Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-09, 18:22

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A question to Datapath E1S owners . Up to which resolution or pixel clock do these cards handle RGB 888 capture ? The docs I have found seem a bit unclear to me on that point . It does say "Maximum analog RGB video capture resolution of 2048x1536 x24bit Maximum DVI capture resolution of 1920x1200 …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-09, 18:14

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A photo of a corner of an OSSC line-doubled 640x400 form Voodoo 3 VGA to 1280x800 image on a Philips 252B9 that scales it to 1600x1200 . Looks pixel perfect to me! Excellent :-) BTW does this IPS panel have ghosting? It commonly manifests as a luminous patch in the bottom right corner that shifts …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-09, 18:07

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What monitor do you use for testing? In my personal experience with both a 17" CRT and OSSC+1080p monitor, the VGA output of my FX 5900 XT is very sharp and clear. The DVI output otoh is indeed blurry when scaled by the card itself. Due to space constraints I have to work with flat panels these …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-09, 02:35

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today was a wonderful day. One of my father computer tech contact gave me as a gift 40 pc agp and pci cards and a computer. I will name a few of them: Pentium III 1000mhz, Sound Blaster 16 ct2940, (not the one with opl3 but 1978) agp Radeon 9800 pro, agp geforce 5500, pci S3 virge dx, agp tnt2, agp …

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Re: Found a Way to access the old DFI motherboard site.

Posted on 2020-09-09, 01:58

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Great yhot ! Glad you found what you needed. Wish an admin would add a new section under Marvin, the Paranoid Android called Hardware Archive links (or similar). If we had that and were allowed to create new Topics then we could create a topic for each found good "company" source and others could …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-09, 00:57

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darry, many thanks for your testing. Do you think you could take a close up (macro) picture of your 252B9 in the Voodoo 3 -> OSSC -> 1600x1200 configuration? For example the amount of munitions in the right bottom corner of DOOM. In theory your setup should be very close to being pixel perfect, so …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-08, 03:46

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Do other cards work? Are you using 1.07/1.08 without a sound card? There's a nasty initialization-related crash if so (-nosound bypasses it) I only have one spare PCI Express card and it is another Geforce GTX750 Ti and am pretty sure both are Zotac brand . I have seen this crash (or a very similar …

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2020-09-08, 03:02

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I had an interesting turn of events today . I tried my Zotac GTX750 Ti and my spare Gigabyte GTX750 Ti (that I managed to dig out) and tried both of them connected to my OSSC . The OSSC detects their VGA out as 806p on boot , but I am unable to get a picture through the OSSC's HDMI out on either my …

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2020-09-08, 02:09

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I had an interesting turn of events today . I tried my Zotac GTX750 Ti and my spare Gigabyte GTX750 Ti (that I managed to dig out) and tried both of them connected to my OSSC . The OSSC detects their VGA out as 806p on boot , but I am unable to get a picture through the OSSC's HDMI out on either my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-08, 01:44

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No have not opened it yet, but will later tonite. Hopefully not junk brands.....I know Electro's can actually fail faster if not used. Antec seems to have been having a love affair of sorts with Fuhjyyu electrolytics at about that time . edit Added: They are nearly all (even the small ones) TEAPO …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-07, 23:30

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Just bought a Antec 350watt ATX PSU from 2006, box was never opened, the inside plastic bag was also still sealed. Got it from a local thrift store on my way home from work just a few hours ago, cost $30. It is a cheaper model but does have OPP, OVP and SCP. Weighs 2.5lbs so not heavy but not light …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-07, 22:40

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Just bought a Antec 350watt ATX PSU from 2006, box was never opened, the inside plastic bag was also still sealed. Got it from a local thrift store on my way home from work just a few hours ago, cost $30. It is a cheaper model but does have OPP, OVP and SCP. Weighs 2.5lbs so not heavy but not light …

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Re: Will s478, s939, s775 or AM2 systems ever get as expensive as pre-socket 7 systems?

Posted on 2020-09-07, 22:15

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Socket 939 is somewhat expensive already, but partially. Nforce 4 was very brittle and prone to failure, so less working boards remained. And dual core 939 CPUs are uncommon this days. no, with some very minor exceptions like s478 boards with 3.3v universal AGP slots, or a working ISA slot. I would …

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

Posted on 2020-09-07, 22:07

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The whole "1200+" thing was actually a marketing thing from AMD. People only bought MHZ. So Intel made "faster" chips when in reality, the 850mhz Duron was likely very close in performance to Intel's 1200. I remember AMD's rating scheme, but not something as optimisic as calling an an 850Mhz a 1200 …

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2020-09-07, 19:51

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I am pretty certain that you have inverted your 720x400 and 640x400 sampling pictures . 640x400 sampling should be the one that displays correctly (proper letter width in Doom status bar) when VGA card is in 320x200 . EDIT : I am really not sure with there are no sampling artifacts in your 1:1 VGA …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-07, 18:41

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WARNING, some color artifacts are likely present in my captures due chroma sub-sampling on my capture device and Virtualdub2's PNG export function's chroma upsampling/RGB conversion . On highly oversampled (total 4x line doubling) content with few sharp edges and hardly any pure primary colours, …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-07, 15:32

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Image quality comparison between the Datapath VisionRGB-E1S and the Datapath VisionRGB-PRO2. Captured at 640 x 480 from a Matrox G400 with a normal-quality VGA cable using the VCS software. The base image quality is virtually the same. Any variation appears to be largely or entirely due to user- …

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Re: Doom and Doom II just got official widescreen support

Posted on 2020-09-07, 14:51

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Well at least no more black bars if you are on 16:9. For remastered games there are usually a lot of requests for wide screen support. I remember seeing someone with ultrawide Doom (presumably on sourceport quite some time ago). Considering that new 4:3 monitors are pretty much no longer a thing, …

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Re: Doom and Doom II just got official widescreen support

Posted on 2020-09-07, 14:30

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Not sure if this is the correct place to post this but I think it qualifies as a release :) I just read over bethesda.net that they released modified versions of Doom and Doom II, that among many other things, natively render 16:9 (no chopping) and include modified titlescreen, intermission and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-07, 14:15

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No, this is original model M keyboard, painted by some idiot. Or he just liked it that way because it was his keyboard and he could do whatever he wanted to do with it. It doesn't make him an idiot any more than a guy who wants to paint the brake calipers on his car or repaint his desk. Just saying …

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