Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-02-13, 21:56
Got my new S7 pet project to boot with SDRAM instead of EDO which resulted in 16% better memory bandwidth and around 1% better performance. 😁
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2020-02-13, 21:54
Nice system. Did you check the sound card? Those OEM builds can have some interesting cards inside..
Re: GeForce2 Ti vs. Matrox G400
Posted on 2020-02-13, 14:38
yeah parhelia is already DX 8.1 and G550 is just a G400 with a bit more features.. if someone wants to play Games its the best to avoid matrox. I wouldn't go so far as saying that, if you pair them with a Voodoo 2 for GLIDE games then you get a very decent all around gaming PC, they provide quite …
Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS
Posted on 2020-02-13, 08:13
As of today, the Stylus code that negated oldstyle numerals no longer seems to work: :root { font-feature-settings: 'onum' 0; } Does nothing. What changed? EDIT: OK it started working again, for no apparent reason 😖
Re: Various things I learned about BIOS, OS, disk, MBR, and FAT compatibility
Posted on 2020-02-13, 08:12
FAT always allowed for up to 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions + 1 extended partition - it was just DOS fdisk that artificially did not allow for this.
Pre-1999 games that support 32-bit 3D rendering?
Posted on 2020-02-13, 08:03
Is there a list of pre-1999 games that support 32-bit 3D rendering? The only one I know of are Incoming and Expendable.. Are there any significant others?
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-02-13, 08:02
Ah, glad I stumbled upon this thread. I will post some benchmarks from my K6-2/500 i740+Voodoo 2 SLI rig soon. 😁
Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter
Posted on 2020-02-13, 04:37
Masterpiece.sf2 is better.
Re: Help requested from fellow ATI All-In-Wonder/PRO (Rage/Rage Pro) Owners
Posted on 2020-02-13, 04:33
I found a pinout here (second picture) that I haven't verified yet, could be for another AIW card as well. Give it a shot maybe? Btw: if that's an original picture your card may have a remainder of the original cable still stuck in the Video Out port. That is the cable for Radeon AIW cards. I …
Re: Help requested from fellow ATI All-In-Wonder/PRO (Rage/Rage Pro) Owners
Posted on 2020-02-13, 04:31
...Actually, now that I think about it again, there was an occasion when I was trying to get my AIW Pro to do TV-out, and it refused to do it at boot until I finally gave up, plugged in a monitor, and enabled TV-out in Windows. Then it would do TV-out at boot. I can't recall any details like if it …
Re: Help requested from fellow ATI All-In-Wonder/PRO (Rage/Rage Pro) Owners
Posted on 2020-02-13, 04:31
That page is the video out pinout.. This page? The one titled "ATI All-In-Wonder input from S-Video / composite Video / Audio cable pinout" ? Page title is wrong if you check the card manual still hosted on AMD site miraculously that cable is an AV Out cable. The AV in cable has red/white female …
Re: Help requested from fellow ATI All-In-Wonder/PRO (Rage/Rage Pro) Owners
Posted on 2020-02-12, 20:24
That page is the video out pinout..
Re: GeForce2 Ti vs. Matrox G400
Posted on 2020-02-12, 15:48
My experience with the G450 was that it was inbetween TNT and TNT2 levels, the G400 slightly faster and comparable to a TNT2. The G400 MAX is even faster and about Radeon VE levels. They are all waaaay way way slower than a GeForce2 Ti.
Re: Help requested from fellow ATI All-In-Wonder/PRO (Rage/Rage Pro) Owners
Posted on 2020-02-12, 15:43
I have the card, the layout its a bit different, it has a slot for extra ram, but it's almost identical. It was my main card back in the days (1998) in a Cyrix 233 computer. The problem is that I don't have any device with S-Video input to test it. I think I still have somewhere an external TV …
Re: AMD AM486DX4-100SV8B and AM486DX2-66: Interesting observation / CPU relabeling
Posted on 2020-02-12, 14:34
So that means I can safely use this in 5V only motherboards? I assume I just need to set it as an AMD DX2? https://i.postimg.cc/6pMkmMLY/AMD-Am486-DX2-66-NV8-T.jpg And this can be run at a 2x multiplier? (How? Most motherboards don't have jumpers to differentiate DX2 and DX4..) https://i.postimg.cc/ …
Re: Best video cards for Athlon XP 2000+
Posted on 2020-02-12, 13:03
my last nvidia card was a GF4 Ti4200 ^^ Mine was a GeForce 2 (Pro or Ti, can not remember for sure). I bought a GeForce 3 Ti200 to benchmark against the Radeon 8500 at one point but never used it regularly, sold it off soon enough. I haven't used an nVidia GPU or an Intel CPU since 2001. Clean for …
Re: Stop buying gal chips from ebay for SB 2.0
Posted on 2020-02-12, 12:50
I will be building a Snarkbarker soon and I have zero interest in getting its CMS functionality working.. I can't think of a single game where I would have to suffer the CMS audio because something more favorable such as Adlib isn't supported..
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-02-12, 12:32
I actually want to install one of my zip drives into my Dell Dimension XPS D333 - it apparently came with one, but I can't. The bottom floppy drive slot requires some kind of rail mechanism or something of the kind to install a floppy there, so I had to install the floppy where the ZIP drive …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-12, 12:15
Interestingly enough, I can't even attach it to the post as an image despite renaming the file.. The board keeps throwing the following error when I submit: Some attachments are no longer available. Please check and re-attach any missing files. I got the same message, for no apparent reason I …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-12, 11:24
(I can't post the photo because the new site has issues with images that contain the word RAGE in the name, apparently..) If only ther was a way to rename files! Interestingly enough, I can't even attach it to the post as an image despite renaming the file.. The board keeps throwing the following …
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