Re: Voodoo 5 5500
Posted on 2013-06-05, 21:39
mwdmeyer wrote: Yes I probably should have spent the money on more important things! Haha. Like a Voodoo 5 6000. 😉
Re: SSD lifetime
Posted on 2013-06-05, 21:37
by your logic, using the drives in a raid will extend their life by the number of drives in a array. granted, if you are writing equally across all 4 drives, but over time I would wager you will. Isn't the point of a RAID to have identical copies on all your drives so you have backups in case one …
Re: How many people actually use 1080p?
Posted on 2013-06-05, 15:26
You can pretty much blame the massive adoption of cheap laptops for low quality panel types too and especially the dominant 1366x768 sub-HD crap out there. If high quality high res desktop LCD's were the norm several years ago instead of super cheap laptop screens, I think there would have been a …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-06-05, 12:00
Artex wrote: sliderider wrote: Artex wrote: Twas worth it to me since I needed this one for my Real3D i740 collection. Just need the 24MB version now... 😜 You can't have mine!!! 😜 OK, maybe for a million dollars you can. 😁 Check you PMs! I did. I don't know which box it is packed away in right now. …
Re: ET game excavation confirmed by studio
Posted on 2013-06-05, 11:56
Jorpho wrote: Wait... Marty Goldberg! He presided over classicgaming.com during its decline many years ago. Just what has he been up to? He hangs out over at AtariAge.com a lot now.
Re: SiS video cards.
Posted on 2013-06-04, 23:23
The problem with the Xabre's is that they do Vertex stuff in software mode. I wonder how they perform in DirectX 7 games though. The Xabre 80/200/400 did vertex in software but the 600 added a hardware vertex unit and it was still slow. That's not stopping me from trying to find one, though. …
Re: ET game excavation confirmed by studio
Posted on 2013-06-04, 23:15
Marty Goldberg is one of the most respected people in the Atari fan community today. His word is pretty much gospel when it comes to knowledge of the old Atari corporation and it's products. I also don't see how they can excavate anything. The rumor has it that the whole dump site was capped with …
Re: SiS video cards.
Posted on 2013-06-04, 16:53
SiS cards were mainly entry level in terms of performance. Even their late offerings like the Xabre 600 weren't very good perfomers. The Xabre 600 couldn't even keep up with a GF4 MX440 runnning DX7 games on a consistent basis, and it was supposed to be a DX 8.1 compliant card. I can only imagine …
Re: IBM Etherjet ISA NIC Packet Driver problem
Posted on 2013-06-03, 15:35
wouldnt twisted pair suggest it needs a patch cable not cat 5 ? I'm not sure I understand your question here. Patch cables are normally made from CAT5, which is twisted pair. I think he means a round cable with BNC connectors and not a flat cable with RJ45 connectors. Like this http://www.cdw.com/ …
Re: Best AGP graphics card for around $50?
Posted on 2013-06-03, 12:57
For an AGP upgrade under $50 you're probably going to be looking at something in the range of an HD2600 Pro or XT or GeForce 7600 GS or GT and those may not necessarily be faster than the x1650 Pro in all things. They'll probably be mostly faster overall, though they won't blow you away. Anything …
Re: I've got a 386SX16 box in storage. What should I do with it?
Posted on 2013-06-02, 10:45
I actually have a 386SX-16 motherboard that is new in box. As slow as it is, and with the limited amount of memory that you can use with them, you probably won't be running many 386 era programs very well. My biggest problem is now that I have a motherboard to use with my 25mhz 286, I don't have …
Re: Voodoo 5 5500
Posted on 2013-06-02, 10:36
I have always pronounced it as the word AWE, but AWE is an acronym for "Advanced Wave Effects", so I think that A-W-E is a fair way to say it. Does anyone try to say CGA, EGA, VGA, IDE, VLB, PCI, USB or AGP as a word and not the letters? Some people do that for ISA (ice-a), but that is incorrect. …
Re: Celeron 300
Posted on 2013-06-02, 10:30
I ran a Covington 300 in my Deskpro 4000 a while back just to see how slow it would be. It was really bad. Windows 2000 took forever to load and it really killed game performance as well. The mouse pointer also skipped around the screen during heavy disk usage. My PII-300 felt a good 4-5x faster in …
Re: GREATEST GAME ...that you've never played !!
Posted on 2013-06-01, 11:12
I found a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-dvmY1VP18
Re: Just an important heads up
Posted on 2013-05-31, 21:34
Qbix wrote: In the not so far future, the vogons board will be upgraded and moved to a different domain. So don't be alarmed if you are being redirected or when things look a bit different.
Re: Voodoo 5 5500
Posted on 2013-05-31, 19:40
I just discovered this Voodoo 5 video on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqzC1tjRnQI Look at some of the ignorant comments by szederp and CPX7700. szederp's comments are particularly interesting. He doesn't even seem to know that P-III, Athlon era machines could still be considered DOS …
Re: Best S3 based card for PCI 486
Posted on 2013-05-31, 17:30
Were there any Trio3D PCI cards made?
Re: Epic Pinball scoreboard
Posted on 2013-05-31, 17:22
jwt27 wrote: Yeah it's a maybug.. If it's on schedule it should be gone by tomorrow 🤣 We're being overrun with these here at the moment.
Re: GREATEST GAME ...that you've never played !!
Posted on 2013-05-31, 17:20
With that avatar, nobody is ever going to see your post.
Re: Voodoo 5 5500
Posted on 2013-05-30, 20:58
Don't know the story of how he got so many. He may have bought them early on before the general public knew anything about them, in which case they would have just been junk and not worth much so he wouldn't have had to have been rich to get them.
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