Re: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, supported games and drivers

Posted on 2020-11-22, 17:20

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The picture above was not my card, but one I found on Ebay. The card that is on the way to me looks exactly like the one on VGAMuseum http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/news/item/600-sigma-designs-realmagic-em8475 Regarding the 3rd party Xcard (we're not sure it has the same capabilities!) with …

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Re: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, supported games and drivers

Posted on 2020-11-22, 16:35

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The SCART cable was a thing when you bought the card in Europe: SCART bracket: Xcard with SCART cable.jpg SCART cable: kabel3.jpg Some info on the different EM chips. As you can see EM8471 which is on the late PN 53-000663 from China is basically just a EM8400 chip (MPEG2) 10.gif Interesting I …

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Re: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, supported games and drivers

Posted on 2020-11-22, 15:02

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I suppose the old feature connector was indeed a "digital video output" connector itself (?) and maybe that name choice might be a "modern" way of name it or at least it's what I always imagined.. Maybe, anyway I checked, the card I ordered is rev 2 with the connector so can test it out when I …

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Re: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, supported games and drivers

Posted on 2020-11-22, 14:47

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The chinese product you're mentioning is an OEM product sold as Symphony 2 (53-000663). I have not been able to source any drivers for this card and the sellers online does not include them from what I've seen. There are two versions out there with same PN number, one with no VGA connector (EM8401 …

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Re: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, supported games and drivers

Posted on 2020-11-22, 14:19

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There were also some X-Card version that had that VESA connector installed (while mine has it desoldered by factory). Do you have more information on this? From all my research the last card with VESA connector was the Ventura Plus from 1998 using the EM8220 chip. I don't remember where but I saw …

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Re: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, supported games and drivers

Posted on 2020-11-22, 14:06

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You seems to be missing at last one of their graphics cards :-) http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/cards/item/386-sigma-designs-realmagic-64-gx I'm aware, will be included with the drivers, but not sure how to include it with the list above. Need to read more if they only sold the chip to OEMs or …

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Re: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, supported games and drivers

Posted on 2020-11-21, 15:35

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Great list for these great products! I was always a fan of these cards. Beside the VGA cable problem imho both cause too thin and also the concept itself, the Hollywood Plus was capable of a great decoding quality but most important smoothness/stability considering how slow were the requirements for …

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Re: Can't find REALMagic XCard application sw v2.1 or v2.0b

Posted on 2020-11-11, 17:04

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Yes, that file is currently missing (along with some others as listed in https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=77566). If the files are interchangeable for release 2.1, then we could just rename XC_2_1K2 to XC_2_1W2. I don't own the card myself so cannot test. I suppose the 2.0b version of …

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Re: Can't find REALMagic XCard application sw v2.1 or v2.0b

Posted on 2020-11-11, 13:32

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Thanks! Unfortunately I've no XP o.s. to use so I've to still look for the right files or try KernelEx. I've been collecting drivers for my Sigma Design compilation thread . I found the Win9x 2.1 driver for the RealMagic Xcard (and many others). I have a theory that the disk 2 are interchangeable …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-09, 17:49

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PS. Nvidia Geforce DDR is also overrated, but if we go there, I have to write a book of overrated stuff :D Interesting can you say more about this opinion? I think to remember back in its days there was quite some boost compared to the SDR early version (beside the AGP wattage bus specification …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-07, 19:05

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Nice thread. :) Welll.. even if I'm into x86 computers since early 90's I think I've probably finished just few games, most MS-DOS finished games were the shareware versions and the few full ones I remember were Another World, Test Drive III, Half Life, Half Life II, Far Cry and maybe few others, …

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Re: Recommendations for Pentium 4 3GHz HT?

Posted on 2020-10-28, 10:43

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Lately I built a system around a similar config but with the 3,2Ghz/800/512 Northwood and beside the voltage regulator heat where I preferred to add heatsinks on them, it's not bad at all even as a modern Office/generic machine. Using a modern Linux o.s. and with one of the latest HD AGP cards with …

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Re: Any benefit to upgrading the BIOS on a Voodoo3?

Posted on 2020-10-24, 10:04

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I don't know if it was just a feeling or a real improvement but I remember having upgraded a Voodoo3 2000 bios to the latest one in the classic AGP version and with the monitor I was using back then I felt the image quality improved in the analog video output stability and sharpness. But who knows, …

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Re: Athlon XP VS Pentium 4 (478 Prescott) for 2003 build?

Posted on 2020-10-12, 16:59

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Interesting I didn't know that, thanks!

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Re: Athlon XP VS Pentium 4 (478 Prescott) for 2003 build?

Posted on 2020-10-12, 16:24

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If I had to build a Athlon XP config with the 3200+ I'd go for the rare KT880 chipset mainboards having dual channel ram support and SATA. But still the Pentium 4 @ 3,4Ghz Prescott has something to say considering having SSE3 support too with the right chipset and DDR2 even possible Socket 478 rare …

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 clone with x86 basis

Posted on 2020-10-11, 16:32

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Interesting having both x64 Win and Linux freedom to install compared to the usual arm SBC but beside I don't like the UEFI bios concept, the solution would be nice for a modern light desktop replacement. Maybe not for retrogaming.. as I tested with Win 8.1 even 32bit version with old games it was …

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Pentium G2130 vs i5 650 vs Celeron G1820 vs Core2 E8600

Posted on 2020-10-07, 11:36

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Hi, trying to build a "modern" low-res (720p.. 1024x768..) game config with the components I got already, I was thinking to buy some cheap nobrand mobo and use one of these cpu adding some middle end modern GPU to that. What would you choose? I already have the mainboard for the E8600 but no double …

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Re: Video card for Core 2 Quad build

Posted on 2020-10-06, 13:59

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But what about a more modern middle-end card? Would it work and give an higher boost? Cause I have the same situation and was thinking if using an old DDR3/G41 board as a base for a "modern low-res game machine".

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-03, 19:27

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It probably have to do with both the modern o.s. and the game engine not well optimized as other games heavier than this. It's because it's running on a lazily ported Xbox codebase, on a extremely bad fork of the Unreal Engine. (known as Unreal Warfare) There's really nothing that can be done to …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-09-30, 12:52

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I'm sort of trying to play Thief Deadly Shadow (3) but it's a very strange game to run at a good frame rate in modern o.s. I've tried modern patches but the games always seems to run not smooth even if the Geforce 210 PCI I'm using beside a very low end card should eat that game. I've tried Win8.1 …

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