Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2014-07-13, 02:22

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leileilol wrote: It's not just a pincushion effect... Then what is it that bends the corners to look like the curvature of a CRT? Sure looks like the same effect that I get when I play with the pincushion adjustment on my LCD monitor.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 18:52

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I shopped for an unlocked iPhone 3GS on ebay. Does that count? 3GS is ancient by today's standards.

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Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 18:12

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You'll never emulate a CRT properly until you can emulate reflections off of the glass, glare and such. All you're doing is adding a pincushion effect to make it seem like a curved CRT monitor. An LCD will never feel like a CRT.

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Re: Turtlebeach Montego II (Vortex 2) S/PDIF Pinout?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 10:57

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That's a Quadzilla in the first picture. If you don't already have the S/PDIF board, it's not likely you will find one separately. You also need a special driver as the generic one for the Montego II by itself won't enable digital output or quad stereo. EDIT A quick search on ebay and I could not …

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Re: Help identifying sound cards

Posted on 2014-07-12, 03:51

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The Media Vision isn't a Pro Sonic 16 because it doesn't have a SCSI connector. Here is a Pro Sonic 16 (pic taken from another Vogons thread) http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/2889/dsc02991e.jpg It's not my pic, but I also have one just like this but not the CD ROM drive that it came bundled with.

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Re: Voodoo Banshee AGP or Voodoo 5 5500 PCI?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 03:44

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obobskivich wrote: That's a universal AGP slot - it should work with 3.3V or 1.5V cards (universal AGP slots are supposed to). Yeah, they're SUPPOSED to, but would you take a chance with a Voodoo 5? I'd try booting it up with some crappy old 3.3v card first that won't be such a big loss if it burns …

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Re: 386 & 486 laptops with proper sound cards?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 03:43

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I'm just curious, Not so long ago gotten into DOS gaming on laptops, it started with an AST Premium Exec and later a couple of 486's but the limited sound capabilities made me wonder, did they ever have laptops that came with on-board sound cards, specifically the Pre-Pentium era? I have never seen …

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Re: Thrift store finds? (Software)

Posted on 2014-07-12, 03:39

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Goodwill typical destroys vintage gear for the metal value (even though the base value for the metal is at multi year lows) so what little they put out isn't that great. Or else they throw it in a bin in the back room for an electronics recycling firm to pick up. Once the computers go into the bin, …

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Re: School me on graphics card RAM upgrades

Posted on 2014-07-10, 18:01

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My ATI Graphics Pro Turbo boasts 16 million colors at 1280 x 1024 with 4mb RAM but according to the box uses a dithering technique at that resolution. It will do it without resorting to any trickery in 1024 x 768 though. The box for my Graphics Xpression says it can do 16 million colors at 800 x 600 …

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Re: Best/optimal computer to play Comanche Maximum Overkill. ( FOUND IT! )

Posted on 2014-07-10, 13:26

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Have you tried using the ISA card trick on other games that run way too fast on newer hardware to see if it slows them down, too?

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Player reaches level 90 in WoW without ever leaving the starting zone

Posted on 2014-07-08, 21:46

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http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/06/23/world-of-wa … =zergnet_203288 Kind of reminds me of the South Park episode where the boys reached maximum level hunting boars. 🤣

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Re: ATI Mac OS 9 july 2005 update needed

Posted on 2014-07-08, 15:03

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Is this a PC card that has been flashed with a Mac ROM? It might be a bad flash if it is or maybe 9250 is different enough from the 9200 that the same driver won't work because I have two beige Powermacs (7500 and 7600) with 9200 LE cards pulled from Xserve's that work fine with that driver. Here's …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2014-07-08, 04:42

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Got Dungeons and Dragons Stronghold and Legends of Valour, both complete in boxes.

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Re: ATI Mac OS 9 july 2005 update needed

Posted on 2014-07-08, 04:40

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Here's a link to a driver for the 9200. See if that works. http://gona.mactar.hu/ATI_Mac/ATI_Radeon_9200 … _-_OS_9.sit.hqx

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Re: Your Favorite Game Bundles / Compilations on CD-ROM

Posted on 2014-07-08, 02:21

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I recently bought the Interplay 10th Anniversary and 15th Anniversary anthologies. There's some good games there that would cost a lot of money to buy big box versions of like Wasteland and Fallout. The Lost Treasures of Infocom volumes 1 and 2 are worth buying if you can get them cheaply enough. …

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Re: ATI Mac OS 9 july 2005 update needed

Posted on 2014-07-07, 03:43

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What you need is Mac OS 9.2.2. That is the only version of Mac OS 9 that the 9200 will work with. http://lowendmac.com/video/pci/radeon-9200.html

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Re: What TV shows are you watching now?

Posted on 2014-07-07, 03:38

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I'm really into Hunter these last few days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMVE9honbJA Last night I finished watching episode 17 of the 1st season. I believe the whole show is on Youtube which saves me the hassle of downloading it :-) I tried watching an episode of Hill Street Blues but I found it …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2014-07-07, 03:28

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World of Warcraft.

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Re: What TV shows are you watching now?

Posted on 2014-07-06, 03:54

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I just recently discovered Burn Notice in syndication. I'd heard of it before but never watched it. It sort of reminds me of the feeling that I get watching a Transporter movie.

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Re: ASUS CUV4X-D dual Socket 370

Posted on 2014-07-06, 03:43

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Nice looking board. Out of curiosity, are you planning to do anything with the AGP Pro capabilities? The cards that fully supported AGP Pro were mainly FireGL cards and such. The Powermac G5 PCI-X models used an AGP Pro slot and there were some Radeons and GeForces that fit in those, but I'm not …

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