Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support
Posted on 2021-02-10, 06:35
Great job keropi.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-02-09, 20:09
My brain just melted watching my LGA775 system blitz through 3DMark99 at 400+ fps on Windows 98SE.. I'm not sure your setup is doing everything it should be or if its a limitation with 3DMark 99. Here are my results with my Xeon3230 @ Stock with an AGP Radeon 9800 Pro: 3dmark99_x3230W- …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-02-09, 11:53
My brain just melted watching my LGA775 system blitz through 3DMark99 at 400+ fps on Windows 98SE..
Re: If we were to accept 15 years ago as retro....
Posted on 2021-02-09, 10:43
Regardless of how old it may be the Core2 architecture is anything but retro. It is more or less the same thing as Intel 10th Gen Core CPUs with less cores and clockspeed. An E6600 from 2006 runs Windows 10 just fine today. I know, because I am setting up a Win98/Win7 dual boot on an E6600 these …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-02-09, 08:04
I installed drivers on my LGA775 PCIe Win98SE build. Everything seems to work fine, however 3DMark99 locked up halfway through the benchmark last night. I don't know if it had anything to do with the Lowe 2GB patch I am using or the ABSURDLY high FPS I was getting (700fps in some tests). Possibly …
Re: ATI FireGL V7100 on Windows 98?
Posted on 2021-02-09, 07:53
Apologies for the thread necro but I just bought one of these cards as a backup for my X850PRO, and I was wondering if anyone could point me to the modified X800 drivers that work with it?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-02-08, 10:22
So.. I am finished with my LGA775 Win98/XP build. Avenger WIP 01.jpeg Except I hit an unexpected roadblock: The IDE DVD-ROM turned out to be dead. Avenger WIP 02.jpeg So now I arranged for picking up 2 SATA DVD-RWs as well as an E6600 to replace the E4600 I have in there right now. That small hiccup …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-02-08, 06:14
I just bought this video card locally and it's fully working: Radeon-9800SE.jpg It's a Radeon 9800 crippled with a 128-bit memory bus. The weird thing is that it has a LOT of this TSOP memory (256MB) and the R350 core appears to be fully enabled. In practice, it should be similar to a heavily …
Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?
Posted on 2021-02-08, 06:12
Peter Swinkels wrote on 2021-02-07, 22:04: I wouldn’t want an amiga if you offered me one for free. What in world would I do with antiquated cr*p except let it collect dust? *facepalm*
Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?
Posted on 2021-02-07, 21:05
xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-02-07, 21:03: There's newer models of Amiga computers ?? WHERE ? Yeah there are but as far as I know the only ones that aren't FPGA stuff are PowerPC boxes built for AmigaOS 4.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-02-07, 21:02
Finally got around to building the mATX LGA775 Windows 98SE/XP dualboot box with working PCI DOS Sound (Solo-1) project. It turns out the last IDE DVD-ROM I had is dead so I went ahead and bought a couple SATA ones. I will try my luck with those later.
Win98SE and SATA Optical Drives
Posted on 2021-02-07, 18:31
It seems my last IDE DVD-ROM is dead. I am building an LGA775 system on a VIA P4M890 motherboard. If I were to use a SATA drive would it play ball witn Win 98SE? Do I have to set it to IDE mode for this?
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-02-07, 16:27
After 100%'in Pillars of eternity, I got started on Tyranny. It's not the instant love affair I thought it would be, but that is partly duet o playing a character that I did not turn out to enjoy much thematically. I will reserve my judgement until after restarting with a new character..
Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?
Posted on 2021-02-07, 16:25
I don't care about the Apple II at all outside of the IIGS, and even then I don't care as much about the IIGS as I do say, the Amiga. The Amiga is also far less crippled a computer, so there's no shame in that. And, if we're being honest, most of the appeal for a lot of 8-bit systems boils down to …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-02-06, 15:34
Does anyone else just feel tired of PC Gaming sometimes? I spent most of my entire teenhood playing TF2 daily with online friends, hours and hours on end. When I was alone I'd spend my allowance on steam sales and binge great titles like Saints Row 3, or Borderlands. Im 22 now and I just can't …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-02-05, 20:32
While it's charms are plain to see, especially in context-of-ye-olde-times, I don't rank the original Monkey Island very highly within the SCUMM list. The sequel, on the other hand... (is the one I personally grew up with lol) The soundtrack alone, pure magic. Personally, I quite disagree. I …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-02-04, 12:30
Re: Post your favorite video game cover (MS-DOS/Early Windows edition)
Posted on 2021-02-04, 12:29
domomex89 wrote on 2021-02-04, 10:46: No I think that the cover of Ultima IV is best I never liked its Moses strikes the Red Sea with his staff imagery but to each their own, no?
Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?
Posted on 2021-02-04, 12:28
Games like Leisure Larry Suit and Duke Nukem would not have a place with the modern audience, an audience that likes to complain about everything not politically correct just to be on spotlight in social media. LSL is a pretty shocking game. The crude and crass humor is what shocks people. The …
Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?
Posted on 2021-02-04, 12:24
Even Doom was/is better. Even DOOM? Duke3D, Blood, etc are good but DOOM is pure distilled awesome. I loaded up Shadow Warrior last night for the first time in a while and geez it sounds good, it looks good, but I just can't stand that game for some reason. Shadow Warrior is incredibly annoying in …
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