Re: How powerful is a Glint 500TX +Delta compared to cards from the 90's? (1996-2000)

Posted on 2012-12-10, 09:58

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Late nineties? The Glint 500TX was released in 1996. I suppose it had similar specs as the first Permedia chip which would put it at maybe 60 MPixels/s and 600k triangles/s. If you use a faster CPU than appropriate for 1996 than the Delta co-processor won't help anyway. This chip was never targeted …

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Re: Benchmarking DOOM with sound cards

Posted on 2012-12-07, 10:25

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Doesn't DOOM do 16 bit mixing when using a 16 bit sound card? If this is done in software it might explain the difference. You could try a Sound Blaster 16 to test this. (The command line parameters don't seem to have an option to force 8 bit mixing.) According to http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ …

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Re: Retro 3D Accelerator Screenshot Collection

Posted on 2012-12-03, 06:10

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So I would conclude that the i740 is with an Athlon 500 MHz already at it's limits regarding rendering. Did you consider that the i740 only does AGP texturing (ie. no local textures) so it might easily be limited by AGP performance? I don't know which platform would be best here, but IIRC the Slot …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2012-11-29, 08:54

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hi all, just bought another M3d on Ebay. He has 4 left, item #330787064409. Enjoy. US $45.00? That's more than I paid for my M3d when it was new. And 2 MB SDRAM is wrong of course. But if there is no other way to get one, fine. BTW, there is one on German ebay, item #400312016955, 29.95 €. The …

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2012-11-27, 20:58

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There was an offer just recently from Czech Republic: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Rendition-Verite-2200-8MB-PCI-Video-Card-/200843929501?pt=US_Vintage_Computing_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2ec33b279d Not exactly cheap, but only three different bidders, so there is hope. I just recently found my old card ( …

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Re: Retro Gaming Laptop Help Needed

Posted on 2012-11-23, 17:23

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If I understand correctly you want to get a laptop including graphics chip and than possibly to upgrade the CPU? That may be possible within certain limits. Judging from the release dates in these following lists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#Mobility_ …

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Re: Do these Windows Glide games exist?

Posted on 2012-08-08, 20:37

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Tomb Raider 2 and Tomb Raider 3 should be Direct3D only. (They definitely can use Direct3D, I can't remember anything about a 3Dfx option, and I can't find any references on the web either.) About the nGlide list: I understand why there OpenGL games on that list, especially those which run with a …

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2012-07-26, 13:16

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I have an 8MB V2200 in my Dual 200MMX box, and I was mucking around with Quake1 today. Testing vQuake vs GLQuake (Rendition OpenGL) vs GLQuake (3Dfx OpenGL). The 3Dfx card is a Canopus Pure3D 6MB Voodoo1. I don't totally understand the combination of Dual Pentium MMX 200 and a Rendition card. The …

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Worth selling Hercules monochrome card + monitor?

Posted on 2012-07-10, 07:40

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Hi everybody, at my parents place there are still an old Hercules monochrome card (clone) and a matching monitor in storage. My father would like to throw them away. Last time I used them (dual monitor for DOS debugging) they worked, but that was probably in the late nineties. Do you think it's …

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Re: PCI graphics in windows 95

Posted on 2012-07-02, 11:28

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sliderider, thank you for putting this right. I probably should have added AFAIR/AFAIK. Iris030380 even mentioned that the system he took the card from has an AGP slot so I didn't question myself. In fact I have never seen a Trio3D PCI on Ebay or in real life. They seem to be quite rare. Of course …

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Re: two s3 virge/vx cards

Posted on 2012-06-30, 01:37

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My guess about glquake and Quake II is that noshutdown just ran them with OpenGL, and since the ViRGE drivers don't contain OpenGL support he got software rendered OpenGL. So these numbers would be quite meaningless, only as a cpu benchmark.

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Re: Is there a 3DFX Quake1 port for DOS?

Posted on 2012-06-29, 16:17

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I'm sorry but even it were feasible to write a Speedy3D --> Glide wrapper that wouldn't work with VQuake. VQuake uses custom microcode so actually it doesn't tell the video card to draw triangles but only line-width pieces of triangles to avoid overdraw. (Detailed infos were posted in this forum.) I …

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Re: ffdshow and k6-2+

Posted on 2012-06-29, 16:03

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Cyrix 6x86MX/MII have i686 instructions. Just my 2cts. (Probably not useful in this case since they won't approach the performance of a K6-2+.) I remember when I ran a 6x86MX with Linux I used -march=i686 to compile the kernel. I had to change that when I upgraded to a K6-2.

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Re: PCI graphics in windows 95

Posted on 2012-06-29, 15:51

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Sorry to revive an old thread, but that seems to be acceptable here? @GXL750: From what I've read here, your best bet for an old system would be a Rendition card or a Virge or Trio if you need a decent "all around" card for DOS and Windows. As much as I like Rendition (my first 3D card was a V2200) …

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Re: Rendition Verite Windows 98 resolution

Posted on 2012-05-10, 13:08

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The system crawls like I've disabled the cache when loading windows. It's done this since I installed the rendition card - there were no issues with the motherboard previously, so I assume this is due to the v1000. AFAIR the v1000 has very poor 2D acceleration. The v2200 was somewhat better but …

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Re: Emulating Monochrome/VGA Multi-Screen setup?

Posted on 2012-05-05, 20:33

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It seems that SDL 1.3 supports multiple windows. Unfortunately it also seems to be quite difficult to change DOSBox to support SDL 1.3, and there also also currently missing features in SDL 1.3. (I found several threads where people asked for SDL 1.3 support for various reasons.)

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Re: Help with Tseng ET4000AX - Color Depth and Memory Questions

Posted on 2012-03-26, 12:46

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Hey guys, I've been setting up my newly-acquired 386 system for the past few hours, and just finished. I went to play SimTower in Windows 3.11, and it tells me it cannot run without TrueType and quits. Apparently TrueType is disabled at 256 colors and below. Are you sure that's the reason? AFAIR …

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Re: Matrox G450 + DVI cable = squashed image

Posted on 2012-02-24, 12:38

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Old post, but since nobody answered I'll give it a try. My guess is that neither the G450 nor the LCD is able to do resolution scaling when using DVI-D, or at least not in pure DOS. VGA text mode uses 720x400 pixels. Since the screen is supposed to be 4:3 the pixels are not supposed to be square so …

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2012-02-23, 08:09

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@Putas: Did you try the Glide renderer with BigRRed, too?

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2012-02-18, 07:09

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It's 8MB, that's why I mentioned it. I will edit my post.

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