Re: My "new" Glide system

Posted on 2010-02-28, 00:11

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fillosaurus wrote: In pure DOS mode I cannot use my Philips PSC703 soundcard; although the drivers load and report ok, no game can see it. This could be an IRQ issue... Is the sound cards IRQ higher than 10? I'm pretty sure for pure Dos mode the IRQ needs to be set to 10 or lower to work.

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Re: My "new" Glide system

Posted on 2010-02-25, 10:55

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WolverineDK wrote: fillosaurus: you can always clean out the yellow with "retro brite" or hot water and soap if you prefer. I say keep it yellow... it adds to the "retro'ness" 😁

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Re: Current rig.

Posted on 2010-02-24, 10:32

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You know i did a quick and dirty over clock with some good stress testing and i'm running my phenom 2 940 @ 3.6 ghz should be the same as the 965. once foxconn puts out a good bios, i might go through and spend some real time over clocking. i'm waiting for the 16gb ram kit prices to drop and the …

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Thinking about selling one of my PC's...

Posted on 2010-02-23, 17:40

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Ok I'm starting to slim down my excessive PC collection and the first one to go is a nice little gaming rig with a new motherboard fitted :happy: It's in immaculate condition (as new) and works perfectly! (does not include OS and the hard drive will be wiped for the new owner). Here are the specs: * …

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Re: AMD or Intel into 486 vga test machine?

Posted on 2010-02-23, 17:31

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by PowerPie5000

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I would use the Intel DX4-100 CPU over the AMD variants. I'm not sure the DMA settings make a difference (choose one that is not conflicting with your sound card). Also i think the bus speed will depend on what CPU you decide to use. As for the environment i would use pure DOS (a clean installl of …

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Re: Current rig.

Posted on 2010-02-23, 17:26

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I'll continue to hold out for a Geforce 300 card, I like smooth performance and AA at 1920x1080 and the Geforce 300 series looks to be the most likely to easily achieve that in graphically intense games.. I think Nvidia will have to get it right with the 300 series to top ATI's 5970... That card is …

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Re: DOS vga recommendation

Posted on 2010-02-20, 01:31

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How about Trident video cards? I have an old 4mb (or could be 8mb?) Trident 3D Image 9750 around here somewhere... Does anyone know if they are any good for Dos gaming? I'm going to root through my big box of old hardware and see what i find 🤣

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Re: DOS vga recommendation

Posted on 2010-02-19, 09:39

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Has anyone tried out one of the old PowerVR chips with Dos? I'm talking about the PCX-1/2, Neon 250 and Kyro 1/2 chips 😀

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Re: DOS vga recommendation

Posted on 2010-02-19, 01:23

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What! No mention of the famous (or infamous) Cirrus Logic chips? I remember many oem 486 and early Pentium PC's were plagued with these things. My 486 DX4-100 system is using a 1mb Cirrus VLB card and it's actually not that bad for Dos games. I find it better than the Cirrus chip i had in my old …

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Re: Global disease of old computer lovers

Posted on 2010-02-18, 02:11

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Amigaz wrote: PowerPie5000 wrote: I'm from England, United Kingdom 😀 You mean "Great Britain" 😁 😉 Nope, just England... I don't live in Scotland or Wales 😁 I was actually born in Germany though 🤣

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Re: Motherboard mega-sale

Posted on 2010-02-15, 17:17

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How much would shipping cost to the UK for one of those boards? I'm interested in the "MSI 486 MS-4144" board :cool: EDIT: Ok just logged into my Ebay UK account and it shows postage as £5.75 to the UK ($9.00) :happy: Please read the iauction description, the calculated shipping cost is false …

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Re: Global disease of old computer lovers

Posted on 2010-02-14, 16:28

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I'm from England, United Kingdom 😀

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Re: How can I get Carmageddon Max PAck in Hi-res?

Posted on 2010-02-14, 16:23

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1. My Max Pack does support -hires in software mode (using the regular non-3dfx executable) and it's clearly specified in the official readme. Yet another limitation in the UK version I wasn't aware of :disapproving Maybe different revisions were released? The UK version shouldn't be any worse than …

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Re: Motherboard mega-sale

Posted on 2010-02-07, 02:48

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How much would shipping cost to the UK for one of those boards? I'm interested in the "MSI 486 MS-4144" board 😎 EDIT: Ok just logged into my Ebay UK account and it shows postage as £5.75 to the UK ($9.00) 😀

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Re: How can I get Carmageddon Max PAck in Hi-res?

Posted on 2010-02-07, 02:41

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I will say it again...The original "Max Pack" version does not support the -hires line! It will only run in 640x480 (hires) if you have a 3DFX card installed. The original Carmageddon and Splat Pack work fine on my old PIII system in hires mode using both software and 3DFX Glide. It does mention in …

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Re: my games

Posted on 2010-02-07, 02:31

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Lucasarts "Outlaws" is a great game and one that i had totally forgotten about! I must find it again 😀

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Re: Paused game -> hot (noisy) gfx card

Posted on 2010-02-07, 02:27

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Some Nvidia and ATI cards also emit a "squealing" noise in the Crysis menu's (and some other games too). Enabling v-sync will just limit the framerate to whatever the monitor refresh rate is set to (60hz = 60fps, 70hz = 70fps etc...) and it also gets rid of that horrible texture/screen tearing …

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Re: 386 motherboard with a vesa slot

Posted on 2010-02-07, 02:18

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by PowerPie5000

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I saw the external battery option too. I am definitely going to use that because I don't know how to replace a barrel battery. What voltage external battery should I use I wonder. I'm just using an external 3V lithium cell and it's working fine :happy: the original battery was a 3.6V barrel type …

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Re: My new PC build thread

Posted on 2010-01-28, 23:28

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http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3241/pic0197.jpg the quantum force bios is really cool it even gives you complements when you o […] Show full quote the quantum force bios is really cool it even gives you complements when you over clock. Have you updated your bios yet as your CPU is showing as " …

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Re: Current rig.

Posted on 2010-01-06, 14:23

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i bought a 940 deneb an oced to 3.6 ghz i was hoping for 4ghz. might buy a 965 some day before they ditch am2/am3. I think the AM3 platform will be sticking around for a while... there's still the Phenom II 975, 985 BE and the new "Thuban" 6 core CPU to appear on the AM3 platform. There is also the …

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