Re: This may be the last year I ever buy an EA game.....

Posted on 2008-10-27, 20:07

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by swaaye

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I bought Dead Space. ;) The game has activation which I didn't even notice. It just asks for the key and then transparently activates. Surprisingly, the game doesn't require you have the DVD in to play. That's the first time I've seen that in perhaps forever. Game is pretty good stuff too. It's …

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Re: 3DO Star Trek TNG: A World for All Seasons

Posted on 2008-10-27, 20:04

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by swaaye

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Hey yeah I stumbled on that too a while back. I contacted the original poster and he sent me the quicktime file that he uploaded. It's slightly better quality than the Youtube processed version. The vid has the most footage I've seen of that 3DO game. And the shots of the other games are different …

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Re: SB Pro 2 Amplifier Disable

Posted on 2008-10-20, 19:11

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You could just get yourself some era-appropriate crap "multimedia" speakers. Labtec or Koss thingers. 😉

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Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-20, 18:59

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

And in my opinion he is right about the VIA KT133A, it wasn't a bad chipset at all, and the Epox KTA3(+(Pro)) was one of the best boards available at the time. KT133A had a bad southbridge (686B). Depending on how well the BIOS was written, it could work ok most of the time. But because of its PCI …

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Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-20, 18:55

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

prophase_j, you should build a proper "retro Athlon". Something with Slot A, AMD 750 Irongate chipset, and a 500 - 650 MHz CPU. 😀

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Re: SB Pro 2 Amplifier Disable

Posted on 2008-10-17, 21:34

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm fairly sure that you are stuck with the amp on a Pro 2.

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Re: 486 Bus Speed

Posted on 2008-10-16, 18:45

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I always was fascinated by the true 486DX/50. 50 MHz bus, 50 MHz CPU. Rare it was. 40 is usually ok, but that's the limit pretty much. On a VLB mobo, you often need wait states added to do even 40 MHz. I've never had a VLB or PCI mobo doing 50 MHz. If you could pull it off, you'd almost certainly …

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Re: Are any of the video cards I already have "good enough"?

Posted on 2008-10-15, 19:19

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Any of those cards should work ok for most things. The S3 card will most likely be the most compatible of them, but also the slowest. And by that I don't mean to say that S3 PCI cards are significantly slower than most of their contemporaries, just that GeForce/TNT2 are exceptionally fast for DOS. …

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Re: Pumping up a Abit BF6

Posted on 2008-10-04, 21:08

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah I've had problems with some PCI cards not working at all. I have some cheap USB 2.0 PCI cards that refuse to show up at all in this board (sometimes won't power on at all). The problem with these old chipsets is that they only have 15 IRQs (today we have APIC and many more IRQs) and the PCI bus …

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Re: Pumping up a Abit BF6

Posted on 2008-10-03, 21:26

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, I am actually still in possession of my Abit BF6 from 1999 and I have a Slot T in it with a P3-S 1.4. ;) It does work, but the system is somewhat flaky. Really though, I think that the mobo was always rather flaky in general. It is especially picky about which PCI slots you stick where. Put …

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Re: Voodoo2 vs. Voodoo3/5

Posted on 2008-09-29, 02:22

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

GFFX is happier with an overclocked AGP slot than Radeons, if that's something you may need to consider. Of course, V5 PCI is the best option in that case anyway.

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Re: Building a "new" old rig

Posted on 2008-09-18, 21:12

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I've never tried Porsche Unleashed. But with JK1, I guarantee it would hold 60 fps. 😀 Same with NFS3/4. But yeah, upon thinking some more, I'm not sure what to expect from JK2 with 4X AA + AF and a R300-based board. It has been awhile since I used one.

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Re: Building a "new" old rig

Posted on 2008-09-18, 03:35

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Hmmm interesting. Well I am pretty sure that a Voodoo3-5 will get you better quality than with most cards. 3dfx's boasts about that "22-bit" quality weren't for naught; they actually do some nifty stuff to the 16-bit output to make it look better than other cards of the time. Certainly a tough thing …

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Re: PCI Radeon 9200 on K6II pc

Posted on 2008-09-18, 03:27

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

so it is crappy LOL better keep the old Voodoo3/AGP that I use , so glide is an option too... yeah can't go wrong with glide support. Voodoo3 will be more compatible with old games in D3D too. An AGP version of a 9200 might be interesting hardware to play around with though, but PCI will be a …

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Re: PCI Radeon 9200 on K6II pc

Posted on 2008-09-18, 03:26

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

leileilol wrote: fixed 🤣 yeah I thought of "fixing" that too but with 9700s and up so cheap these days might as well go with the 256-bit bus too!

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Re: PCI Radeon 9200 on K6II pc

Posted on 2008-09-17, 20:36

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Radeon 9200 is a DX8 GPU based on Radeon 8500. I wouldn't mess with Radeons below 9700, honestly. No advantages really but numerous limitations. It might be a decent PCI card though. Depends on what you want to use it for.

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Re: Building a "new" old rig

Posted on 2008-09-17, 20:25

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I don't really consider JK2 all that retro. You are best off with modern hardware for it. When the game first came out I had the original Radeon DDR and a Duron 1000. It didn't run all that great. The game benefits a lot from a graphics card with some modern oomph so you get good filtering and AA. …

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Re: Comedy Gold...Worse Fallout 3 Preview...EVER

Posted on 2008-09-16, 19:12

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by swaaye

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in Milliways

I'll reserve judgment on this game until I've played it. I generally try to avoid game previews these days. I'm also not that interested in the extreme uptight opinions at NMA... As someone who has dumped many hours into TES games and seen all of their problems but still enjoyed them a good bit, I …

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-13, 23:14

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

GL1zdA wrote: swaaye wrote: I don't really use it because I hate being stuck with only a serial mouse. ] Why don't you use a PS/2 to COM adapter? Because I found out that the mouse needs to still support serial. It doesn't work with mice that are USB+PS2. I had to buy a cheap Labtec serial+PS2 ball …

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-13, 21:29

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like this SIS 49x chipset layout was popular :happyhappy: Hmmm. Well whenever I see similar designs across manufacturers, I think that they were all following reference designs from the chipset maker. BTW, I'm fairly sure that the reason my uber-homebrew PS/2 mouse port doesn't work is that …

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