Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2025-05-11, 09:25

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by mgtroyas

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Hi, some months ago I got a 19" Philips 109B6 that reaches 1600x1200@75Hz, a cool upgrade from my previous 17" equivalent. I love the aesthetics of these Philips, also the relative small size and weight and thin bezels. And I can have more icons on each desktop as at 1280x960 it reaches 85Hz! …

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Re: SFF CRT "DOS/9x/XP" sleeper time machine

Posted on 2025-04-20, 09:35

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by mgtroyas

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I was stuck with 512Kb of RAM on my 286 until we got a new PC on Windows 95 times so I was unfortunately out of all these years of UMB/XMS/EMS tinkering... Please give some examples of these games with unusual resolutions, I'd like to see what can be done.

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Re: SFF CRT "DOS/9x/XP" sleeper time machine

Posted on 2025-04-19, 11:42

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by mgtroyas

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Don't forget to test projects SBEMU, VSBHDA and VSBHDASF, I've had very good experience on the Intel HD audio of the HP 8300 SFF. They have a bootable Freedos image ready to use with Ventoy on a USB pendrive. I also have a Tatung 14" CRT, on my parents house still connected to the 286 I grew with. …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2025-04-15, 09:18

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by mgtroyas

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Very interesting interchange of information, a couple of contributions. Auzen really went all-in when it comes to filtering each and every outputs for sure with those obnoxious green capacitors. Still sad Creative didn't consider making a similar form factor for their Titanium product line. Well you …

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Re: SFF CRT "DOS/9x/XP" sleeper time machine

Posted on 2025-04-12, 19:48

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Just for reference, I wasn't able to set the 640x400 70Hz custom resolution, which makes DOSBox run many games smoothly fullscreen, work on my new SyncMaster CRT but after some tinkering we found the way, the problem was modes under 31kHz are not supported on many monitors.

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Re: SFF CRT "DOS/9x/XP" sleeper time machine

Posted on 2025-04-12, 19:43

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Hi, I was also thinking about trying this card. I read the USB connection instead of PCIe could generate some glitches but I'd love to see if the drivers support Windows XP and test it. On modern Windows you'll probably just need to use Alchemy as with all the other X-Fi models. Also perhaps Windows …

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Re: Difference between 320x200 doublescanned and 640x400 video modes?

Posted on 2025-04-06, 18:38

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by mgtroyas

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Another config for 640 x 400 70kHz: Hello, thank you, but we've tried this some posts above, seems the concept of border has sense on traditional VGA video modes but on Windows (VESA?) it doesn't exist anymore, if the active area is bigger than expected the videocard just stretches the image to …

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Re: Difference between 320x200 doublescanned and 640x400 video modes?

Posted on 2025-04-06, 10:35

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by mgtroyas

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Thank you very much, the video frame explanation is very clear written, it would have been very useful when I started reading about it. Yes, the ATI card is clearly doing some "GPU scaling". Perhaps the drivers (or Windows) expect a standard video mode and if the custom active timing is not one of …

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Re: Difference between 320x200 doublescanned and 640x400 video modes?

Posted on 2025-04-04, 22:15

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by mgtroyas

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Ok... you nailed it... let's begin saying that fortunately I was wrong, AMD Custom Timing Tool , the FirePro oriented tool that happens to work with Radeon cards, does indeed work also on VGA output. I wasn't able to save custom video modes because they weren't allowed, as I experienced months ago …

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Re: Difference between 320x200 doublescanned and 640x400 video modes?

Posted on 2025-04-03, 20:44

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by mgtroyas

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Hi, thank you all for the quick responses. I know it sounds strange but the video mode calculator indeed gives a horizontal frequency under 30kHz, and I've used that calculator to create many custom resolutions. It roughly matches the 29,1kHZ-29,2kHZ that appears on the OSD. 640x400.PNG Wen I was …

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Difference between 320x200 doublescanned and 640x400 video modes?

Posted on 2025-04-03, 11:08

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by mgtroyas

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Hi all, If I understand it correctly, when a PC requests the 320x200 video mode, the VGA card double-scans and extends the image to 640x400 resolution. But the monitor detects this video mode as something different to just setting the 640x400 video mode with same refresh rate, I can see it on the …

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Re: Overscan border patch

Posted on 2025-03-29, 08:01

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by mgtroyas

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HunterZ wrote on 2006-02-01, 21:17: Agreed, but I thought it was worth mentioning as a counterexample to DosFreak's assumption that no VGA games use overscan borders. Prehistorik 2, in the difficulty selection screen (the one with the blue scrolling background) also sets overscan to blue.

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Re: SFF CRT "DOS/9x/XP" sleeper time machine

Posted on 2025-03-22, 21:47

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by mgtroyas

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Hi, fortunately after installing and tweaking hundreds of games, only a few don't work in this build, and one of them was Monster Truck Madness 2. No matter what I did during the last months (nGlide, cnc-ddraw, single core affinity, WinThrottle, using the Intel HD GPU instead of the ATI, different …

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Re: SFF CRT "DOS/9x/XP" sleeper time machine

Posted on 2025-03-17, 12:31

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by mgtroyas

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Yes, now your guide is relevant for me after all, I'll spend some time later checking the versions, thank you very much as always.

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Re: SFF CRT "DOS/9x/XP" sleeper time machine

Posted on 2025-03-17, 11:56

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by mgtroyas

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Hi, since I got the X-Fi Xtreme Gamer running on my XP build I had kind of mixed feelings. Sound effects and positioning were great, but there was also lot of clicking and popping. On Doom 3 I had to lower the volume or in some places reverb effects would saturate and generate distortions. On Unreal …

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Re: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy1

Posted on 2025-03-11, 11:24

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by mgtroyas

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Finally decided to take my Logitech RumblePad 2 out of storage and hook it up to this machine. I bought this gamepad around 2005 or so, and have kept it ever since. It still works fine to this day. RumblePad2.jpg Oh man, good to know you're enjoying it, I absolutely love Logitech gamepads. My first …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2025-03-11, 08:50

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by mgtroyas

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Hi, just wanted to defend CMSS-3D and 3D sound on stereo/headphones in general, comparing it to 3D graphics rendering on a 2D screen. In an ideal world we would have 3D spatial hologram projectors and all polygons would be simply drawn in space and our eyes would see a real scene that we could …

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Re: SFF CRT "DOS/9x/XP" sleeper time machine

Posted on 2025-03-10, 12:55

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by mgtroyas

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For your bracket issue I ran into the same problem for an other Low Profile card and be aware that you can find some alternatives from your favorite Chinese retailer, they won't fit perfectly but they'll still do the job. Oh! I thought about something like that but didn't find it, so I expected it …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2025-03-09, 12:23

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by mgtroyas

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In short, you definitively want to play this game with EAX enabled. Yesterday I had one of these moments, I was playing Unreal 2 with headphones (I don't like it too much but wanted to see what difference the enhanced sound could make). I loaded my savegame from the second map where you approximate …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2025-03-09, 12:14

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by mgtroyas

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Quake 4 sounds reasonably well via DSOAL and you'll even like more the 3D positional sound than CMSS-3D (it's more like newer options like Dolby Headphones or Windows Spatial Sound). The problems in my case were: Some background sounds sounding full volume everywhere instead of attenuating with …

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