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Re: Advice about retro speakers

However, I'm still using the "beige PC plastic" speakers I've got with my first retro rig back in 2015 - a pair of Creative SBS20s. https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/152950311118_/CREATIVE-SBS-20-BLASTER-SPEAKERS-Multimedia-PC-Stereo.jpg Now, they aren't complete garbage, but they do …

Re: Appropriate video cards for 1994

Tseng Labs cards have got some unusual cult following. Really they only shine at pure ISA troughtput. If you are after DOS gaming experience, ISA throughput is the only metric that matters. So it makes a lot of sense for DOS gamers to evaluate ISA graphics cards merely on the throughput. The cult …

Re: Appropriate video cards for 1994

ET4000s were more for Windows focused rather than Dos. Reviews for Dos performance wasn't that great. No, the ET4000/W32i/p are actually very good performers in DOS (not necessarily the most compatible though), and perform pretty well on Windows with 2MB of memory due to interleaving. At the time …

Re: Appropriate video cards for 1994

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-08-03, 19:36: ET4000s were more for Windows focused rather than Dos. Reviews for Dos performance wasn't that great. Perhaps I had a ET3000 or equivalent then, as I never had any performance issues under DOS (for games that the 486 could actually run, anyway...)

Re: Appropriate video cards for 1994

Usually a Tseng ET3000 / ET4000AX is a very common card used in 1994 (non-W32). ISA video was still in wide use, though Doom fever also hit this year with a reality check. ;) What'd help identify from memory is the text font. (i.e. ATI cards' numbers looked more boxy). Also a bios splash (i.e. if …

Re: Appropriate video cards for 1994

1mb was probably typical at that time. My 1993 family computer was a 486sx-33 with 1mb Cirrus Logic VLB. Do you remember if it was a 486 or Pentium? It was a 486dx2-66, which amazingly lasted us until 1990/2000 (my parents were NOT computer people by any shape of the imagination) when we finally …

Re: Appropriate video cards for 1994

In 1994, you most likely had a 486 system with a local bus VGA card. For this post, I consider PCI to be a local bus, so the card might have been VLB or PCI. Cirrus Logic cards cards (CL-GD5428/CL-GD5429) were a typical entry level VL card those days. For PCI, Cirrus CL-GD5434 was used on entry …

Appropriate video cards for 1994

Hi, I'm looking to rebuild the custom PC our family had back in 1994 as best as possible. I have no idea what graphics card we had, except that it would have had at least VGA capabilities. Could have been any type of interface really. My point is, I'd like to have something in there that was around …

Sound Blaster 16 release dates of different models

I thought it might be interesting if we could compile a list of the chronology of the various SB16 revisions by year. Or, if we don't want to stop there, all old SB revisions! To my knowledge there isn't one. It could be useful for collectors, and great for general interest. Shouldn't be too hard to …

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