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Re: So can I just solder an AGP slot on this motherboard and expect it to work?

Posted on 2018-04-24, 04:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was not wrong and that is self evident by the numerous i865GV boards with AGP slots in the wild. The question was - can the slot be installed and have it function. The answer is yes. - But it's too much trouble. What I did not do is assume the OP does not know what the slot is for as you and …

Re: So can I just solder an AGP slot on this motherboard and expect it to work?

Posted on 2018-04-23, 14:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had this fantasy that I could save money by doing this. Not worth it if it's that much trouble. Ah well.

Re: So can I just solder an AGP slot on this motherboard and expect it to work?

Posted on 2018-04-22, 06:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well in the absence of a donor board that's a no I guess.

So can I just solder an AGP slot on this motherboard and expect it to work?

Posted on 2018-04-22, 06:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The board in question: GA-8I865GVMK. There's clearly a spot where an AGP slot was meant to go on other variants. Question is whether AGP can be wrestled away from the integrated video or not.

Re: games that are better on a Macintosh

Posted on 2018-03-21, 10:33

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

I've played Civ2 on both, but i never noticed a difference. Civ2 is basically the same on both, but Civ1 is a world apart. The sprites are higher quality and the UI uses the standard Mac OS interface, so it scales nicely on higher res monitors (a lot of older Mac games did this, especially strategy …

Re: Mini vMac and Prince of Persia 2

Posted on 2018-02-27, 14:26

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

robertmo wrote: And why does it run in a window and why does it have black bars in a window? That's running fullscreen, it's just 1:1 pixel mapping. It was tiny on the Powerbook's built in display at native resolution.

Re: Mini vMac and Prince of Persia 2

Posted on 2018-02-27, 14:24

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

How does it work on both Motorola and PowerPC? (i guess it could have been compiled for both or there is some motorola emulator or it doesn't use hardware directly) Well much like we had Universal binaries which were OS X applications containing both PPC and x86 code, on classic Mac OS we had Fat …

Re: Mini vMac and Prince of Persia 2

Posted on 2018-02-27, 12:06

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

Oh well, I'd already taken screenshots before I read your last post, so might as well post them. Powerbook G4 1Ghz OS 9.2.2 640x480x120hz. Couldn't try 512x384 as 60hz is out of range of my monitor at that resolution, and I couldn't coax the Mac into giving me a higher refresh rate for that res. …

Re: Mini vMac and Prince of Persia 2

Posted on 2018-02-27, 04:34

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

Alright. Should be able to do that this evening.

Re: Mini vMac and Prince of Persia 2

Posted on 2018-02-26, 10:57

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

I might be able to test on real hardware, if you tell me what you want me to do. I have a G3 and a couple of G4s. I also have a 6100 (one of the very first Power Macs) that's waiting on some repair parts and some way to transfer files to it. Should be going again soon. Sadly none of my 68k Macs have …

Re: How to get full screen to display properly on a CRT?

Posted on 2018-02-19, 04:07

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

You might be on to something with the DP-VGA adapter. It is just a cheapy eBay adapter with no documentation. Can any recommend a better adapter?

Re: Mini vMac and Prince of Persia 2

Posted on 2018-02-15, 15:34

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

When did Mini vMac start supporting colour, and is there any reason to use it over Basilisk II?

Re: How to get full screen to display properly on a CRT?

Posted on 2018-02-15, 15:29

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

[sdl] fullscreen=false fulldouble=false fullresolution=original windowresolution=original output=surface autolock=true sensitivity=100 waitonerror=true priority=higher,normal mapperfile=mapper-SVN.map usescancodes=true [dosbox] language= machine=svga_s3 captures=capture memsize=16 [render] frameskip …

How to get full screen to display properly on a CRT?

Posted on 2018-02-15, 15:09

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I'm not sure exactly where this should go, but I'm going to take a punt that this is a DOSBox config problem. I trying to use DOSBox with my Sony CPD-G420, and seeing as it's a CRT, I'd like to run games in their original resolution without any scaling. Unfortunately all my attempts at configuring …

Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2018-02-14, 23:13

in Milliways

in Milliways

Well, considering that the PC is loaded with cards, including a VGA card, that's a pretty good price, expensive, but, not that expensive. The only concerns are the floppy drives not working, as well as the HDD that it comes with. How much of it works though? He's selling it as-is, which is often …

Re: Are Voodoo graphics card THAT good ?

Posted on 2018-02-11, 12:16

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

The reason 3Dfx cards have the reputation they have is that were by far the best option for 3D graphics in the early days. Voodoo 3 is about when 3Dfx started falling behind against Nvidia, but the real bloodbath came after that. Voodoo drivers for XP are dodgy at best. Stick with Nvidia or ATI for …

Re: Keymapper for Mac

Posted on 2018-02-11, 06:13

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Try a DOSBox frontend like Boxer. Alternatively ask your question down in the DOSBox subforum here.

Re: Keymapper for Mac

Posted on 2018-02-10, 09:04

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Can anybody help me with key mapping on my Mac. I can mount the drive and navigate to my program manually but can't figure out how to get there automatically with one click. Help please?! If this is OS 9 or older (down to System 7.5, or a bit older if you have a Performa) and you're wanting to be …

Re: Kind of missing the point of building machines.

Posted on 2018-02-05, 07:27

in Milliways

in Milliways

Unreal was awesome with the mighty V5 and Glide. I built a machine just for that game. So did I, except mine's running an Athlon 64, Geforce 6600GT and a Vortex 2. The idea was to play it with A3D and at 1920x1200 at 60FPS. What's crazy is that there are parts of the game where the framerate will …

Re: GOG.com games that work in Win9x/ME with no fuss

Posted on 2018-01-20, 01:29

in Milliways

in Milliways

So what did you do to get X-Wing Alliance working? That game has been giving me no end of trouble.

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