Re: Super socket 7 and AGP cards
Posted on 2018-01-03, 19:28
I recall sound chirping in a lot of UnrealEngine games with the said combination... think of the single digit framerates and the very audible VVT!!! noise on each frame
Re: AWE64 Value, incompatible drivers.
Posted on 2018-01-03, 19:22
MS-DOS 7.1 CDs aren't real (or any other separate distribution). Only trust "DOS 7" as shipped with Windows 9x installations. You'll save so much trouble from avoiding secondhand alleged "rare version ms dos abandonware", who knows what cruft could be lurking within them.
Re: Super socket 7 and AGP cards
Posted on 2018-01-03, 19:11
VIA's only best with 3dfx cards. I learned that the hard way 🙁 this is not fandom talking or any implication of "3dfx VooDoo Grafik Superiority". VIA SS7 + SBLive and ATI/NVidia do not mix.
Re: What do you consider the break point between vintage and modern?
Posted on 2018-01-03, 19:06
Probably the PC99 standard. As soon as ports got colored, that's when it becomes "modern" to me. And then there's the Y2k rush of website corporate dorkery and the brief period of Apple imitation designs....
Re: MobyGames approval process is a moving target
Posted on 2018-01-03, 18:49
It's why I gave up submitting to the site in general. I feel they bias towards those with the tensofthousands points that submit in bulk, leading to things like loads of "enhanced" (read: always 320x240x32 with anti-aliasing) emulator screenshots for way too many Playstation games for example. Hell …
Re: Best and worst sound cards you have ever owned?
Posted on 2018-01-02, 23:38
AD1816 might be the worst. Some of those OPTi/CS423x WSS-compatibles were pretty bad too (even if they sound great on paper, some of them had the worst dacs and amplification) And while it's not techincally a card.....of all the modern motherboad audio hardware, i'd have to say nVidia nForce3 is the …
Re: Avatars
Posted on 2018-01-02, 19:40
Mine came from a PSX video file so I had to try and minimize as much motion noise as I possibly could.
Re: Black Voodoo Graphics, graphical glitches in win98 mode only
Posted on 2018-01-02, 19:38
Munx wrote: Add these 2 files to your C drive (make a backup of autoexec first). What's wrong with just saying "add set SST_GRXCLK=45 to autoexec.bat"? Never replace autoexec.bat on a whim.
Re: Soundblaster Live Value and soundfont loading
Posted on 2018-01-02, 06:30
I don't know about that. Even on 512mb i've had trouble hearing Fluid.......on a Live 5.1
Re: Art of CGA
Posted on 2018-01-01, 14:44
All i've got is this. Bad aspect I know
Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.
Posted on 2017-12-31, 14:10
Make sure you have both DirectX6.1 installed and an appropriately old driver (i.e. the Voodoo2 DX7 driver from Nov 99 and after (as well as all those fan drivers) won't work with Dx6 installed), or have DirectX 7 (or better) installed with a Voodoo2 DX7 driver. Racer does work.
Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.
Posted on 2017-12-29, 14:54
Hopefully you can do the same with all the jumper settings to set multipliers and sound card IRQ/DMAs, and recreate physical IDE ribbon hell :) I'd probably try attempting modeling the parts as well, though i'm only really good with organics and less so on rigid hard edged stuff... PCem would also …
Re: One thousand
Posted on 2017-12-29, 14:48
Postcounts are too silly to care about for me. When I hit 10k it's just going to be another day.
Re: Dumbest computer peripherals/addons
Posted on 2017-12-28, 18:28
Re: TOP 5 videocards of all time
Posted on 2017-12-27, 15:27
1. VooDoo Rush The Most Under Rated 3dFx VooDoo Card 2. GForce 3dFx 5,200 The First Card Thats The Way Its Meaned To Be Played The Ofifical 3D Mark 2003 Scores Cant Be wrong 3. Damond Edge 3-D Aka The Sega Saturn Graphic's Card 4. The Nec Power Virtual Reality Neon 250 Aka The Dream Cast Video Card …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2017-12-24, 23:28
There's also a browser extension to do this on firefox iirc, allowing non-accounts to view restricted videos..
Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.
Posted on 2017-12-24, 21:43
It supposedly can compile for OSX as-is without CD-ROM support (host drive assuming)
Re: SB32 - CT3600 vs CT3930
Posted on 2017-12-22, 22:47
The AWE32 and some of its variants always had a notably bad noise floor, even in '94... The CT3600 is also noisy
Re: Emulators you can run on Windows 95?
Posted on 2017-12-21, 11:59
Pretty much everything until around 2003+ at least. Your usual exceptions are Unicode-wanting stuff, DX8/9-wanting stuff, and all those 6th gen-and-later emulators (PCSX2, Dolphin etc) that demand a few CPU extensions and some threading at least.
Re: Newest games that would run on a 486SX PC?
Posted on 2017-12-21, 02:36
RCR requires a decent FPU (no SX) and more of a late DX4 so that's a no-go.
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