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Re: Broken clipping in Unreal

Posted on 2024-10-03, 18:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You shouldn't be overly concerned about the visual glitches. It was definitely part of an authentic experience of how the game was played when it came out. Most players were too amazed by the large open areas, to nitpick the z buffer flicker. Flickering and clipping errors plagued many early 3d …

Re: Broken clipping in Unreal

Posted on 2024-10-03, 15:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unreal engine 1 was always somewhat known for having visual glitch issues, especially z buffer flickering. Some of these glitches are the fault of graphics card drivers, but quite a few are the fault of Unreal's render code. Changing settings in the game's ini files was often required to minimize …

Re: Octek Jaguar V-Q Rev 1.42 and SCSI controller

Posted on 2024-10-02, 21:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When using a drive controller with a built in BIOS, most of the time you will want to leave the motherboard harddrive settings empty or disabled.

Re: Bought some Chinese "ALLANCE" RAM

Posted on 2024-10-02, 19:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It has become standard for Chinese sources to belt sand the top down and re laser etch chips. They are even doing it with real chips that are salvaged. This is to disguise that they are old or used stock. So there is a small chance those misspelled chips may work. In my opinion, it isn't worth the …

Re: The fastest baby-AT machine

Posted on 2024-10-02, 00:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anything beyond Socket 370 and super rare Socket A motherboards is going to be industrial motherboard territory. It may be worth it to look into industrial motherboards and AT form factor backplanes. Usually these are expensive, but sometimes you can get lucky.

Re: Childhood deficiencies

Posted on 2024-09-26, 23:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Even though though the OP is asking for a specific period of hardware. The performance difference between 2005 and 2006 is simply too big to ignore. The only reason I would currently consider an Athlon 64 build would be for a maximum spec Windows98SE build. Which is weird enough, why I chose a …

Re: Childhood deficiencies

Posted on 2024-09-26, 21:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In 2005 I built an Athlon 64 x2. It was far superior to anything Intel had on offer. Then Intel leaped ahead with Core 2. I end up building a Core 2 system to play Crysis.

Re: Opinion on recapping an Altair 8800?

Posted on 2024-09-24, 23:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have found capacitors from the 70s and earlier to be fairly reliable. It wasn't until the 90s that the quality of electrolytic capacitors started to drop. If anything it was the exotic low leakage capacitors that were more likely to fail. Most likely if there are any capacitors that exhibit …

Re: What was the first motherboard with built in USB Support?

Posted on 2024-09-24, 20:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a Packard Bell Pentium 133 system that had USB ports. While ports were present on the motherboard, USB was disabled by default in the BIOS. The system was also preinstalled with Windows 95B OSR2. Which didn't support USB. This was late 1996 or early 1997. I don't think I ever used the USB on …

Re: Is having 386 with 486 chipset is bad?

Posted on 2024-09-23, 00:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

daniil1909 wrote on 2024-09-22, 11:00: So is having 386/486 chipset isn't bad? Of course using a 386/486 chipset for a 386 CPU would be ok. What is making you think otherwise?

Re: New display adapter nextstep 3.3

Posted on 2024-09-22, 02:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I always remember trouble getting color modes working with NeXTStep 3.3 on PC hardware. OpenStep 4.2 with Patch 4 has a generic VESA driver that is easier to get working. If you haven't already, make sure you have NeXTStep 3.3 Patch 3 installed.

Re: So playing Crysis, on Windows 98SE ... as one does... hold on what?

Posted on 2024-09-21, 23:29

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I am certain what you are seeing is a print error. I remember dealing with the hacks to get Warhead running on Windows 2000.

Re: Intel 486 DX2 and AGP x2 graphic port

Posted on 2024-09-18, 21:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Or build something like the ITX-Llama.

Re: Intel 486 DX2 and AGP x2 graphic port

Posted on 2024-09-18, 19:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't mean to be a downer, but what you want doesn't really make sense. There aren't any 486 chipsets that can fully take advantage of PCI, let alone AGP. While crazier projects have become reality lately, I don't see how trying to convince others to do it for you is going to make it happen.

Re: Networking on Nextstep

Posted on 2024-09-16, 21:01

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

APOPAP wrote on 2024-09-16, 19:58: Thank you,I will try it!(Nice next hardware too !) Thanks, I really should get a better camera.

Re: Networking on Nextstep

Posted on 2024-09-16, 18:21

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

NeXTStep is fairly old, so only manual configuration is going to work. DHCP is going to be out of the question. Don't attempt to setup Netinfo or NIS, your system will hang at boot if it is setup incorrectly. I had to manually edit /etc/resolv.conf to add DNS servers. Your router will also need to …

Re: Sonic Buster 8: A highly SB2.0-compatible 8-bit ISA sound card with OPL3

Posted on 2024-09-10, 21:46

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Don't confuse the RP2040 with a RaspberryPI. The RP2040 is a very powerful micro-controller not a full system-on-chip. Although I can understand wanting to avoid using a micro-controller several magnitudes more powerful than an 8088.

Re: Audigy 2 ZS SB0350 crackling noise in games

Posted on 2024-09-10, 02:35

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

What motherboard and chipset dose your system have? Some motherboards and chipsets are known to have trouble with PCI sound cards. Dropouts and crackling audio were common problems with these motherboards.

Re: capacitor plague finally struck home

Posted on 2024-09-06, 14:35

in Milliways

in Milliways

Your Amiga also predates the capacitor plague era. Anything made before 1999 or so is far less likely to have catastrophically bad capacitors. However there are still some examples of known bad capacitors before then. The surface mount capacitors used on PS/2 floppy and hard drives is one example. …

Re: HOT433 - LBA not engaging (40GB HDD)

Posted on 2024-09-04, 01:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great to hear you have something working now.

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