Re: my strange PentiumII / SS7 setup

Posted on 2019-11-14, 07:43

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It's a great system for 1995-1998 era gaming. I would swap out the radeon for a TNT2, Radeons lack early features required to run early games of that vintage. TNT2 has good 3d support and 2d support of that vintage. S3 is the great 2D acelerator for dos with excelent dos compatibility but without a …

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Re: Readily available motherboards with ISA slot and faster CPUs?

Posted on 2019-11-14, 07:12

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P4 boards without ISA but have SBLINK? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=48205&start=60 This ia a viable alternative. It begs the question about the need of such a powerful board to play a DOS game in pure dos. Thats also assuming there are no speed issues. A lot of DOS games can be played …

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Re: my strange PentiumII / SS7 setup

Posted on 2019-11-14, 05:04

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by Warlord

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pics?

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Re: Aopen mx64 capable of 128gb drives?

Posted on 2019-11-13, 15:06

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by Warlord

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bios determines that

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Re: Nexgen - the 486 killer - WIP

Posted on 2019-11-13, 14:35

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Adaptec total advantage VL is fastest. https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_host_vl/ava-2825/ that maybe true and all but ssds are internally faster than a CF card. You maybe able to max out the bus on just read speed, but write speed and random access speed will still be superior …

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Re: Nexgen - the 486 killer - WIP

Posted on 2019-11-13, 10:59

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why not ide to m-sata. I've used those a lot. These things here are beast mode. I think I am the only person on vogons who uses them. When I tested this thing I was able to fully saturate the Ultrabay bus on my T43 think pad. That means T43 uses Ultrabay system that is a sata 150 bridged into ide …

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Re: NEC Proserva V Plus (dual socket 7 system) (have a lead on multiple of these)

Posted on 2019-11-13, 09:18

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cool board. Id totally go for one, but because I have too many computers already.

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 14:34

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yes specifically, have unknown hardware device. Just like installing any other piece of hardware that windows doesn't have the drivers for or know what it is.

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 14:24

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i would just try to verify you don't have a defective part somhow.

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 14:19

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ya there should be an unknown device in the device manager. I just assumed there would be. If you don't see an unknown device than your motherboard isn't seeing the card. You could try putting it in another computer with pci-e just to see if it shows up in device manager, or try putting it in a …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 14:04

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in a regular PCI-e slot no but I did install it in a thinkpad t43 with a mini pci-e to Expresscard 54 adapter. lol that worked too. Id be willing to bet that if you see the card in the device manager than windows detects it just fine. And that the issue is the driver version that you are trying to …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 13:21

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ya it did auto detect mine. 😵

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 09:57

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maybe that installer was bundled with the driver, because I installed it with just a vanilla SP3.

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Re: Rendition Verite 2200 + Voodoo 1 + K62+ 450

Posted on 2019-11-12, 07:53

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Hexon II looks better. and there is a few others. It's probably not the fastest or even fast. But I question how fast you need to be for 1997 level gaming? I should run some benchmarks to see if this is good enough for the games I intend to load on it.

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Re: Rendition Verite 2200 + Voodoo 1 + K62+ 450

Posted on 2019-11-12, 07:49

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yeah I thought about that and then I realized its a voodoo 1 its not fast.

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Rendition Verite 2200 + Voodoo 1 + K62+ 450

Posted on 2019-11-12, 02:51

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What are your thoughts, on this? First this is not meant to be a all coverage dos system, or the ultimate vogons ss7 build lol. It's purpose built only 96/97 early 3d. Tyan S1590s "Trinity" AMD k62 Plus 450 256 MB ram Diamond Stealth S220 Rendition Orchid Righteous Voodoo 1 3com 3c905b TX Creative …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 00:27

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your windows installer is broken also what version of msi.dll do you have i installed it on it worked for me on clean xp pro with only sp3 slipstreamed and it worked with xp slipstreamed with sp3 +usehidden Qfe pask+seraph pos addon +pos reg and fully updated circa march 2019 regsvr32 MSI.DLL …

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Re: Victor VPCIIc - Searching for Infos

Posted on 2019-11-10, 21:24

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by Warlord

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call them on the telephone.

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Re: Victor VPCIIc - Searching for Infos

Posted on 2019-11-10, 20:54

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I tried searching for you and all I could come up with is there is a museum in the UK that has various boxes that contain the manual and another box has utilities. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/28844/Box-895-Various-Manuals/ http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/13499/Box-400-Victor-User- …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2019-11-09, 22:03

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Thats crazy cool man, what a time to be alive.

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