I recently built a Windows 98 machine for 9x/DOS gaming and was wanting to capture some of the games I will be playing. I have an S3 Virge and will be adding a 3DFX Voodoo, and as such have no S-Video or AV out. Is there any hardware I could utilize to get an S-Video or AV Out port via PCI? I would prefer not having to switch GPUs, but if I have to then I will.
wrote:I would prefer not having to switch GPUs
That's pretty much what you'd have to do. The alternative would be some kind of VGA capture device, and those can get very expensive.
Options > change the video card to one with s-video out or use a vga capture card (expensive) or use a hdmi capture card with a VGA to HDMI adapter / converter box which are relatively cheap
wrote:Options > change the video card to one with s-video out or use a vga capture card (expensive) or use a hdmi capture card with a VGA to HDMI adapter / converter box which are relatively cheap
Would one of these work with an S3 Virge/3DFX Voodoo2?
The Beast 2.0:
CPU: AMD K6-III 450MHz GPU: Nvidia FX 5600 128MB HDD: 20GB (Seagate?) Mobo: ASUS P5A-B RAM: 512MB Sound Card: SB 16 PnP ISA OS: Windows 98 SE
wrote:Would one of these work with an S3 Virge/3DFX Voodoo2?
Nope, nope, nope. I'm sure hundreds (if not thousands) of those are bought every year by people completely unable to use them. Monoprice has much more explicit warnings on their site, but I'm surprised they keep trying to sell them at all.
http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=2509
In theory, there are highly specialized video cards out there that can use that cable, by specifically routing the appropriate signals through otherwise unused pins in the interface. But if they exist at all, and I've seen no indication that they do, I expect they're thoroughly ancient cards completely impractical for any gaming.
But there definitely are VGA to AV converters out there. They're substantially bulkier devices that look like this:
https://www.amazon.ca/Generic-Monoprice-10472 … r/dp/B001CJOLBW
Those will probably work, depending on the specific resolution you want to use. (It definitely isn't particularly sharp at higher resolutions.)
KWorld PC to TV converter 1600. Converts from VGA to Composite, S-Video and even Component.
wrote:But there definitely are VGA to AV converters out there. They're substantially bulkier devices that look like this:
https://www.amazon.ca/Generic-Monoprice-10472 … r/dp/B001CJOLBWThose will probably work, depending on the specific resolution you want to use. (It definitely isn't particularly sharp at higher resolutions.)
I used to use one of these 😀 They definitely work!
If you have a newer Graphics card like Geforce 5 with TV out, you can try to use nglide or dgvoodoo to play GLIDE games over tv-out.
