Re: Has anyone played Timshift on a PC/laptop with Intel graphics hardware?

Posted on 2022-10-11, 12:58

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by RetroGamer4Ever

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Timeshift was designed for Nvidia gaming GPUs of the time and runs wonderfully on the newer ones. You might get lucky with dgVoodoo, but the IHD4K is known to be woefully inadequate for even low-end gaming, so I wouldn't get my hopes up. Also make sure you have the latest patches installed, cause …

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Re: Forksaken (1998) Crashes on Level Load

Posted on 2022-09-26, 21:16

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Been trying to get the Six Degrees of Freedom Game Forsaken up and running on modern hardware with dgvoodoo, and for the most part it seems to work, but every other time I try to load into a level, the whole game crashes. Anyone have any suggestions? Is it in my config? Does it actually have …

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Re: Fixing up/repairing a 1600 x 1200 oldscool LCD (worth it anymore?)

Posted on 2022-09-25, 10:36

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by RetroGamer4Ever

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in Marvin \ Video

The monitor has a DVI port, so you should just use an HDMI to DVI cable or adapter. Walmart sells the adapter for $10 or so.

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Re: micro ITX Atom board, possible retro platform?

Posted on 2022-09-24, 22:33

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by RetroGamer4Ever

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Intel Atom boards were very popular for XP retro gaming, so long as they had what you needed, which many did not. The industrial/embedded ones were a better fit than the consumer models most of the time, because they had expandability options. I don't know of any that were specifically for Windows …

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Re: Windows 11 22H2 has been released

Posted on 2022-09-24, 16:15

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by RetroGamer4Ever

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I'm staying off of 11 as long as possible. I learned my lesson with Windows 10 and it's "rolling development" feature problems.

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Re: Yamaha SW60XG MT-32 Compatible?

Posted on 2022-09-24, 15:51

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by RetroGamer4Ever

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in Marvin \ Sound

envagyok wrote on 2022-09-24, 15:45: Yamaha SW60XG Compatible with old only mt-32 games? Thanks for any answers NO. It has no use with MT-32 games.

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Re: DXVA question on XP

Posted on 2022-09-22, 21:52

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

XP is fine for HD video, when you move up to PCIe video cards and a lot of XP Media Center PCs (a sort of HTPC pre-cursor) were using early PCIe GPUs. For TV connectivity though, many people invested in media extenders (media players) that played from network shares or USB storage. If you are bent …

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Re: DXVA question on XP

Posted on 2022-09-22, 14:52

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcom_Crystal_HD You can buy them on ebay for as little as $10. It ain't worth a damn though. The code for it was removed from all the favorite non-Microsoft third-party media players ages ago, so you can't just pop it in and go watch stuff. You'd have to …

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Re: DXVA question on XP

Posted on 2022-09-18, 10:23

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For video playback, you want a Geforce 8-series or later, but a 6 or 7 is passable, preferably 7. With the 6-series, the video playback functions vary quite a bit and were not uniform across the product lines. 7 and 8 had PCIe cards converted to AGP with bridge chips, while 6 had native AGP cards. …

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Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2022-09-17, 02:27

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Fixes were either delivered in driver updates, EAX console patches, DirectX updates, or patches to the games themselves. Quite a few games had console commands and such that you could use to "fix" audio problems. I vaguely remember a piece of Creative software that paired with the soundcards that …

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Re: EVGA Terminates NVIDIA Partnership, Cites Disrespectful Treatment

Posted on 2022-09-17, 02:06

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in Milliways

The only real "takeover" move that Nvidia can execute right now is pushing Tegra into the PC space, to take some share of the ARM-powered PC market, with their SoC designs. The latest Tegra designs are well-suited for mini-PC, notebook, and AIO desktop designs. While the chips couldn't provide a …

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Re: EVGA Terminates NVIDIA Partnership, Cites Disrespectful Treatment

Posted on 2022-09-16, 22:55

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in Milliways

Basically, EVGA has lost it's place in the GPU ecosystem. I love their cards and bought them without hesitation, but NVidia offering only Super-Mega-Force GPUs has pretty much destroyed a good chunk of the market that EVGA relied on. Right now, there are no solid low-end or mid-range new GPU choices …

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Re: Babylon 5 remake?

Posted on 2022-09-15, 06:21

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There are a bunch of B5 fan games for RTS titles like Homeworld and some low-grade official B5 mini-games were made, but the real gem that was never released was the Official B5 PC Game, Into The Fire. That one was basically a B5 movie in a video game, which involved time travel, depicting key …

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Re: Missing power cable for SB Audigy 2 EX Platinum - is a floppy power cable a solution?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 16:53

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by RetroGamer4Ever

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Jura Tastatura wrote on 2022-09-12, 16:08: WTF? You have to plug power into Audigy? Didn't know that. Also, don't own one. I do own X-Fi but not sure about plugging power connector to it... I never used the power connector on that particular model and had no problems doing regular soundcard …

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Re: Zip, Jaz, Bernouilli and other similar storage systems - can you determine how many hours of duty do they have alrea

Posted on 2022-09-11, 13:49

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by RetroGamer4Ever

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There may be code in the drivers that work with SMART, but I honestly don't know. Perhaps there's something on the Linux side that would shed some light on whether that function was put into the drivers.

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Re: How much does 4 cores matter w/ Windows XP?

Posted on 2022-09-11, 13:31

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by RetroGamer4Ever

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My fave XP system was a Q6600 (4-core/4-thread) system that I later carried into Vista and 7, so I will always choose 4-core CPUs over a dual-one, but a properly equipped dual-core system can be perfect for pretty much anything that isn't core-dependent, when using appropriate RAM and SSD options.

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Re: Convert the SYXG50 and the SYXG2006LE VSTs to Soundfonts sf2?

Posted on 2022-09-04, 16:21

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by RetroGamer4Ever

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in Marvin \ Sound

There are already XG SoundFont files. You can find them elsewhere. They are not the same as what you get from the XG MIDI Engine, but many find them acceptable.

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Re: Roland MT-200

Posted on 2022-09-03, 20:25

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by RetroGamer4Ever

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in Marvin \ Sound

I kind of thinking. Mt200 sounds different then mt32 (I tried it on Monkey Island). Wouldn't be possible to change roms in mt200 to change instruments and be 100% compatible with mt32/Lapci sound? They are two completely different pieces of MIDI hardware, with nothing in common. The MT-200 and MT- …

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Re: Help with identifying an old pc

Posted on 2022-08-31, 01:37

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in Marvin \ System Specs

There's nothing to identify, without taking it apart. The brand in question wasn't a brand, in the sense that you normally would think, but rather a very small company operating out of an industrial warehouse area that simply cobbled together their own branded PCs from parts, which is why there is …

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Re: When retro becomes retro?

Posted on 2022-08-29, 22:05

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As far as x86 hardware goes, I consider Retro to be anything up to about 2012 or so and capable of running - out of the box - Windows XP or whatever older, age-appropriate Windows OS. Anything after that, I consider current PC hardware, since it can likely run the latest 64-bit Windows or Linux …

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