Beside in Ruthan's thread https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=62586&hilit=VESA+BIOS+nopageflip&start=20 I found he stated: Geforce 730 difference, i have two G730 cards, one with GDRR3 and one with GDRR5 - i though than difference would be only in memory, but card with GDRR3 has not …

As soon as the original GeForce dropped, the writing was on the wall for many other card makers. The Voodoo 4/5 arriving late and without features and performance that nVidia cards had, was the end for 3DFX. ATi was the only one that upped their game enough to remain competitive, and they had a few …

The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-01-02, 08:02: Steam could do it entirely from their end by deactivating the game on the account of the player Steam won't do that. Never. If they are ordered to by a judge, they will.

I wonder... Since many Tandy 1000 supporting games used a simple detection routine that basically searched for the presence of the string "Tandy" in the BIOS code, did many games trip on machines like these? Tandy 2000 and Tandy 3000 systems had no support for the special graphics and sound …

I was building a small fleet of late 90's Dell GX1 PII/PIII machines and spare parts for a while. The desktop models are great because they are easily accessible. I got into them because the case design was as easily accessible as my Powermac 7500 and 7600 machines. You just fold the top up and …

This applies to digital games, but I don't see why physical copies of games sold with a Steam activation key wouldn't also be covered. It won't work this easy. For that to work, the original owner must have capabilities to deactivate retail (CD key) games from an account, similar to Windows retail …

A GT640 or GT740 would probably be better for a system like that. The Core2Duo is going to be a bottleneck for anything faster. I wouldn't even consider that CPU for triple screen gaming. I have an old Dell XPS around here somewhere that came with a Core2Duo E6600 and HD5850 originally and that was …

I finished? my Nx586 sytem and you can read about it here: http://retronn.de/imports/nexgen_nx586.html Here is a preview pic: http://retronn.de/ftp/pictures/hardware/NexGen/new_case_side.jpg Now dust off your NexGen systems for some comparison scores :-). Dammit! Now I'm going to have to build one …

Just use the cheapest you can get hold of at this point. Handy to have for trouble shooting. 1meg was pretty standard then for a 286 system. What brand/chipset is the mobo? Do you intend to do any upgrading in the future at all?. It's a Tandy 3000HD. Pretty rare model. Oh, and I'm finding that …

I use anything ATi, OAK, Trident, Cirrus Logic or what ever. Any thing that fits 16-bit ISA will run fine. What spec 286 are you talking about here, how much ram and are you intending to run Windows 3.x? If it's pre '89 the period correct crowd would scream "fit an EGA card and monitor dummy". I'm …

Best thing you can do with these systems is to find a Voodoo 3 card and use that. AGP is too buggy to be stable on those boards and Voodoo 3 cards seem to work better than most or you can just use a PCI card, which many people do. Back then there were still good options for PCI video that weren't …

To the OP: You need to stop using Photobucket. They place limits on how much data you can use with a free account and they blur your photos and place a huge watermark over them when you exceed your limit. If you have a lot of photos linked in a lot of different places, you can easily exceed in your …

So does this mean if you buy a used, physical copy of a game that you can force Valve to let you register the key that comes with the game to your account? No, because then a judge would first have to rule that the license is transferable. I don't think that has happened yet. It's happened in …

Playing a lot of classic Everquest on the Al Kabor Project lately.

Too much of everything that is bad for me. At this rate, my corpse will last longer than a cockroach eating irradiated Twinkies after a nuclear war. 🤣

It's sad that Windows 7 support is ending. Windows 8/8.1 was a horrible distraction, worse in many ways than Vista. Windows 7 is basically the last viable Windows upgrade for a lot of older machines still in use that can't make the jump to Windows 10.

I picked up a sealed copy of Everquest Macintosh Edition just to have in memory of the old Al Kabor server back in PowerPC days. I know there is an emulated Al Kabor server, and I play on that, but the devs there say that after close examination of how the PowerPC client interacts with the expected …

That's the thing... Do you buy a game, or do you buy a license to a game? I'm pretty sure that the latter is easy to defend in court. This is what caused Valve to lose the lawsuit. They stated "we don't sell games, we sell licenses". The judge then basically said "well, that's what selling a game …

Does anyone know of any Virtualization/Emulation software for PPC Macs that will utilize whatever video card you have installed instead of emulating one? Virtual PC and Guest PC emulate only a 2D video card (usually a Cirrus Logic or some other 2D chipset) and do not use the card installed in the …

What is the best video card to use in a 286 PC? I know many later cards required a 386 for some reason so which are the best ones for installation in computer with a 286?