Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2014-01-15, 20:19
yes, yes, yes... I know. I have a severe shortage of static bags at the moment.
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2014-01-15, 18:06
I'll post pics of my machines tonight, but I did take pics of the remainder of my video card collection. http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af167/misterjonestech/video_cards01_zps2c5346fa.jpg This is the Matrox collection (with one exception). Pictured is a 32MB G450 Dual Head AGP, 16MB G400 Dual …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2014-01-15, 16:31
SGI machines are so damn sexy... please excuse me while i touch myself. There is a thriving SGI-hobbyist - community: http://www.nekochan.net New members are always welcome! I had an SGI Indy once upon a time. R4600-133, 256MB RAM, 4GB drive. It had the 8bit XL video card when I got it but I …
Re: debating between two retro rigs - SSE in win98 games
Posted on 2014-01-15, 16:22
This is the inside of the Gateway E-3200 SFF desktop. Right now it has: 750MHz Slot-1 Pentium 3 768MB RAM 6GB Quantum Hard drive 64MB Sapphire Radeon 7000 PCI video card Sound Blaster Live HP CDRW drive.
Re: debating between two retro rigs - SSE in win98 games
Posted on 2014-01-15, 16:16
This is the 300PL tower: http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af167/misterjonestech/300pl_01_zpsb202ea79.jpg http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af167/misterjonestech/300pl_02_zps52515d2d.jpg I had 3 of them, I'm now down to this last one and parts salvaged from one. I'll take the cover off and post …
Re: IBM PC-300PL - Diamond powered!
Posted on 2014-01-15, 16:12
misterjones, thank you for your information! Throwing out such a good PC is kind of a cruel measure. If I were you, I would have donated it to some local guy with similar interests. By the way, what country are you from? USA. I would have, but it had issues. I got beep codes from it one day …
Re: debating between two retro rigs - SSE in win98 games
Posted on 2014-01-15, 06:49
Could you post some pictures? Especially PC-300PL, I've never seen the tower version except for a drawing in the manual. As for the build, I would go with Thunderburd if I were you. Hell with SSE, the CPU is legendary. Sure. I just took the pics and I'll upload and post them in the morning. The …
Re: debating between two retro rigs - SSE in win98 games
Posted on 2014-01-15, 04:28
Mau1wurf1977 wrote: You can't go past a decent Slot 1 machine IMO. I was just debating on what to do with the Gateway E3200. Second retro machine or OpenBSD box.
Re: IBM PC-300PL - Diamond powered!
Posted on 2014-01-14, 16:50
I literally just threw out a 300PL desktop just like this. It was the last of many that I owned. I still have one 300PL tower left. The special form factor for the AGP card is called NLX. It was supposed to be for small-ish form factor PC's, but was also used in towers like the 300PL tower. The two …
Re: What vga is best: S3 trio 64v+ or Cirrus Logic 5436
Posted on 2014-01-14, 05:04
RacoonRider wrote: RAM does not matter, RAM is for framebuffer only. normally that's true, but the Cirrus chipset only utilizes it's 64bit memory bus if it's equipped with 2MB of memory. With only 1MB, it's stuck at 32 bit. The Trio has no such limitation.
Re: debating between two retro rigs - SSE in win98 games
Posted on 2014-01-14, 04:59
The Gateway e3200 (and your 300pl for that matter) are "great looking and solid machines as they stand, but they are certainly limited in terms of expansion. Very true. The 300PL is at it's limit in terms of "official" processor speeds with a P3-850. The absolute fastest NLX AGP video card I know …
Re: debating between two retro rigs - SSE in win98 games
Posted on 2014-01-13, 23:29
yes, the GX200 does have ISA slots, and I do have a SB Vibra16 in my bin (as well as a 3com ISA nic) so that was a consideration. There's a third machine I considered using but the 145W power supply limits the types of video card I can use. Gateway E3200 Slot-1 P3-750MHz 768MB RAM (I would reduce it …
Re: What vga is best: S3 trio 64v+ or Cirrus Logic 5436
Posted on 2014-01-13, 23:16
The Trio should be faster unless the Cirrus has 2MB of RAM, then it should be pretty even.
debating between two retro rigs - SSE in win98 games
Posted on 2014-01-13, 22:42
I have a machine that's slated to be my retro gaming rig. Dell Optiplex GX200 P3-933MHz 512MB RDRAM onboard Nvidia TNT2-M64 w/8MB Aopen AW744-Pro Sound card (IIRC Yamaha 744-B chip) Quantum 10GB drive (same drive the machine shipped with when it was new) My original thought was to simply build a …
Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2014-01-13, 21:16
Pedantic (for misterjones): Splash screen logos can always possibly be fake, part of the game. Remember the "Powered by Nvidia" logos in mid 2000's games and what not. The only sure way to know you're running a Windows game that calls a proprietary 3D API that's pretty easy for most people to do is …
Re: The Ultimate 3D Accelerated Supported Games List (Early proprietary APIs - NO 3DFX/GLIDE)
Posted on 2014-01-13, 21:14
When MSI is used, just prior to the game launching you get a "Matrox" splash screen similar to the 3DFX logo when Glide is used and, IIRC, when RRedline is used on Rendition cards. On the version of MotoRacer that was included with the Mystique220, that Matrox splash screen comes up, indicating …
Re: Building a Pentium Pro system from scratch
Posted on 2014-01-13, 18:47
in hindsight, I should have pulled the processor along with everything else. Those 200MHz PPro's with 1MB of cache were pretty hard to come by even back then. Hehe, hindsight is everything ;) I said no to buy a 2nd hand Neon 250 AGP in 2002 for 10 dollars.... :blah: I tossed my old Matrox M3D, …
Re: Building a Pentium Pro system from scratch
Posted on 2014-01-13, 18:28
Shouldn't have tossed it with the price of PPro CPUs just going up and up... Back then I had simply figured I had done everything I could with it. It had SCSI drives (originally simple SCSI, then I progressively upgraded to U160. Still have that card and the drive I used for it), I had an S3 Virge …
Re: The Ultimate 3D Accelerated Supported Games List (Early proprietary APIs - NO 3DFX/GLIDE)
Posted on 2014-01-13, 18:13
Moto Racer - OEM version that was part of the bundle with the Mystique 220, but it is running on optimized Direct3D. By optimized Direct 3D do we mean optimized specifically for the Mystique in a way the regular retail version is not? I am probably going to purchase as many Mystique editions as I …
Re: Building a Pentium Pro system from scratch
Posted on 2014-01-13, 17:45
I ran a pair of PPro machines for yeeeaaarrss. The one I loved most was my old IBM PC365, dual processor capable (just had to get the VRM for it). I had a pair of PPro 200MHz/1MB cache processors in it, 512MB of RAM, Matrox G200 PCI, and loved every minute playing with it. I scored a P2-333MHz …
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