Re: New Celly 400 Rig

Posted on 2011-02-23, 01:28

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by swaaye

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*Thunderbirds have no hardware support for SSE (useful for some things like watching DVD's etc, I believe) *Tualatins run a LOT cooler then Thunderbirds. Actually the original Athlon does have the integer part of SSE. That means that they didn't have the exciting floating point boost. It might have …

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Re: AWE32 with 28MB of RAM

Posted on 2011-02-22, 21:22

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by swaaye

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I haven't found any Creative cards that don't have some sort of problem with that DB header and my Roland SCD-15. They vary. I have an original release SB16 (Ct17x0) that mostly works, but it still has occasional problems.

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Re: AWE32 with 28MB of RAM

Posted on 2011-02-22, 21:15

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by swaaye

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Hey I have a CT3990 too. 😉 I've only got 8MB installed though. Soundfonts make it sound so good that it almost makes up for all the other annoyances. I just wish the DB header worked properly. The usual SB16/AWE problem.

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2011-02-22, 19:18

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by swaaye

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I have a Motorola Droid phone, given to me by my bro. I'm not much into the "smart" phone thing but the Droid is cool because it has lots of neato things like wifi, GPS, compass, PowerVR SGX 530, etc, etc. It's my new mini internet appliance basically. Anyway, I've tried a bunch of 3D games on it. …

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Re: New Celly 400 Rig

Posted on 2011-02-22, 19:12

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by swaaye

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The cache on those Celerons is actually 128K ;) OMG you are right. I don't know how I mixed it up with Duron. I been shamed! Will punish myself later! Will reinstall Vista on a Willamette P4 or something!!! However, with how caching works on those Intel chips, the Celeron actually only has 96KB …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Comparison Thread

Posted on 2011-02-21, 21:15

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by swaaye

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Edited

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Re: 387 Co-Processor, where can I find one?

Posted on 2011-02-21, 21:09

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by swaaye

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@swaaye Er, you're probably right about Falcon 3... bit of a brain fart there. I never played it much anyway since I'm not big into flight sims, but my mind is so used to working in terms of modern games, that I automatically associate realism-type settings as being graphics related. I'm not much …

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Re: Looking/searching for s3d (S3 Virge specific) games

Posted on 2011-02-21, 20:59

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by swaaye

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Yeah S3D is the proprietary 3D API for the Virge / Trio 3D chips. It's the same idea as 3DFX Glide, Rendition's RRedline/Speedy3D, PowerVR SGL, etc. The Savage chips use "S3 MeTaL" not S3D. AFAIK that was only used for some Unreal Engine games.

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Re: 3D Accelerator Comparison Thread

Posted on 2011-02-21, 20:52

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by swaaye

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TNT's 16-bit is not even remotely as bad as a Rage 128 put outs. The ATI chip causes a sort of noisy banding/posterization. Riva 128 isn't even as bad and Riva TNT is much better than Riva 128.

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Re: 1990s PC Hardware Magazine Review Archive

Posted on 2011-02-21, 19:46

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by swaaye

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I'm sure CGW Museum will eventually have every issue up. He posted that he's missing a few but I am sure they will show up. I don't think he's doing CDs though. Not at this time anyway.

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Re: Looking/searching for s3d (S3 Virge specific) games

Posted on 2011-02-21, 19:44

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by swaaye

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Oh that sounds useful. You should definitely upload that when you get a chance, Unmei220. 😀

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Re: 3D Accelerator Comparison Thread

Posted on 2011-02-21, 19:38

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by swaaye

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I ran a Rage 128 Pro, which is the same chip as Rage Fury Pro. The 3D Rage Pro is different and I don't have one (not interested in them). Actually there are two distinct Rage 128 chips. The Rage 128 and the Rage 128 Pro. The original chip has some problems and missing features compared to the Pro …

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Re: 387 Co-Processor, where can I find one?

Posted on 2011-02-21, 19:33

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by swaaye

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Well it did on the 68k based machines, I assumed it would do the same on the PC, I was obviously wrong sorry. =/ Don't those Macs also have separate FPU chips? It's strange to hear that Doom would use the FPU. It's an integer oriented game engine AFAIK. Even most 3D games from those times were …

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Re: 387 Co-Processor, where can I find one?

Posted on 2011-02-21, 19:29

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Falcon 3, which only gained a higher-detail graphics setting. I don't think it was graphics related. Like I posted, Falcon 3 has a higher fidelity flight model option if you have a FPU. In theory it offered a more realistic simulation of the F16's handling. But I've read that it was glitchy so the …

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Re: New Celly 400 Rig

Posted on 2011-02-20, 23:34

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by swaaye

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PII went to 100 MHz FSB once they broke 350 MHz. Cache might have some affect too though because 64KB is such a small amount, even if it is faster than the PII's. Voodoo3 does Glide and so it's more useful than TNT2 in general. 16-bit color mode on it might be better than a TNT2's 16-bit too because …

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Re: 387 Co-Processor, where can I find one?

Posted on 2011-02-20, 22:29

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by swaaye

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Falcon 3. The game has a few flight models to choose from and the "most realistic" one can use a FPU (287 even). But I've read that flight model was glitchy and people preferred the medium setting instead. There are more but they target 486s and wouldn't run on a 386 anyway. Such as TNG A Final …

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Re: Trident VGA performance

Posted on 2011-02-20, 21:31

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by swaaye

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I guess I've forgotten how bad Trident 8900 really was. 😀

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Re: Telltale Games Reboots King's Quest

Posted on 2011-02-20, 19:08

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by swaaye

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Space Quest deaths are better!!! Watch Roger get ground up, chopped, vaporized in half, asphyxiated, crushed, etc, etc.... 😁 😁

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Re: Trident VGA performance

Posted on 2011-02-20, 19:05

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by swaaye

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CL chips slaughter the Trident 8900C. I will vouch for that with first hand experience. Mainly in SVGA, but I'm sure you could tell in VGA as well if your CPU isn't too slow. In a 386 though you may not be able to notice because the CPU will be the bottleneck almost without exception.

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Re: Good 5.25" FDD, and "bad" 5.25" disks - and how to fix them.

Posted on 2011-02-20, 19:03

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by swaaye

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I have a 3.5" in my Core 2 Quad system. 😉 Can't live without it for retro and the occasional XP driver floppy! I used to have one of those cool combo 3.5"+5.25" drives but I have no 5.25" disks anymore so I recycled it years ago.

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