Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?

Posted on 2020-04-19, 20:48

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The combination of PSU and motherboard seems to be very important in not having interference of some kind in custom PCs, if I go by the discussions on a local synthesizer forum. The motherboard and having proper ground wiring on the wall electricity is what I find to be a lot more important than …

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Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.

Posted on 2020-04-19, 20:48

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Amazing job. My only issue with PCem is how long it takes to set up a drive image and how difficult it is to modify the drive image..

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-04-17, 21:46

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I'm afraid I must report another failure, the error persists.

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-04-17, 13:41

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Sorry for the inconvenience but if you are willing to do something about it and come up with another binary I'm ok with trying it out.. On the contrary, it is always interesting to figure out what can be wrong. Here is a version without DIRs reading. If it works, you can eventually remove cpuz.ini …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-17, 11:15

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More hardware accelerated 3D testing with the ATI 3D Rage Pro, this time Quake 2 OpenGL: https://i.postimg.cc/1R242xs6/ATI-3-D-Rage-Pro-Quake-2-Default-01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/GhD91Mmf/ATI-3-D-Rage-Pro-Quake-2-Default-02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/g2Pjcvw2/ATI-3-D-Rage-Pro-Quake-2-Default-03.jpg …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-04-17, 10:49

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That looks like the Gamma is way off, you need to correct black levels before it looks semi decent. The MS-DOS and Larry screenshots tell me there is also a good deal of upscale filtering going on as well so you won't get a crisp pixel perfect image out of it, but as far as I am concerned I would be …

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Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?

Posted on 2020-04-17, 10:45

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That's only because Firewire died away and not because it was not better for audio equipment. USB is pure shitshow when it comes to audio stuff, in my experience.

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-04-17, 10:38

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I tried this .ini with the below latest beta executable and it still crashes. This particular system also crashes when loading SpeedSys and requires the /SP switch to disable PCI/ISA detection. It might be related? Yes definitely, but PCI detection was disabled in the ini. By disabling ISA I wonder …

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-04-17, 10:19

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It's a Cyrix 6x86MX PR233 running on Windows 98SE Ah, there are no MSR read on that system, it must be something else. Can you please copy that cpuz.ini in the same directory as cpuz_w9x.exe, and tell me if the program starts this time ? I tried this .ini with the below latest beta executable and …

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Re: Video card for a PII/PIII (400 to 600Mhz)

Posted on 2020-04-16, 13:41

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The savage 4 has weak but barely passable 3d performance into '98, but has excellent S3 dos gaming support. The 5500 is also weak but with good image quality, dvi and fair dos performance. The FX needs as early drivers as possible. I wouldn't touch a Matrox for any build. Savage4 is decently fast …

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-04-16, 12:38

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I can't seem to get CPU-Z to run on Win9x, gives me a bluescreen at startup around the 10% initialization mark, and the following error: "A fatal exception 0D has occured at 0028:C15F3D96 in VXD CVXDSAMP(01) + 00000226. The current application will be terminated." Probably a PCI probing problem? …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-16, 11:07

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Filtering can not be completely disabled, but gl_texturemode GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR changes filtering mode to point sampled instead of bi/trilinear which makes it as software-like as possible.. By default 3D Rage Pro can only do bilinear filtering to non-alpha channel textures anyway, but this …

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-04-16, 10:43

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I can't seem to get CPU-Z to run on Win9x, gives me a bluescreen at startup around the 10% initialization mark, and the following error: "A fatal exception 0D has occured at 0028:C15F3D96 in VXD CVXDSAMP(01) + 00000226. The current application will be terminated." Probably a PCI probing problem? Any …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-16, 10:37

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that sounds interesting, I really prefer the sharp pixelated rendering over early texture filtering in a lot of games. I further enhanced the experience by altering the filtering and setting particles to square in the console, I will have screenshots soon.. Here they are, GLQuake on ATI 3DRage Pro …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-16, 07:15

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imi wrote on 2020-04-15, 21:16: that sounds interesting, I really prefer the sharp pixelated rendering over early texture filtering in a lot of games. I further enhanced the experience by altering the filtering and setting particles to square in the console, I will have screenshots soon..

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-15, 20:55

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Replaced the Matrox Millennium + Voodoo 1 combination in my 1997 Budget Gaming build with an ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI - a much cheaper option at the time that feels a lot more fitting for the build. Besides, I'm in love with the way it renders GLQuake - weird/no bilinear filtering, no mipmapping, it …

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Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?

Posted on 2020-04-15, 14:30

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I used to have a Xonar DG but my new system has no PCI and I don't really find the need for a discrete sound card.. The audio circuitry on modern high end motherboards makes them mostly redundant, though I may invest in a USB DAC for recording.

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2020-04-15, 14:29

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InWin A500 Case ASUS (Unknown 440LX Slot-1 Motherboard) Pentium II 300 64MB RAM ASUS i740 AGP Diamond Voodoo 2 8MB CD-ROM 8.4GB HDD (IIRC..) Windows 98SE/RedHat 5.2

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Re: Windows 2000 20th Anniversary Client/server build

Posted on 2020-04-14, 05:52

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Errius wrote on 2020-04-13, 22:01: I think I switched from 2000 to XP because someone told me it was better for games? I no longer remember the details. This was about 2005. I made the switch reluctantly as I really liked 2000. There was a 1-2% difference that did not pursuade me at the time..

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo 1 and 75 MHz FSB

Posted on 2020-04-14, 05:50

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Ok, that one should be on the safe side. I don't remember if the VG issues were on only on AMD socket 7 CPUs or all non-Intel in general. Anyway, you could still try the older driver, just to make sure. It helped me to run VG properly on K6-2 400. The latest official win9x driver from 3dfx caused …

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