Re: Intel to take over the world?
Posted on 2012-12-05, 20:55
Something just in from Maximum PC... http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/amd_rea … ough_least_2014 hope AMD hangs in there..
Re: Cleaning a PSU fan
Posted on 2012-12-03, 18:57
Yikes... for years I've cleaned out PSU innards heedless and unknowing of the "gigantic voltages inside"! There but for the grace of God go I...
Re: Intel to take over the world?
Posted on 2012-11-29, 02:50
Yeah but just imagine if what the article says *really* happens. PC building? If AMD stays afloat were okay but otherwise its a sh*t show..
Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics
Posted on 2012-11-27, 20:57
... In terms of gamesupport they are fairly useless as it is basically only Indycar Racing II ... For me that support is far from useless - it is enough, and well the worth 20-30 buck entry fee. ICR2 Rendition is a wonderfull window into early 3D, which racing sims were soon to adopt agrressively, …
Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics
Posted on 2012-11-27, 17:27
that sounds about right Vetz. One went for 24 plus S/H a couple of weeks ago.
Re: Intel to take over the world?
Posted on 2012-11-27, 02:15
or maybe AMD becomes the enthusiast's part, while Intel drops it all to stalk the big game...
Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics
Posted on 2012-11-24, 02:15
Just be patient and you will see a resonably priced Rendition card come up on eBay every so offten. You just may need to spread your net further than the S220..
Re: GAG and multiple legacy OS support
Posted on 2012-11-24, 02:10
As an earlier poster remarked, the main reason to run W95 is to get some of the more "pesky" Win95 games running, as some them them are not terribly "forward compatible". Examples: Hind and Apache Longbow Win95/3dfx, EF-2000 V2 Win95/3dfx-Rendition, and Aces of the Deep can be trouble to get running …
Re: GAG and multiple legacy OS support
Posted on 2012-11-21, 15:04
PLOP sounds good, but as a boot manager it hides the unbooted OS. With a separate drive for each OS you can sill see the other partition if needed, which allows you to fiddle with all your dos system and game files from within a Win session, something of a conveneience. While I've found reaching …
Re: GAG and multiple legacy OS support
Posted on 2012-11-20, 22:45
You can install the second OS on it's own hard drive and dual boot by changing boot sequence in bios. Im doing that on my W95c/PCDos6.3 retro box - no software boot manager. BTW I second leileilol's suggestion about swapping dos for W95. In reality I hardly ever find myself actually booting to dos …
Re: Modern hardware advice needed - I'm out of touch!
Posted on 2012-11-19, 19:51
A trailing edge box, with added SSD boot/main app drive to make life easy. Price sans OS in budget. Prices mix eBay/Newegg: 50 ASUS M4A79XTD EVO [perfectly fine in Phenom/USB-SATA2 world] 50 AMD Phenom II 555 BE [unlock 4 cores, easy multiplier OC @3.8], or 965 and above if price is right 70 Radeon …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2012-11-18, 15:59
Its not a piece of retro hardware but I just bought a new IOgear 4-port KVM+A switch so I can finally link *all* my retro boxes..
Re: My Ongoing Retro Rig Project - Xeon Prime
Posted on 2012-11-17, 19:40
sharp looking build!
Re: Retro 3D Accelerator Screenshot Collection
Posted on 2012-11-15, 01:14
yes 1.2ghz looks like the sweet spot - these comparative benchmarks are very usefull. I have a P3-1400 tualatin powering a V5500 [AGP] in another box - I wonder how much more cpu that card can take before it plateaus like the V2-SLI's do @ 1200?
Re: Retro 3D Accelerator Screenshot Collection
Posted on 2012-11-14, 18:53
Here is an quite interesting thread about CPU scaling of various Riva128, V1, Rush, V2 , V2 SLI, V3: http://www.voodooalert.de/board/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=12749&highlight= This has been always a hot topic :) looking at these charts I am inclined to swap the P3-533 for a P3-800 on my …
Re: Are there still PC games that we can't run?
Posted on 2012-11-14, 18:23
Apparently, flightsims are the most problematic when it comes to modern hardware, and that's my primary reason to build legacy systems. :dead: Quite true - a significant portion of the games I have installed on various retro rigs are air combat sims. Another example is European Air War, and …
Re: Are there still PC games that we can't run?
Posted on 2012-11-13, 00:45
3D games developed for Rendition Verite graphic cards - admittedly a small field but a retro box is a necessity. CART Racing/Indycar Racing 2 is a good example as the only accelerated release of this great early racing sim was Rendition only. Also some Glide games, like Longbow 2, get more and more …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2012-11-11, 14:39
would this be a joystick gameport with port speed adjustment jack... like an Thrustmaster ACM?
Re: Are any of these games rare? DOOM, LucasArts, Wolf3D, Duke3D
Posted on 2012-11-09, 04:20
I'm no authority but I'd say if your Day of the Tentacle and Duke Nukem 3D are boxed originals [floppy version especially] they may fetch 10-20 bucks on eBay. You may see people asking much more as "Buy it Now" but I don't see much selling at those prices. The others are worth something if they are …
Re: Planning a rig with Voodoo graphics
Posted on 2012-11-04, 03:57
Not sure if this will help but I used a Tualatin converter like one of these and it worked great: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-P3-PIII-SL5LV-1 … =item2a245c3147
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