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Re: What's your Retro-Rig?

Posted on 2008-03-24, 02:50

Mike01Hawk- Yes... Roland is pure candy! A friend from bacindaday used to rave about how great his midi sounded. We all thought he was nuts. His folks had bought him an SCC-1 NEW (from Costco, of all places). In fact, he actually contributed to the original FAQ on it. He wasn't interested in retro- …

Re: What's your Retro-Rig?

Posted on 2008-03-23, 19:24

Ha! Trying to get all the old sound cards? Yeah, I know the feeling... :sly: In all the collecting and rummaging, I still have never laid eyes on a real Adlib. Or a GUS extreme. heh. I have a couple extra SBs and GUS models if you're interested in some trading. I'm looking for GUS ACE and Roland SCC …

What's your Retro-Rig?

Posted on 2008-03-23, 18:03

Heya Vogons- I guess a lot of us here have dedicated vintage computers. I'm wondering what percentage of us are building or have something really fancy, above and beyond rare vintage hardware specs. Perhaps you've souped-up the old pentium with a menu-driven system and arcade stick, maybe even in an …

Re: What's the best graphics card for VESA 3.0?

Posted on 2008-03-17, 19:13

I know what you mean. I would never have tried messing with something like this... but the drive for the perfect retro gaming experience eventually lead to me experiment with this stuff. I tried VBEHZ when I was attempting to figure out the nvidia triple buffering flicker glitch. Couldn't get the …

Re: What's the best graphics card for VESA 3.0?

Posted on 2008-03-17, 17:54

Yeah, that's what I heard too. I can only say what I saw first hand, and it's based on some pretty arbitrary factors... namely my eyeballs and this aging dell 17inch crt. You are right in that the Geforce 2mx and the TNT2 seemed to be blurrier.. especially around the edges of the pixels horizontally …

Re: What's the best graphics card for VESA 3.0?

Posted on 2008-03-17, 00:47

What's the advantage of DOS?... don't get me started! :happyhappy: There are advantages and disadvantaged to using straight DOS... It is harder. This could be an advantage if you like a challenge. Other than that, my main reasons for preferring DOS over Windows is... -Native "world" of DOS games. ( …

Re: GUS PNP and SB AWE64 in the Same System

Posted on 2008-03-15, 00:52

You have every chance of getting this to work properly. Be Forewarned. There is a slight possibility that you could encounter the dreaded so-called "Adlib conflict". This seems to be a result of both cards monitoring memory location 388h (even with the SB emulation completely OFF on a GUS). I am …

Re: What's the best graphics card for VESA 3.0?

Posted on 2008-03-14, 23:28

I don't know of any games that use it either, unless you count some of the DOS ports of the Allegro games on http://www.allegro.cc/ (which are really worth checking out... nice candies for a retro system, even if only 10% of them have a DOS port readily available- but if you have lots of time I …

Re: What's the best graphics card for VESA 3.0?

Posted on 2008-03-10, 05:08

All good information. I found on Wikipedia for VESA 3.0 that both Matrox G550 and ATI x800 boards support vesa 3.0, although personally, I like the Nvidia solution. Seems to be best overall, except none I have tried support "Hardware Triple Buffering" according the SDD's test utility. Haven't tried …

Re: VESA Fix Utility Listing (for old video cards)

Posted on 2008-03-02, 22:00

While not VESA fixes per se... folks here trying to do VESA tweaks and/or build a retro PC using an old Geforce might find the following utilities useful... NVflash is an Nvidia BIOs flashing/dumping utility for almost all Geforce/Riva boards. XBIOS editor is a BIOS tweaking utility for all Nvidia …

Re: VBE15 utility?

Posted on 2008-02-27, 23:41

OMG that's amazing! Thanks SO much!! I'm just happen to be rounding up all the VESA utilities I can find (and futzing around with them on a Geforce4). If I run across any useful ones that I don't see there, I'll post 'em. Thanks again! It's so hard to find working links for these!

VBE15 utility?

Posted on 2008-02-27, 22:50

I ran across a reference to some sort of VESA Bios utility on this thread Help with vesa Called VBE15 . Never heard of it. Anybody know what it is or where to get it?

Re: Revised list of Voodoo games for DOS.

Posted on 2007-10-02, 00:38

MDK is a game with a DOS version that works, but is not Voodoo. MDK has a Glide version that works, but only under Windows. The only Voodoo game I can find that absolutely refuses to work with a Voodoo 2 is Dreams to Reality. I've spent HOURS on that sucker trying to figure out why, watching the # …

Re: Pentium II 400 and a 40GB HD

Posted on 2007-07-07, 07:18

Ha! Yeah. I have the same problem. Same computer specs. I've been dealing with it for years now. Still haven't found a BIOS update. But that might change. Necessity is the mother of invention... just ordered several new P3 processors in the mail, so I might HAVE to update the BIOS because these are …

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