Re: AMD K5 case basge/sticker

Posted on 2019-12-14, 01:25

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's a scribble. I don't recommend printing it and I don't know if i'll have the time to make a clean vector version of it. Maybe emailing AMD to see if they have anything obscure on archive for the K5 brand (or 5K86 or even AM5x86) is worth a try... Unfortunately all the K5 data sheets lack logos. …

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Re: AMD K5 case basge/sticker

Posted on 2019-12-12, 02:24

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can I use my artist skills to roughly doodle from what I think I saw in 97-98? Could be false memories or confusion with another badge, and oddly I do think some form of line shading was involved, or maybe it was speedlines because it was "fast" taking inspiration from Cyrix's 586 line? I forgot the …

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Re: Destruction Derby for the Diamond Stealth 3D 2000

Posted on 2019-12-12, 01:58

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by leileilol

in Windows

in Windows

No you can't convert the DOS version over since it involves pre-converted textures and a different audio track order. You'll have to hunt for the Stealth3D 2000 Descent2/Destruction Derby combo disc.

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Re: DOS Audio problem

Posted on 2019-12-11, 00:21

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

IIRC that Tecra used a CS4232 which is Windows Sound System compatible (and has a YMF262), so try the WSS sound options while running Windows? (Manual's showing up blank fyi)

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Re: AMD K5 case basge/sticker

Posted on 2019-12-10, 12:16

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I *think* I remember seeing a K5 badge on a K5-133 system of some OEM make some 21+ years back but I hope I'm not confusing that with K6 badges since an emphasized number was involved (and i've seen plenty of k6 badges)... wish I had something concrete to share on hand about this.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3d Atomic Edition did not find CD-ROM

Posted on 2019-12-10, 11:15

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

Atomic (in its original not-released-by-interceptor form) does a cd check against a big dummy file on disc IIRC.

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Re: QDOS 3Dfx port: music volume and video resolutions

Posted on 2019-12-09, 02:45

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ Software

lost77 wrote: Does the Voodoo even support that resolution? Only the Banshee and later derivatives. Cards before (V1/V2) are 512x384 minimum (512x256 for arcades)

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Re: VOODOO 2 SLI Memory reporting

Posted on 2019-12-08, 00:53

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I feel like Scali right now... "half-the-work" by dealing with even/odd scanlines won't cancel out the fact there's two PCI cards with redundant memory to deal with. V2 SLI wasn't very future-proof regarding games with constant memory reads+writes, dynamic lightmap uploads, and more texture use. And …

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Re: VOODOO 2 SLI Memory reporting

Posted on 2019-12-07, 11:22

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Wouldnt that "practically" double the memory? Maybe for the framebuffer, but however it won't do anything regarding texture thrashing as both cards would need the same textures loaded to draw the same scene. It'll actually be worse than a single V2 when it thrashes with twice the PCI bandwidth …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-12-07, 05:07

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by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

Catalina's got bigger issues hindering independent software development than the loss of 32-bit...

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Re: VOODOO 2 SLI Memory reporting

Posted on 2019-12-07, 02:02

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I've seen somewhere that the voodoo's will do some sort of directdraw? They still technically could (required for DirectX driver compliancy IIRC) and there's a few DirectDraw games that are too friendly enough to allow blitting to the Voodoo/Voodoo2 (like SimCity 3000) - it will be very slow though …

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Re: VOODOO 2 SLI Memory reporting

Posted on 2019-12-06, 04:12

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Know that having a SLI setup doesn't mean there's more texture memory to work with. It's more about the extra bit of framebuffer with more lines it can draw. Sometimes it can be slower with some games that have to read/write to the framebuffer of both cards (i.e. many later D3D games) (little OT, …

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Re: Tron: Evolution SecuROM DRM expiration

Posted on 2019-12-06, 02:16

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by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

RoyBatty wrote: UGH, F Jim. Good. I'll make sure to link him even more (where applicable)

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Re: Tron: Evolution SecuROM DRM expiration

Posted on 2019-12-04, 23:51

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by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

thank god for jim

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Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.

Posted on 2019-12-04, 13:27

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by leileilol

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in Milliways

appiah4 wrote: forces them out of the x86 market in a couple of years. No. Competition's important

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Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.

Posted on 2019-12-04, 07:05

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by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

If only UMC weren't legal'd to CPU oblivion 🙁

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-12-02, 14:13

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by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

SOULCALIBUR VI here's my representation of the voodoo2 in soul form

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Re: What does it mean when Voodoo 2 displays weird colors?

Posted on 2019-12-02, 08:29

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

When one cranks up the gamma in the 3dfx control panel, the brights would overflow and go into the dark colors as seen in those photos. I imagine the owner's not familiar with that glitch (also it's impossible to screenshot without VGA grabbing) V3 fixed this bug.

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2019-12-02, 08:24

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

a big dumb celeron box with a rage fury pro, in the most imac-wannabe case with all the dumb 2000 stuff loaded on it surrounded by all appropriate 2000 stuff of old 2000 obsessions. but i'm retired from the whole pc make thing. Basically a pc equiv of the imacs available of that year, representing …

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Re: What does it mean when Voodoo 2 displays weird colors?

Posted on 2019-12-01, 16:00

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Looks like the gamma table overflow bug

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