Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on Yesterday, 22:55

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enaiel wrote on Yesterday, 22:51: kolderman wrote on Yesterday, 20:06: Why even bother with the FX5500? Thought I could use it to run dgVoodoo since the V3 2000 is out of commission? Fair enough. Does it not run on the ti4200? Is the c3 fast enough four emulation?

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on Yesterday, 20:06

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Why even bother with the FX5500?

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.77a

Posted on Yesterday, 17:54

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Does it initialize PCI sound cards that use SBLINK/PCPCI to pretend to be ISA sound cards?

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on Yesterday, 17:23

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IIRC it was Rambus, not heat, that primarily gave the P4 it's bad name.

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Re: Motherboard causing dirty VGA output?

Posted on Yesterday, 00:31

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by kolderman

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Hey looks like it was the PSU after all!

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Re: Motherboard causing dirty VGA output?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 23:58

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by kolderman

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I'll try a different psu but it's generally ok with other mobos. Thanks.

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Motherboard causing dirty VGA output?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 23:48

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I am testing this socket370 baord, and when I fire it up with the first GPU, the VGA quality is garbage. Like the monitor is not syncing right and all these lines moving upwards quickly on the screen. I assume it's the card - so I try another one. Same issue. Try a PCI vga card. Same. The issue is …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 19:35

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The stigma makes it cool now IMO. The fact that something people would have vomited over in 2003 is now arguably the best build for retro gaming for that era is kind of awesome. And in case you forget, the noise roar will constantly remind you 😦

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-21, 09:20

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appiah4 wrote on 2022-01-21, 07:46: I just bought an HD5750 for my Athlon II X4 640 second PC I use to play mostly XBOX 360 era games on. My HD6850 died and I looked online for a replacement, something like an HD5850/6850/7770 and fuck me, the prices.. You mean that box of 5850s I collected is …

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-19, 22:19

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Still rocking a 1050Ti. Great if dont play games past about 2012.

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Re: New to DOS builds, need a sound card but not sure where to start

Posted on 2022-01-19, 02:16

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When did the awe64 replace the audiodrive as the default best cheap soundcard? The awe64 does not do MIDI under pure DOS, is hard to configure, has no waveblaster header and CQM...its great if you are strictly under win98 and can afford one of the expensive ram expansion adapters. The ESS audiodrive …

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Re: The end times are nigh, ours is a deserved damnation! MS Game Pass adds another studio : Activision / Blizzard

Posted on 2022-01-18, 21:09

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As a retro gamer this means exactly nothing to me. We live in a world where Microsoft is evil but because of Internet Exploiter and Blizzard was still cool, and Diablo2 was possibly the best game ever made.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-01-17, 08:48

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Another level down in Heretic. Only two more before I finish Episode 5. The full play took quite a while.

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Re: Windows 95/98 games you never get tired of?

Posted on 2022-01-17, 05:12

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Quake. Just firing up that first level makes me want to play the whole thing through again.

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Re: Are we opening sealed copies of old games?

Posted on 2022-01-14, 19:53

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No, but we are buying a second opened copy instead.

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Re: Making a new soundfont for the AWE 64

Posted on 2022-01-13, 08:38

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This idea that large soundsfonts must sound better is an idea that needs to die. No it doesn't. Please refer me to a single SF2 that sounds better than Musyng Kite. I said *must* sound better. Of course a large soundfont could sound good...but probably not because it's large but the instrument …

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Re: Making a new soundfont for the AWE 64

Posted on 2022-01-12, 20:43

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This idea that large soundsfonts must sound better is an idea that needs to die.

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Re: What did I buy?

Posted on 2022-01-12, 02:19

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by kolderman

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pic?

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-01-11, 18:56

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by kolderman

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Knocked out a CyberRaptor in Bioforge. He woke up so I knocked him out again. If you ever encounter a CyberRaptor in real life - repeated head-kicks works well.

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Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Elite Hardware Manual

Posted on 2022-01-09, 20:34

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i have no where near enough time to scan the whole thing, but I can probably do a few pages if you have something specific you need.

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