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Re: Your ultimate retro system

Posted on 2022-11-19, 05:06

Depends; for DOS/NT 3.51, probably a Pentium II 350 (375) with a Riva TNT2 Ultra connected to SLI Voodoo2s, 64MB PC133, 440bx OC'd to 150MHz, and Aureal Vortex 2. This hooked up to a single 17" CRT and a nice pair of speakers, a Unicomp Model M in front of me and a decent enough mouse to its side. …

Re: Hardware you wish you'd never bought.

Posted on 2022-11-19, 04:37

I don't have much hardware I wish I'd never bought, but I do have a few. Usually just outright redundancies rather than anything actually wrong with them, though. To list: - ASUS ROG Radeon RX 570 -- I don't think this is a bad card, but having paid $215 for it last year was an act of poor foresight …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2022-11-19, 04:01

Well, hopefully it works out for you. I tend to write off the entire Rage 6 generation because of the poor performance of the Mobility Radeon 7500 in my iBook G3. No reflection on whether or not it's just awful Mac ports, though the fact Mac-exclusive (or at least -first) games don't perform …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2022-11-15, 06:32

I really want to build a joke build. The stupidest part choices imaginable, running an OS that shouldn't ever be run on it (like FreeDOS and Windows NT 3.1 or Fedora 30 or something), but the hardware is like an Opteron 248 and a PCI Riva TNT2 and 8GB of RAM. Throw it in a goofy modern g4m3r case …

Re: Cheap but well performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-15, 04:12

I mean, I don't think anything DX9 will even run-- it's a Pentium II 350. I guess I could get an SL35D, but that's kinda pushing it into the territory I want to be in with the Athlon project. America's Army wants a Pentium III 733. Okay, after a quick check, the first 128-bit, PCI 4000 I see is $44. …

Re: Cheap but well performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-15, 03:57

I'm so far winning a GF4 MX4000 PCI which is said to be on par with an original 2MX for about $17. Could be another avenue to keep in mind. Seeing as it's a really low end card for 2004, it might be easier to find as PCI than something high end as something to shove in a Dell Dimension. I bought a …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2022-11-15, 01:48

This probably doesn't count as a retro confession but: 1) My only "retro" hardware is my Dell Latitude D600 with Windows ME. I rarely use it. I prefer using my Windows XP/Vista computers for more personal business. I use Linux or Windows 10 for work purposes because web browsing and newer software …

Re: Fpga voodoos

Posted on 2022-11-14, 06:50

AdLib Gold I'd say is something comparable It isn't. No reliable way to emulate, at least on period appropriate system. Also it's not FPGA, as you've mentioned. Is Glide emulation fast enough on, say, a GeForce2 GTS that it compares to a V4? I suppose it could be. I got fairly decent performance ( …

Re: Fpga voodoos

Posted on 2022-11-14, 05:23

I think it's an inevitability It isn't, because demand for that is really really low. Glide emulation is more than at acceptable level for a decade now. Glide emulation is very helpful, especially for laptops and I use it plenty, but if there weren't demand for Voodoos, they wouldn't sell for $200+ …

Re: Fpga voodoos

Posted on 2022-11-14, 04:33

Something has to curb these insane voodoo prices lol… Considering Misters' finally starting to crack the 32-bit console ceiling with Playstation and Saturn cores (being the peak of the already expensive FPGA they use), and AO486 being nowhere near an FPU, this is highly unlikely. heck all of the OG …

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