Re: What motivates you?
Posted on 2010-10-05, 18:47
What chip is on your SBPCI 128? The ES1370 chip plays some sample rates slightly off pitch.
Re: Unreal, A3D and sound cards
Posted on 2010-10-05, 03:35
Yeah they have FMOD and OpenAL audio engines that replace the old Galaxy engine. Live! doesn't do hardware OpenAL so an Audigy or newer might be even more interesting. FMOD can do the EAX reverb without EAX hardware, I believe.
Re: Powerleap adapter
Posted on 2010-10-04, 18:23
Re: pumping lots of volts through a Katmai, back in the day. Y'know ebay is awash with processors, and let's all take a moment to thank ebay for being able to get this retro stuff, at such low prices! Back in the day, a Katmai can't have been cheap. Swaaye, were you a bit nervous about OC'ing that …
Re: Smallest BX chipset mobo?
Posted on 2010-10-04, 18:12
There are micro ATX boards. I have an Intel SR440BX which has a Riva TNT 16MB and Ensoniq AudioPCI onboard. :) At some point they figured out that i740 sucked and outsourced! There's also one with Riva 128 ZX. http://thumbnails15.imagebam.com/4017/047f4940163603.gif I don't know of any offhand but …
Re: Unreal, A3D and sound cards
Posted on 2010-10-04, 18:00
Thanks for the links Davros. I forgot about the special EAX patches. You know that Unreal and UT actually have a OpenAL audio renderer now? It's part of the OldUnreal project. I haven't tried that out too much but it may be interesting with an Audigy or X-Fi. A3D is really most amazing in 2 speaker …
Re: Unreal, A3D and sound cards
Posted on 2010-10-04, 02:40
Vortex 1 is a great card too. It just doesn't have that many accelerated 3D sound channels. I think it has something like 8? I have a Turtle Beach Montego A3Dxstream in the pile. Very good sound quality overall. A3D is really most amazing in 2 speaker and headphone mode. That's where their HRTF 3D …
Unreal, A3D and sound cards
Posted on 2010-10-03, 19:40
Somebody posted about playing Unreal on a SBPCI 128 and it got me thinking deeply so I just decided to make a new thread. :D I had an Ensoniq AudioPCI when I first played Unreal. That is essentially the same thing as a SBPCI 128. There used to be a site called the "Unofficial AudioPCI HQ" or …
Re: Asus P2B motherboard
Posted on 2010-10-03, 19:14
I got the get me one of these Tualatin enabled converters. Is there a list of models so I can browse ebay? I think that the best model available is the Powerleap adapter, model PL-iP3/T PCB version 2.0. I use one called the Upgradeware Slot-T. It doesn't have its own VRM onboard though so the board …
Re: What motivates you?
Posted on 2010-10-03, 02:42
I do it because it's a lifelong passion for me. I've been fascinated by computers and how they work since I was a little kid tweaking my 286. It's really a combination of video gaming fascination and wondering about the hardware that runs it all. I'm into learning about game console hardware too. …
Re: voodoo 1
Posted on 2010-10-03, 02:33
One that comes to mind is the picky Terra Nova Strike Force Centauri. The only card that works perfectly with that is a S3 card. I tried a bunch of cards with it. There's an issue of pallette corruption. But you can get the NV cards to work if you use a VESA Fix TSR for Voodoo cards (believe it or …
Re: Asus P2B motherboard
Posted on 2010-10-03, 00:50
The INF pack mostly assigns devices their proper Intel designated names but they use generic MS-supplied drivers. The big exception is the AGP GART driver that is vendor specific. With Intel, once you get an OS that has built-in support for a chipset, you're good to go and don't have to deal with …
Re: Asus P2B motherboard
Posted on 2010-10-03, 00:08
I don't think you need to bother with 440BX chipset drivers unless it's Windows 95. I know for certain that 98SE has all you need built-in. BTW, why doesn't anyone mess with the Mendocino Celerons? The on-die cache is similar to a K6+'s.
Re: voodoo 1
Posted on 2010-10-02, 23:49
Well, if you want to play the early Glide/D3D games, a Pentium MMX will do the job. But if you ever want to load up Unreal or Half Life, I suggest a Pentium II 300. Also, at least 64MB. 128MB much better. 2D: The absolute best DOS compatibility is with a S3 Virge or Savage probably. But their D3D is …
Re: Most disappointing games?
Posted on 2010-10-02, 23:40
All pinball nuts should have this game if they own one of the consoles it's on. http://www.gamespot.com/wii/puzzle/pinballhal … tion/index.html The whole virtual arcade setup makes me wish it had more types of arcade games to check out. 😁 Pretty cool stuff.
Re: Most disappointing games?
Posted on 2010-10-02, 02:15
X-Wing and TIE Fighter's MIDI soundtracks are creations by Michael Land, Peter McConnell and Clint Bajakian. The Windows versions have looping John Williams CD audio and that's the problem. :) You don't realize how much of a part the music plays in the thrill of those games until you lose it. I …
Re: Super Socket 7 - VIA MVP3 or ALi Aladdin V?
Posted on 2010-10-01, 03:17
The mobo L2 barely affects performance with a K6+/K6-III chip. The CPU's main L2 fulfills most of its needs. Some people just disable the mobo L2 in order to gain access to faster FSBs that the mobo L2 can't handle. Besides, the L2 cache on a Socket 7 mobo is really slow. It shares the FSB with …
Re: Powerleap adapter
Posted on 2010-09-30, 18:29
I managed to run a Katmai P3 on my Abit BF6 440BX mobo on a 150 MHz FSB way back in the day. :D That put it up around 675 MHz. I was really pumping the volts through that thing. It wasn't exactly stable but I was playing Quake 3 and it was working ok for a bit. By forcing the Matrox G400 to AGP 1x …
Re: MATH COPROCESSORS: A Question...
Posted on 2010-09-30, 18:25
I read somewhat recently that Falcon 3 only uses a FPU for the most "realistic" flight model and that it is pretty buggy. Some fans of the game preferred to use one of the other flight model modes.
Re: Choosing Sound Cards - Some questions left
Posted on 2010-09-28, 18:18
I ran a SBPro 2 alone for a couple of years and then ran it alongside a Ensoniq Soundscape for more years. The Ensoniq card has awesome 16-bit digital audio quality but not all games support it obviously, although by '95 it really was as well-supported as a SB card. The SBPro 2 combined with that …
Re: AGP Pro
Posted on 2010-09-28, 18:11
As long as the capacitors don't blow up you should be ok. 😀 The aluminum electrolytic caps usually can't handle over 250F or so. I blew some up on a GeForce FX when I baked it. The Voodoo5 looks like it uses the more resilient type though.
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