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Re: S3 Savage4 xtreme fake videocards?

Posted on 2021-09-15, 18:15

Thank you all for the many answers. The "gpu" become very hot indeed, it should need a heatsink. There was some gunk on the chip, I cleaned it with fingers. The memory is rated for 7,5ns, I will try to get higher memory speed, i'm not touching the gpu clock since it gets very hot already. This is …

Re: S3 Savage4 xtreme fake videocards?

Posted on 2021-09-15, 15:01

I can confirm that chips mounted on boards marked as Savage4 PRO and Extreme, come with a heatsink and that the board comes with a more complex PCB. The cards offer a clean and quality 2D signal, they are a different experience in the 3D field (nothing transcendental, but certainly interesting the …

Re: Matrox Parhelia P650/750 and Retro Gaming?

Posted on 2021-09-14, 22:17

Matrox video cards, at least from the old Millennium onwards, have always had a very good 2D video signal 👍 I would say that in 2D, at least for the image quality, in the pc-home environment, they were sovereign (apart from the VESA compatibility for DOS games where S3 and CirrusLogic were further …

Re: Help to find ChroMetal drivers for S3 cards

Posted on 2021-09-13, 12:00

Then update on the situation of the ChroMetal drivers recovered so far: For Win9x / Me -> ver. 4.5 (latest version developed), ver. 4.4 For Win2k / XP -> ver. 4.9, ver. 4.4 (also ver. 4.4 for XP 64bit), ver. 4.3, ver. 4.0 For Win Vista -> ver. 4.4 but it only supports the following chipsets: …

Re: Help to find ChroMetal drivers for S3 cards

Posted on 2021-09-12, 22:26

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-09-12, 22:22: Did you find any more than I have found so far on Bodnara? The page for 4.3 had a really large list of supported cards including really old ones. Yes, find other old versions and one for Vista. More precise news tomorrow .. now the sleep of the little girl has …

Re: Help to find ChroMetal drivers for S3 cards

Posted on 2021-09-12, 20:22

What cards was ChroMetal available for? Would it have been provided on a driver CD? Edit: Nevermind about the driver CD. ChroMetal was an unofficial driver. http://web.archive.org/web/20070803112440/http://www.vga.pe.kr/view.php?id=dizn_pds&no=4 From the old official page for Chrometal, here are …

Re: Help to find ChroMetal drivers for S3 cards

Posted on 2021-09-12, 20:18

Here are the ChroMetal supported chipsets: 911 924 801 805 Vision928 (ISA, VLB, PCI) - Vision928-P (PCI) Vision864 (VLB, PCI) - Vision864-P (PCI) Vision964 (VLB, PCI) - Vision964-P (PCI) Vision866 Vision868 (VLB, PCI) Vision968 (VLB, PCI) Trio32 (VLB, PCI) Trio64 (VLB, PCI) Aurora64V + Auroroa128 …

Re: Help to find ChroMetal drivers for S3 cards

Posted on 2021-09-12, 19:12

So, I update you with the point of the situation: 1. the official website of the ChroMetal driver releases was retrieved via Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20070114015326/http://www.s3g.net/ Unfortunately, the links to the drivers do not work :-( 2. thanks to the help of zyga64 and a …

Re: Help to find ChroMetal drivers for S3 cards

Posted on 2021-09-12, 10:28

Ok thanks, that's a start 😄 If anyone has news of other versions, like 5.0 for WinXP and Vista or 4.9 for Win98 / Me could they share them? As soon as I have collected all the available material, I intend to collect it in an archive to share on the Vogons Library. Thanks everyone for the help! 😁

Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2021-08-26, 17:58

Hi, I know that we are in the holiday period and that for now there are supply difficulties in the world of silicon, but I wanted to know if there was news on the timing to buy assembled boards. I do not allow to make hurry, is only curiosity (and yes it is true, I can't wait to have such a jewel …

Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2021-08-16, 17:52

Surely a PCMIDI card will find its place 😁 .. I will free up the space for the display .. by the way: but a larger display as an add-on, perhaps as a Christmas gift? 😜 ..I try to leave a 5.25 slot free 🤣 Thanks again for the wonderful work you do Dreamblaster 😉 Thanks for the appreciation and …

Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2021-08-16, 17:14

I'm defining the last details of my next build: I was thinking of a k6 2+ or 3+ or a 1,4GHz C3 all-around (games up to the end of the 90s); the icing on the cake would be WP32-McCake so you have everything in one device 😁 Some advice? Use sound card with good waveblaster implementation (no hanging …

Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2021-08-11, 20:06

well, let's keep it compatible with all current McCakes, i will have 60cm custom cables made that have 9x1 female header at both sides this will keep all compatible. Honestly, you do an extraordinary job, your products give hours of fun and new life to old systems and you compare yourself in the …

Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2021-08-09, 15:13

@dreamblaster I look and regard the photos, I read and reread the comments and ... and I get an idea that I would like to export: why not use a long cable to connect the Waveblaster header to WP32 which could find a convenient place (solving the problems of space) in a 5.25 bay along with screen and …

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