Re: S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

Posted on 2015-08-08, 15:51

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by elianda

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I wouldn't go so far to call this property a problem. The simplest approach would be to measure the voltage on R,G,B for a black and white screen and compare it. Most likely a simple multimeter would do the job. Every screen has a brightness/contrast knobs which is basically offset/gain to scale the …

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Re: So i got a boxed Voodoo 2...

Posted on 2015-08-05, 09:09

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by elianda

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I agree, could be still images vs. moving images. And he did direct catpure, not using a pass-through cable, which is a big part of the issue. 800x600 V1 is cool, but most don't have one. So going from 640x480 on a V1 to 1024x768 on a V3 is quite a difference. He stated: The images are captured …

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Re: Looking for Sound Boostar 16/32 drivers (Highscreen)

Posted on 2015-08-03, 12:50

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by elianda

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There you go: https://web.archive.org/web/19981206140138/ht … ett07/index.htm

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Re: So i got a boxed Voodoo 2...

Posted on 2015-08-03, 12:08

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by elianda

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I did an image quality comparison of the voodoos here on vogons in 2013: 3dfx Voodoo image quality

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Re: Asus P5A BIOS Update

Posted on 2015-07-24, 10:29

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by elianda

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For me this one worked: ftp://78.46.141.148/driver/Mainboards/Asus_P5A/

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Re: Too many Retro PCs? Let's build a 4 in 1 Retro Gaming PC! 386, 486, Pentium...

Posted on 2015-07-22, 09:08

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by elianda

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More interesting for benchmarks would be Topbench as it benches the CPU, memory and graphics subsystem independently. Usually this becomes quite unbalanced when slowing down a faster PCI based system compared to a 386 with ISA.

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Re: Nvidia Quadro 2 Pro

Posted on 2015-07-18, 10:12

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by elianda

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I use a Quadro 2 Pro in my K6-2+ system on a ASUS P5A. I don't use DVI often since I have V2 SLI chained. Maybe when I do capture from the Quadro 2 Pro. I didn't tried overclocking as the card is already overkill for the K6-2+. From the card in another System: ftp://78.46.141.148/pictures/quadro2pro …

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Re: W3.X Bad Performance with S3 Graphics Card

Posted on 2015-07-18, 09:50

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by elianda

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Did you enable interrupts by jumper on the card?

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 20:51

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by elianda

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I usually use it for video captures, but it can also run crysis I guess... 80.685 fps

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Re: What model is Aztech FCC ID: I38MMSN853

Posted on 2015-07-14, 16:02

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by elianda

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This is the Waverider Platinum 3D PnP: http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/sound_ … i38-mmsn853.jpg As Jesolo already wrote, the main difference between the cards is the different Wavetable (or no wavetable at all).

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Re: AGP falling back to PCI on Aladdin V. HELP

Posted on 2015-07-04, 20:47

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by elianda

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My settings are:

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Re: Rasterex EGA card from the abyss

Posted on 2015-06-28, 23:06

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by elianda

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I guess its a TIGA card: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010 So it's not good for DOS gaming, but you may get it running with Windows 3.x.

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Re: Dreamblaster X1 - Waveblaster compatible board with 32 mbyte flash - Pre Order Thread

Posted on 2015-06-23, 11:28

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by elianda

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I got a few questions: The board has flash as soundbank memory. Is it possible to change soundbanks on the board and flash soundbanks from the SAM9407 (94B format) on it? (With a tool from DOS command prompt) Does the board routes Line-In through the DSP such that effects can be applied? Is the …

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Re: Research a Gravis UltraSound Ace.

Posted on 2015-06-11, 11:24

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by elianda

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I can't follow your FT2 argumentation. The ACE is treated as wavetable device with its own RAM. If you have 512 kB you can load 512 kB of instrument samples in theory, but this gets reduced due to padding to 256 kB memory boundaries. So 425 kB used seem to be quite reasonable. SB16 is a pure player …

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Re: DOS Gaming video card benchmarks on 486 and Pentium platforms

Posted on 2015-05-30, 12:59

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by elianda

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You shouldn't be so curious about the S3 Trio64V scoring very similar to the S3 Virge in 2D tests as the 2D core is the same.

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2015-05-29, 12:07

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by elianda

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Well, in a real system I would always pair a GUS with some SB [clone] card that brings its own OPL3. More interesting would be some hardware extension that is modern and usually not available on an old ISA system. This follows basically the same approach new modules go for old 8 bits (1541U2). …

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Re: DVD playback for my Pentium MMX 233 custom?

Posted on 2015-05-24, 21:09

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by elianda

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I made this comparison a few years ago: DVD accelerators compared

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Re: Advice for a video card

Posted on 2015-05-20, 11:46

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by elianda

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Again S3 Virge - Cheap - Easy to find - great compatibility / Matrox Millenium - harder to find and more expensive - unrivaled image quality. You may have a look at my measurements posted here http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=39335 The Millenium is not unrivaled. Just check other cards …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2015-05-20, 10:17

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by elianda

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An interesting point would be of course if one could convert a patch set (or FFF file) to a working ROM image for flashing. However it would be only useful if MegaEM could use it, because games usually run one of these three approaches: - use the card as GUS classic with own patch handling (UltraMID …

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Re: File Transfer methods (from a modern pc to an old pc)?

Posted on 2015-05-18, 15:46

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by elianda

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I use the following approach: I put a Linux with Samba-Server in a Virtual Machine. I setup the Samba server to share a folder without any security to the LAN where the old computers are connected. This is all setup in the samba.conf. Now on the host I can map with the VM extensions any host folder …

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