Re: Voodoo graphics cards, what's so special?

Posted on 2014-07-31, 13:09

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and lower price than competitors What? It was the most expensive 3D acceleration card, and it did not offer any 2D capabilities. Carmack at ID Software belived the 3DFX cards to be too expensive hence they initially went for supporting the Rendition Verite in Quake. Luckily for 3DFX there were a …

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Re: Nerdly Pleasures - My Vintage Computer/Gaming Blog

Posted on 2014-07-30, 19:33

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Great Hierophant wrote: Another article, in the same vein, discussing Resident Evil : http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/07/a … t-resident.html Great article, both this one and the Tomb Raider one 😀

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-07-30, 14:49

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Suggestion: Download counter on each file Just to see what people are interested in and see what the most popular files are.

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Re: Glide and early D3D and OpenGL games with benchmark features

Posted on 2014-07-30, 12:49

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Well my Google skills are letting me down once again. How do you benchmark Falcon 4? It took me less than 30 seconds to find this site: http://www.papadoc.net/Falcon4Benchmark.htm

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Re: Abandoning Skype

Posted on 2014-07-30, 11:19

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This thread reminds me much of Windows 8 and other newer software talk here on Vogons.

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Re: Nerdly Pleasures - My Vintage Computer/Gaming Blog

Posted on 2014-07-30, 09:22

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3. Tomb Raider PC Oldskool Style http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/07/tomb-raider-pc-oldskool-style.html A lengthy entry attempting to be a comprehensive overview of running Tomb Raider on vintage hardware. Just wanted to add more to this comment: The ATi card was decent but had nothing to …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI Question - Mismatching Cards/Drivers

Posted on 2014-07-30, 08:27

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Never heard of a problem like this caused from SLI. Seems more to be another kind of problem if it at all can be replicated. Even if the cards are mismatched, there are drivers for SLI usage (as said by keropi). £9 + £3 shipping is a good price, so I wouldn't turn it down. For Creative boards, they …

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Re: How to tell if a big box PC game has been resealed?

Posted on 2014-07-28, 23:02

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I can see why someone would do this on a rare expensive game, but not on something as common as Simcity.

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-07-28, 19:15

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Winstone 94 (CD ISO) added under benchmarks. Also included with the disc is WinBench 4.0 and PC Bench 8.0. http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=651 The later versions of Winstone I've previously uploaded to Vogonsdrivers (except Winstone 95 which is missing). Winstone 96 you can find on …

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Re: Trashpicked IBM PS/2 Model 25 Restoration

Posted on 2014-07-28, 12:01

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This has to be one of the most awesome restoration projects I've seen. Big kudos to you!

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Re: IBM PS/2 Model 95 (Pentium 60 build w/ MT-32 & OPL2)

Posted on 2014-07-27, 23:04

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Thanks for making this thread I love systems which are out of the ordinary 😀

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Re: AM5x86 @160 / @200 Stability Testing

Posted on 2014-07-26, 12:39

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Stojke wrote: It can get a bit ugh when my hair gets into the fan 🤣 Are p75's that are stable at 160MHz rare? No, they are quite common. 180 and 200mhz is another game 😀

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-07-24, 21:10

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Actually your results just prove my conclusion even more. I was out to get the myth that memory interleaving on the ET4000/W32P was a major performance boost. I won't call 0,4 (less than 1%) extra FPS in Doom a huge performance boost. My W32P use 45NS memory in both tests btw.

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo vs. Voodoo 2 - This might help you make a choice!

Posted on 2014-07-22, 21:21

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If you do want 3dfx hardware (and it`s not for old dos glide games, it is voodoo1 territory) take the voodoo3, prices are low and it is a great allrounder for it`s time. More games work than not on the V3 in DOS. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=35721&start=20#p308023 I would take a look …

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Re: Socket 5 & 7 Motherboard VGA Benchmark comparison

Posted on 2014-07-22, 19:58

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I always liked the Gigabyte GA-585HX or GA-585HX2 boards for their 6 PS/2 RAM slots. It also has 4 ISA slots and DIP switches. P55T2P4 http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/mainboard_asus_p55t2p4.jpg GA-586HX2 http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/gigabyte_ga586hx2.jpg Good points. I haven't used …

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Re: VOGONS Benchmark archive?

Posted on 2014-07-22, 15:15

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Here are some Winstone ISO's which I acquired. Thanks go to Artex and idspispopd which helped me out. Winstone 96 : https://archive.org/details/PCMagBenchmark Also includes: Winbench 96 Winstone 97 : http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=580 Also includes: Winbench 97 Winstone 98 : …

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Re: Socket 5 & 7 Motherboard VGA Benchmark comparison

Posted on 2014-07-22, 11:16

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Thanx for adding the p5a! Which revision was it? What was in your opinion the most easy to setup and trouble free board? I have several s7 and ss7 boards and i prefer the atx versions. Also had some trouble getting the mvp3 versions stable compared to Intels and Ali. If you open the Google Document …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-07-22, 09:52

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I don't normally boast of my buys, but this is by far one of my better one's recently. Really surprized nobody else bid on this but me, initial and winning bid... $4.99! Diamond Stealth Trio 64 VLB, boxed w/ drivers & manuals and has already been upgraded to 2MB fast 50ns DRAM. Please please make …

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-21, 21:40

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sunaiac wrote: BIOS can't be upgraded easily, it's not rewritable. Ask keropi, he might help you out if you have the BIOS file.

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Re: Socket 5 & 7 Motherboard VGA Benchmark comparison

Posted on 2014-07-19, 21:33

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Those ALI and MVP3 boards are a bit of a disappointment compared to the FX, TX, and HX Intel boards. Have you maxed out all the CMOS performance setttings? Could you add a 2 MB cache MVP3 board to the mix to see if it can get a little closer to the TX's performance? All maxed out yes, but they are …

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