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Re: New Quake-engine based Glide game from 3DRealms?

Posted on 2019-02-24, 14:00

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I'm not surprised, they made "Ion Maiden" using the Build engine and then compiled it in 64bits only, they don't care about compatibility with old hardware. I was looking into this and found a quote from one of the developers on Steam’s forums: “While our engine supports 32-bit, the executable uses …

Re: Voodoo 3 3000 "digital video port"?

Posted on 2019-02-24, 13:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ah P&D, I couldn’t remember the alternate digital output specification. I bet OP was looking at one of these models.

Re: Voodoo 3 3000 "digital video port"?

Posted on 2019-02-24, 12:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some Voodoo3 models were starting to experiment with using a DVI output, googling seems to show most of these were Voodoo3 3500 series but doesn’t seem like it was fully DVI compliant (DVI-A?). Could it have been one of those models you were looking at?

Re: How to fake the presence of a video card on the ISA bus?

Posted on 2019-02-22, 07:06

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

BloodyCactus wrote: since your board has video on board, my guess its looking for Monitor DDC to report output presence. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong manual / images, I don't see any evidence of video on board.

Re: How to fake the presence of a video card on the ISA bus?

Posted on 2019-02-21, 22:05

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I have no experience with this sorta of thing and thus unlikely to be any help, but I do like to learn so I googled the manual and noticed under Primary Display one of the options is: Not Installed. Also under Video Rom Shadow one of the options is Absent. I’m curious what/how exactly can you tell …

Re: Dark Forces 2 mod system requirements

Posted on 2019-02-21, 10:00

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I would try a few on your Win98 machine, you might be surprised. Dark Forces 2 modding was strong for many years, there have been unofficial patches to JK.exe which added additional functionality like ‘increased limits for things/vertices/lines/sectors, and allow textures sizes greater than 256x256’ …

Re: How to block internet on windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-19, 22:45

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I’m thinking it’s probably easiest to do this at the router.

Re: All Claimed! Hardware Giveaway (10zig 56xx Thin Clients)

Posted on 2019-02-18, 22:31

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cyclone3d wrote: BTW, any plans to change to DOSBOX 0.74-2? If so, I should be able to help optimize it since that is the version I am going to be working on. 0.74-2 is more realistic than ECE version at this point since I think ECE would need hardware accelerated opengl. I'll look into it at some …

Re: All Claimed! Hardware Giveaway (10zig 56xx Thin Clients)

Posted on 2019-02-18, 22:30

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I think if you want hardware accelerated opengl, you need to switch from Xvesa to Xorg. I havent tried on these thin clients since I still want to be compatible with the most hardware possible.

Re: Drunk'en eBay'ing

Posted on 2019-02-14, 15:55

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I wasn’t drunk but years ago I woke up in the middle of the night, was still half asleep, intended to bid on a PC but accidentally clicked Buy it Now and completed the transaction. I had spent like $800 on a computer that probably was worth $300. I was pissed at myself when I realized it moments …

Re: I don't understand all the hate for the Nvidia FX series

Posted on 2019-02-12, 05:11

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

At the time I didnt feel the FX5600 or FX5800 cards offered a significant value over the high end Geforce4 cards.

Re: Filling the DOS gap of Windows Accelerator SVGA cards

Posted on 2019-02-11, 04:42

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'd be curious what Win 3.11 games you are playing where you need a windows accelerator. I guess at the time 95% of my gaming was dos based, and the only games I played in Win 3.11 were casual time killers like SkiFree, Jezzball, and Snood.

Re: What is he least cpu dependant Network card for a win98 on super socket 7 system?

Posted on 2019-02-09, 13:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What are the best retro ISA and PCI slot network cards? Looks like it was discussed previously, seems like the conclusion was Win9x doesn’t support any CPU offloading.

Re: Distributing Physical Shareware in 2019?

Posted on 2019-02-09, 02:01

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Surprisingly it is acceptable to profit from distributing freeware, at least under some licenses - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

Re: What is the (real world) difference between these CPUs

Posted on 2019-02-06, 21:58

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cyclone3d wrote: Pretty sure the difference will be a lot larger than that. ... 8.7% difference in that one benchmark. I looked at a few more benchmarks and you are right. Seems like the P8600 winning by 13-15% is not uncommon.

Re: What is the (real world) difference between these CPUs

Posted on 2019-02-06, 17:55

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I would guess the difference between the T4500 and the fastest cpu in that list (p8600?) is ~3%.

Re: What if I want to make a classic website and edit it on vintage PCs?

Posted on 2019-02-05, 05:06

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in Milliways

Looks good. I'm sure there's a way to force modern browsers to use the font tag... you might have to specify the DOCTYPE as an older version of HTML.

Re: What if I want to make a classic website and edit it on vintage PCs?

Posted on 2019-02-05, 00:00

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in Milliways

Should be something like , I think. Wiki lists HTML 2.0 as 1995, and HTML 3.2 as 1997.

Re: What if I want to make a classic website and edit it on vintage PCs?

Posted on 2019-02-04, 23:43

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I can't test on anything vintage at the moment, but you should be able to just do

to center your image.

Re: What if I want to make a classic website and edit it on vintage PCs?

Posted on 2019-02-04, 22:54

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You should be able to google: web hosting ftp and it should return a ton of options. I have no experience with a Raspberry Pi but I believe they are just running custom linux distributions. Most of those should support FTP, or you could just connect via SSH and edit the HTML files directly. Also I …

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