Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-03-16, 18:15

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by swaaye

in DOS

in DOS

You sound kind of new to the level of performance offered by a Pentium 100. I'm not sure Earth 2140 is going to be enjoyable on there.. But yes a Pentium 100, socket 5 system would have been equipped with an ISA sound card with 16bit 44.1kHz capability, like a SB16. This is 1995 hardware. Windows 95 …

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Re: X-Wing Alliance On 3 Monitors

Posted on 2014-03-16, 04:10

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by swaaye

in Windows

in Windows

UT2003 was a popular game for Parhelia owners. Give that a spin.

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Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-03-16, 03:46

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

This card also made ATI change strategies. I remember reading the article on Anandtech and how ATI was abandoning the top products and focusing on value cards. Then the 4850 came out and this strategy worked well. Yeah RV770 was what R600 should have been. R600 was just a disaster of problems and …

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Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-03-16, 03:31

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I also have found memories of the 8800GTX. It was a game changer in performance when it came out (similar to the ATI 9700PRO). 9700 Pro wasn't even as impressive since GF4 Ti could compete with it in OpenGL sometimes. 8800GTX was up to 100% faster than a 7900 GTX in addition to having significantly …

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-03-15, 21:44

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by swaaye

in DOS

in DOS

SB16 is a good call. I like the older models that aren't PnP, such as the CT17xx cards. There are also some nice 3rd party cards with SB16 support. Look at the sticky thread in Marvin for discussion of the options.

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Re: Making Dark Forces Setup work without CD?

Posted on 2014-03-15, 20:04

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by swaaye

in DOS

in DOS

I wish DarkXL would get more focus instead of that incredibly complex DaggerXL that he got distracted by....

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-03-15, 19:47

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by swaaye

in DOS

in DOS

What you really want to do is get an ISA sound card for that Pentium machine. You will have much more reliable results and it will most likely sound better, particularly FM synthesis. The Creative/Ensoniq DOS PCI sound driver has terrible FM quality and the wavetable synth isn't exactly super either …

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Re: S3/VIA UniChrome good for non-DOS retrogaming?

Posted on 2014-03-15, 04:40

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I looked up the manual for the Asrock K7VM4. The board has jumpers for FSB. You should try setting those for 166 MHz. The BIOS setting may be overclocking the RAM or something else that's incorrect.

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Re: S3/VIA UniChrome good for non-DOS retrogaming?

Posted on 2014-03-14, 00:43

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Run memtest86+. You might have memory errors occurring and causing the crashes.

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Re: Wow, Matrox is still around

Posted on 2014-03-13, 19:31

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by swaaye

in Milliways

in Milliways

3dfx has edge AA too. Look at the 3dfx logo that plays when you start a Glide game. I'm not sure if any games used it though. Matrox's Fragment AA is neat in that it's fast and it's very good at eliminating poly edge aliasing. But it has problems. It misses polygon intersections like older edge AA …

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Re: S3/VIA UniChrome good for non-DOS retrogaming?

Posted on 2014-03-12, 00:30

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would like to see some 3DMark2000 results. My guess is it will perform something like a Savage4. Make sure you use the fastest RAM it supports. Avoid 32-bit color depth for 3D.

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Re: S3/VIA UniChrome good for non-DOS retrogaming?

Posted on 2014-03-11, 21:32

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember reading that it uses some parts of Savage 2000, but the 3D is based on Savage4.

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Re: Phil's 3Dfx Voodoo CPU scaling review (Intel Pentium)

Posted on 2014-03-10, 20:13

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah a Pentium will pretty heavily bottleneck Voodoo1. The scaling of those results make it obvious it has a lot of headroom.

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Re: Looking for Matrox G400 tech demo

Posted on 2014-03-07, 23:18

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Would you believe there's an episode of How It's Made that has footage of a factory building Matrox cards and this demo appeared to be part of the QA testing?

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Re: Matrox Mystique: opinions?

Posted on 2014-03-05, 20:25

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Matrox Mystique / Millennium II: -DOS compatibility pretty good but not perfect. I can't specifically remember the problems I've seen though... -GUI performance good for 1996/7. Good VGA signal quality. -3D is fugly but the point-sampled look can be appealing compared to bilinear-filtered, low …

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Re: Recommendations for PCI graphics card

Posted on 2014-03-04, 19:17

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You want to capture video on a Pentium Pro machine? I dunno about that idea. Disk I/O performance and CPU performance will be a problem. Some encode software really likes MMX and a PPro doesn't have it. Hardware encode acceleration will probably be necessary. A PCI Radeon of any sort will provide …

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Re: Win95 vs. Win98 for pre-Pentium 200 games

Posted on 2014-03-04, 18:12

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

98 has its more complex shell. But I only mess with 95 on 486-class hardware.

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Re: SCSI controller slow speeds

Posted on 2014-03-03, 22:48

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In order to get 30 MB/s out of ISA you would need to run it at ~30 MHz (default is ~ 8 MHz). 7 MB/s is about right unless you've overclocked it a lot.

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Re: awesome performance of ati's opengl driver (as we already know)

Posted on 2014-03-01, 19:13

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah the 2KB and 4KB references seem pretty tiny. I can't find any details. It's a shame that there was no documentation released for pre R300 chips. Does anyone know if RV250 has better texture filtering than R200? I wonder if the pipeline overhaul affected it. R200 has some nasty limitations. R300 …

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Re: MMX/3DNow!/SSE usage

Posted on 2014-02-27, 04:46

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sliderider - I think he needs your 6800 Ultra Extreme. 😉

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