Re: Looking for old 3dfx demo, don't know the name

Posted on 2018-11-09, 11:17

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Thanks for that. i didn' even think to check demoscene stuff. However, I don't believe it was a demoscene thing, as I remember no music with it (that's like a rule for demoscene stuff, right? It has to have melodramatic techno-pop music?). I wasn't downloading demoscene stuff back then, unless it by …

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Multiple Virtual PCs and Co-op Gaming

Posted on 2018-11-02, 01:47

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I had this hazy vision in my head the other night, where I could run multiple instances of Windows using VirtualBox or VMWare or whatever on one PC, hook a couple of gamepads up, then run a split-screen sort of setup to my TV (one window could take left half of screen, or top, and the other window …

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Re: What do you guys do for missing drive bay covers?

Posted on 2018-10-27, 05:11

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by McMick

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I would venture to guess that, if you want to put a cover in there, most local computer stores in your area probably have a huge box of these things in the back room. Particularly If that was a custom build from a local PC place, it might not hurt to ask around.

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Re: The Story of Why Everyone Uses Onboard Sound Today

Posted on 2018-10-19, 03:49

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If you look at what most motherboards have on them today, it's Realtek, and you can probably thank Avance Logic for that. Aside from Analog Devices, I can't even recall another brand of mainstream onboard audio. And AD sucks, as anyone who works on PCs for a living would probably tell you. My point …

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The Story of Why Everyone Uses Onboard Sound Today

Posted on 2018-10-18, 06:44

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I'll try to make it short. Once upon a time a de facto standard arose with the Creative Labs cards becoming dominant, and everyone made their software compatible with the SBPro/SB16. For a long time, people attempted to make clones, but they mostly sucked, and they were never fully SB16 compatible. …

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Re: Older hdd imaging software

Posted on 2018-10-18, 06:35

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I was so tired when i read this thread I didn't even notice what it was all about. So why not just yank the drive from the old machine and do the image on a modern PC? (This assumes that you have access to one, of course.) Then you can use whatever imaging software you want. I prefer GPartEd 'cause …

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Winstone 2000 CD Image

Posted on 2018-10-17, 23:58

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I got a request in a PM 4 years ago that I never read. I finally replied a couple of days ago and posted this link in the thread, but it probably didn't get much exposure, so I figured I'd make a new thread. Here is the Winstone 2000 ISO image compressed into a .rar file, for anyone who's interested …

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Re: Looking for old 3dfx demo, don't know the name

Posted on 2018-10-17, 23:48

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Thanks for the links. FunkyQuadratics was updated to SuperQuadratics, which means it's better in every way, except now it won't do fullscreen :( I suppose these demos are going to be very diificult to find, since I found the links to them on 3dfxmania, which wasn't archived before it was changed to …

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Re: Older hdd imaging software

Posted on 2018-10-17, 15:33

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I don't know if this helps, but Ghost was originally made by a company called Binary Research Ltd. so maybe that will help with your search. What about Partition Magic?

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Re: Looking for old 3dfx demo, don't know the name

Posted on 2018-10-17, 02:41

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Thanks for the links, those are pretty cool! But unfortunately, they are not the demo I'm talking about. The demo I remember came out in '97 before nvidia was a thing yet. At that point they only had the Riva 128 cards out. This was a DOS demo, not Windows; also the demo I had was much more …

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Looking for old 3dfx demo, don't know the name

Posted on 2018-10-16, 10:52

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by McMick

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This wasn't an official demo, and it may not even have been 3dfx specific, but I probably found it in a link in the daily news on 3dfxmania.com when that was a thing, sometime in mid-1997. I don't remember much about it except that there were 3 or 4 "scenes" and one of them was a floating, spherical …

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Re: My ABIT-BH6 Des not hold CMOS DATA (even with a new battery)

Posted on 2018-10-16, 10:40

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by McMick

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CR2033? I think it's supposed to be a CR2032. Does that matter? Is there even such a thing as a CR2033 or is that a typo?

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Re: VOGONS Benchmark archive?

Posted on 2018-10-16, 10:31

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So, I never login to check messages and I just happened to need to post something here, and I got a 4 year old message asking about Winstone 2000. So I just uploaded it to a file mirror site for you guys to grab it if you want. Sorry to take so long! https://www.mirrored.to/files/0B2JML9X/Winstone_ …

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Re: Windows 95-98 era benchmark util

Posted on 2012-04-11, 14:53

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by McMick

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I found an old copy of Winstone 2000 that I had burned, and it was still readable. If anyone is interested in it, PM me.

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Re: Mari0 (Mario with Portals)

Posted on 2012-03-05, 17:13

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by McMick

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Ahahahahaaaaa wow

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Re: Does GeForce have better backward compatibility than Radeon?

Posted on 2012-03-03, 07:05

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by McMick

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Sorry, I just have to post this, it's toooooo funny... http://levicki.net/articles/software/2010/08/ … deo_drivers.php

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Re: Swiv3Dfx

Posted on 2012-02-29, 03:20

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I got Ultim@te Race Pro to work on Win7 64bit but it was a bit of a workaround! I downloaded Virtual PC/XP mode then used the hard disk from that loaded into VMWare Player (free) with the Direct3D functions turned on. But the Direct3D version was a bit slow, so I installed a Glide wrapper ( …

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Re: Swiv3Dfx

Posted on 2012-02-28, 03:24

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I have a voodoo 1,2, and 3 so I'll be running Swiv3D on the Voodoo 1 machine with Win98. My friend had a Voodoo 2 from Creative, that's where I probably learned about Ultim@te Race Pro. Since my last post I've gotten a copy, used Virtual PC Windows XP to install, patched to 1.5, copied all the files …

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Re: Swiv3Dfx

Posted on 2012-02-23, 16:43

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have you tried the voodoo1 enviroment variables for swiv ps: are you talking about swiv from 91 or swiv3d from 96 ? it has a windows version if its swiv 3d should run fine with a wrapper pps: renegade ops is a modern remake imho as for ultimate race pro runs fine under win7 with a wrapper (cant …

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Swiv3Dfx

Posted on 2012-02-23, 08:09

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by McMick

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I used to love that game, but when I upgraded to the Voodoo 2 it no longer worked. Didn't work on the Voodoo 3, either. In short, I haven't played a 3D accelerated version of that game since 1997. Has anyone ever made it work in on a modern card (or at least one that's newer than a Voodoo 1)? …

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