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Re: VirtualBox and 3D acceleration

Posted on 2014-05-25, 21:55

Try running dxdiag and go to Display, and push the "Test Direct3D" button. In a real computer, it should show some dancing cubes. Under Virtualbox the first test should fail (sorry, no DirectX 7 here) but the others (DirectX 8 and 9) should work. Yes, that's exactly what happened, but I still can't …

VirtualBox and 3D acceleration

Posted on 2014-05-15, 19:25

As I couldn't find this in a search, I'd like to know if anyone has had any luck with the 'experimental' 3d acceleration in VB. I'm working with the latest version 4.3, with the guest additions installed and well as the extension pack. The guest is XP Pro x86 and host Win 7 x64. As advised by the VB …

Re: Honourable mention

Posted on 2014-05-15, 16:07

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Thanks DosFreak http://www.davescomputertips.com/how-to-run-o … systems-part-1/ Erm, I certainly hope I haven't made any serious technical errors 😀

Honourable mention

Posted on 2014-05-15, 13:05

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Not long ago I started writing for a tech blog/magazine, since I love writing and combined with my fascination of all things hardware, it's proved to be a very rewarding experience. Since I run a couple of older machines, one with a couple of Voodoo 2's in SLI, it seemed indispensable to write an …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2014-05-11, 16:10

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I started and abandoned Dead Space. It scared the pants off me to be honest. I'm not squeamish per se, but not having a BFG to blast those critters to kingdom come at first sight, did it for me.

FX 8320 temps

Posted on 2014-05-08, 19:01

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Treated myself to a new CPU recently and was puzzled to see the core temps reading way below ambient. Apparently this is known, which I also find a little odd. I never thought the Coolermaster V6 GT would be that efficient :) http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/rufinoman/Vishera_zpsfcca89e0.jpg …

Re: Celeron 300

Posted on 2014-05-05, 19:10

It's been a while since I updated here. Here are a couple of shots of the ISA PCMCIA controller card and netgear card. It works just great, if not a tad slow at times. http://1drv.ms/1g3bQ2b It's also interesting to note that the original 230w Compace psu dates from 1992 approx and the Toshiba CD …

Re: 3dfx splash screen

Posted on 2014-04-28, 16:47

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Many thanks for your kind replies. That gif is really cool and takes me back a bit...sheds tear. I often wondered if they were stored in the card bios too, but then I found that the splash would change from either image 1 or 2 depending on the 3dfx patch used (in emulation).... Cheers and thanks!

3dfx splash screen

Posted on 2014-04-28, 13:36

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I'm trying to find a way of getting these extracted from the .exe files if that's possible. Or maybe it isn't? Are they gifs? This is curiosity really for something I'm writing about. http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/rufinoman/3dfx2_zps66598cca.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/ …

Re: Force 1920x1080 in DOSBox SVN?

Posted on 2014-04-27, 21:11

I'm using DOSbox SVN (Daum Jan 2014 update) and changing the glide.ini to 2.0 at resolution works a treat for me too, although, as others have said, it doesn't get you any more pixels. I'm writing an article for a tech blog about older games on newer machines and have been playing with TR1 most of …

The PC Chips lives

Posted on 2013-11-06, 20:26

I haven't been around for a while, but here I am back. Someone gave me this board instead of throwing it in the trash. There isn't one single marking on the board to identify it so i knew it must be the legendary PC Chips. Anyway, Everest tells me that it's a M810LR, which according to the PCC …

Re: HP Vectra

Posted on 2013-09-28, 13:04

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Not so bullet proof. Capacitors gone in one of them, resulting in random restarts or complete shutdowns. Oh well...

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