Re: What's the hardest part of building a retro rig for yourself?

Posted on 2017-05-18, 05:50

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by greasemonkey90s

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i know its old but i struggle with patience and over complicating the simple task of building a retro rig. its simple unless you complicate. ex: you don't always need period correct parts if your just trying to game. stop buying and hoarding build it already. are you a gamer or just like to …

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Re: One s7 build to rule the dos and 3d w95 era.(need help)

Posted on 2017-04-03, 22:11

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by greasemonkey90s

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would go for something a bit different than the K6 aproach. - The Shuttle board. - Pentium 133. - Some 32mb of Ram. - S3 Trio64v+ - Voodoo2. - A soundcard that are SB-Pro compatible and has a real OPL chip. The reason for my choice, are that you want a good machine for Dos and Win95 gaming. You …

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Re: Need someone that can id these cards.

Posted on 2017-04-03, 18:38

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ Sound

How does it stack up though.

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Need someone that can id these cards.

Posted on 2017-04-03, 15:49

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ Sound

http://i.imgur.com/QEzNSJY.jpg Both have real opl yamaha chips from what i can tell. Just need to know if there better then all the value sb16's i have.

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Re: The Systempro; Benchmarking (TI486SXL2-66)

Posted on 2017-04-03, 05:57

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Aren't SLC's 16-bit and DLC/SXL 32-bit for the data bus? Agreed yea my 486slc2-66 is on a alaris board with a opti chipset. Vlb slots are limp to 16bit data and 24bit addressing. Memory interleaving is a plus to those downsides. Should be 10% slower then dx-2 66. Do you have any benchmark evidence? …

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Re: The Systempro; Benchmarking (TI486SXL2-66)

Posted on 2017-04-03, 02:14

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by greasemonkey90s

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feipoa wrote: Aren't SLC's 16-bit and DLC/SXL 32-bit for the data bus? Agreed yea my 486slc2-66 is on a alaris board with a opti chipset. Vlb slots are limp to 16bit data and 24bit addressing. Memory interleaving is a plus to those downsides. Should be 10% slower then dx-2 66.

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Re: Windows 95/DOS graphics card: on the cheap?

Posted on 2017-04-03, 01:10

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ Video

My guess is that your options are limited to just pci cards and the Matrox G200 isn't bad but getting a pci version isn't cheap unless lucky but for a system of that speed a Nvidia TNT 2 M64 pci can be had in that price range but the card will be bottlenecked by the cpu. Personally I would just …

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Re: The Systempro; Benchmarking (TI486SXL2-66)

Posted on 2017-04-02, 23:48

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by greasemonkey90s

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So where does the 486slc2 fit or its the same.

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Re: One s7 build to rule the dos and 3d w95 era.(need help)

Posted on 2017-04-02, 23:19

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd use that FIC motherboard with Voodoo 3/AGP. It's a Super Socket 7 motherboard, so you can use your K6-2@500 for nice performance, or buy a K6-2+ or 3+ and be able to change system speed on the fly, which is useful for speed-sensistive 386-era games. Figure it was a go for broke and sorta max …

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One s7 build to rule the dos and 3d w95 era.(need help)

Posted on 2017-04-02, 23:00

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When it comes to dos i totally missed out my first pc was a 466id emachines running 98se which was for school only lol. Finally have the chance to build what i missed out on. I plan to skip the 386 era im saving that for my 486slc2 build once i learn dos. Im looking for recommendations cause im a …

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2017-02-03, 15:52

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Socket 940 opteron 252's or 875's with x1950xtx or gtx7800.

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Re: Need some games/benchmark with smp support for a dual pentium 3 PC.

Posted on 2017-02-03, 15:47

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by greasemonkey90s

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Bringing back an old thread. Anything more to add to this subject. So far i have only ran 3dmark01,ut 2004 which runs smooth at 1024x768, MOHPA runs ok but im getting stability issues ans keeps crashing. Company of hereos runs smooth. Of course only one cpu is doing all the work. Asus a7m266-d …

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Re: Athlon MP build!

Posted on 2017-01-30, 17:13

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Both of you have nice setups. I have the same board only difference is im running unbuffered pc2700 2 512mb sticks hynix. I also run a not period correct gim'd 4650.Works good now it was a issue with a pci nic card i was running. I score 11,755 on 3dmark01se. Honestly i think the era wasnt much nice …

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Re: Athlon MP build!

Posted on 2017-01-29, 17:37

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by greasemonkey90s

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Bringing it back im having a hell of a time running pc2700 hynix 512 sticks. I might try ecc kingston like you.

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Re: Q3A looks a tad shitty on w2k help

Posted on 2017-01-20, 15:50

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ Software

leileilol wrote: r_picmip 0 r_vertexlight 0 3dnow! extensions are used videodriver-side and are automatically used where available Googled and i found that on v1.32 they released some .dll's that gave athlon xp users a boost. Im still in v1.11.

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Re: Commandos BEL w98 insert cd issue

Posted on 2017-01-20, 15:47

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Windows

Look into the registry, it should be under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Pyro\Commandos\1.0MP". Modify the entry "DirCd". the previous value was "X:\COMAN_MP" (X:\ was the CD-Rom Drive used for this particular installation) all you do is change the caps from capital to small letters: "X:\coman_mp". …

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Re: Q3A looks a tad shitty on w2k help

Posted on 2017-01-19, 16:13

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by greasemonkey90s

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Will do sorry.

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Re: Commandos BEL w98 insert cd issue

Posted on 2017-01-18, 20:03

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Windows

Look into the registry, it should be under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Pyro\Commandos\1.0MP". Modify the entry "DirCd". the previous value was "X:\COMAN_MP" (X:\ was the CD-Rom Drive used for this particular installation) all you do is change the caps from capital to small letters: "X:\coman_mp". …

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Re: Q3A looks a tad shitty on w2k help

Posted on 2017-01-18, 19:35

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ Software

I agree but on w98 its looks great at the same res just on w2k it doesnt. Only difference is it runs faster since im going from a p3 667 to athlon xp. Its just look like testures are missing looks bland

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Re: Q3A looks a tad shitty on w2k help

Posted on 2017-01-18, 19:10

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by greasemonkey90s

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in Marvin \ Software

I'd think Voodoo3 is the limiting factor here. Try different drivers. Maybe even reference ones from 3dfx. So far i tried all the amigmerlin drivers 3dhq betas ones and same thing. Like i said runs great no problems if anything i get slight tearing because sometimes it goes past 85fps at 1024x768. …

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