Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2021-11-11, 08:08

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Not letting this thread die, having read it warms my heart :) I'm pretty content with the graphics cards I managed to gather so far and the systems required to run them, but there's always room for more. What I would really and particularly love to get my hands on one day are: - 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 …

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Re: Fastest Tualatin Chipset / Best Pentium III Motherboard

Posted on 2019-01-03, 18:40

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(reserved for future test results...) Awesome work, VooDooMan!! Really, a great comparison with many important data points covered. Thank you again, and I hope to read more from you soon! :) P.S.: I just visited your Facebook site. Quite a collection you have there. I think I've seen some of the …

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Re: Post photos and discuss your pc joystick and game controller collection...

Posted on 2014-05-17, 12:27

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I agree that the f-15E has many buttons (programmable) and is big which is two reason I like it actually, but my complaint with it is that the motion is a bit stiff and limited compared with CH flightstick prioducts and some early sidewinder joysticks. The Gravis gamepad is a classic for sure. The …

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Re: Post photos and discuss your pc joystick and game controller collection...

Posted on 2014-05-16, 21:50

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Here's some photos of just a fraction of my collection. 20140515_182247_resized_1~2.jpg I had the F15E Fighter Stick back in the 90's as an replacement for my Thrustmaster X-Fighter... probably got overwhelmed by the many switches on the F15-stick, dunno. Anyway, it was too large for me and too …

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2014-05-16, 21:41

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Yes, it very much looks like it. Is it yours?

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Re: Stuff you did with the PC's at school

Posted on 2014-05-11, 11:15

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Finished in 1995 and there was no network, only a room with about 20 PCs (most of them 286 still, but some 486). Fun stuff included playing Tetris (and figuring out how to reconfigure the Turbo-button on the 486 in order to still be able to play Tetris, which was running way to fast on them. Serious …

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Re: Stories of unloved computers getting a second chance

Posted on 2014-05-08, 20:24

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Alright, my story is only partially about a whole PC, but bear with me. When I was at university, in one of my jobs to pay the bills my boss had the Idea, that we needed a PC in the office. Now, you can tell that that must have been some years in the past. We searched local newspapers for listings …

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Re: Voodoo1 compatible with Voodoo2 RAM?

Posted on 2014-05-08, 20:12

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Voodoo Graphics is capable of using MiByte of video RAM, there were Quantum 3D cards with such configuration. I am not sure though, whether it was 4+4 or 2+6 MiB for framebuffer and texture memory. My guess would be the latter.

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Re: Favourite old school keyboard/mouse?

Posted on 2014-04-30, 23:28

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I was using an IBM Model M on my DOS rigs but the noise and the heavy keypress action isn't really to my taste for gaming. I use an IBM Model M for my main rig - typing this very posting on it. For a mouse, even though it's not really oldschool - well, it probably is now - an Intellimouse Explorer, …

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Re: VOGONS Benchmark archive?

Posted on 2014-04-30, 22:51

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There's also a DOS-Version of MDK-Benchmark. It's quite different from the MDK2-Bench, though, only some weird moving, fancy colored lines. It's mostly about CPU speed with a PPro200 marking "100", AFAIR. And it's predecessor, Shiny-Bench. Then there's the X rolling demo (way before X²), which runs …

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Re: Rare CPUs

Posted on 2013-11-11, 21:34

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I really paid through the nose for this (it's a 600 MHz-part) back in 1999. But it still works.

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Re: Rare CPUs

Posted on 2013-11-11, 20:56

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Athlon Classic - the first batch, before the name Athlon was decided upon.

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Re: ATI and Nvidia DX9 cards on a Intel P4 system from 2002 (1024*768)

Posted on 2013-11-09, 12:18

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Your question as to what would be a fitting DX9 video card entirely depends. If you like to enable very high resolutions (Full-HD or even more) and antialiasing/anisotropic filtering levels, then you will be able to max out almost any DX9 card with only a single GPU like the X1950 XTX which has an …

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Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2013-11-09, 12:12

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First of all: Great (!!!) work on all those different levels. I really admire your passion to assemble all this data. That said, two things I'm wondering about: 1.) Did you establish a performance upper bound for the Matrox G200 in the OpenGL test? I.e. from what point on does it limit the CPUs' …

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2013-11-08, 19:46

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I managed to find the Bonnie & Clyde photo again. It's in the first post. That photo was shot by [GPUT]Carsten. Thriller Conspiracy. What a curiosity that was. If only someone had a prototype. Oh the good old days where companies did actually try stuff that was hard to market. [gently weeps] I too …

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Re: Video card recommendation requested - 5900U or Ti4600?

Posted on 2012-12-03, 21:08

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Has it been mentioned yet, that apart from the DX9-compatibility and the theoretical possibility to run such titles, there's one thing that really makes the FX stand out from GF4 Ti: Anisotropic Filtering. This incurs a really heavy performance hit on GF3/4 Ti, but much less so on GFFX which is very …

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Re: Chaintech ct-5SRA2 ALi M1541 - ok to use for allround So7-Rig?

Posted on 2012-11-12, 21:29

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Ok, so that sounds pretty encouraging. Thanks a lot guys and let the screwdriving commence. 😀

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Re: Chaintech ct-5SRA2 ALi M1541 - ok to use for allround So7-Rig?

Posted on 2012-11-11, 22:26

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Right cacheable area should be no prob for CPUs with L2 cache, but what if I need to use other CPUs - like original Pentiums for compatibility reasons with certain applications? (Just a theoretical question, don't ask for any specific examples just yet. 😀)

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Chaintech ct-5SRA2 ALi M1541 - ok to use for allround So7-Rig?

Posted on 2012-11-11, 15:45

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Ok, so I came across this Chaintech ct-5SRA2 for cheap and since there's a working mod-BIOS available for using even mobile K6-III+, I thought this could be my mainstay for all Socket-7-needs. Now I am not sure but I am under the impression that ALi chipsets very not the most compatible ones. A …

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Re: were there ever any released tech demos of the NV1 chipset?

Posted on 2012-11-02, 23:26

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Great read - thanks a lot for making this happen vetz!

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