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Re: Collectible video cards

Posted on 2011-05-11, 18:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I really don't think there's much listed here that is particularly collection worthy - Voodoo 1 as perhaps the example that kick started the industry, maybe the Geforce 256. Other than that, there's nothing really remarkable that stands out... certainly nothing I would believe that could justify …

Re: Method for building static SVN under OS X no longer works?

Posted on 2011-05-11, 18:02

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

Looks like you don't have libpng header files available on your system: /usr/bin/g++-4.2 -arch i386 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../include -I/opt/local/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_THREAD_SAFE -O2 -mdynamic-no-pic -arch i386 -MT hardware.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/hardware.Tpo -c -o hardware.o …

Re: Power Mac G4

Posted on 2011-05-09, 11:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got a Beige G3 tower Power Mac, a Blue G3 iMac and a G4 eMac. Of the three, only the G4 gets used (as a browser/recipe finder on the kitchen worktop) - the rest are just too slow running any version of OS X (including all the way back to 10.2 on the G3 tower).

Re: Install Gravis Ultrasound Properly, All files, No Errors (With Pictures!)

Posted on 2011-05-08, 17:21

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I think it's actually the exception, rather than the rule, that games supplied their own patches for the Ultrasound. You certainly won't get any music out of, say, any of the Doom series (or Doom-tech games like Heretic/Hexen) without an Ultrasnd directory and patches. Besides the flaming, this was …

Re: USB mouse and DOS feasible?

Posted on 2011-05-08, 09:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are various versions of the Microsoft Optical/Intellimouse that are dual USB/PS2 compatible - I've got one here that states explicitly on the underside it supports both... the part number is X802652. What I *would* like to find though, is another Logitech Trackman Wheel - the old white one …

Re: Install Gravis Ultrasound Properly, All files, No Errors (With Pictures!)

Posted on 2011-05-08, 09:50

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I think it's actually the exception, rather than the rule, that games supplied their own patches for the Ultrasound. You certainly won't get any music out of, say, any of the Doom series (or Doom-tech games like Heretic/Hexen) without an Ultrasnd directory and patches. Back when I first got my …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-08, 09:03

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Seeing as both the ISO device driver and mscdex replacement are both dynamically loadable and unloadable I was planning on scripting a few batch files for CDROM games that install to the HD but use/or-check that the cdrom is actually present. Something like... tie.bat: c:\fdos\SHSUCDHD.exe d:\iso\sw …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-08, 08:42

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

[...] Storage is currently just a single 500GB IDE as I'm trying to make it a bit more practical by using ISO images (via Daemon tools in Win98 and in DOS via SHSUCDX.exe; still experimenting there!) - though I'm adding a CF bay, and of course there's the gigabit ethernet to pull anything large …

Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI Virge 86C325 VGA card, quick test

Posted on 2011-05-08, 07:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wonder if it has anything to do with the MPEG daughterboard? I've never seen one in action though.

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-08, 06:57

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The 2.26 Northwood only has a tdp of around 52w (similar to my Pentium Pro 200 which only had a heatsink, not a hsf, and one 80mm case fan), so it's actually not that bad - quite warm, but certainly not dangerously hot. I'm looking to put the top Northwood - the 3.06GHz - in there, and will …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-07, 23:34

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Finally got some pictures of my current retro system today: Case is an old Fujitsu that bears no relation to the current internals iBase MB800H industrial P4 motherboard (i845GE) Northwood 2.26GHz P4 2 x 512MB DDR333 AGP MSI Geforce FX5600 128MB PCI Intel Pro 1000MT NIC PCI Diamond Monster 3D 4MB …

Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI Virge 86C325 VGA card, quick test

Posted on 2011-05-07, 23:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey, what's the additional output connector on your Stealth 3D 2000? I've got one I've had from new - but it doesn't have that additional jack.

Re: Gravis Ultrasound MAX

Posted on 2011-05-07, 22:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You normally need a base IO port, a dma channel for digital playback, one for recording, an interrupt for the GUS and one for SB emulation. You can reduce that to an IO port, a single dma channel and a single interrupt (you actually just set the second to be the same as the first) if you don't need …

Re: Geforce FX series - Windows 98

Posted on 2011-05-07, 10:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just updated this morning, spec is now: I've currently got the following cards in the system: AGP - MSI FX5600 128Mb PCI - Diamond Monster 3D 4Mb (Voodoo1) PCI - Intel Pro 1000MT NIC PCI - SB Live! (CT4760) ISA - SB16 ISA - GUS Max ISA - Midiman MM401 I've got my eye on a SL6S5 3.06Ghz Northwood on …

Re: Geforce FX series - Windows 98

Posted on 2011-05-07, 08:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, downgraded to Forceware 71.84 and though video playback has not improved (perhaps it was just wishful thinking on my behalf!) the actual stability and benchmark performance seems better. I get a score of 8500 in 3DMark 2001SE, that's with the following spec: iBase MB800H (i845GE, s478 up to P4 …

Re: Power supply problem

Posted on 2011-05-06, 15:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

An ATX PSU and adapter cable is definitely the way to go if you don't know what you're doing..... as long as the Compaq takes a standard sized power supply - Compaq machines of that time are similar to the Dell machines of today!

Re: Power supply problem

Posted on 2011-05-06, 15:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sounds like an AT PSU... you'll have to fix the switch - an ATX PSU can be switched on via shorting two pins in the large multi-way plug, but this is not possible with the AT spec.

Re: Geforce FX series - Windows 98

Posted on 2011-05-05, 20:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Excellent, thanks for the Win9x link!

Re: Geforce FX series - Windows 98

Posted on 2011-05-04, 18:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll see what I can find.

Re: Orchid Kelvin 64-ISA VGA card, quick test

Posted on 2011-05-04, 17:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok I see now. It says on the box you can only use 8-bit color with 2mb at 1280x1024, but who only uses 8-bit color? Even my old 68030 and 68040 Macs can do millions of colors. Yeah, but not at those resolutions being talked about, unless you had some crazy expensive nubus graphics card. A 1280 x …

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