Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Posted on 2024-04-20, 08:50

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Alliance at3D with an old uncommon driver Do you have a link to this "uncommon" driver? Any version information? Can you post the driver? You'd just have to pack it in an archive if you don't have the links. now I want to give AT3D a second look. My focus on the latest drivers is sometimes a …

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Re: SoundBlaster onboard interfaces and jumper and wavetable and other questions ...

Posted on 2024-04-16, 00:41

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1) Whenever I search for sound cards on Ebay or here on Vogons I see that some have SCSI or IDE interfaces. What were these for? I would imagine if you connect a disk or two behind a sound card, there would be performance issues for at least the disk's data rate. They're for CD-ROM drives - all …

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Re: What if I install a Directx not supported by the video card?

Posted on 2024-04-12, 00:00

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No, you'll be fine - it's important to make the distinction towards DirectX and Direct3D. The TNT2 supports Direct3D 6 features, and those features still exist in the DirectX 9 runtime. There's games that require DirectX 9 but will run on a 2D-only card.

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Re: "Shader Model 2.0" games released in 2003

Posted on 2024-04-11, 04:24

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Warlords Battlecry 3 is an example of a game that requires the DirectX 9 runtime, but will run on 2D-only cards without any issues.

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Re: ISA vga card works only in 8-bit mode

Posted on 2024-04-10, 22:53

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I want it to work in 16bit mode for a more decent frame rate. Now it is very bad, around 11-12fps when used in either socket7 or socket3 systems. Take a closer look at the photos you posted of your card - there is literally no traces going to the 16-bit pins, and I imagine it will be the same on …

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Re: ISA vga card works only in 8-bit mode

Posted on 2024-04-07, 22:43

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I have a HMC HM81314Q card. It is definitely a 8-bit only card, as none of the 16-bit pins have any traces leading to them. Like Realtek RTG3105iEh cards, it was designed more around its form factor rather being practical. In Windows 3.1 benchmarks, it's literally the slowest card that runs at …

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Re: Kixs's 286 to the Max Too

Posted on 2024-04-02, 00:23

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1. agree. There were a lot of games that could access / use more ext. / exp. memory 2. dune2 used xms only iirc 3. the question is really if there was any improvement towards eG 2mb Ram. I don’t remember. The only benefit w/ 4mb I remember was the better possibility to use smartdrv. 4. maybe I’m …

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Re: tseng labs e3000

Posted on 2024-04-02, 00:17

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I'm trying to get this card to work with 286 and philips 7bm743 monitor in hercules mode... I'm not sure if that's even possible. I don't know if I have to do something in dos 5 to change it to monochrome mode maybe? I've tried to change the graphics card to monochrome mode, via dip switches and by …

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Re: Need a Windows 3.11 driver for an Acer M3125 VGA card

Posted on 2024-04-02, 00:02

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So now I wonder, what type of graphics card do I need to get in order to get the normal 16- or 32-bit color modes in Windows? Was that a luxury back in those days that required an expensive high-end card? The following ISA chipsets in my collection have been confirmed to have at least 16-bit colour …

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Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Posted on 2024-04-01, 23:42

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386SX wrote on 2024-03-31, 18:59: Alliance at3D with an old uncommon driver Do you have a link to this "uncommon" driver? Any version information?

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Re: Is anyone involving PCAnywhere in their setup?

Posted on 2024-03-08, 00:15

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From the pure software perspective, I've found that TINY does the job for me: http://josh.com/TINY/

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Re: Some GOG offline installers not executing under Windows XP

Posted on 2024-02-08, 22:49

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Scythifuge wrote on 2024-02-08, 22:32: So far, most other games work (expect for Revenant - GOG Revenant should just work in XP - it works fine in Win98, only needing an _INMM injection for playing the OGG files.

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Re: CF card options for HDD replacement

Posted on 2024-02-08, 04:59

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I was originally using a 32GB Transcend industrial CF card for my portable FreeDOS setup, but I noticed that I was getting strange I/O issues with Terminal Velocity and Vigilance on Talos V where there would be bursts of freezing while waiting for assets to load. This had disappeared when I copied …

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Re: Some GOG offline installers not executing under Windows XP

Posted on 2024-02-06, 07:07

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GOG don't make any claims wrt supporting winXP, A quick look at the first page of games I own proves this to be complete rubbish: https://www.gog.com/en/game/1nsane https://www.gog.com/en/game/7th_legion https://www.gog.com/en/game/act_of_war_gold_edition https://www.gog.com/en/game/advent_rising …

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Re: 8-bit compatible ISA-16 Multi-I/O (and not only)

Posted on 2024-02-06, 05:38

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1. My MB works with a number of 8-bit MDA/EGA cards, outputting text to my amber dispkay when SW1 switches 5-6 are both at “ON” position, otherwise it just performs triple long-short beep code and doesn’t show anything, including Trident in 8-bit mode with any of 4 possible combination of switches. …

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Re: Some GOG offline installers not executing under Windows XP

Posted on 2024-02-06, 02:50

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I had a feeling this might be a problem one day , honestly at this point gog should start offering the original floppy disk images and bin / cue files , I think some games offer it but I'm guessing not all of them. Quite a few games that are available on GOG have some sort of legacy option, whether …

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Re: Oak OTI087X

Posted on 2024-01-05, 07:51

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The problem with the OTI087X on the Diamond Viper card is that it's only given 256KB of DRAM with an 8-bit memory path, which makes it ridiculously slow for what it's capable of - stand-alone OTI087/OTI087X cards with a full 32-bit memory path are top of the class (along with GD542x/WD90c3x) when it …

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Re: Games that run on 8088 4.77mhz that take advantage of a VGA Card

Posted on 2024-01-05, 07:37

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Nice effort. What exactly do you mean by "run on a 8088 with VGA", that the game starts or that it's actually playable? Able to get in-game and not crash after 10 minutes - I didn't care about framerate, I was more interested in whether it can be done. You absolutely don't want to realistically …

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Re: Games that run on 8088 4.77mhz that take advantage of a VGA Card

Posted on 2024-01-05, 07:01

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I've confirmed no less than 320 games that will run on a 8088 with VGA, tested with my NuXT and FreeDOS 1.3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PEavgMAfA1wSmlqu87S2LVwTdvQODFoPFf9F8Oye_t8/ Sort the spreadsheet by game title, then by VGA, then by minimum CPU to see the list in alphabetical order …

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Re: Lowest profile ISA IDE card?

Posted on 2023-12-13, 06:13

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But overall the 3 cards are interchangeable and if I could find a sound card or VGA card similarly as short as the top card shown above, even if it only has internal connectors, that would be great and I could put it in the space I currently anticipate the IDE card going, and instead use a taller …

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