-12-13, 09:45

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by vlask

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You should try to find a Multisync monitor, then you have one that can do MDA, CGA, EGA, and VGA. Handy considering the real-estate requirements of CRTs. Eh, they do exist monitors with both ega 9pin and vga 15pin input cables? Cause i was living in reality where ega and vga monitors are diffent …

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EGA monitors - which one to buy?

Posted on 2012-12-12, 23:03

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by vlask

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Long time i want to buy cheap EGA monitor for ega cards testing. Now i found 2 for good price, but dunno which one to buy. One is AOC CM-312 Other one is SUN EGA 350. Cant find any info about sun monitor. Both of them are from 1989 and should be working (but cant test it personally). Is there any …

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Re: 2D cards

Posted on 2012-10-30, 15:37

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That's odd. I was just testing my Mach 64 and S3 Virge this weekend. According to Winbench the S3 is about half as good as the Mach 64, but the Quake 1 benchmarks posted put Mach 64 around 100 and Virge around 130. I wonder what the deal is. Quake is tested in DOS, not in windows. So drivers can …

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Re: 2D cards

Posted on 2012-10-29, 15:58

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by vlask

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For VGA/Vesa can help you this mine little benchmark. http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks/309-quake-1-software-rendering Won't help you with directdraw, havent found good ddraw benchmark. Maybe test Unreal in SW mode can be little helpfull.... http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/ …

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Re: Hardware that makes you drool - Your wish list

Posted on 2012-10-17, 22:57

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by vlask

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Ofc SimFusion 6000q or 6500 and Quantum3d AAlchemy 8164 from 1st post and all profi 3D cards :happyhappy: Bigger are better :wink: Want em all, so one day i can benchmark them all. That would be nice, since profi cards are very rare and mostly not documented. For example having Nec cards would be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-10-15, 13:59

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by vlask

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[Wow, quite rarely seen on ebay uk - what will you use it for? [Pretty much xp-only-card I think - with 2000 the later sp's cause driver crashes on boot afaik.] Now nothing, already tested it in some benchmarks and it ends in mine collection. Maybe in future (years) will do some testing with cad …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-10-14, 15:38

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by vlask

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Not so old, but not usual stuff too. Wildcat VP990 Pro with 512MB

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Re: Good DOS first person shooter recommendations

Posted on 2012-09-13, 09:16

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by vlask

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You missed in your list Blood.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-08-22, 16:25

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by vlask

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Been on local scrapyard - sadly no usable graphic card found. So i grab at last some cpu's for exchange 11 x Pentium 4 521 LGA amd 186 amd 286-16 intel 960 This all costs me about 4 euro 🤑

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-08-04, 21:46

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memsys wrote: HEH i have the card but no mobo to put it in! You can use standart PCI, but sound part wont work ofc 😖

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Re: Testing VRAM on older cards under DOS?

Posted on 2012-08-01, 12:00

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by vlask

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whatvga works even without vesa.....and its for dos

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2012-07-31, 00:39

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by vlask

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Ok people i was hoping for more exact info and filling in missing cards in existing trees in chart. But you mostly suggesting new trees (some i never heard of). So i edited 1st post in this thread and added list of suggested chip makers and known chipsets. Any more info is welcome. But i cannot …

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