Re: Advice on Tualatin board

Posted on 2012-08-23, 23:24

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I'll be running a Tualatin 1.4 S and Win98SE. The aim is to play games all the way to 2002 or so. I've had a couple of i815 boards and they're awesome, but my only experience with the Apollo Pro 133 wasn't that bad either. Was using one on a Slot 1 board. What has really scarred me for life on Via …

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Re: Advice on Tualatin board

Posted on 2012-08-23, 17:25

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Well, 512mb is all I'm going to use anyway 😜 You sure about the 4in1 thingy? Hope that's true!

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Advice on Tualatin board

Posted on 2012-08-23, 15:24

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Hey guys, basically, I'm given the choice of picking a GA-6VTXE or an Abit ST6. Both support the Tualatin CPUs and the GA-6VTXE has an extra ISA slot which could potentially prove very useful! I could just plug in a Sound Blaster AWE32 or AWE64 and use it under DOS. However, the GA-6VTXE is using a …

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Re: Ever seen a Socket7 motherboard with 30 pin SIMMs?

Posted on 2012-08-21, 17:48

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Wow. God bless SiS and their weird niche products 😜

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Re: Ouya open source console. Another Indrema?

Posted on 2012-08-20, 00:39

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Definitely is interesting, can't wait to see it released 😁

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Re: The ideal 80s-90s gaming machine

Posted on 2012-08-19, 14:59

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BTW, I have Voodoo 2 SLI in a PII-266 right now. I'm probably pretty CPU limited, I need to move these to a PIII. :lol: Totally. Used to have Voodoo 2 SLI on a PII-233. I made the jump to a PIII-500 and saw a huge gain in performance! Later I went to a PIII-1GHz and the Voodoo 2 SLI scaled a little …

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Re: 3D Acceleration Comparison Episodes

Posted on 2012-08-17, 14:06

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I really appreciate these! Keep em coming!

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Re: Do you like your MMO's retro? They don't get more retro than this.

Posted on 2012-08-16, 11:42

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A 486 with 8mb RAM was probably the hardware requirements for Meridian 59. However, like Mystery said it has been updated to support 3d Acceleration. I'm pretty sure it requires a DX6 compatible Video card.

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Re: Do you like your MMO's retro? They don't get more retro than this.

Posted on 2012-08-16, 01:48

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I remember watching the trailer on the Heroes of Might & Magic 2 CDROM and thinking that it looked awesome! I think I tried playing it 3-4 years ago 😜

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Re: Quake 3 vs Unreal Tournament

Posted on 2012-08-12, 23:16

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The ultimate battle huh? Well, I gotta say, I love both games equally. Quake 3 offers a much more fast paced experience. Free for all deathmatch FTW! Unreal Tournament is much more varied, it is fun in its own right. I think UT2k4 is arguably the best game, although UT99 is the most nostalgic for me …

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Re: Command & Conquer nintendo 64

Posted on 2012-08-12, 22:55

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There was also Starcraft 64 on the N64 and Warcraft II Saga for the PS1 and Saturn. Who the hell played those!? :P N64 emulation isn't 100% perfect but it's doing pretty good, especially compared to some other efforts (Atari Jaguar, yikes!). I really can't stand the video signal of the N64 or SNES. …

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Re: Modern sound card with waveblaster header?

Posted on 2012-08-08, 01:03

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Ah, thanks these are very useful! I'll probably follow the schematics that are inside one of the zip files! Much appreciated 😁

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Re: Modern sound card with waveblaster header?

Posted on 2012-08-07, 14:17

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That sounds kinda dangerous!!! Care to elaborate more with a tutorial of some sorts? I've seen diy synth boxes based around this for general medi. It safe and works but won't look pretty to the eyes unless the work is good. I'm ok with not looking good :P I'd like to see more of those boxes, if …

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Re: Modern sound card with waveblaster header?

Posted on 2012-08-05, 18:44

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That sounds kinda dangerous!!! Care to elaborate more with a tutorial of some sorts?

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Re: Fastest motherboard that accepts a Voodoo 5500?

Posted on 2012-08-05, 12:09

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No way it was a Pentium 4, since these were all using AGP4x. Your best bet would be something like a Via KT266. So, the fastest processor you could use would be an Athlon XP 2600+ AFAIK. Unless you got yourself a PCI one of course, which you can even use on latest machines!

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Re: Modern sound card with waveblaster header?

Posted on 2012-08-04, 21:10

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Yes, this seems like an awesome deal, although they don't ship outside the US and only other cards I found charged 40$ to ship to Europe 🙁

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Modern sound card with waveblaster header?

Posted on 2012-08-04, 18:34

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I've been using my Aureal Vortex 2 in conjuction with my NEC XR385 for some time now in Win7 x32. The reason for this is of course the MIDI capabilities the XR385 offers! However, I can't use the card in Win7 x64. There simply aren't any 64bit drivers :( The idea is to find a modern or semi modern …

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Re: My DOS/Windows 98SE PC

Posted on 2012-08-02, 13:01

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80 pounds for a LAPC-I is quite a steal. You lucky dog you, have fun! 😁

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Re: 10th Anniversary

Posted on 2012-08-01, 19:53

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Awesome 😁

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Re: 3DO Blaster Help

Posted on 2012-08-01, 15:28

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Mystery might be able to help you, I'm pretty sure he has a working 3DO Blaster with the included manuals/disks whatever. Send him a PM!

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