Re: Panzer/Allied General and Command Aces of the Deep?

Posted on 2019-10-28, 15:56

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by voodoo47

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thanks - ah yes, pg forever, almost forgot about that one, though if I remember correctly, they did something with the RNG I didn't like too much, will have to check on that again.

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Re: Trying to run Half-Life 1 w/ Voodoo2's using MesaFX

Posted on 2019-10-27, 15:21

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Software

I'll just add that MesaFX is compatibility focused, meaning it will be way slower with old games from the 3Dfx era. minigl or WickedGL will work much better in this scenario - you can always force them by renaming to opengl32.dll and dropping them in the game root (and selecting opengl in the video …

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Panzer/Allied General and Command Aces of the Deep?

Posted on 2019-10-08, 16:11

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by voodoo47

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hey, anyone managed to run them under win10? note that I'm looking to get the windows(95) versions going, I know the DOS versions can be launched with DOSBox. I'm guessing some sort of ddraw/dx wrapper would work, but I haven't managed to get into those just yet - any recommendations? thanks.

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Re: 2.5 ide hdd cable orientation check

Posted on 2018-08-20, 14:02

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

it's a Terra TK-3770 thin client - it has two 44pin ide connectors on the board, but they have all the pins (normally, one pin is not present on the connector, and a regular cable is keyed accordingly so you can't connect them improperly), so you have to use a cable that is not keyed in any way, but …

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Re: 2.5 ide hdd cable orientation check

Posted on 2018-08-20, 12:26

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

no, they are both 44pin ide connectors, so regular 44pin ide cable is ok. anyway, connected as shown on the attached screenshot and booted the system, and no explosions so far, so looking good.

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2.5 ide hdd cable orientation check

Posted on 2018-08-20, 08:01

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the motherboard connector has a proper notch so no chance of messing up at that end, the drive however doesn't, so it would be great if someone could confirm whether I'm doing this right - the drive has no markings indicating where pin1 is, google image search suggests pin1 should be next to those …

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Re: Voodoo4 related questions

Posted on 2017-08-23, 07:21

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Video

Reputator wrote: How many Glide games support 32-bit color anyway (genuine question)? I know the Unreal games don't do true 32-bit color in Glide. very few - off the bat, I only remember Turok2, and I'm not 100% sure even on that. but it's not a big deal, as you can force 32bit for glide via the …

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Re: Voodoo4 related questions

Posted on 2017-08-21, 21:05

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by voodoo47

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V4 is a standalone card, no way to hook it up via any sort of pass through cable. the mentioned cards should coexist without issues in one system, but you will either have to switch cables or monitor inputs for glide games. if I remember correctly, V4 will work ok as a secondary card, but 3dfx tools …

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Re: Running Carmageddon on Voodoo II glitches DOS games.

Posted on 2017-07-28, 16:37

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Video

try the DX7 beta (3dfx Voodoo2 V3.03.00b).

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Re: D201GLY2 audio not cooperating under win98se

Posted on 2017-07-20, 11:45

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Sound

Quake3 and System Shock2 (2.46, DX9 mode) ran decently under xp (800*600), didn't test anything 3D under win9x yet, but as the driver supports 9x properly, I have no reason to think it shouldn't work - I'll see soon enough, I suppose. //D3D is fine, but opengl locks up. will try a clean win98se …

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Re: D201GLY2 audio not cooperating under win98se

Posted on 2017-07-19, 17:24

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Sound

looks like we have a winner - the AD1888 win98se driver for msi 845pev2. if this works under win98se as well (currently running winme), then the victory will be complete. //it does.

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Re: D201GLY2 audio not cooperating under win98se

Posted on 2017-07-19, 15:06

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Sound

suppose an usb sound card would do if everything else fails, but no idea whether one can be obtained cheaply and with working win9x drivers - maybe you have some specific model in mind?

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Re: D201GLY2 audio not cooperating under win98se

Posted on 2017-07-19, 13:43

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Sound

yes, hw wise, everything is set up properly - if I boot to the xp drive, everything works fine. tried to force down the sis7012 driver, and again, the device looks fine, but there is no sound. guess I'l just keep downloading and installing random drivers until I get bored. was hoping that someone …

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Re: D201GLY2 audio not cooperating under win98se

Posted on 2017-07-19, 12:21

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Sound

same behavior with the wdm driver under winme (the ntkern.vxd, mmdevldr.vxd error). the vxd driver can be loaded via the device manager and shows as working properly, but there is still no sound (both win98se and winme). looks like I'm screwed, unless I manage to find some magical driver that would …

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Re: D201GLY2 audio not cooperating under win98se

Posted on 2017-07-19, 05:26

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Sound

the 4.06 win98/me driver is wdm only, I believe (but they do provide a vxd driver as well, though marked win95 only - maybe I'll try anyway). the system has 512MB of ram.

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Re: D201GLY2 audio not cooperating under win98se

Posted on 2017-07-18, 20:59

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Sound

ok, I think those files are simply missing. no idea from where should I get them - any idea whether those unofficial service packs would help? or perhaps winme?

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Re: D201GLY2 audio not cooperating under win98se

Posted on 2017-07-18, 18:00

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Sound

it was the only driver that actually loaded properly so far. didn't find any ACPI related options in the BIOS, but I don't believe ACPI is causing the audio problem.

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D201GLY2 audio not cooperating under win98se

Posted on 2017-07-18, 17:19

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Sound

so I was thinking this board could make a nice tiny voodoo box, and while it doesn't officially support win9x, I was able to get all the devices running with drivers from the sis webpage (well, "motherboard resources" have an exclamation mark, but I'm pretty sure it's some ACPI thing I don't really …

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Re: PCI Card advice.

Posted on 2017-07-15, 18:52

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Video

ain't nothing wrong with a backup or two, just make sure you don't end up like some of us.. with hundreds of them. also, do run gpu-z on that 8400, I'd like to know whether it's really 64bit - thanks.

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Re: PCI Card advice.

Posted on 2017-07-15, 17:34

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by voodoo47

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in Marvin \ Video

not sure whether the machine can support a single 2Gb module, I'm guessing not - two 1GB modules would have been much safer. also yeah, the integrated graphics (gma 950) is awful, DX9c in theory (intel's compliance to standards tends to be quite loose, to say it politely), but just a lot of suck …

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