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

Posted on 2020-04-21, 06:27

Caluser2000 wrote on 2020-04-20, 19:37: Swappee out my P166mmx test mobo for an AUSUS socket 7 mobo rocking an AMD K5-266. More pci slots, slightly quicker, 2 16-bit ISA slots, 1 AGP slot and more available memory. I can test a few more cards now. K5-266?..

Re: ISA sound card for lucas games?

Posted on 2020-04-21, 05:19

by appiah4

in Marvin \ Sound

LucasArts games range from Maniac Mansion to The Dig and in between there are a million different sound standards to take into acount. However, for these games you want to have the following: 1. Decent Adlib/Sound Blaster compatibility 2. No MPU-401 Bug 3. MT-32 MIDI support 4. General MIDI support …

Re: ISA sound card for lucas games?

Posted on 2020-04-20, 16:24

by appiah4

in Marvin \ Sound

LucasArts games range from Maniac Mansion to The Dig and in between there are a million different sound standards to take into acount. However, for these games you want to have the following: 1. Decent Adlib/Sound Blaster compatibility 2. No MPU-401 Bug 3. MT-32 MIDI support 4. General MIDI support …

Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2020-04-20, 16:07

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's weird and sad to re-stumble onto this topic on the day I brought home an MMX-200 to replace my 6x86MX-PR233 because its Quake 1/2 performance was so lacklustre.. Now I feel dirty and I'll probably not do the swap..

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

Posted on 2020-04-20, 12:51

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oj0 wrote on 2020-04-20, 12:26: That seems a bit high? I was running my V2 SLI on a Celeron 300A @ 504 and there was a definite gain from single to dual card. At 800x600 it would run virtually at the same speed.

Re: The Budget 1997 (was: OS/2 Warp) Gaming PC

Posted on 2020-04-20, 12:11

by appiah4

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yes, the 6x86MX was a fantastic processor for my initial purpose: An OS/2 and MS-DOS multi-boot PC. However, I too have found it painfully limiting upon trying to get the PC to run any kind of demanding 3D game. I have looked into CPU prices at 1997 Christmas and it appears the MMX-200 was a …

Re: The Budget 1997 (was: OS/2 Warp) Gaming PC

Posted on 2020-04-20, 08:55

by appiah4

in Marvin \ System Specs

Well, I have been messing around with this PC for quite some time, and managed to get the OS updated to FPM15 and kernel level to 4.5. And at the end of the day, I wiped it clean, and repurposed it into a 1997 Budget Gaming PC. Since the day I first booted OS/2 Warp 4, I had a feeling this would …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-20, 05:05

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PC Partners PCI board with a UMC chip. Works. https://i.imgur.com/q2k2Bo0m.jpg I have the exact same board, mine had a barrel battery. Can you give me a good clean shot of the battery area so that I can cross check? From what I can tell only the diode on D14 and resistor on R12 are missing, I'd be …

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

Posted on 2020-04-19, 23:18

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am in the same boat but I opted to keep a 386SX and a 486 VLB instead. I maintain a Socket 7 as my main these days..

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

Posted on 2020-04-19, 22:15

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh ffs

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

Posted on 2020-04-19, 21:18

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

K6-2/400 is also bottlenecking that Voodoo 3 quite a bit, by the way.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-19, 20:53

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PC Partners PCI board with a UMC chip. Works. https://i.imgur.com/q2k2Bo0m.jpg I have the exact same board, mine had a barrel battery. Can you give me a good clean shot of the battery area so that I can cross check? From what I can tell only the diode on D14 and resistor on R12 are missing, I'd be …

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

Posted on 2020-04-19, 20:48

by appiah4

in Milliways

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 …

Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.

Posted on 2020-04-19, 20:48

by appiah4

in PC Emulation

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..

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

Posted on 2020-04-17, 21:46

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

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

Posted on 2020-04-17, 13:41

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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 …

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

Posted on 2020-04-17, 11:15

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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 …

Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-04-17, 10:49

by appiah4

in Marvin \ Video

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 …

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

Posted on 2020-04-17, 10:45

by appiah4

in Milliways

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.

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

Posted on 2020-04-17, 10:38

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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: What retro activity did you get up to today?

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

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

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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

Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.

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

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

Re: VGA Capture Thread

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

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