Re: Help with Zenith Data System Expansion cards (Z-386/25)

Posted on 2024-04-01, 08:13

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Hi Vetz, I'm sorry for completely missing the notifications about your messages and PMs. Yes, the cache error was shown during POST. It called out the bad chip by the socket number on the cache board. I swapped two of the cache chips around and the issue followed the chip to the new socket number. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-31, 16:54

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Are there any other drivers for it in the STB archive ? like DOS and VGA utils ? Sadly no :) , that's your lot as far as the STB archive goes, though I did find an old bbs listing of what was available back in the day (maybe worth further searches by filename, or perhaps someone has them hiding in …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2024-03-31, 13:15

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I don't manage to find the PowerVR version of the Motorhead demo. I suppose this is the D3D one. All the ones I came accross are either 3Dfx or software versions. Including on the Internet Archive. Does anyone have this version ? @leileilol, that's a bit late, but thanks for your reply. If it …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2024-03-28, 08:18

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This is a list of accelerated games for all early 3D accelerators, EXCEPT 3DFX and Direct3D! Hello vetz, 1) If there any lists about early D3D or OpenGL games? 2) It would be interesting to add these list somewhere. If they exists please somebody send me a link. Or if not maybe i could make one. 3) …

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Re: List of Windows games which look best when using 3DFX Glide

Posted on 2024-03-28, 07:47

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It will take me some time to get screenshots ready (maybe this weekend?), but I do know that these two games also look better when run under Glide compared to Direct3D: -Wing Commander: Prophecy (some special effects not available when running in Direct3D mode) -Descent: Freespace (Direct3D …

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Re: Benchmark SCSI vs IDE @ 386SX

Posted on 2024-03-28, 06:51

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When you're using modern storage media you run into overhead and other bottlenecks. It's well known that IDE (especially if you can use VLB) is quicker if you're using a modern device. To get a better picture you should re-run those benchmarks using period correct harddrives, then you'd probably see …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2024-03-14, 10:55

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I'm pretty sure that we never saw the full potential on several of the early chips. Just take the NV1, the performance and graphical differences on the releases are quite high, for instance the SEGA games perform and look alot nicer than other third party games. Don Goddard from Sega Technical …

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Re: Test: Running Formula 1 on a Rendition Verité V2200

Posted on 2024-03-13, 19:05

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Awesome work! That's some real stamina to get this working!

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Re: "Windows95man" - Finland Eurovision Song Contest entry 2024

Posted on 2024-02-13, 07:10

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While I like Eurovision it's mostly for the smart ass comments made by the UK commentary (Graham Norton does a good job but Terry Wogan was better) add a few drinking games and light hearted bets and it's a good excuse for a party. But in no way should it be taken seriously and have never been …

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Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-02-05, 10:04

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analog_programmer wrote on 2024-02-05, 09:50: PS/2 mouse connector on ISA card. It will be something like PS/2 mouse to serial port adapter on a ISA card. That's already been done. Another PS/2 Mouse ISA (ISA8) card adapter Excellent product. Unfortunately not available at the moment due to the …

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Re: Necroware's S7-VRM

Posted on 2024-02-04, 23:43

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That ATX to AT adapter is not really suited for later setups like fast/powerhungry Socket 7 and Slot 1 boards. I always got over current message when I tried to use it on those boards.

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Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-02-04, 18:32

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Stuff I haven't seen anyone do: - Doing a dedicated build around the Cyrix 6x86 PR90+ with 40mhz FSB (very very few motherboards support that FSB) - Powerleap upgrade galore build. Use a 440FX Socket 8 board and use necessary Powerleap adapters to get to a Pentium III Tualatin (Celeron 1200 probably …

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Re: Win3.1 Drivers for OPTi 82C924 CS4231A-KL Sound Card

Posted on 2024-02-04, 10:10

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Have you tried these? https://archive.org/details/soundcarddriversMediaSound

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Re: What is the fastest practical DOS build?

Posted on 2024-02-03, 18:27

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Very interesting! Would you mind share how you accomplished the following? Tests including making Descent playable, slowing down the Warcraft palette animation to appear normal, and being able to enable General MIDI music in Dark Forces

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-02-03, 18:17

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Shponglefan wrote on 2024-02-03, 16:51: Trying out a Hercules graphics adapter with this Pentium 4 setup. While I couldn't get it to work in Hercules mode, the BIOS does detect it as a CGA adapter and works in that mode. That is a first! Never seen anyone try that combo before. Interesting that it …

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Re: Need lladrv.sys. (Low level access driver)

Posted on 2024-02-03, 12:20

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LLA Drv 1.0 for XP32b is included in CPUMSR 0.90 (or atleast the version that was hosted back in 2013 on cpuheat.wz.cz) https://web.archive.org/web/20130420214628/ht … CPUMSR_0_90.zip I've also attached it this post.

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Re: Reelmagic/Realmagic MPEG games

Posted on 2024-01-30, 12:17

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Uka wrote on 2024-01-30, 10:34: envagyok, those do not look like ReelMagic/REALmagic cards! You need only MPEG-cards by Sigma Designs with DOS drivers: "ReelMagic", "ReelMagic Lite", "REALmagic Maxima"... Yes, they don't. See here for productlist: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, …

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Re: Looking for Cirrus Logic 5480 Windows 9x drivers

Posted on 2024-01-25, 10:33

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A side question, is there a mirror or some kind of archive of video-drivers.com? Not all of it, but what Dekstor could save is here: https://archive.org/details/xxxxxxx-drivers.com I suggest using the browse function on archive.org to find the file you're after https://ia801805.us.archive.org/view_ …

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Re: Looking for Cirrus Logic 5480 Windows 9x drivers

Posted on 2024-01-25, 09:59

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Is it these files you've tested before? K54806E1.ZIP 1.253.344 20.05.97 CL-GD5480 Windows95 Driver & Utils V1.01b MS-Certified Disk [1/2] K54806E2.ZIP 1.389.825 20.05.97 CL-GD5480 Windows95 Driver & Utils V1.01b MS-Certified Disk [2/2]

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Re: What is the fastest practical DOS build?

Posted on 2024-01-24, 14:34

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I really don't see much point in going faster, although I am still seeking a Sl5QV for a cheap price, I guess that would be faster. You said practical, I can't personally see a practical need for more horsepower. My two main reasons are: 1) Pushing performance in software 3D games especially at …

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