Re: Retro computers and noise

Posted on 2018-03-22, 17:14

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Neither of my retro pcs are noisy. They both use a single large fan to cool everything, a quiet psu and quiet storage. In the day they would've been noisy with noisy components but not today.

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Re: Your most surprising result in benchmarking?

Posted on 2018-03-21, 23:50

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Some years ago I wrote an atmospheric simulation and for it my first opencl kernel to compute condensation and was surprised that the speedup of gpu over vanilla cpu was 100x.

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2018-03-21, 09:59

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I planned and went some distance into making an open source port of the closed source rally-sport, having first made several content editors for it which took about two medium-effort months from scratch. It's a simple game too. But no way the port was going to be worth the work. I've yet to see in …

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2018-03-21, 04:50

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One option is to pay someone and get the port. Start at $10000 for the hours spent, depending on this and that. If that fails, either be a good manipulator or arrange for lots of free time for yourself. Waiting for someone to do it won't go far but maybe you're lucky.

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2018-03-21, 03:52

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KCompRoom2000 wrote: (I'd try to make a source port, but I have very limited experience with coding). 😊 The ethos of open source expects that you'll start learning as soon as possible and in a suitable number of years contribute to the project, which will likely still be there waiting for those …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2018-03-19, 17:15

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The output (base) resolution override will force the size of the window to ignore changes in input resolution. I've been intending custom filtering where you can chain different filters and scalers and have them per resolution. For inspecting phase issues etc. a magnifying glass type thing when …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2018-03-19, 07:33

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The fps display is the number of frames per second passing through the pipeline of being received from the capture card, scaled/processed, and drawn to screen. Technically the program could be written to count the number of unique frames it receives to estimate the redraw fps but it would work only …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2018-03-19, 07:06

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Version 1.1.4 - anti-tearing. implements a local triple buffer to reconstruct frame coherency when capture data is fragmented. read the readme for more info. efficacy is demonstrated there with the visionrgb-pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gNywFJFRWo, with tomb raider 1 and f-22 lightning 3. …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2018-03-17, 18:00

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Based on my brief testing the visionrgb-pro is supported up to windows 7. I use it in a virtual machine so it doesn't matter. I find it runs best with a win xp guest in kvm (linux, don't know about virtualization/passthrough on windows).

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Re: Old feature phones / smartphones

Posted on 2018-03-16, 20:03

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It's slow for everything and the keyboard is awkward to type. There are various other issues not worth mentioning.

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Re: Old feature phones / smartphones

Posted on 2018-03-16, 18:50

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I use an n73 and it sucks in many ways. I prefer the original 3310 or 1100.

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Re: Siemens-Nixdorf screen issue

Posted on 2018-03-14, 17:45

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The pcd-4nd has a very modular build anyway so pretty easy to work on.

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2018-03-14, 06:58

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Version 1.1.2 - ability to change capture bit depth - less artifacts when forcing input resolutions - possibly fixed a rare qtimer-related crash on exit - implements rgbeasy callback for unrecoverable errors, never seen em but this was the last callback not yet implemented Benchmarked vcs against …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2018-03-13, 05:42

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Version 1.1.1 - overlay makes better use of local cache for resources Version 1.1 - the buttons to force input resolution can be mapped to different resolutions (ctrl + click) - certain settings like the overlay are saved on exit and recalled on launch - output base resolution spinboxes properly …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2018-03-12, 05:48

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vvbee wrote: Those that want to beta test the new version of the vcs capture utility for datapath can do so with that No immediate reports of inability to run, that's enough beta. I made a few changes and called it a 1.0. Put a download link in the releases subforum.

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VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2018-03-12, 05:22

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VCS is essential software for capturing retro vga footage using the datapath visionrgb-pro capture cards. Also expected to work with the visionrgb-e and the visionrgb-x. Some features: - several scaling modes. - advanced image filter options. - post-capture tear removal with triple-buffered frame …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2018-03-11, 08:09

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Those that want to beta test the new version of the vcs capture utility for datapath can do so with that: (beta's done). I rewrote the interface, capture works faster, has a bunch of new features. Mainly aimed at the visionrgb-pro (non-hd) and its quirks but should work with the entire vanilla …

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Re: Phil drops a graphics card benchmarking bombshell!

Posted on 2018-03-11, 02:58

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A company known for their hellishly short release cycle under fierce competition wouldn't sit there optimizing for obsolete titles nor prioritizing regressions in them, for which you expect a notable fall in driver quality relative to a static reference.

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Re: Things you regret giving or throwing away?

Posted on 2018-03-10, 08:42

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I'd slightly prefer not having given away my akg k 501 headphones 15 years ago. I could buy them again but I can't be bothered.

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Re: Ken Silverman releases BUILD2 Demo

Posted on 2018-03-10, 00:46

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Lucky camp and kids to have silverman tutor em.

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