Re: RG100 Does Socket 7
Posted on 2010-04-21, 16:53
fyi, USB mice can usually run PS/2 with an adapter. They usually come with the adapter.
Re: RG100 Does Socket 7
Posted on 2010-04-19, 18:25
If the mobo can do the USB legacy emulation you might be able to use the USB mouse in DOS. I've never actually tried this though. :D However, another reason PS2 is preferred over USB is CPU utilization. While that hardly matters on a modern machine, USB can drag older machines down considerably. PS2 …
Re: What does the optional CSP chip on creative cards do?
Posted on 2010-04-18, 18:35
That reminds me of the 3D Stereo Enhancement that some SB16 (and friends) can do. I'm not sure if this is related to the CSP/ASP chip. Here's some info about it (for AWE64 in this case but the utils are all the same): Creative 3D Stereo Enhancement Creative 3D Stereo Enhancement eliminates speaker …
Re: PIII laptop rebuild; flexing daughterboard causes crash
Posted on 2010-04-18, 18:30
It's called patina. 😁 Adds character.
Re: Advice on a 486 Build
Posted on 2010-04-17, 19:12
I just grab 72 pin sticks from may bag-o-72-pin-RAMs and see what works. 😁 If you stick in EDO and the chipset gets scared it will either not POST or it won't get past the BIOS startup. If you need 30-pin stuff then it's a no brainer really but they need to go in sets of 4 on a 486 mobo.
Re: What does the optional CSP chip on creative cards do?
Posted on 2010-04-17, 05:28
Malik he's asking about that mystery chip that you could get for the Sound Blaster 16 / SB 32 / AWExx cards. 😉 It went in a open socket on the board. Some models came with it but those are rare, and eventually Creative dropped the socket completely.
Re: What does the optional CSP chip on creative cards do?
Posted on 2010-04-17, 00:50
It has two names: Creative Signal Processor (CSP) Advance Signal Processor (ASP) It's a programmable DSP. It was not used in any games that I know of. Some "multimedia" applications did use it for some things, such as hardware audio compression and voice recognition. Creative didn't release free …
Re: Random Thoughts - Modern 3D Graphics in DOS?
Posted on 2010-04-16, 17:31
Here's what the terrified gamer world was forced into in 1995. :D I remember being endlessly fascinated by how Win95 found all of my hardware and how much better it was than 3.x (yikes!!), but I didn't have enough RAM (only 8MB). It was a whole new realm of tweaking to explore. http://thumbnails12. …
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2010-04-16, 03:38
What's really crazy to me is how much things changed in only a few years. Those cards that became laughable in 1998 were actually considered very nice in 1996/7. In 1996 we had DirectX 3 and Virge, in 2000 we had DirectX 7 and GeForce 2!! It's nothing like today. I use video cards from 6 years ago …
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2010-04-15, 19:53
NV did quickly build a superb OpenGL ICD. They became the clear leaders there. So I wouldn't be surprised if NV TNT became the card of choice in OpenGL games. I just can't remember the differences between Voodoo and NV cards for those games. Been too long. I can tell you that you do not want to use …
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2010-04-15, 19:31
TNT took a major hit at 32-bit . 640x480 or 800x600 were probably what you'd run with 32-bit on a TNT. I had one myself but it has been a long time. I remember 800x600 being what I ran it at. 3dfx's problem wasn't color depth though IMO. It was the muddy filtering of Voodoo1 that sucked most. …
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2010-04-15, 19:06
keropi wrote: actually Unreal's software mode is quite good if you have a cpu to back it up... Absolutely. It's a fairly amazing software renderer. But it's not that amazing compared to a Voodoo1 😁.
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2010-04-15, 19:04
I imagine that Glide was their choice because when they started development it was the only API that they were comfortable with. OpenGL was really only used for GLQuake, and that was after Unreal started development and it only really worked for 3dfx anyway. D3D was pathetic in 1995-7. PowerVR …
Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?
Posted on 2010-04-15, 18:22
Apparently it was a shrink to 0.28u. P55C is on the same process. It sounds like one of those combination processes with some parts of the silicon at 0.35u and some at 0.28u. I did some digging: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:lVIYez2FmdAJ:notendur.hi.is/hh/kennsla/ht/Klamath.pdf+P854+ …
Re: RG100 Does Socket 7
Posted on 2010-04-15, 18:21
I can't say enough how much Voodoo2/3 was the best card for a K6-2 sys. Not only is the simple AGP-as-PCI design most stable, but the Glide support gets you more from those crappy CPUs than D3D mode. I've never used a Voodoo4/5 in one but I imagine they would be good too because they still don't use …
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2010-04-15, 18:12
Well it probably still looks better than software rendering right? Unreal was a sort of final proving grounds for all of the 3D accelerators that were around at the time. So many of them sucked at various features or simply didn't support them. D3D games were very lenient (and basic) at the time and …
Re: RG100 Does Socket 7
Posted on 2010-04-15, 17:49
I'm torn on the AGP drivers actually. Sometimes just sticking with what comes with 98SE is "best". The AGP on those boards will never work right so it's really just a magical mix of disabled features 🤣.
Re: RG100 Does Socket 7
Posted on 2010-04-15, 04:38
I think you need to feel the "power" of the AMD K5 and Cyrix 6x86. 😁 Hey retro funz here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igQ0vbqSL2Q 😳 😳
Re: I COULD HAVE SWORE
Posted on 2010-04-15, 04:37
He Could Have Swore!!!! 😳
Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?
Posted on 2010-04-15, 04:30
http://sandpile.org/impl/p2.htm Klamath (0.28um) is a bit more power hungry but not all that much. They're similar to a Pentium Pro actually. Compared to today's chips they are very low power processors 🤣. If your OS or a util runs HLT instructions thru them while idling they cool down nicely too.
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