Here are the files I managed to copy. APOC3DX.INF copied partially and has some corruption.

might be SOL, id try win image tho.

https://www.mrwebman.com/fx1/files/computer/d … ideo%20Logic3D/

These are the same drivers. its nothing special. 4.0.0.43 drivers

Kahenraz wrote on 2021-08-14, 05:24:

Does anyone know of a way to coax the rest of the files off the disk?

It looks like Warlord has you covered, but you might want to try an LS-120 drive if you have one, they can be good with flaky 3.5" disks sometimes.

Thanks for confirming that these files aren't important. Now we know. 😀

Unfortunately, I do not have any LS-120 drives.

Oooo, big spender, went for the LS-240s eh? 🤣

I was gifted a Zip drive for my birthday at the time it would have been relevant and used regular floppies for everything else until writable CDs became a thing.

I wish floptical had become more popular. It was a very cool technology.

I managed to miss out on the whole whack of those, I didn't wanna pay through the nose, the bleeding edge tax, and everything seemed to go unobtanium kinda quick before it came down in price much.

Kahenraz wrote on 2021-08-14, 05:24:

I purchase a box full of PowerVR PCX2 accelerators as a bulk lot hoping for a Midas 3 or PCX1. Instead I got a lot of various PCX2 boards of different revisions. One of them came with a "mystery" floppy. It contains Apocalypse 3dx drivers for Windows 95 dated June 30th 1997, according to the readme.

you GOT a PCX1, it's the same card I am using in one of my retro-machines. (K6-2/450)

This is definitely a PCX2. The PCX1 does not do bilinear filtering.

D62011GD = PCX2

Never saw a PCX2 that had that board, but good to know.

Share a photo with us of your PCX1?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/94839221@N05/27 … 57669143228601/

That's interesting. I have a PCX1 but it looks completely different. I never knew knew what was written on the chip because the heatsink is soldered to the board.

The only place I could find mine was as an import from Japan. So it was probably used as an OEM add-in for an NEC computer. Yours would have been out of a Compaq computer in the USA.

I wish somebody measured the PC 3DEngine against PCX1, there might be a clock difference.

The NEC PC 3DEngine is a PCX1 but you're right that we don't know what the clock is. Unlike all of the normal variants there is no quartz clock chip anywhere on the board. I read that the PC 3DEngine is supposed to run at 66Mhz like the PCX1 but I've also read that the PCX1 also came in a 60mhz variant.

Why would the NEC board not have a quartz crystal on it? Where does it get its clock?

PC-Engine Games are playable on PCX1 in Win95 ?

NEC's "PC Engine" is a product. NEC's "PC 3DEngine" is their brand of 3d accelerators which included the PowerVR PCX1, PCX2, and 3DLabs Permedia 2. Yes. It is very confusing.