Re: Outputting 720x400@70Hz with the ATi R300 DVI output in DOS

Posted on 2019-08-08, 21:14

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Oh I understand now. You didn't change the refresh rate. My apologies. No problem, indeed this monitor does not support setting up custom resolutions and refresh rates. By the way, I mentioned above it had no issue handling 70 Hz / 75 Hz but I tried browsing vsynctester.com at those refresh rates …

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Re: Outputting 720x400@70Hz with the ATi R300 DVI output in DOS

Posted on 2019-08-08, 19:29

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I'm not sure I get what you mean. This particular monitor has no problem dealing with the refresh rates I mentioned, there's no stuttering or tearing in scrollers such as Jazz Jackrabbit and others.

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Re: Outputting 720x400@70Hz with the ATi R300 DVI output in DOS

Posted on 2019-08-08, 19:12

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Neat! Would this effect the speed of any games that rely on the VGA for timing? Based on running Lotus III at different refresh rates (60 Hz, 70 Hz and 75 Hz) I can confirm the refresh rate alters the music speed for this particular game, so it could surely have an effect on other games that rely …

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Outputting 720x400@70Hz with the ATi R300 DVI output in DOS

Posted on 2019-08-08, 19:02

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TLDR: I patched the VGA BIOS ROM of my 9600 Pro to output 1280x1024@70.08 Hz instead of the VESA default of 75 Hz. So basically I was looking for a LCD monitor to being able to play DOS games with the best fidelity, with overall disappointing results. Some monitors do not support 720x400@70Hz at …

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2019-08-05, 19:26

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As a further amendment to my previous post, it appears that pretty much all LCDs are slightly disappointing to me for 320x200 games when using the VGA output. Basically the video card scales the 320x200 framebuffer into a 640x400 signal that is interpreted as 720x400 by the monitor which scales it …

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Re: My First Sleeper Build

Posted on 2019-08-05, 16:47

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Looing really good 😀 Congrats!

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Re: 1440p monitors and scaling lower resolutions

Posted on 2019-08-02, 13:08

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I'd be interested to know if the Benq monitor you mention does box 720x400 into 4:3. My previous 1080p iiyama screen 4:3 aspect ratio option worked as intended for 640x480, 800x600 etc. but 720x400 was stretched to 1920x1080 and this results into a distorded image. I've since switched to the HP …

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2019-08-01, 19:42

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I stopped using CRT's a while back, were just taking up too much room, and with age all had blur issues or similar. For this reason, I just use an HP E190i, it's a 19" IPS 5:4 Aspect Monitor, absolutely gorgeous color reproduction, really makes older games look amazing. Does that have 4:3 scaling …

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Re: What retro hardware you killed today or it the past :( RIP.

Posted on 2019-07-28, 11:11

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A few days ago, I killed an nVidia Geforce4 MX440 video card by attempting to flash a Mac ROM onto it. Long story short it turned out not to be compatible (the monitor received no signal when I powered up the PowerMac G4 with the flashed nVidia card installed) and now it needs its ROM reflashed, …

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2019-07-19, 12:30

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I can't say for the E190i, but I have just bought the AOC 19" I960SRDA (1280x1024) and it always stretches the input to full. However this isn't much of an issue as the image looks good. It has no problem handling 640x350 and 720x400 up to 75 Hz, so no problem with BIOS and 320x200 games. The only …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+, ESS AudioDrive ES1868F, GeForce 2 MX

Posted on 2019-07-18, 12:03

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If it were me, choosing to trash a board or spend money to fix it depends on the perceived value of the product to you. Since this is entirely subjective, no one here can give you a recommendation. But I can tell you that I was ok with paying to recap my motherboard because it was the 2nd computer …

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Re: WFW 3.11 using all available ram?

Posted on 2019-07-17, 11:34

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Congrats for finding the issue 😀 Is this the CD-ROM God you're referring to: http://manmrk.net/tutorials/DOS/download/cdgod55.exe ? Perhaps it would be worth it putting it on vogonsdrivers.com

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Re: Flashing the Gotek floppy emulator with HxC firmware

Posted on 2019-07-16, 16:35

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I would like to thank Jeff for adding the following firmware customisation option: 7 segments display splash screen It's awesome! And really nice for sleeping at night by having the display off when idle 😀

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Re: Sodlering faster RAM to a graphics card

Posted on 2019-07-15, 12:37

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I'm not planning to overclock the GPU as it runs at full speed alresdy.Will the GPU get hotter when overclocking just memory? Even then to me the heatsink feels quite cool so I think there is a room for more juice. There is optional fan connector on the board but I would like to stay passive as …

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Re: Only good browser for XP is MyPal

Posted on 2019-07-15, 12:28

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That sounds awesome, I need to try that! So many great suggestions from people on this forum 😀 Thanks again looking4awayout

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Re: ATI RAGE 128 GL (PCI) and 128 PRO (AGP) BIOS

Posted on 2019-07-15, 12:25

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i dug out my ati 128gl mac card but of course trying to run Flashrom; the card doesnt even show up to the flashrom program; so i cant even try to flash it; any other ideas? anyone? Does it have a socketed DIL BIOS ROM? If so, you can remove the chip and reprogram it with your desired BIOS. I bought …

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Re: Only good browser for XP is MyPal

Posted on 2019-07-15, 09:49

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I personally use Flashpeak Slimjet 10 with XP/Vista. It is based on older Chrome and is surprisingly compatible with a lot of the modern web still. On XP I have a growing number of websites that won't open due to cipher mismatches. Vista's situation is better because Vista supports more ciphers …

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Re: Only good browser for XP is MyPal

Posted on 2019-07-15, 09:05

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Thanks for the recommendation Tricia. I personally use Firefox 38.8.0esr with ublock origin and noscript (compatible versions can be found on legacycollector). It is much faster that newer versions such as the next ESR (45) or even version 52 compiled without SSE2. On thing to note with noscript is …

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Re: SIL3114 sata card, need ide firmware.

Posted on 2019-07-15, 09:01

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Replying to myself... I couldn't get the Netgear FA310TX Ethernet card to work. I moved to a 3Com 3C90X card. The 3Com packet driver worked the first time. (Well, except that 3Com's documentation implied that the default software port was in hex when in reality you have to specify hex in the normal …

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Re: OpenGL on 13yo Laptop

Posted on 2019-07-14, 20:36

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According to https://www.notebookcheck.net/VIA-S3G-UniChrome-Pro.6947.0.html : The 128-bit 3D graphic core offers hardware DirectX 7 support but without Transform & Lightning (T&L) unit. Two pixel-pipelines are able to render two textures per turn with a triangle rate of 4.5 millions triangles. The …

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