Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2015-09-01, 18:36

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Artex wrote: Ultim@te Race Pro? That's what I use to test out my PCX2s. Yeah I didn't remember the title! I remember it was one of the advertised games for this card (maybe also in the retail box images..)..

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Re: S3 Virge DX 4MB vs Matrox Mystique 4MB

Posted on 2015-09-01, 18:34

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And I am using it trough a Voodoo1 cable that I didn't have with the S3. 😁

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S3 Virge DX 4MB vs Matrox Mystique 4MB

Posted on 2015-09-01, 18:17

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Hi, I am switching from a S3 Virge DX 4MB to a Matrox Mystique PCI 4MB and I am amazed by the difference of quality and speed in Windows gui not to mention colors. Weren't they released at the same time/year? I don't understand why there's this huge quality difference, I know the Mystique was …

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Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2015-09-01, 18:12

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There was also a car game with nice high resolution graphic.. 😉

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Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2015-08-31, 12:50

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Nice testing on the blog! One thing I do remember was that in late 1998 I think this card was very cheap compared to the Voodoo1/2 and in fact at those times I was thinking buying one. But I went for a just released Voodoo3 AGP for my K62-350. Certanily fast but cpu-limited even when I upgraded …

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Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2015-08-31, 12:09

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Hi all, I am testing this old accelerator card on a K62-500 / MVP3 and S3 Virge DX/4MB. Using two of the few games that was running, both Quake and Half Life with the pvr dll, I am going to say it was indeed a fast card probably not enough supported but I think much more capable of what we saw. In …

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Re: Kyro 2 SE

Posted on 2015-08-30, 10:19

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Old times..:D I remeber it as an optimized 200Mhz Kyro2 chipset with "some" T&L software assisted features that in the latest drivers were included also for the Kyro2 standard (I don't know which were the differences). But most important was the FOCUS tv-out chipset that received some nice review …

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Re: NE2000 cards and internet access

Posted on 2015-08-21, 18:25

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Is your router using MAC address filtering, and if so, did you add the Netware ISA MAC address to the router's white list (list of accepted MAC addresses)? Sure but no way, still dhcp seems to not finish correctly with both doslynx and arachne... arachne also not really stable as I remember on the …

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Re: Led front panel advices

Posted on 2015-08-12, 11:56

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Well I went for a 250ma fuse on the positive end so it should be enough at least for the supply/wires, the led are not important but the only at supply I have now yes...and I think I will put a resistor too as you said. :D Now mounted it is running quiet cool and bright! I still have to put some …

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Re: Led front panel advices

Posted on 2015-08-11, 20:26

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Thank, I already put a resistor (red-white-brown-gold) in each positive segment being the cathode shared. But my fear was as you said certainly for any short circuit that would target the supply and the wires as I already risked with the bad experience of the sata ide converter (for another pc and a …

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Re: Led front panel advices

Posted on 2015-08-11, 19:38

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From the datasheet it says Peak forward per segment 80ma, continuous forware current per segment 25ma.

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Re: Led front panel advices

Posted on 2015-08-11, 18:38

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How to calculate kind of resistor or fuse?

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Re: Led front panel advices

Posted on 2015-08-11, 18:31

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(Cause I already experienced a shortening on a cheap SATA to IDE converter that basically burned the wires to the supply with a bit of smoke etc... I would like to separate this thing in case something goes wrong from the entire system supply or other peripherals).

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Led front panel advices

Posted on 2015-08-11, 18:23

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Hi all, I have proudly built a micro pcb with two 7-segments red led (5v 60mw per segment) without any ic controller cause I couldn't program it so I basically switched on every single segment I wanted. In few words "40" as my new 386 frequency. :D My soldering skills are not the greatest but anyway …

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Re: 486 VLB UMC-Chipset, what is it?

Posted on 2015-08-11, 11:34

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Well I read this too late... I pointed now the positive side of the ni-mh battery on the first pin of JP1 as seen in this thread leaving the jumper on 2-3. So the positive hole on the original position battery is now empty. Is it right, isn't it?

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Re: Dos performance: real mode vs virtual mode ?

Posted on 2015-08-11, 11:32

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If your 386DX-40 slows down to the speed of a 386SX-20 there is certainly something wrong. Usually the performance hit by loading e.g. QEMM386 is not that high. It also depends strongly on the application you use (e.g. Real Mode program vs. programs using DOS Extenders). However if you give some …

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Re: NE2000 cards and internet access

Posted on 2015-08-11, 11:27

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Well I load the packet everytime on the same i/o address and different irq.. and in fact it seems that something arrive at the router logging the requests.. but both doslynx and arachne seems to not get a dhcp address. So trying fixed one but seems that in this case my router don't want to accept a …

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NE2000 cards and internet access

Posted on 2015-08-10, 18:12

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Hi all, I am trying to get access to the web with my 386 and Soyo 019I I lately built thank to all the advices I read here. I have some ne2000 compatible cards and I always got access to the web with the same router basically just with the ne2000 packet driver of Arachne. I am using a Netware isa …

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Re: 486 VLB UMC-Chipset, what is it?

Posted on 2015-08-10, 12:16

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Sorry to up the thread but after reading interestingly I think I made a bad mod on the very same mainboard. As I bought it I immediately changed the battery (I discover now it was rechargable) and installed a new three cell 3.6v Ni-Mh 80Mah BM704-33. I have not boot the mainboard yet missing some …

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Re: Optimizing a 386: questions

Posted on 2015-08-10, 11:40

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The S3 805 VLB 1MB I have on the decpc 486 mobo eat this thing at breakfast... 😁

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