Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2017-06-02, 11:07

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by AlucarD86

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Recently I aquired the AverMedia Live Gamer HD Lite and to my huge surprise it can capture crystal clear signals via Rec Central. The trick is to use an AGP card with DVI port on your Retro PC like in my case the Nvidia FX5900 and connect a DVI-HDMI cable from your AGP card to the Live Gamer HD. It …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI Cooling Solutions/Advice

Posted on 2017-06-01, 14:24

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by AlucarD86

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looks like a custom cooler ??? is it taped onto the chipsets directly with powertape ?

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI Cooling Solutions/Advice

Posted on 2017-06-01, 10:37

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by AlucarD86

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the Matrox M3D gets pretty hot especially when you use faster CPUs like a Pentium 3

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Voodoo 2 SLI Cooling Solutions/Advice

Posted on 2017-06-01, 09:45

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by AlucarD86

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So I recently bought two Diamond Monster 3d II 3dfx Voodoo 2 8MB cards and they are both in mint conditions and came with the passthrough cable and the ribbon connector for SLI. http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/t535/AlucarD86/IMG_1478_zpsogbr46ce.jpg http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/t535/ …

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Re: Recommend a good ISA DOS soundcard

Posted on 2017-05-30, 10:31

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by AlucarD86

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I guess this question can go here.. Can anyone do a verbal comparison of Yamaha Audician 32 and Terratec Gold 16/96? These are what I've come to believe are the two best non-AWE series ISA cards out there, one is true OPL3 the other is ESS and mostly on par.. I want to buy one or the other, I have …

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Re: Recommend a good ISA DOS soundcard

Posted on 2017-05-29, 08:44

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by AlucarD86

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interesting, I have looked into ESS audiodrives on eBay and there seem to be a lot of them out there but very afforable, which raises the confusion a little bit as to what ESS soundcard to get ? :/ same as with Aztech cards are there any standouts ? My dream would be running the Audician 32 plus …

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Re: Recommend a good ISA DOS soundcard

Posted on 2017-05-29, 08:39

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by AlucarD86

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I will look into them ^^ so far I have ordered the Audician 32 plus and think about getting a Midi S2 daughter board from that website in belgium. That kinda seems the way to go. Also the Auducian 32 plus is new and comes with the package 😳

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Re: Recommend a good ISA DOS soundcard

Posted on 2017-05-27, 06:56

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by AlucarD86

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also clueless1 I saw on phils review that there is a way to attach a MIDI daughterboard to the Audician 32 plus, do you have any clues on where to find those ? No luck with eBay at my end.

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Re: Recommend a good ISA DOS soundcard

Posted on 2017-05-27, 06:54

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by AlucarD86

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yeah I hear you. Originally I drifted to this board in the search of building a PowerVR PC to run Resident Evil but I just stayed here for the love of retro hardware and I am always fascinated by old tech and 90ties PCs, call it nostalgia if you like. I am quite often on eBay and look out for some …

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Re: Recommend a good ISA DOS soundcard

Posted on 2017-05-26, 23:19

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by AlucarD86

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okay I have ordered the Audician 32 Plus from UK after watching Phils excellent YouTube review on it. I am really curious how well it will perform. Also interesting enough there seem to be boxed new models available 😒

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Re: Recommend a good ISA DOS soundcard

Posted on 2017-05-26, 22:12

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by AlucarD86

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thanks a lot for the insight, very interesting to hear these opinions, one thing that confuses me even more is that I do get sound in mech warrior 2 from my SB0160 but I dont get any sound in Tomb Raider or Mega Man X, I do get sound thou if I emulate them with DOS box :/ how can dosbox emulate …

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Re: Recommend a good ISA DOS soundcard

Posted on 2017-05-26, 21:46

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by AlucarD86

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the audician 32 Plus looks interesting, weird that I didnt stumble upon it earlier as it only appears on ebay UK. What is actually the main important thing to be aware of when picking up a DOS soundcard ? I would say overal main compatibility and soundquality with games ? Is there a certain …

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Recommend a good ISA DOS soundcard

Posted on 2017-05-26, 20:19

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by AlucarD86

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Recently I got into DOS gaming and found out that the soundcard is a very important factor for DOS gaming so I tried to find a good ISA soundcard on eBay and I got overly confused by all the different ISA soundcards that are available. Can Somone please just recommend a decent, affordable ISA …

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Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2017-05-21, 19:02

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by AlucarD86

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leileilol wrote: I use a P4 with mine. 6th gen cpus can bottleneck its potential 320x240 performance in certain supported games 😀 mhm interesting, can you please tell us your full setup ? I really had a hard time with the M3D on a Pentium 4 D 3 GHz.

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Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2017-05-20, 20:28

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by AlucarD86

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I can confirm that the the Matrox M3D works pretty well with the fastest Pentium 3 there is, the tualatin S which was modified to work with the Asus CUBX and works like a charm on the BX mainboard. I cant comment much on any apocalypse or the difference between SGL1 and 2 as the apocalypse is a VERY …

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Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2017-05-19, 15:48

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by AlucarD86

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Yes I will agree, only bother with the M3D if you are either a collector or like me just like a certain game like Resident Evil, otherwise I also recommend Tomb Raider and of course Mechwarrior 2 which can be both patched to be played in SGL2. What I was refering to is that the Apocalypse 3Dx is …

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Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2017-05-19, 13:05

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by AlucarD86

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the CPU is not that important as long as its underpowered because one thing the M3D hates are high voltages so a low voltage CPU will be fine like an underclocked P3, also I recommend you install some Apocalypse 3Dx sgl2 drivers as well as the card wont mind them. Also we need leileilol in here …

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Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2017-05-19, 11:22

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by AlucarD86

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I would go for a higher CPU maybe a P3 coppermine 800 MHz and either an Nvidia 4 Ti or ATI Rage Pro should work well with the M3D in tandem at least for me it did work well with Resident Evil, once I switched to a Pentium 4 3 GHy however the M3D would become unstable.

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Re: Matrox M3D / PCX2 opinions

Posted on 2017-05-18, 20:48

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by AlucarD86

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sorry for bumping this up but am shocked nobody mentioned Resident Evil (1997) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1g-8byJueY&t=25s

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2017-05-15, 19:54

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by AlucarD86

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okay vetz I have been testing Win98 on that board and I do run into some weird hangups and the Matrox M3D kinda went nuts on me but thats maybe because I am also using a Nvidia 5900 Ultra and those two cards arent best friends. I dunno whats causing the hangups maybe its the 1 GB DDRam2 stick ? …

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