Re: powervr not working with tomb raider

Posted on 2014-09-05, 06:37

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You don't need the Windows drivers to run Tomb Raider with the PowerVR card under DOS. It is only if you run it in a Windows 9x DOS window you need the drivers. As you say, the game starts up, so I highly doubt drivers has anything to do with it. Most likely the problem is caused by some …

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Re: Creative VBMP400 Information/drivers?

Posted on 2014-09-04, 16:33

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll see if I can scan the whole manual at some point and upload the discs that came with the card:

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Re: Creative VBMP400 Information/drivers?

Posted on 2014-09-04, 15:09

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Jumper J1 sets base address (default 2C0H) Jumper JP5 sets IRQ (default 10) Jumper Jp3 & JP4 sets DMA channel (default 7)

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Re: Creative VBMP400 Information/drivers?

Posted on 2014-09-04, 14:07

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I believe I have both drivers and manual. I haven't uploaded it to Vogonsdrivers as I found it online when I bought the card (did some research before buying).

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-09-04, 09:30

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I added my Cyrix 5x86-133/4x system to the database using Phil's VGA batch file. PCPBench = 23.6 3Dbench = 83.9 Quake = 15.8 Doom = 49.3 (1515) SUM = 88.7 For a non-overclocked system, it is neck-and-neck with Vetz's POD83. That's a pretty good score. You don't own a S3 Vision PCI card? Would be …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-09-04, 06:32

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If I remember correctly Phil's benchmark run at fullscreen without UI, while default settings have the UI enabled. This explains the 15% performance difference. According to Phil in an earlier post here on Vogons were I pointed this out it was set to fullscreen to be more heavy on faster machines ( …

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Re: Which soundblaster should I buy.

Posted on 2014-09-03, 13:02

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry, but I do not believe that info on type2 to be correct. I have not seen anyone give any real documentation of this problem and no user (including myself) I have been able to find here on Vogons have reported problems with Soundblasters with CT1747 chips like the CT2230. If someone wants to …

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Re: Is this a good PRE BUILT PC for the price?

Posted on 2014-09-03, 08:20

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Wrong forum, should be moved to Milliways

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Re: ASUS PCI/I-P54SP4 complete manual

Posted on 2014-09-02, 21:06

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This board is my favorite Socket 5 board. It has a wide array of BIOS options and you can downclock it to 25mhz! Vetz, thanks for the scan. I have a couple quick questions: How do you get to 25 MHz? Is that an undocumented jumper combination? Also, since there is no multiplier choice, when you set …

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Re: Which soundblaster should I buy.

Posted on 2014-09-02, 12:13

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

sunaiac wrote: I do not remember that being true, from the "hanging bug" topic. Any AWE32 can be touched AFAIK. Not those with the CT1747 chip

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Re: Best Soundcard for DOS games

Posted on 2014-09-02, 08:30

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by vetz

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Here is a Aureal Vortex 2: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Turtle-Beach-TB400-3356-01-Internal-Desktop-PCI-Sound-Card-/131228757112?pt=US_CPU_Fans_Heatsinks&hash=item1e8dd7ec78 Just use shipito.com for cheap shipping to Peru. Or this one from the UK: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-5931D-Turtle-Beach-TB400- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-09-01, 19:04

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

you just don't post a picture like that together with the word free... just don't

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Re: GUS Classic resources and SB emulation questions

Posted on 2014-09-01, 13:51

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you want to go overkill you can do something like this (my setup). Gives full control over multiple computers and multiple MIDI devices:

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Re: GUS Classic resources and SB emulation questions

Posted on 2014-09-01, 13:21

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Artex wrote: Interesting. Any recommendations on a cheap mixer? I use the Roland MX-5

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Re: Which soundblaster should I buy.

Posted on 2014-09-01, 11:34

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Read this post for AWE32 & 64 options: http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2012/07/s … 64-options.html Best AWE32 cards are the CT3980, CT2760 and the CT3900. Best SB16 (IMO) CT2230 (borgie83 said it very nice) CT1600 is also a nice card 😀

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Re: Intel 430VX: USB driver for Windows 95.

Posted on 2014-09-01, 08:00

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Network sharing between an 64bit windows 8 machine and win 9x just does not work, the windows 8 pc finds the shared folder, but I'm out of ideas what to input for username and pass when it asks... It does work. Just share the whole harddrive with full access in Win9x. Then you have full access to …

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SC88 vs SC88Pro

Posted on 2014-08-31, 20:57

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a chance on getting a SC88 for about 60 dollars. Is it worth getting when I already have the SC55mkII? Also how does it compare to the SC88Pro. I wasn't planning on buying a regular SC88, but this is a good deal. If I wanted an SC88 it would be the Pro series, but is it that much better?

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Re: GOG.com Removing Several Dozen Titles

Posted on 2014-08-31, 14:30

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by vetz

in Milliways

in Milliways

sliderider wrote: Here's the big question. If they're removing them from sale, will they still be available to download again if you ever have to reinstall? If you read the webpage akule65 linked to the answer is yes.

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Re: Help on 2d only graphics cards

Posted on 2014-08-31, 12:25

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I never owned a Matrox card, but I recall reading that the original Millenium also had horrendous DOS performance, but it was fixed with the Millenium II and Mystique. The original Millennium had extremely good DOS performance when it came out. The gaming magazines were all very excited about the …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2014-08-29, 23:00

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by vetz

in Milliways

in Milliways

Retro games: Command & Conquer Gold Modern: Just finished Bioshock Infinite (highly recommended), now playing The Wolf Among Us

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