Re: Minimum hardware specs to enjoy Doom and Doom2

Posted on 2023-11-14, 05:25

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Fast ISA for Doom are the later chipsets you can find on ISA like GD5434, I favor those. Also ET4000 and I think Ark1000PV are findable on ISA. There's also an Oak chipset that's quite fast and some later versions of the Tridents. But in general yeah, make sure your L2 cache is working and you are …

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Re: Tweak Quake2 and win a 3DFX Voodoo2 3D accelerator card

Posted on 2023-11-13, 23:41

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Necrodude wrote on 2023-11-13, 23:32: The competition ends July 1st 2023 Heh, I'm gonna need a Doc Brown edition DeLorean too?

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Re: Compaq Contura 4/25 mono. Yellow screen, nothing visible. Please help ! :(

Posted on 2023-11-13, 21:40

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My Contura has gone a bit washed out maybe I should try the recap there. However I think that what your seeing for the other thing is permanent screen damage that might not go away. Maybe a pressure spot... Sometimes with LCD you can kinda gently massage them to move the fluid around a bit to …

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Re: Decent used digital cameras Proconsumer-high end.

Posted on 2023-11-13, 21:33

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The human retina, when dark adjusted can pick out a single photon, camera sensors lose single photons in thermal noise, unless you do a long enough exposure that that one spot where a single photon keeps appearing gets brighter than the rest. So that part is still to come. The rest though, phone …

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-13, 19:45

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Yeah finding them with an S-Video is easy, telling what they do is the trick question, particularly with gems like this from PC Perspective... ""the card features two dual-link DVI outputs and a single HDTV/VIVO output for connecting your PC to your television."" It's just an output then? Why are …

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-13, 03:37

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Aha, there's some specifically TV plus vid capture plus graphics under the "Personal Cinema" branding https://videocardz.net/?s=Personal+Cinema of that list the 7300GS is PCIe and there are PCIe versions of the 6600GT and the 6800s. But then that nameplate dies apparently. Still an uphill struggle …

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-12, 23:14

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Well that's why I am wanting other suggestions than AIW cards, ppl either think they are gold, or sell them bare and stripped of accessories and dongles which use custom connectors which are unobtainium. Also support for anything other than the ATI Theater 200 chip which only seems to be on AGP …

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-12, 21:25

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BitWrangler wrote on 2023-11-12, 19:53: I am aware of alternatives to PCIe for this, but I want to use the PCIe AS WELL.

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-12, 21:17

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Since none of the hauppauge etc ones do graphics Why is that relevant? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal You have asked for help, but you're not describing what problem you're trying to solve. I mean it's literally the first sentence of the post. Hi folks, So I got a situation …

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-12, 20:54

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Since none of the hauppauge etc ones do graphics, that adds just the EN7800GT to the list apart from AIWs. Managed to confirm that one here https://www.pcstats.com/articles/1938/2.html

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PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-12, 19:53

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Hi folks, So I got a situation where it would be desirable to have a composite input into a PCIe graphics card, to capture a camera feed... I am aware of alternatives to PCIe for this, but I want to use the PCIe AS WELL. Towards the middle and end of AGP there was a craze for VIVO video in video out …

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Re: Decent used digital cameras Proconsumer-high end.

Posted on 2023-11-12, 17:40

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This though... sell a kidney now in case there's one production run ever? wait for original price to slide down a bit? wait for knockoffs? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samellos/im-back-film

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

Posted on 2023-11-12, 01:52

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Several things in my bedroom have green masking tape on them for that reason, can still see enough light through the tape to tell you it's operating but cuts down the retina sear or daylight at 2AM problem.

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Re: Decent used digital cameras Proconsumer-high end.

Posted on 2023-11-12, 00:39

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No I was saying wacky because I was doing it wrong on purpose, talking non-optical adapters to deliberately throw infinity focus out and put minimum closer for macro use. If your head explodes just spoon it back in as best you can and take it to ER.

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Re: Decent used digital cameras Proconsumer-high end.

Posted on 2023-11-11, 23:47

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Supposing I picked up a Canon with an EF mount I might do something whacky like get an FD to Praktica and Praktica to EF adapter and stack them as extension rings to use the 135mm AutoImage/Vivitar as a macro or just with the Praktica adapter to use Praktica (East German Zeiss) 70-200mm macro zoom. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-11, 23:31

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Recently acquired a couple sound cards from the early 90s. Those are some enormous capacitors for a sound card. Wow. If I'm not reading that chip wrong to the immediate left of the caps it's an operational amplifier that wants plus and minus 22V so those and the voltage controllers would be part of …

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

Posted on 2023-11-11, 17:47

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It never seemed to me that they designed for anything less than 100% fan on load before about 2014-2015 and idle power consumption was pretty high 10s of watts rather than 10W so do not apply last decade's standards to the preceding decades hardware.

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

Posted on 2023-11-11, 16:46

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twiz11 wrote on 2023-11-09, 23:37: Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote on 2018-06-15, 16:30: gdjacobs wrote: Hey, Kreshna, what was for supper? 😀 Ever heard of ketupat? Usually eaten with gule, which is Indonesian version of mutton curry. Now, I really have to watch my weight. 🙁 thought you said glue …

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Re: Can a 4x CD-Writer write on 12X CD-RW?

Posted on 2023-11-11, 16:45

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I don't know if it's my imagination, or I just stock myself up with the cheapy media, but I almost never burn at full speed of a particular drive/media because it seems to read so much better on older stuff if I don't. Though I guess I don't like waiting over 15min either and try to use the drives …

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Re: The "Why even bother?" PC - Intel Timna build

Posted on 2023-11-11, 16:27

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It's not aways about speed and performance. This is one awesome build! Yeah but if there was a Timna shooting for the stars he'd be winning lol Though really on a retro forum all "performance" builds should be tongue in cheek knowing it can have it's butt whipped by something very middling from the …

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