Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-05, 15:32

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Interesting how that machine had a much more recent Radeon HD4350 graphics card in it, but the Voodoo1 was kept in there besides it. That implies that the previous owner was into retro gaming. Which makes you wonder why they didn't realize the worth of the Voodoo card alone when they sold this rig. …

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Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2022-02-05, 15:25

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2022-02-05, 15:19: In 20+ years everyone will be able to on their kitchen table. Very much doubtful. We've already effed up flying cars and hoverboards. Hey now, don't count out flying cars just yet. The Swedes are on it! 😉

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Re: Nostalgic media thread: old pictures and videos of computer fairs, trade shows, magazine ads, TV commercials, etc.

Posted on 2022-02-05, 15:19

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That's okay. I don't object to non-English content being shared here, as long as it's on-topic. The nostalgia and zeitgeist can still be experienced, even when you don't understand the language. For instance, there is a Dutch tech journalist and entrepeneur named Luc Sala who shared some of is old …

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2022-02-05, 15:03

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There's a possibility that it doesn't have to use NMI to do it but can also use a regular IRQ. NMI is just one of the IRQs in the selection list of all the IRQs that GUS can use. I think we can rule that out, since the MEGAEM.TXT file states the following: Note that most protected mode software …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-05, 11:25

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Nice catch, @RaiderOfLostVoodoo! It's good to see that some good deals on eBay can still be had sometimes, if you pay attention. :wink: By the way, I remember Diamond being the most premium brand of 3dfx Voodoo cards (at least in Europe), right up until they merged with S3. I remember being baffled …

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2022-02-05, 11:20

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Got it, thanks for clarifying. That just leaves the question of why later versions of MEGAEM (used with GUS 3.xx boards) work with protected mode games without having to patch or replace their DOS extenders, but AWEUTIL still requires something like DOS32AWE to accomplish the same thing.

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through

Posted on 2022-02-05, 10:23

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No mention of M1 Macs support? Not so good then... I'll wait until it gets there. Grover is built on top of Gallium3D, which ties it to operating systems that use Mesa/Gallium3D-based graphics drivers, most notably Linux. The only way I could see this working on macOS, would be by stacking Grover …

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Re: Nostalgic media thread: old pictures and videos of computer fairs, trade shows, magazine ads, TV commercials, etc.

Posted on 2022-02-05, 00:11

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There's at least one dedicated Twitter about it. https://twitter.com/CompStoreVisual Ah yes, this is exactly the kind of stuff I'm talking about. Thanks for sharing! :relaxed: But I'm also curious about memories that fellow Vogoners have to share about similar events that they themselves attended …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-04, 23:56

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Thanks for sharing those pictures! It must have felt like a golden age in those years. I mean, it was just a few years after computer technology from the west became so widely available there, right? It looks like a vibrant user-base sprung out of that almost overnight. I just realized that this …

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Nostalgic media thread: old pictures and videos of computer fairs, trade shows, magazine ads, TV commercials, etc.

Posted on 2022-02-04, 23:55

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I saw a similar thread dedicated to this topic in the Dutch GoT forum , and after seeing HanJammer post some cool pictures of outdoor computer markets in Poland in the '90s in the `Bought these (retro) hardware today` thread , I figured this stuff deserved of a topic of its own here on Vogons as …

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Re: ega cga vga

Posted on 2022-02-04, 23:27

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Yes, that is possible! Many (although not all) of these monitors have a 9-pin port often labeled "TTL" or something. You can connect CGA and EGA cards directly to those. As for VGA, that can be made to work with RGB SCART monitors and TVs as well, but it will require a scan doubler an active adapter …

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Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2022-02-04, 22:33

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I see it more or less like this: Resources on Earth are limited, so in order to make new stuff, we have at some point to use materials from existing stuff. That won't be a problem once we start mining asteroids. :grin: And really won't be when the drones fail to hit the asteroid. :grin: Just mine …

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Re: New 3dfx Glide API implementation called "Grover" to be integrated in Linux

Posted on 2022-02-04, 22:29

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Sounds good to me! The more help we can get on the Linux side, the better it is for the retro gaming community. Linux is rather complicated, but the results for retro gaming can be awesome, if the emulation of 3D video and audio hardware/software that are no longer in use can be perfected. Linux is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-04, 22:05

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I remember when they came out and I always joked about these drives with my friends when we were visiting so called "Grzybowska" - a local computer market here in Warsaw. I have such nostalgic memories about computer fairs back in the day. That's where you'd always go to get good deals, before …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-04, 20:49

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Ps. You're wrong about the bigfoot, it's an awesome drive! Slow and cheap, lots of MB for the cash back in the day :D Agreed! It's the only old school hard drive that tickles my nostalgia nerves. :grin: There was just something about the form factor, the neat looking rectangular slab of metal, and …

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2022-02-04, 18:52

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GUS can output NMI for only SB stuff, it doesn't for its MIDI accesses. Rather it allows signalling of NMI on MIDI UART accesses, there is still no MPU401 compatibility natively. MIDI UART of GF1 is unused and one in GF1D1 is used instead. Perhaps I misunderstood, but those two statements seem …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through

Posted on 2022-02-04, 15:22

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So there's a new Glide implementation in town (at least on Linux), called Grover . It's built on Gallium3D, effectively enabling it at the driver level, at least for GPUs that have Gallium3D-based drivers. (That means basically everything modern, except the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and Intel's …

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2022-02-04, 13:49

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3.xx cards stop using the MIDI UART in the main GF1 chipset and use one in GF1D1 so I it seems this is the reason why it can work with the later cards then. 2.xx definitely do not have this available. Ah, so the GF1D1 on the newer GUS revisions just makes it available on the regular I/O port 330h? …

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New 3dfx Glide API implementation called "Grover" to be integrated in Linux

Posted on 2022-02-04, 13:42

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Have you guys read this yet? A developer called Link Mauve is working on a Rust-based Glide API implementation front-end for Mesa Gallium3D , and he intends to have it merged upstream, and to maintain it going forward. That would mean a native and integrated Glide implementation in Linux, that both …

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Re: Games with Adlib as an option for sound effects

Posted on 2022-02-04, 12:36

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I think this discussion is conflating two distinct questions here: Games that supported the Adlib FM synthesizer for non-sampled sound effects Games that supported the Adlib FM synthesizer for sampled audio playback (using the special tricks that Cyberdyne referred to, the same way as certain MOD …

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