Re: Voodoo 1 vs. Voodoo 2 on a 486

Posted on 2018-08-13, 19:43

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by mrau

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in Marvin \ Video

I was reading on Wiki that Screamer is a DOS-based software mode game. Is there a 3dfx patch for it and does the game have a means to run either a timedemo or instantaneous frame rates? Do Screamer 2 or Screamer Rally provide a means to run in 3dfx glide mode? And is there a means to measure frame …

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Re: VIA VPX vs Intel 430TX

Posted on 2018-08-13, 19:15

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by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

imho in win98 128mb ram is the minimum for a quality experience - only if no big programs are in use, or many programs in parallel; but the board You chose does not seem to improve over what You have that much - this might not pay off - cache coverage issues, also possibly lower performance overall …

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Re: Voodoo 1 vs. Voodoo 2 on a 486

Posted on 2018-08-12, 16:38

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by mrau

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in Marvin \ Video

could You show on 1 or 2 examples the difference to a system on standard bus speeds? just so we could see how much this really changes things.. also, where' s the screamer, pretty please ^^ thanks for the input, that was quite a lot of work :) i do assume that none of these programs automatically …

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Re: My Ultimate VL/EISA 486

Posted on 2018-08-11, 19:57

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by mrau

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in Marvin \ System Specs

looking at how win98 got significantly slower than win95 i'd say You overdid it; i am i little bit surprised that dos can pull ahead like that

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Re: DOS 7.10 error message, resource conflict or something?

Posted on 2018-08-10, 18:42

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by mrau

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

is there a reason why You attribute this to DOS? imho this does not look like a DOS message at all;

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Re: Win98SE Loading Unusually Slow

Posted on 2018-08-10, 18:21

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by mrau

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in Marvin \ Software

check DMA and disk health?

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Re: A Tale of PCI Woe

Posted on 2018-08-08, 19:09

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by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

stupid question: it does absofrigenlutely not bother You that that tool showing enabled as yes will not give You the name if the device? what can be set in the respective "slot using int" field?

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Re: Fixing an old 486?

Posted on 2018-08-03, 00:43

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by mrau

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

nice website, happy You got this running again would You share a little bit of intel here? how do You choose the sound device on the pc? there is a proxy here that would translate requests into remotely typed in commands and the digitize the output?

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Re: Portable CPU retro benchmark software

Posted on 2018-07-15, 11:34

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by mrau

in Milliways

in Milliways

what kind of operations do you test

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Re: Where most of the CD Audio tracks of the 90s just MIDI recorded from high end devices?

Posted on 2018-07-03, 17:31

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by mrau

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

gdjacobs wrote: MW2 is recorded straight off a JV1080. how do You know that?

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Re: Video playback disables mouse and keyboard

Posted on 2018-07-03, 17:19

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by mrau

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in Marvin \ Software

what other player did You try? it sounds like software corruption on system level; playing without video acceleration helps?

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Re: Disable ISA detection W98

Posted on 2018-07-01, 23:02

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by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

use hardware profiles?

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Re: My rant for the day... compiling and libraries.

Posted on 2018-07-01, 09:52

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by mrau

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

isn't a MS build slower than GCC?

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2018-06-22, 18:58

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by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

there were games which did not like the cyrix at all

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Re: Maximum Network Speed on Win 95/98/SE

Posted on 2018-06-21, 21:37

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by mrau

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

would anyone have numbers on this? i thought with a faster nic one should usually saturate on simple protocols easily.. maybe something like the killer nic could help here?

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Re: Do I have 60ns or 70ns EDO Ram

Posted on 2018-06-21, 19:19

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by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

imho y

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Re: Do I have 60ns or 70ns EDO Ram

Posted on 2018-06-21, 17:57

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by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

32MB PS/2 EDO SIMM RAM Memory 60ns 72P 8x32

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Re: Something is slowing my machine down

Posted on 2018-06-19, 17:05

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by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gahhhrrrlic wrote: Just for thoroughness, I set the entire BIOS to defaults and no difference in score. what defaults? did you test both optimal and safe defaults if present?

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Re: Something is slowing my machine down

Posted on 2018-06-18, 19:59

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by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Using Duke3d as an example, I am not getting a smooth framerate in 640 res, only 320. this should be running rather well in software mode, so gpu does not make much of a difference; you should hit 25-30fps imho by a quick google I haven't cleared the BIOS yet due to losing all my PCI/PNP settings …

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Re: Windows 98 and Large Storage Access

Posted on 2018-06-18, 19:08

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by mrau

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in Marvin \ Software

win98 does not offer free nfs; enabling old smb in new windows is a hole; use an older vm guest as already proposed or if you need a robust solution go for a linux+samba guest

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