Re: Final questions on my 90’s pc
Posted on 2019-11-20, 02:48
EMU10K eww...
Re: What would Windows 9X do with a Blu-Ray drive?
Posted on 2019-11-20, 02:44
"What would Windows 9X do with x?"
Re: How to go about putting thermal paste on ceramic Pentiums?
Posted on 2019-11-20, 01:55
Careful with Arctic Silver and the like, they stain many surfaces. Not sure if they stain ceramic but they might. I'd use pure white silicone thermal compound. With old CPU's like before P3, you can definitely get away with just using white silicone thermal compound, which I know for fact cleans up …
Re: Picked up a retired Dell Latitude C640 at work
Posted on 2019-11-20, 01:48
I feel for you, I also suffer the same problem. "that looks cool, it's totally useless even for me but be a shame for it to be scrapped" Laptops at least don't take up much space. On 2 of mine I've installed Win98 FE and Vista. So on the very rare occasions I want to mess around with these OS's I …
Picked up a retired Dell Latitude C640 at work
Posted on 2019-11-19, 06:16
I take old crap and bring it home. Sometimes I don't know what to do with it. At work we throw away a lot of obsolete machines, but once in a while I'll grab something that I find remotely interesting. This time I grabbed a Latitude C640, just 'cause it reminded me of the models that came before it …
Re: Help me set up SB32/AWE32 card
Posted on 2017-03-21, 04:31
You might try turning of GM emulation and try using stock AWE32, see if that works any better. Games like Duke 3D have built in support for the AWE too. Games with built-in AWE32 support work as expected (like through the default address 620 or whatever), I thought I mentioned that above. They just …
Re: Help me set up SB32/AWE32 card
Posted on 2017-03-20, 03:31
Maybe I misunderstood something but I seem to have read that MPU-401 emulation compatibility will vary depending on what DOS extender is used with protected mode game. Could someone elaborate what I would have to do to get General MIDI working with likes of Doom or Blood? Currently if set up for …
Re: SC-55 soundfont for AWE32 in SBK format
Posted on 2017-03-20, 01:00
I've been looking for one myself. The most decent version 1 soundfont (*.sbk) that I found was a file called "Finegm.sbk". However, the version 2 soundfont called "SCC1T2.sf2" is probably the closest in terms of the sample quality of a real SC-55 (within the limitations of file size and memory …
Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?
Posted on 2017-03-19, 23:16
In 2004, still on shoestring budget of a HS junior I was piecing together my 2nd gaming rig. For my money, which was close to zero I was looking at getting a dual-GPU Voodoo 5 5500, GeForce 2 or 3... Both of those ran about $30-40 on eBay. GeForce 3 was already last-gen and Voodoo 5 5500 although …
Re: Help me choose a video card from a pile
Posted on 2017-03-19, 05:02
I'm getting brief palette problems in Wolfenstein 3D with S3 Trio64V+. Specifically on the menu screens on fade in/out effect. Did anyone else notice this with S3 cards? [EDIT] I noticed palette problems on fade effects in DOS version of Civ 1 as well with S3 Trio64V+. Hmm.
SC-55 soundfont for AWE32 in SBK format
Posted on 2017-03-19, 04:59
I Googled around a bit to see if anyone ever produced a working (and decent) SC-55 approximation soundfont for Creative AWE32 in SBK format for DOS/Win3.x My search turned up soundfonts in SF2 format, but not in SBK. If anyone ever got an SBK file like that, please let me know. Thanks! PS My AWE32 …
Re: Help me set up SB32/AWE32 card
Posted on 2017-03-19, 04:52
Took me a while to report back. You were very convincing that I should have Win3.x installed before the driver installation so I had to take the time to find my set of original 3.11 floppies. With that out of the way I have followed your very clear and helpful instructions and got my AWE32 set up in …
Re: Best OS9 and earlier exclusive games?
Posted on 2017-03-18, 02:36
collector wrote: Note that necroposting is frowned on here. Looks like I have a secret admirer who's really not my type. 😐 ...Is this what being stalked feels like?
Re: Best OS9 and earlier exclusive games?
Posted on 2017-03-18, 00:41
The entire catalog of Pangea Software: http://pangeasoft.net/ Games like CroMag Rally (Mario Kart type thing), Bugdom, Nanosaur (meh IMO, and was mentioned above), etc. A lot of that was ported to OS X and iOS later. Here's one that was always stupid fun: Reckless Drivin' http://www.jonasechterhoff. …
Re: S3-Trio64 in a modern PC - are there any tricks?
Posted on 2017-03-18, 00:03
Is loading address on the ROM? If that's the case swapping ROM chips between the cards might give some insight. I think they are similar enough that it just might work.
Re: S3-Trio64 in a modern PC - are there any tricks?
Posted on 2017-03-17, 22:50
How different is the VBIOS on each card? I don't suppose it will blow up if you swap ROM chips...?
Re: Does anyone still have a S3 Trio 32/64/Virge cards?
Posted on 2017-03-17, 21:40
If you need more testing for S3 Trio64V+ I have a Diamond Stealth 64 VIDEO 2001 rev. K, 2MB PCI card (VRAM expansion sockets empty). I can do both with and without ROM. My system board (Intel 440BX chipset + PIII) has no onboard graphics so shouldn't be any interference there. If you need testing …
Re: Video card for fallout3?
Posted on 2017-03-17, 18:08
It's the lead free solder that's the problem on g80, 92, 94, and g200 Yeah, I think your right. I do recall this being a problem with some of the 2xx cards like the 285. All lead-free BGA joints are more vulnerable to thermal fatigue and mechanical failure than their leaded counterparts from before …
Re: Help me choose a video card from a pile
Posted on 2017-03-17, 03:02
@r00tb33r your best bet is to get UniVBE6.7 and use it's UniRefresh program, it will detect your card's capabilities and will allow you to set refresh rates in DOS for VBE modes (Duke3D, Blood, Quake use them for example). Okay, got all that running. UniVBE seems to take care of whatever FASTVID …
Re: Video card for fallout3?
Posted on 2017-03-17, 02:17
Not true. I've never had any issues with my XFX 8800GTX or my EVGA 9800GTX+ OR even my hotter-than-hell-itself MSI 9800GX2 which is literally 2 8800GTS on a single card. I think I paid 25 for each of mine on eBay. G80 and G92 are fine. Just don't buy stuff that looks like it was hit by a freight …
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