Re: 3D cards in 486s

Posted on 2008-08-11, 23:28

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by leileilol

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May I ask something?Why can't the 486's do justice with 3D? Pentium was required for 3D but why?Is it because of the different instructions? 486s tend to have poor FPUs, which are pretty damn essential for transforming of vertices in real time. Though they're technically in the same boat as …

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Re: Blood and Dosbox Speed

Posted on 2008-08-10, 23:09

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by leileilol

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Surface should be raw and good enough A good way to speed up Blood is to buy a new processor

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Re: Floppy disks kill my drive

Posted on 2008-08-09, 23:30

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are floppy disk drive cleaning kits with special cleaning floppies, you could search for those. It's what i've done in the 90s, though i'm uncertain on obtaining such kits these days.

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Re: I bought a GTX 280 a week and a half ago....

Posted on 2008-08-08, 21:30

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by leileilol

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DosFreak wrote: It got to the point where the graphics card would actually shut down (computer was still on but graphics card shut down). radeons do that alot

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Re: very bad disc problem

Posted on 2008-08-08, 21:07

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

abyss wrote: what use would making a picture of the cd do for me. holy crap 🤣

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Re: OK

Posted on 2008-08-08, 21:06

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by leileilol

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DosFreak wrote: How well do the Windows ports of Quake run on that computer? just as good (ToChriS runs even better), glquake runs great actually

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Junk

Posted on 2008-08-08, 20:55

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by leileilol

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486 pooter AM5x86-133, clocked at 160MHz M919 rev 3.4 AT motherboard (4 ISA, 1 VLB, 3 PCI, 4 72-pin SIMMS, Socket 3) AMIBIOS 10/10/94, WinBIOS omg!! (I wish I could make screenshots of the WinBIOS interface, its so much better than later AMIBIOS revisions) STB Powergraph s3 Trio 64v+ 1MB Sound …

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Re: S3 graphics card recommendation for DOS please

Posted on 2008-08-08, 06:30

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

s3 trio64v+ it's a best seller for a reason

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Re: Old 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 floppies

Posted on 2008-08-08, 06:29

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by leileilol

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Well if you don't take care of them properly (enclosed spaces, away from dust), they will. Not all floppies have a set date of years - most of my 80s floppies still read 100% today.

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Re: Is it worth getting Windows Millennium?

Posted on 2008-08-06, 06:06

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by leileilol

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One reason to consider Win ME, and probably the only reason you ever should, is that it is not limited to 127GB hard disk partition sizes. In theory, it can support the 2TB that FAT32 is capable of. Whether your motherboard can support it (requires ATA-6) is another issue. Even then, it'll still …

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Re: Grainy-looking display for Windows 3.1 game

Posted on 2008-08-05, 03:56

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by leileilol

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It requires this type of display - 256 colors, 640x480 display. I set my graphics card (S3 chipset-based) to have these properties. When I run the game, the graphics look grainy and poorly defined. Welcome to the world of 8-bit color! If it requires 256 colors, it'll not look better than that. What …

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Re: I want a bad 3d card

Posted on 2008-08-04, 13:19

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by leileilol

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in PC Emulation

You could try booting linux and wine'ing it

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Re: Best AudioPCI card?

Posted on 2008-08-01, 21:08

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by leileilol

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Of course, so does a SBLive (same driver but with SB16 support added) and Aureal Vortex (doesn't need EMM386 but limited to SBPro)(but you get the DB header in DOS on a PCI card!) and they are all-around superior cards for Windows. OT-ish but so theoretically I could use the SBLive DOS TSR to …

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*CRAP* 90s shareware games

Posted on 2008-08-01, 19:55

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by leileilol

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Bernie is still taking the cake. Remember, only the crap ones that make you wonder how much profit was gained from registering 😁 and only shareware titles, and not commercially distributed crap (there is plenty of that around and probably discussed over and over)

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Re: Cyclones Music/Sound issue

Posted on 2008-07-30, 05:44

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

Start a game, don't move, and just shoot single shots every two seconds. Could you try this? After the 10th shot or so, my weapons start to get "stuck" and keeps firing. It makes the game unplayable because ammo is vital. this bug isn't dosbox specific, happens often on actual machines, including …

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Re: OPL FM Polyphony - What's the deal?

Posted on 2008-07-29, 23:01

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Odd. My YMF262-equipped CS4231 has no polyphony issues, neither does my AWE32 (but has Creative FM instead), however my AWE64 has serious FM polyphony issues. Ditto for my ESS1688. Song tested for this was Doom's E2M2 and Doom II's MAP01.

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Re: Pentium 133 MMX

Posted on 2008-07-29, 11:44

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by leileilol

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Malik wrote: I have a Pentium-S 133MHz based system. not good enough F--

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Re: Graphics card BIOS - some are updateable, others not.

Posted on 2008-07-28, 03:02

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There's not a lot of BIOS updates for alot of cards. It's only popular nowadays so people flash for extra performance by 'zomg unlockin teh pieplines so i benchmark 5 points hier'. In this case, of a crappy 3d card that's Stealth 3D 2000, it's not even worth it.

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Re: Is it worth getting Windows Millennium?

Posted on 2008-07-27, 16:01

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by leileilol

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WinME cripples DOS support (well it tries to) and it annoyingly blanks out your autoexec.bat (this was annoying especially for installing Sound Blaster Live!'s DOS sound emulation tsr), oh it also won't let you make bootable disks that aren't a windows startup disk.

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DOS multiplayer game lists

Posted on 2008-07-27, 15:57

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by leileilol

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If you're looking for an idea of a pre-1996 DOS game that has multiplayer support, you could check this well written list: http://web.archive.org/web/19970521185925/htt … u/netgames.html

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