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Re: Bad luck with ebay video cards, asking for advice

Posted on 2024-01-25, 22:39

in Marvin \ Video
Uhh, I confused you for the OP, and thought you were seeking advice. Anyhow, I don't know why but you seem like you are out to prove some point based on some other conversation..(?) Not sure why I should remove the memory, it would just get lost somewhere and end up in the trash. I'll rather keep it …

Re: Bad luck with ebay video cards, asking for advice

Posted on 2024-01-25, 22:31

in Marvin \ Video
No such luck I'm afraid. When I try, I am greeted with 1280x1024@8bpp.jpg and I am not sure what the issue is, whether it is interlacing or otherwise.. or whether the display is at struggle or the card. I see there is a jumper on the board along with instructions "Noninterlaced/Interlaced", so tried …

Re: Bad luck with ebay video cards, asking for advice

Posted on 2024-01-25, 22:14

in Marvin \ Video
Expanding VRAM from 1MB to 2MB has the potential (chip and RAMDAC clock speeds and memory bus latency speed permitting) to unlock the following video modes: - 1280x1024@256 colors, 1600x1200@256 colors, - 1024x768@15/16bpp, - 800x600@24bpp (in many adapters some or all of these modes come in …

Re: Bad luck with ebay video cards, asking for advice

Posted on 2024-01-25, 21:57

in Marvin \ Video
Testing out those modes, I find that 800x600@65 Hz 16bpp works on the VGA input of my ASUS ProArt PA248QV flat panel display, whereas 70Hz and higher no longer sync correctly, but instead give a garbled output: UNICENTER_800x600@75.jpg In 24bpp world, I get 640x480@65 Hz, which shows up stable: …

Re: Bad luck with ebay video cards, asking for advice

Posted on 2024-01-25, 21:51

in Marvin \ Video
I mean for 800x600 16M col, 1024x768 64k col and 1280x1024 256 colours? I don't know if TGUI9440AGi is fundamentally different from TGUI9440 bare. I have this card: TridentTGUI9440.jpg that boasts the following specs: WITHOUT UniVBE loaded: SNOOP.png WITH UniVBE loaded: SNOOP-univbe.png Using the …

Re: Bad luck with ebay video cards, asking for advice

Posted on 2024-01-25, 17:59

in Marvin \ Video
Counted up my database, I have 84 (S)VGA adapters in my lab, of which I think maybe ~50-60 have come to me from eBay. Out of my cards, 5 don't POST. So maybe that's a 10% failure rate? Several of my cards have seating issues, this ATI 28800-6 I am now working on only booted on the third reseat. (I …

Re: VGA behavior when V. Display End >= V. Retrace Start

Posted on 2024-01-25, 00:31

in Marvin \ Video
I did a quick test with the VGA adapter I currently have connected on my test lab PC, which is an Ahead V5000B card: AheadV5000B.jpg Specs of this card look like: SNOOP-AheadV5000B.png Initially I get this in the Tweak 1.6b text test mode: AHEAD-V5000B-Tweak-default.png and when I set Vert. disp. …

Re: UMC UM85C418F RAM - 2MB possible + desirable?

Posted on 2024-01-21, 22:25

in Marvin \ Video
SNOOP has handwritten case-by-case code to detect different ISA and ISA VLB (S)VGA adapters. This resulted in code like this based on information from the different data sheets and articles on the web. For PCI adapters it uses a lookup from the PCI-SIG device ID database which is fortunately a …

Re: When Microsoft has a go at Tetris...

Posted on 2024-01-20, 11:25

Lots of good ones here, that Acid Tetris plays really well! Now that I think about it, I actually may have played the DOS Blockout even before Tetris itself. We didn't have a NES or a Gameboy, but I do recall playing that EGA Blockout in DOS, and we only got Windows a bit later. As a small kid, of …

Re: Vesa Local Bus Video card VRAM

Posted on 2024-01-18, 23:34

in Marvin \ Video
I find it to be decent.. maybe on an old 14" CRT it was a magnifying class job, but nowadays with big LCDs, not so much.. Right now as I type I'm spending the evening playing Windows games and listening to Midis, like this: Win3.1+Midi+Minesweeper.png this is from 1024x768 interlaced (same as the …

Re: Vesa Local Bus Video card VRAM

Posted on 2024-01-18, 22:14

in Marvin \ Video
I really like 1024x768 even though it is interlaced. E.g. here is a recording of my Tseng ET4000 in interlaced mode in Windows: https://youtu.be/58YiU-4jUp8 . Interlacing doesn't bother me. But of course it depends on the card and the display and the program that is used. For "low action pace" …

When Microsoft has a go at Tetris...

Posted on 2024-01-18, 21:00

Heya, something that made me smile today.. I recorded a small gameplay clip of Tetris for Windows from my 486, and had a funny observation in their Help file :) Thought to share here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58YiU-4jUp8 Nevertheless, thinking back I find that the Tetris in Windows 3.x was * …

Re: Vesa Local Bus Video card VRAM

Posted on 2024-01-18, 19:24

in Marvin \ Video
2x10 pins, so it is a DIP-20 package. The expansion is to go from 1MB to 2MB, so 8 chips for 1MB means 128KBytes per chip. This came in 256Kx4 Fast Page Mode DRAM. My guess would go for example at https://www.ebay.com/itm/303339433779 Datasheet: https://www.westfloridacomponents.com/mm5/graphics/H05 …

eBay rebrands as Bloody Pig Head marketplace?

Posted on 2024-01-12, 12:37

in Milliways
Sometimes the reality really is stranger than fiction: https://gizmodo.com/ebay-stalking-harassing-lawsuit-fines-penalties-steiner-1851160863 eBay Sent Critics a Bloody Pig Mask. Now It’s Paying a $3 Million Fine A horrific stalking campaign orchestrated by company executives landed eBay the maximum …

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