Re: 486s seem to be a bit thin on the ground these days!

Posted on 2008-08-25, 12:10

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I clicked on a random item; "Generic 486 Tower PC" Shipping cost = US $542.33 :shocked: Try to find a seller in your country. Of course you need to be patient, but from time to time you can find really good offers. I recently bought a very nice, clean and complete 386 - working 'out of the box' and …

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Re: Guillemot Home Studio 64

Posted on 2008-08-22, 09:39

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Sigh....too many potential good cards have been suppressed by the Creative monsters. If only game companies have made efforts to support other proprietary sound technology, we would have been exposed to a wider selection of sound cards. Yes, it was nice, here: http://web.archive.org/web/ …

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Guillemot Home Studio 64

Posted on 2008-08-21, 19:00

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Just lost the bidding for a Guillemot Home Studio 64: http://www.allegro.pl/item417086800_profesjon … studio_pro.html Please, tell me it wasn't worth the money... 😢

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Re: MT-32/SC-55 on an MX300

Posted on 2008-08-20, 10:19

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Guess I will have to try if it works. Will there be problems if I connect the Yamaha DB to the Waveblaster header and an MT-32 to the gameport if the game will send sysex commands? Or when I connect the old version of MT-32 to the 'thru' port of a CM-32L unit and run a game, which can't handle the …

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Re: MT-32/SC-55 on an MX300

Posted on 2008-08-15, 22:54

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Thanks for reply. I begun to lose hope, that someone will answer :). But I have another question. I read about the MT-32 on this forum and I have found many posts suggesting to use it with those MPU cards. Is it really necessary? Are there games which won't work through a GamePort? Also, are there …

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Re: very bad disc problem

Posted on 2008-08-08, 21:33

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You can try Displex . Although it explicitly states on the it, that it is not intended for CD's, I gave it a try, and my badly scratched CD is like new. (The scratches prevented it being read by everything - more than a half of the songs were unplayable. After polishing it I ripped it with Exact …

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Re: Windows 98SE and Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2008-08-07, 21:19

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On most drives you can use a jumper to cap the available space. I know that you lose some space, but drives are today extremely cheap and 127 GB is still a lot. I always hate installing drivers for IDE controllers because I always had troubles with OSs installed on non-generic controllers. …

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Re: Creative CT6710 (Nvidia Riva TNT 16mb)

Posted on 2008-08-05, 18:19

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It won't unleash its full potential with a Pentium. But if there aren't any compatibility issues it shouldn't be a problem.

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Re: The ultimate video card?

Posted on 2008-08-02, 18:53

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Oh yeah, I remember this advertisement. Quite funny 😀

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Re: Throttle CD-ROM drive speed in DOS?

Posted on 2008-08-01, 20:49

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Plextor writers had the possibility to throttle called 'Silent Mode'. You could use their tools in Windows to set the read and write velocity. The changes were written to the burners flash memory, so it was persisted even in another PC. I use it with my Plextor Premium - throttled it down to 8x, but …

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MT-32/SC-55 on an MX300

Posted on 2008-08-01, 10:15

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Will I be able to use the MT-32 or the SC-55 on a midi cable attached to the GamePort on a Diamond Monster Sound MX300? Won't it conflict with a DB60XG board attached to the WaveBlaster header?

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Re: CD/DVD-ROM audio cable - number of wires

Posted on 2008-07-29, 20:58

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The one with 3 wires lacks one of the 'Ground' wires (usually the black ones). As far as I know, one 'Ground' wire is enough.

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Re: nVidia 6800 or ATI 9800?

Posted on 2008-07-07, 18:41

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6800 is the faster one. I don't think there will be visible differences in sharpness unless you buy a really no name or damaged card. I personally use ATI 9800 Pro while my brother the 6800 and there are much more issues with nVidia and older games than with the ATI - but we run them with Windows …

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Re: 3D cards in 486s

Posted on 2008-07-06, 21:12

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The pre-GPU cards accelerated only a part of the rendering pipeline and they benefit a lot from faster CPU's. This is true for the Voodoo - I just checked a review of the Monster 3D and they recommend at least P100.

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Re: Sound daughterboards: how many of them are there?

Posted on 2008-07-06, 20:54

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Did anyone test the Terratec Wave XTable? It is probably the most recent one so it might be good.

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Re: Proprietary 3D API's

Posted on 2008-04-30, 08:04

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There was a Vesa Local Bus version as well. It was based around a completely different chipset (3D Labs' Glint 3D). I don't know which API was used. It would be quite hard to find. But it seems that at least Creative's Verite based PCI cards support it. Maybe it would be possible to trick the game …

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Re: Proprietary 3D API's

Posted on 2008-04-28, 14:28

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There was also Creative Lab's own "Creative Graphics Library" (CGL) API for their rendition based 3D Blaster PCI. I recall Bjorn's 3D World was one of the main enthusiast sites for rendition cards at the time. There's a list of games at a web archive of the page >here< that shows which ones …

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Re: Proprietary 3D API's

Posted on 2008-04-28, 09:33

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There's also Glide support too. i also thought so until I read this (last sentence). i remember the box for my mystique it listed b-Render as a supported api BRender is more like DirectX or OpenGL - it runs on various hardware and I'm looking for API's that work only on hardware from the API …

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Re: Proprietary 3D API's

Posted on 2008-04-26, 21:02

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I don't know... maybe you could download the patch from www.patches-scrolls.de and check it with ATI. And I remember playing Final Fantasy VII with ATI and Voodoo cards. There are some patches that would help (1.04), but my Geforce 7900 can not do 8 bit textures, so I can not set the hardware …

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Re: Proprietary 3D API's

Posted on 2008-04-26, 20:33

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Hardware acceleration in Final Fantasy VII PC is likewise only compatible with a very small range of cards, including the Rage Pro. FFVII uses DirectX AFAIK - it can be launched even on modern cards although it states it's only Riva 128/TNT compatible. (I managed to run it accelerated on Radeon …

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