Re: Since I couldn't find a place to introduce ... I'll just "show off" for now
Posted on 2010-12-24, 03:46
Nice PPro sys. Tetrium and I have the VS440FX as well. Welcome to the forum!
Re: Sound Card Recordings
Posted on 2010-12-23, 23:13
@gerwin I'll upload them to my site.
Re: How's this combination 2d/3d?
Posted on 2010-12-23, 23:11
A classic, top notch combination. 😁
Re: Couple of Mobos for Sale
Posted on 2010-12-22, 16:32
Intel board is still waiting for a new home......
Re: Couple of Mobos for Sale
Posted on 2010-12-22, 06:22
bushwack wrote: Interesting board, considering it's an intel but they didn't use their own i740 chip to power the graphics. Guess it was to far behind by the time the P3 hit the scene? There's a slightly older one with Riva 128 too. It is strange that they didn't use 740 until 810 came around.
Re: Couple of Mobos for Sale
Posted on 2010-12-22, 06:12
unmei220 wrote: Will you ship internationally ? / Any idea how much will the shipping cost to here ? I'm interested in the MSI one... 😢 Well it looks like shipping is $30 for Argentina. 4lb box. Let me know if you are interested otherwise Prophase_J wants it.
Couple of Mobos for Sale
Posted on 2010-12-22, 01:22
Intel SR440BX Brand new in box with all accessories and manual. I bought it a couple of years ago because I thought it was exciting for retro but I have never used it. 440BX uATX with onboard NV TNT 16MB and SB PCI 64. Manual Quick View http://thumbnails32.imagebam.com/11197/047f49111961765.jpg $10 …
Re: Obscure / interesting / pimped / strange ISA soundcards
Posted on 2010-12-22, 00:59
I don't remember any games that supported ProLogic Unreal supports Pro Logic. :) That's what the surround option does apparently. Otherwise Pro Logic decoding is very useful in HTPCs. Netflix has a boatload of stuff with just the 2.0 stream and this is almost always Pro Logic encoded. I know that …
Re: Obscure / interesting / pimped / strange ISA soundcards
Posted on 2010-12-21, 18:07
Intel Actionmedia. That must be Intel's failed attempt to conquer the video market. The main board appears to have a bunch of Intel built chips. i750 is their video controller. The DB looks like a controller board maybe. Runs the firmware and controls the other stuff. I think two of the Motorola …
Re: audio pci
Posted on 2010-12-20, 20:19
If it's an actual "Ensoniq AudioPCI", then you must go to the E-Mu site and get the Ensoniq AudioPCI drivers from their download area. There is a driver package in there that turns the card into a SBPCI64. The Creative drivers simply don't recognize the vendor and device IDs of the original Ensoniq …
Re: Canopus Pure3D
Posted on 2010-12-20, 19:33
What some people don't realize is that John Romero was a huge part of id's early days and he came up with a lot of the crazy game ideas. He also worked on Heretic and Hexen during the brief time that id Software was in Madison, WI (down the street from Raven Software). Quake didn't really turn into …
Re: Canopus Pure3D
Posted on 2010-12-20, 02:40
Well like I said, Carmack suggested 4MB texture memory for Quake 2. Some fun .plan quotes http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/carmack/johnc_plan_1998.html An 8mb v2 has 2 mb of texture memory on each TMU. That is not as general as the current 6mb v1 cards that have 4 mb of texture memory on a single TMU …
Re: Retro Hardware Collections
Posted on 2010-12-19, 21:04
Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Going from AWE32 to AWE64 really shows us how much progress they made with integration... AWE64 also saw the removal of some functionality. CDROM interfaces and ASP/CSP. So that integration is less exciting than it seems.
Re: Retro Hardware Collections
Posted on 2010-12-19, 19:56
Aren't the primary differences between the various SB16s, SB32 and AWE32s the following: -Vibra 16 chipset vs. SB16 chipset -Whether or not it has OPL3 discrete, integrated or simulated -CSP/ASP chips and/or sockets -PnP or not -CDROM / IDE interfaces -RAM slots -How much it pops/clicks and how much …
Re: Retro Hardware Collections
Posted on 2010-12-18, 20:57
I don't really want to say that I "collect" this old stuff. It's more that I've wanted to play with all sorts of hardware over the years and now that it's cheap I can get it easily. :D You guys have seen my video card collection in the recent 3D Accelerator Thread. I have lots of sound cards and …
Re: Canopus Pure3D
Posted on 2010-12-18, 20:37
I found a Carmack .plan suggesting the 6MB version because apparently 4MB Voodoo cards are susceptible to stuttering issues with their small texture RAM. Texture swapping over PCI. He was talking about Quake 2. I think the 6MB cards have 4MB texture RAM, 2MB framebuffer? The 6MB Voodoo 1 cards …
Re: Good AGP VGA
Posted on 2010-12-18, 20:34
ITX boards are rather special purpose. Interesting little things.
Re: 2d video cards
Posted on 2010-12-17, 22:26
He said he's looking for 2D cards to pair with his Voodoo 1 & 2... he's already got a Voodoo 3 :) Yeah I know. I was just thinking that G200 is not really an exciting choice overall. It's ok for GUI though. Some form of GeForce would be a much better companion I think. As long as it's not one of …
Re: Good AGP VGA
Posted on 2010-12-17, 21:34
I have had it working on x1650 for about 8 months. Yeah I think all you need on the ATI side is a card with D3D9-level features. That open source radeon driver is excellent. I had a Radeon 7000 running Ubuntu earlier this year but I don't think I even tried to switch on the full 3D effects mode. …
Re: 2d video cards
Posted on 2010-12-17, 21:17
I'd pick a Voodoo3 over any Matrox card. Voodoo3's GUI speed and analog quality is similar to G400, but it's the better choice for 3D and DOS. Otherwise I'd go for a NVIDIA card. From Riva TNT onward, NVIDIA really nailed just about everything. Most of the time the analog quality is good although …
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