Re: Matrox Millennium and DOS

Posted on 2014-05-11, 10:15

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by LunarG

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I run my S3 Virge at 1024x768 on an LCD monitor and it is plenty sharp. I tried 1280x1024 and it is a little blurry but for a vintage machine I find 1024x768 plenty. As far as DOS games, tomb raider 1 is playable with a 486 CPU so that is an accomplishment in itself. Doom is fluid and pretty much …

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Re: POLL: What is your favorite vintage processor?

Posted on 2014-05-11, 10:04

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by LunarG

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Advanced Micro Devices K 6 - II 3D Now ! With a title like that it can't be beat! Seriously though the price/performance of this chip was great, only to be beaten by the Celeron 300A Back when I bought my first K6-II 3DNow! (TM), the cost of a decent slot 1 motherboards was almost twice that of a …

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-05-11, 09:53

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by LunarG

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I've reinstalled Windows 98 again on the K6, system and swapped to a K6-III instead of a K6-2. The Radeon 7000 however, won't work properly. I will try it in my PIII tomorrow, just to see if it is certified dead, but so far it doesn't look good. Error messages from DXDiag saying I got no 3D …

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Re: Matrox Millennium and DOS

Posted on 2014-05-10, 10:09

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by LunarG

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I used to have an S3 Trio64V+ (afaik it's the same 2D core as the Virge) back in the days, and upgraded to a Matrox Mystique 220. There was a noticeable improvement in image sharpness, at least at 1024x768 and higher. The S3 card may have slightly better dos game compatability though, or so a lot of …

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Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!

Posted on 2014-05-05, 07:48

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by LunarG

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Just for comparison I ran Super Pi for Android on my now "retro" Samsung Galaxy S, which uses an ARMv7 1000MHz single core CPU. 1M was finished in 91.242 seconds (on the 2nd run through to make sure the first at 89 seconds wasn't just a dud). This suggests that for calculations like these, the ARM …

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Re: Recommendation for "new" retro PC

Posted on 2014-05-03, 11:49

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by LunarG

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Also, depending on the version of OS/2 you want to run, anything post-486-non-intel, might cause problems. For example, I was not able to run OS/2 Warp 3.0 on a K6 200MHz back in the days, because the K6 instruction set is slightly different from the Intel one. Just thought I'd mention it.

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Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!

Posted on 2014-05-02, 21:58

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by LunarG

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I thought I'd post the results from my different systems as well. It's amazing to see how much PC's have evolved in terms of pure number crunching. http://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=14569&sid=bf3671f3c59d8c5b3a724c7fff4ee102 Since this picture lacks any system info, I'll just …

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Re: Recommendation for "new" retro PC

Posted on 2014-05-02, 18:06

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by LunarG

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If you have already got that S3 Virge card, then that should be totally fine for your build, if not, I'd say that the most "bad ass" card of the early 90's was the Matrox Millennium. That's the one that all the major computer magazines were writing about, saying it was the "world's fastest Windows …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2014-05-02, 17:49

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by LunarG

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This is the score I get on my Pentium III 1400 with Matrox Parhelia. I don't think it's too bad considering the graphics card isn't really gaming oriented.

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Re: Posting this on my 286

Posted on 2014-05-02, 15:24

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by LunarG

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Posting on Vogons from a 286? Hah! Respect! 😁

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2014-05-02, 15:10

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by LunarG

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Any known problems with VIA chips and i815EP chipsets? I wanna get a USB 2.0 adapter for my PIII system, just for file transfer via USB stick and such, and it does seem like a lot of the cheapo ebay USB 2.0 adapters are VIA based.

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Re: My Insane In The Brain Socket 939 SLI Sundae

Posted on 2014-05-02, 12:42

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by LunarG

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Love that motherboard. I just put together a "spare parts" system for my mum (to replace an old laptop she's been using for simple gaming... solitaire, mahjong and such) using the same motherboard. Always found that board to be very stable and to perform well. Mine had an Athlon 64 in it for a long …

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Re: The Pentium III build log

Posted on 2014-05-02, 12:02

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by LunarG

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I really like your 3dfx wallpapers. I'm using the lighter blue one on my K6-III system with Voodoo 2 in it. Thank you so much for making them :) Would you might if I made a "split down the middle" wallpaper with the right half being your 3dfx wallpaper, and the other half being some kind of Matrox …

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Re: Linksys WMP54G on old motherboard

Posted on 2014-04-30, 22:03

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by LunarG

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Yay! The Realtek adapter finally has me on the internet at least. Posting from my K6-III 400MHz at the moment. Wishing you all a very good night and sweet dreams 😀

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Re: Linksys WMP54G on old motherboard

Posted on 2014-04-30, 14:00

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by LunarG

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If you cant get it working, is an USB device an option for you? Since this system only has USB 1.0, that would be a very slow solution. I do have a Linksys USB device sitting around, but I'd prefer to use a PCI based card for better speed. The whole purpose is to be able to transfer files in a more …

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Re: Linksys WMP54G on old motherboard

Posted on 2014-04-30, 12:20

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by LunarG

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If this helps - I remember running WiFi card with Ralink RT2400 chipset on infamous PC Chips M726 (Ali M1621 chipset) slot1 celeron board. However I have not tried it on Windows 98 , it served as a router for home network running PLD linux. I've had this card sitting around for ages, I got an extra …

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Re: Linksys WMP54G on old motherboard

Posted on 2014-04-29, 22:22

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by LunarG

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I don't know if it helps anything, but my Pentium MMX PC (GA-586TX3) came with an Ovislink WL-8000PCI installed, so I'm guessing that's a card that would work in old motherboards. Haven't tried it myself though. You wouldn't happen to know what chipset that is based on? Just reinstalled Windows on …

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Re: Linksys WMP54G on old motherboard

Posted on 2014-04-29, 21:04

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by LunarG

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Hmmm, I'm pretty sure the user manual said PCI 2.1, but that may be generic for all WMP54G, mine is revision 4.1 iirc (just packed it away), which possibly could require PCI 2.2 as you say. I think I'll give up on wifi on this computer though, as chances are most wifi adapters will be too new to …

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Linksys WMP54G on old motherboard

Posted on 2014-04-29, 16:42

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by LunarG

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I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G wireless network adapter to work in my Windows 98 SE system. It's got an AOpen AX59 Pro motherboard with the latest BIOS revision (2.36). With the Linksys card installed, it doesn't even POST. Some times I don't even get any display output. The few times I do …

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Re: My first DOS machine

Posted on 2014-04-26, 12:14

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by LunarG

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What motherboard do you have? I'm interested in what your on board video and sound is? I would also go for a Win9x setup. You have enough power for some of the earlier windows games, and get Dos 7 which is fine for gaming. A Pentium III has enough power for more than "some of the earlier windows …

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