Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-07-25, 07:40

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someone actually won a brand new AWE64 on ebay recently... not sure who it was... not worth the money in my book! I'll gladly pay that much for an AWE64 Gold though http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330761906905 Ouch! I'll bet he was praying for a sniper as the last few seconds …

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Re: Cyrix MII-433GP Build

Posted on 2012-07-24, 23:55

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Odd that both 83x3 and 100x2.5 variants were granted the same PR rating of 333. I'd have expected 100x2.5 to be slightly better, but I guess there wasn't another standard Pentium frequency between 300 and 350, other than 333. Also strange that the 233 MHz part is still listed as 300. and the PR366 …

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Re: New computers with an IDT WinChip or Rise mP6?

Posted on 2012-07-24, 22:06

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As far as I know, the Rise mp6 was only sold in Asia so there probably won't be too many people here who remember using one back then. Did you buy the Rise mP6 new or used? If new, what country did you purchase it in? Did you buy the Rise mP6 retail in the USA, second-hand in the USA, or on eBay? …

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2012-07-24, 21:30

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FGB wrote: The MX was the better 2D chip compared with the ProMotion. You're wrong, actually. The Alliance Semiconductor chip was better. 3DFX only used the MX because Macronix was the lowest bidder.

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Re: to buy or not to buy

Posted on 2012-07-24, 21:27

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What's the price? If the price is good enough, why not? You never know when you'll get a good price on a motherboard down the road that can use it. I can't even begin to list all the things I have bought that I don't have a system to put into because the price was right. If worse comes to worst and …

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2012-07-24, 20:27

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Here's a strange, unknown type of 3dfx card to me: http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCI3DFX-6M-3-Dim-Graphic-Card-by-3dfx-Interactive-inc-WARRANTY-/250925783340?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item3a6c57992c#ht_3875wt_1163 Kind of pricey for a non-Voodoo 5 don'tcha think?? It's a Voodoo Rush. And to make matters …

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Re: Introducing the 3dfx Voodoo 590

Posted on 2012-07-24, 20:26

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With the advances in miniaturization that have taken place since the time of the V5 you could probably fit several VSA-100 chips on the same silicon that one took up back in 2000 along with modern shaders.

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Re: Diamond Edge 3D 3240

Posted on 2012-07-24, 11:55

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Crap. Perhaps Jedi Knight will run though, it was less hardware demanding that Shadows of the Empire which was released a year earlier. For example, I'm fairly certain SotE not only required 3D Hardware, but would refuse to run on an S3 Virge and Matrox Millennium II/Mystique. In contrast, these …

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Re: 133 MHz Challenge - 5th/6th gen CPU per clock performance

Posted on 2012-07-24, 11:35

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i have coppermine and tualatin engineering samples with unlocked multiplier, but yes, the minimum multiplier you can set is 4x. i have no mendocino ES so i am not sure if its the same way, and if it has do with socket370 signal definitions. So they shouldn't be used for purposes of this test …

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Re: 133 MHz Challenge - 5th/6th gen CPU per clock performance

Posted on 2012-07-24, 11:32

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How would you account for the chips that can't be run at 133mhz like the 60-66mhz Pentiums or the Nexgen chips? It wouldn't be a fair comparison to include them at all. You can;t always make a straight line extrapolation as to how fast these chips would be if if you could bump up the frequency …

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Re: Dos easy installation CD

Posted on 2012-07-24, 11:05

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Once you have DOS installed on one machine, can you do a network install if you need to install it on another machine?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-07-24, 10:51

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I picked up an Atari Mega ST 4 with an Adspeed ST installed. :D It's interesting how they designed it. They put a 16mhz 68000 on a small circuit board with some cache RAM chips under the 68000 and it plugs into the 68000 socket on the motherboard. It operates like any other CPU with a cache and the …

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Re: RAMdrive for DOS/Win3.1

Posted on 2012-07-23, 19:22

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Would it be possible to put your swap file on a ramdisk to save wear and tear on a CF drive? And if you have more memory than your system can cache will it still cause the system to slow down if the memory that isn't cached is partitioned as a ramdisk and not normally accessible? Why locate it in …

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Re: RAMdrive for DOS/Win3.1

Posted on 2012-07-23, 14:15

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Would it be possible to put your swap file on a ramdisk to save wear and tear on a CF drive? And if you have more memory than your system can cache will it still cause the system to slow down if the memory that isn't cached is partitioned as a ramdisk and not normally accessible?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-07-23, 10:26

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In the bottom left, is that a PCI to PCIe adaptor with a Voodoo card in it? That's what it is.Too bad it's not a PCI to AGP adapter. Those are impossible to get anymore. wtf? those existed? damn, where were you when I needed one? that would solve the problem of putting any newer video card into my …

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Re: Diamond Edge 3D 3240

Posted on 2012-07-22, 19:34

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I did some more digging and found a Edge3D v2.30 driver that does indeed have D3D support. http://www.connectworld.net/iecnet/Downloads/Drivers/ACC7210-2/ Known Limitations Direct3D applications that access the EDGE 3D HAL drivers may demonstrate some problems. There are quality issues with the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-07-22, 12:35

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SquallStrife wrote: subhuman@xgtx wrote: new toys xD http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2563/img0198ma.jpg In the bottom left, is that a PCI to PCIe adaptor with a Voodoo card in it? That's what it is.Too bad it's not a PCI to AGP adapter. Those are impossible to get anymore.

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Re: AWEstruck...

Posted on 2012-07-21, 18:00

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I played a bit of Descent on a SB32 (ct1600) a while ago, i recall thinking how surprisingly good the music was with an awe card. I tried descent recently with a sc55 and was under the impression that i liked it better back then with the awe32. CT1600 isn't a real AWE32, it's the budget model with …

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Re: New computers with an IDT WinChip or Rise mP6?

Posted on 2012-07-21, 15:42

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The Winchip was mainly an upgrade chip for early Pentiums. It was a good way to extend the life of a Pentium 75 or 90 system but couldn't compare to a real Pentium 200MMX. It was also used in internet appliances and would have been a good laptop chip with it's lower heat output and power consumption …

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Re: New computers with an IDT WinChip or Rise mP6?

Posted on 2012-07-21, 12:31

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As far as I know, the Rise mp6 was only sold in Asia so there probably won't be too many people here who remember using one back then.

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