Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-19, 11:15

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Right now Im trying to learn Japanese but they have three alphabets, Hiragana, Kanji and Katakana and each one is used for different things but Kanji is used to form entire words with one symbol. ...I actually find Kanji easy but Hiragana still confuses me. I find it the other way around... …

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Re: Elonex PC-486 mystery box...

Posted on 2022-09-26, 19:34

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I used to have an Elonex (286), nothing special about them. They are just (well made) PC's. Keyboard was AT and wasn't proprietary. My Elonex didn't have a mouse. Screeching? Like mechanical or constant beeping? If the former try different HDD, if that latter try different ram? If the keyboard isn't …

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Re: Games you are determined to beat one day

Posted on 2022-09-15, 15:23

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By the way, is here anyone who is NOT determined to beat games at all and appreciate them rather as some sort of piece of art? Don't you want to see ALL the art though... like the bits of art you can only see at the end :) In many cases there are secret codes and cheats, so one serious admirer of …

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Re: Games you are determined to beat one day

Posted on 2022-09-15, 15:00

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To many to list tbh, ones that stand out and I would probably attempt to finish before others... Been wanting to finish these for a long time.. no level skipping/cheating which I have done with them in the past... Lemmings (Amiga, all 120 levels) Populous 2 (Amiga, I heard there are 999 levels :)) …

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Re: Searching a late 1990s 3D pc game

Posted on 2022-08-12, 18:51

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Jurassic park: trespasser 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-11, 08:42

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Quite an interesting little card, Im curious to see how it handles OpenGL games. Wildcat VP , unlike Wildcat, also supports DX8 ;). The VPU was a 'generic' shader processor and didn't distinguish between vertex/pixel shaders, so it's kinda like a Unified Shader Architecture a couple of years before …

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Re: AMD significantly increases the performance of Radeons in OpenGL

Posted on 2022-07-28, 12:29

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miniGL exists because 3dfx hardware was incapable of implementing full GL spec, and they didn't have an ICD. Luckily the GL requirement was minimal (and could be translated to GLide) so wrapping made sense. That's not quite right. 3dfx did eventually have a full ICD even for Voodoo1. Just go look …

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Re: AMD significantly increases the performance of Radeons in OpenGL

Posted on 2022-07-27, 23:46

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Something like 3dfx OpenGL ICD, which internally was still translating API calls to Glide. miniGL exists because 3dfx hardware was incapable of implementing full GL spec, and they didn't have an ICD. Luckily the GL requirement was minimal (and could be translated to GLide) so wrapping made sense. …

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Re: AMD significantly increases the performance of Radeons in OpenGL

Posted on 2022-07-27, 21:08

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Apparently, new driver translates OpenGL calls to Vulkan now. This makes no sense. The performance increase Vulkan has over OpenGL is due to lack of driver overhead (which is CPU bound). Using vulkan doesn't magically remove this CPU overhead as the driver still needs to perform the ancillary …

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Re: Vista build defender won't start

Posted on 2022-06-14, 11:33

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If you google Defender.exe, it comes up saying either a process for T-Online or it's a trojan. Since it uses OpenCL, my money would be on a trojan coin miner. Either way, nothing to do with Windows Vista. Vista era way to remove would probably be the same way using current Windows (under the hood …

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-22, 08:37

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NASA has been paying tax payers money to private corporations since its inception. "As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder." John Glenn 1962

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Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?

Posted on 2022-05-06, 12:03

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"Personal Computer" phrase comes from the fact that you didn't need a mainframe and thus didn't need time-sharing. So it applies to any computer which you didn't use concurrently with any other user at the same time, hence the name "Personal". Doesn't matter if it is in an office or at home and …

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Re: CAD Talk & Help with Mobile Workstation Selection

Posted on 2022-05-05, 17:02

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Another shout for Dell here! Been CAD/CAM developer for 16 years now (including 6 years in M&E commercial building services ;)), always had Dell's and 90% of our customers all used Dell. Some colleagues did have HP's, but not many. Enterprise contracts have much better support than non-enterprise …

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Re: People underestimate hardware they have and it's annoying

Posted on 2022-03-25, 10:48

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You can cross the Atlantic in a canoe with a sextant, powered by your arms and guided by stars.... or you could hop on something with thousands of more horse power, heated, much more detailed knowledge of your surroundings beyond the visible eye, and less likely to be toppled by rogue wave... …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-03-14, 09:46

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A rare 3DFX Voodoo Quantum3D Obsidian2 200SBi just showed up on Evil Bay ..I have never seen a Quad Voodoo card before and this thing is .. beautiful even comes with the medusa cable which I have also never seen before. The price is kind of crazy but about twice what Voodoo 5 5500s are selling for. …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-03-14, 09:33

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A rare 3DFX Voodoo Quantum3D Obsidian2 200SBi just showed up on Evil Bay ..I have never seen a Quad Voodoo card before and this thing is .. beautiful even comes with the medusa cable which I have also never seen before. The price is kind of crazy but about twice what Voodoo 5 5500s are selling for. …

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Re: MiniGL Specification

Posted on 2022-02-24, 17:45

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MiniGL's more of 3dfx's stopgap idea really. GLQuake was made on proper OpenGL hardware (Intergraphs) on NT at the time. Carmack had big Trinity (id Tech 3's early codename) plans set later that year with intent for requiring full GL spec compliance (Q3TEST flushing MiniGL for good 2 years later) …

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Re: MiniGL Specification

Posted on 2022-02-24, 12:48

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On the other hand, such a "minigl" standard came into being in the form of OpenGL ES 1.0 specification, but that was much later (2003) and targeted mainly for mobile devices.. Thanks for the info. Just checked. It's mind-boggling to think that everything took so long. It took long on a PC to reach …

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Re: What IBM docking station is this?

Posted on 2022-02-10, 14:52

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Thats definately a laptop docking station imo, not a server console. Ports on the side of the docking stattion would be inaccesable, no rails and it's not 19" wide so not rack mountable. Personally I'm not aware of them ever selling entire laptops as server consoles. IBM did supply rackmountable …

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Re: Indexing names of local files and folders

Posted on 2022-01-23, 17:36

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For powershell you can use the relative path parameter Copy code to clipboard 1 Resolve-Path -Relative Not possible for doing this with a dir command afaik, so you would need to write a batch script which removes that portion of the filepath from your results to make it relative.

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