Re: Specific use for 386 era maths coprocessor.

Posted on 2010-11-10, 01:41

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by leileilol

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I get the impression the 387 wont make the computer any better for what I want to do with it, ie games & a tinker with internet (Win95/3.11). 387 is still very low end even for that. You'd have to aim a bit higher for your non-gopher internet ambitions, i.e. 486dx4, and that's not even considering …

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Re: BOOOH!!!! "SCARIEST" games ever?????????? (Happy Halloween!)

Posted on 2010-11-10, 00:01

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by leileilol

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i've heard from old (i.e. 30somethings, not teenage abandonware kids) ss2 fans that amnesia dark descent is much much much more scarier than ss2 and undying. can anyone dare to confirm/deny?

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Re: DOSBox StarCraft?

Posted on 2010-11-09, 23:45

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by leileilol

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

If you made your image by hand following one of the "Windows 95 instructions" threads here you woulnd't have this issue because you could specify the size when you do it. Following those instructions would also lead to working video and sound card drivers that would make Starcraft function properly. …

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Re: The Other 3D Chips (screens incl)

Posted on 2010-11-09, 23:33

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ Video

Trident Blade3D is also another interesting one. Its laptop counterparts are virtually identical too iirc. This is another obscure "Laguna" era/market 3d chipset. It's slow as Voodoo Graphics in most cases but slower than PCX-2 at most things, it has good texture filtering and has all the basic …

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Re: Looking/searching for s3d (S3 Virge specific) games

Posted on 2010-11-09, 05:37

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't even know where my card is. With a name like Stealth3D it has to be hiding in a cardboard box somewhere.

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Re: I have no mouth and I must scream

Posted on 2010-11-09, 05:36

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox General

You should read the instructions that are in the box oh wait you don't have them

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Re: DOSBox SC?

Posted on 2010-11-09, 03:44

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox General

Install the s3 trio 64 driver. Starcraft is obviously not going to work in 16 color mode.

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Re: Specific use for 386 era maths coprocessor.

Posted on 2010-11-08, 11:36

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

dirkmirk wrote: Apparently no games take advantage of the fpu? *Cough*quack*cough* I think Falcon 3.0 is a 386 friendly FPU user iirc

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Re: Old PC hardware for sale from years past

Posted on 2010-11-08, 05:13

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The year is 1995, even a 486 motherboard will set you back at least $180 and the only big budget games were fmv fests

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Re: Freeze when playing sounds

Posted on 2010-11-07, 04:05

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by leileilol

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in PC Emulation

csavko wrote: Elianda, Cubic Player freezes the system as well. Throw in detection override parameters until it doesn't freeze anymore. There's extensive help on that when you pass a -h to it

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Re: FPS games using a joypad

Posted on 2010-11-07, 04:02

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by leileilol

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PowerPie5000 wrote: And auto-aim is never present in multiplayer games. Halo says hi.

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Re: PC Speaker Passthrough?

Posted on 2010-11-07, 03:35

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by leileilol

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in DOSBox Development

Would take more host CPU to do, but maybe it could be done relatively inexpensively (integer FFT?) considering it doesn't have to be high quality. But before going that far, take a wave capture of the current output and process it in an audio editor to see if a lo/hi-pass filter is the desired …

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Re: Can I use a PowerVR-based card with a Voodoo2 in the same PC?

Posted on 2010-11-07, 02:22

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It'll still work with PowerVR SGL games? Yes, and it'll still work with PowerVR MiniGL drivers for select id Tech2 engine games as well. The PowerVR HAL checkbox is only a Direct3D override. With your plans, I suppose you can keep that permanently unchecked. The s3 Trio is sharper in VGA output …

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Re: Can I use a PowerVR-based card with a Voodoo2 in the same PC?

Posted on 2010-11-07, 01:53

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you mean PCX-2 (Apocalypse 3D, Matrox M3D), sure! It only feeds video to your host video card's buffer. The PCX-2 usage "hijacking" only occurs if you check the simple "Use PowerVR HAL" in its own tab in Display Properties. This only hijacks Direct3D though, so if something crashes, turn it off ( …

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Re: Pentium 60

Posted on 2010-11-07, 01:39

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One of Quake's big bottlenecks is the pushing of the screen buffer. Modifying the engine, forcing it to render in 160x100 then stretching that up to 320x200 gives AM5x86 a nice jump from 13.6 to 23.5 on timedemo demo1. The only hitchings at that point are the dynamic lights Abrash's asm routines …

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Re: Looking/searching for s3d (S3 Virge specific) games

Posted on 2010-11-07, 01:35

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

"S3D on board "... the seal of slowness death no one wants to see. :happyhappy: I have a Destruction Derby/ Descent 2 OEM S3D combo (they even mixed the cd tracks from both games on a single disc. Descent 2 has even SHORTER mixes of a select bunch of songs) unfortunately i can't offer it, but what I …

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Re: new user.... running basic programs off of 3.5" floppies that I created 20 years ago

Posted on 2010-11-07, 00:32

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by leileilol

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

The README file?

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Re: VDMSound and DosBox Installed Simultaneously...?

Posted on 2010-11-06, 03:14

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by leileilol

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

VDMSound only cares about NTVDM. It has no relation with DOSBox. DOSBox has no relation to NTVDM. Nothing will conflict. Whoever told you otherwise has a severe case of misinformity.

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Re: Name the game

Posted on 2010-11-05, 22:40

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by leileilol

in Milliways

in Milliways

Monsters Inc?!

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Re: Original DOOM games

Posted on 2010-11-05, 22:39

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by leileilol

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in Windows

Switches? PFFT it has drag and drop support!! It's one of the few that accept revolutionary Windows95isms.

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