Re: Junk

Posted on 2008-12-05, 13:40

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Moogle! wrote: You also may not have the right module. Tell me when the 512KB VIP cache modules will release. Moogle! wrote: There is a fix for this that involves cutting a trace for a resistor that's supposed to be effective. i'm not cutting anything.

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Re: Junk

Posted on 2008-12-04, 21:17

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

hi i'm trying to nail out the serial port issue it 'works', but the mouse jumps all over the place and i've tried 3 different mice and two different serial ports. 😒

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Re: Speed wise, what CPU "sits in between" a 486DX4 and the slowest Pentium II?

Posted on 2008-12-04, 19:37

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Quake performances, my own test timerefresh AM5x86-133 @ 120MHz - 8fps AM5x86-133 @ 160MHz - 11fps Pentium 100MHz - 21fps Pentium 166MHz - 24fps Pentium II 233MHz - 57fps You decide which is in the middle 😀

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Re: What should I do with this?

Posted on 2008-12-04, 19:34

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

wing commander

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Re: Speed wise, what CPU "sits in between" a 486DX4 and the slowest Pentium II?

Posted on 2008-12-04, 18:41

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

K5's have sucky floating point though. My 'in the middle' would be the Pentium 100-166MHz range. (200MHz seems significantly speedier) Also comfortably in the middle is the K6 233, which is nowhere near P2 233 performance in my experience.

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Re: Link for views on old hardware

Posted on 2008-12-04, 18:40

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So do I! I have two!!!

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Re: Opti

Posted on 2008-12-04, 14:56

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yep

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Re: Best CD-ROM drive speed for DOS PCs?

Posted on 2008-12-04, 14:09

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You could, but it's your ide chain tangle adventure 😀

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Re: Old Pentium motherboard recommendation

Posted on 2008-12-04, 14:07

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can buy Pentium MMX 150mhz cpus that aren't laptop bound!? I use a Socket 7 i430TX for my Pentium / Cyrix6x86 80mhz rig.

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Re: Glide and A3D

Posted on 2008-12-02, 04:39

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In Diablo 2's case, 3d cards at the time had slow texture caching/upload for Direct3D and voodoo hardware was still popular to use in 2000, plus there's the fact that Diablo 2 was in development since 1997 so Glide technology adoption was quite early and more mature than their own whatever-late-in- …

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Re: Terratec DMX6 - any thoughts?

Posted on 2008-12-01, 23:33

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Silent Loon wrote: Analog Devices 1816 chip Ewww those have horrible clipping, pitch and static noise issues 🙁

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Re: DOSBOX ON PLAYSTATION 2!

Posted on 2008-11-30, 12:56

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by leileilol

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

pointing out there that there is not x86 playstation 2! (doesn't exist) if it ever arrives on the ps2, don't expect to play Quake and Blood on it

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Re: very slow with high graphics settings

Posted on 2008-11-28, 14:13

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by leileilol

in Windows

in Windows

abyss wrote: The graphics card is an Intel 82845. Case closed.

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Re: No sound in GLQuake

Posted on 2008-11-28, 14:12

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by leileilol

in Windows

in Windows

try -wavonly

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Re: PowerVR PCX2

Posted on 2008-11-25, 14:35

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm, that's weird because KHG dropped support for it too (in a patch) before the neon250 was released, ditto for Unreal as well I think. Interesting screenshots of Quake3 using the Half-Life MiniGL driver (1.0.2.1 is the only one that works) http://leileilol.mancubus.net/powervr/pcx2/shot0003.jpg …

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Re: PowerVR PCX2

Posted on 2008-11-23, 06:17

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Updated list slightly. Seems GLDirect 1.0x is the only version that could barely work with PCX2 (2.x later don't)

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Re: 486 mobo: mouse, floppy, HDD, CD - where do they all go?

Posted on 2008-11-22, 17:58

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

dealing with serial ports is the worst part imo (especially if you lost them, or lose track of them). I've still yet to get mine to work. If you have to ask this question though, wait until you have to play with the CPU jumpers :) this 486 stuff makes dealing with new modern hardware seem...dumbed …

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Re: Native Online Blood + XP

Posted on 2008-11-18, 11:19

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by leileilol

in DOS

in DOS

You could have a linux live CD that's just DOSEmu, which is also a really-fast-and-still-better-than-ntvdm solution for older machines. Could use an easy configuration front end though, since people that tend to want to play Blood you find on the internet, lets say, want a more 'push button' …

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Re: Native Online Blood + XP

Posted on 2008-11-17, 21:11

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by leileilol

in DOS

in DOS

Win2k also has extremely lagged controls with Blood also this is no way to play a classic into the future. We need to get everyone's bad ntvdm habits dropped somehow because it's ruining the vision of dos (its ansi colors aren't even correct)

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Re: Native Online Blood + XP

Posted on 2008-11-16, 22:22

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by leileilol

in DOS

in DOS

lagged controls, lagged controls, lagged controls, oh did i mention the lagged controls? Also no sound, but the VDMSound solution only gives me the bad, crackling sound.

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