Re: Perfect ISA soundcard, in theory

Posted on 2009-09-07, 10:20

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by elfuego

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

One of these days I have some stories to share about Creative and some things they did but I'm sort of waiting for a few people to pass on before I spill the beans. Hoping I'm still around after that to tell it. You can just as well spill the beans as an unknown member. We're all gonna catch it, …

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Re: ATi Rage Fury Maxx

Posted on 2009-08-27, 18:04

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by elfuego

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think so too ^^. But I also remember that it kinda sucked at it. Definitly a nice card to have in a collection though 😀 One of the first dual-GPU solutions in market.

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Re: Palamino faster than a Thoroughbred?

Posted on 2009-08-22, 10:55

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thats correct. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to get my hands on a GF4 Ti 4x00, but I do know that they were much superior to my ATI 8500, however I clocked the card and however I optimized it with custom BIOSes... That card was a mistake 🙁

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Re: Glide/3dfx/dos/windows/DOSbox retro monstrosity.

Posted on 2009-08-22, 10:52

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by elfuego

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Be careful with 3dfx Voodoo2 cards and Athlons. They've been an unstable combination whenever I tried them. This is new to me. As the matter affect, I've been exclusively using AMD + 3dfx since 1998 and never had any problems with them. One of the best V2 SLI rigs I've used was on Abit NF7-S + …

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Re: Palamino faster than a Thoroughbred?

Posted on 2009-08-18, 22:49

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've seen a few Radeon 9700s "die" from RAM failures. I've fixed them by reprogramming the BIOS with lower RAM speeds. I'm not sure if that's what happened to you but the distortion is similar. This happened to my 9700 too. I first kept it overclocked just above 9700 pro levels...then lowered it a …

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Re: Palamino faster than a Thoroughbred?

Posted on 2009-08-17, 19:50

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by elfuego

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

FX 5 series VS Radeon 9k family - this is not even worth caparisoning. Radeon 9k family was the first ATI offering that beaten NV to its knees. Better quality, better speed and cheaper. Dont even think about FX 5 series. If you do, you can go for GF FX 5800 Ultra just for the kicks. People who know …

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Re: Freespace not getting closer to ready to be played . .

Posted on 2009-08-17, 19:38

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by elfuego

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a system that I've been playing Arcanum on that has a 900 MHz Duron, which is supposed to equate roughly to a 750 Athlon. Well... Thats an understatement. As the matter affect, difference between a duron spitfire and old thunderbird clock for clock isnt really that great in real life …

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Re: Palamino faster than a Thoroughbred?

Posted on 2009-08-16, 14:13

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

MDK2 benchmark gave me 40.90 fps, which ain't bad! Oh, that's very bad. A "inferior" Geforce2 GTS from 3 generations behind the FX5200 at stock can avg. 110fps in that one on an average 1-2GHz system, and 40fps if you give it a Pentium II 400 / K6-3 450 I know a GF 4 MX 440 - 460 can do it, but …

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Re: "Stuttering" mouse cursor!

Posted on 2009-08-13, 11:47

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would still go for Win95 OSR2. I mean, come on - 48mb RAM? Win 98 is sluggish on everything under 128mb RAM, whatever you might say. Win95 however... is jumping merrily with so much RAM :) I remember installing Win98 on P1 90 Mhz system and it was a pain in the back. Installation lasted more then …

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Re: Palamino faster than a Thoroughbred?

Posted on 2009-08-13, 11:40

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

retro games 100 wrote: leileilol wrote: retro games 100 wrote: an AGP fx5200 graphics card. Kill it with fire! Hehe!! Is it really that bad? I thought those pcpbench speeds were quite impressive. And it plays Quake 2 quite well. So does 3dfx Voodoo 1. And yes, it is that bad. And nobody runs t-bred …

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Re: Carmageddon 3dfx under Windows 7/Vista?

Posted on 2009-08-11, 13:29

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by elfuego

in DOS

in DOS

If anyone wants a mdern carmageddon type game http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/driving/clutch/review.html Please. Wtf are pedestrians doing in tunnels and streets? Carmageddon was all about going off road and having fun in pedestrian zone. In the demo video you can only drive on road and going over " …

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Re: Vintage Win9X OS vs. practical audio choices

Posted on 2009-08-09, 22:16

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by elfuego

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in Windows

I have an SB AWE64 in my Win9x/2k box, and it works fine for me. It's not exceptional, but the MIDI quality is pretty good. Same here... almost. I have a AWE32 in a Socket7 board under Win98SE, and it works just fine. Audio is not the cleanest, but all the utilities (including the AWE soundfont …

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Re: voodoo3

Posted on 2009-08-04, 12:30

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

whats it worth and why should i not just toss it? itworks great and just it's weak and i have better stuff or can get better stuff for 20 bucks. i was thinking the vd3 is around 30 bucks? Unfortunately no, not even 30 $. V3 is the most popular and common of all the other voodoos and they can be …

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Re: Random reboots, where do I start?

Posted on 2009-08-04, 12:22

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

HunterZ wrote: You should configure it to BSOD instead of rebooting: Hit win+pause to bring up the System Properties dialog... Hey thanks for the shortcut!!! Makes it easier to explain "right click on my computer, then properties" sentence! 😅

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Re: Random reboots, where do I start?

Posted on 2009-08-02, 18:09

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It must be cooling. Just try to lower voltage and speed of the CPU (underclock) a bit and see if the problem is still there.

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Re: randomw 98se crashes

Posted on 2009-07-30, 23:27

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ehm... Well.. After reading the post I wondered what did u want to say... But I will tell you that odd mb of RAM should not be a problem (i guess its 384mb). Option for big drives is also not a problem, its just FAT32 instead of FAT16, but I have no idea what you meant with the drive used for the …

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Re: Figured some of you ol..gurus might know what this isfor

Posted on 2009-07-28, 02:06

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

cdoublejj wrote: huh, i see i have a slew of of the little buggers guess i will just keep them stored away. thanks for the info guys. ai whataobut games liek shadow warrior or duke nukem 3d? They have no CD audio, only MIDI - so the cable is completely useless for them 😀

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Re: Figured some of you ol..gurus might know what this isfor

Posted on 2009-07-27, 17:45

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So the answer is: yes, you will need it if you are running DOS games natively in DOS and no, you dont need it if you are running them from Windows 98 and higher DOS prompt. 😀

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Re: Can a Voodoo 2 8MB or 12MB be identified, physically?

Posted on 2009-07-27, 17:43

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes. The 8MB has fewer memory chips soldered on board. Mine's missing the 8 chips along the top on the back of the card, I'd assume most others using the reference design would be the same. Exactly. There are 8 missing chips on the 8mb version. This can be seen from a moving airplane, no need to …

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Re: 1990: What hardware were you using?

Posted on 2009-07-27, 17:22

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey, I had a 14" SVGA CTX monitor too. Did you know that CTX is an abbreviation for Chuntex? Sounds chunky. ;) Yeah, I did :) Chuntex electronics. I think my model was 1416 or something. It supported 1024x768, but at 56Hz only; 800x600 was at 60Hz and 640x480 at 75Hz. These resolutions worked only …

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