Re: (1991-2001) Oldest 1680x1050, 1600x1200, 1920x1200, 2048x1536, 2560x1600 VA/IPS LCD monitors you can think of ?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 13:08

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SGI 1600SW (1600x1024) in 1998 IBM T220 (3840×2400) in 2001 Are the oldest two I can think of. Bear in mind though, the SGI uses OpenLDI (which hardly anyone used), and the T220 required 2x single link DVI... so in both cases you need special graphics hardware to run them. Also check out the …

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 21:02

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Honestly, you need to learn some fundamentals before any of that stuff... you will be lost in no time at all. Do as megatron says, some simple programs to get you used to structures, processes and algorithms... hello world... file parser (tokeniser)... sort function... linked list... double linked …

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 13:08

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I was specifying the compiler I had in mind so that you and other programmers would know which one I had in mind. I thought it might unearth insights about my situation and how to proceed. But otherwise your right that learning to program in c on a PC isn't important. Its just both windows and …

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 09:43

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So in the end GLide had no relevance for the future because the APIs that lasted didn't take advantage of anything from Glide, I'm a little disappointed considering how much people talk about the wonders of GLide, what made GLide different from other APIs proprietary features of the time was the …

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Re: quick p4 question

Posted on 2024-02-16, 14:22

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From what I understand the early OSs like 2k and XP they didnt see a P4 HT as a one CPU with two cores but as two seperate CPUs. They both use a "per socket" licence, and if you put a quad core CPU into Win2k it will only see the first 2 CPUs (0,1) , Ive had Win2k on a dual xeon quad core and it …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-12, 16:45

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Building a 160 Terrabyte computer on the Cheap “Inexpensive NOT Cheap Quality components”. Add this to your HP z440 computer for better Cooling of Hard drives and air flow. Dual USB powered 180mm fans ( Very Quiet ) ( $15 on eBay ) Max Capacity = 160 Terrabytes ( 8 x 20gb drives ) You need 8000 x …

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Re: Decent used digital cameras Proconsumer-high end.

Posted on 2023-11-12, 00:31

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When using adaptors, the rule of thumb is you need to ensure that the flange distance of the camera body mount is less than the flange distance of the lens mount, otherwise you need a correction lens in the adaptor (unless it can be recessed) and this would need to be uber quality glass (tolerances …

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Re: Mame, so it begins.......

Posted on 2023-09-28, 12:46

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I think most non-analog arcade sticks were microswitched due to robustness (these things were abused almost daily) and ease of replacement (in many cases operators were responsible for maintence and repair... especially due to ware and tare). Also note the buttons used the same microswitchs as the …

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Re: A Kick-Ass Dual 3.8GHz NetBurst Xeon Build

Posted on 2023-09-06, 10:17

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Greetings Irinikus! :) I'm definitely going to try a GTX Titan Z in this system when the opportunity to purchase one presents itself! (I'll set it up in the same way as I've setup the GTX 690!) The only thing that bothers me is that the Titan Z is clocked at a lower frequency than the GTX 690, and …

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Re: Local Ad: VFX1 for $20!

Posted on 2023-08-15, 08:09

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The VFX1 is working but there's a major problem. One LCD is littered with stuck pixels starting about halfway going to the bottom, approximately 50-100 random RGB's are stuck on, it looks like a clown puked. tbf the displays are utter crap with a tiny resolution (although to be expected from 1995). …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-11, 10:53

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I was helping my mate with some new PC components today and noticed right off the bat that Windows -- the Pro edition, no less -- activated itself as soon as we connected to the net! is this a thing now? Are motherboards aimed at DIYers shipping with Windows licenses baked into the UEFI? The …

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Re: Boards with cool graphics on them.

Posted on 2023-06-23, 22:22

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doublebuffer wrote on 2023-06-23, 22:19: spiroyster wrote on 2023-06-23, 22:10: And sometimes they wanted to make a point... I hope they just did shoddy job but are still alive! 😁 🤣... They didn't do a shoddy job, and afaik, they are both still alive 😀

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Re: Less popular Youtube channels

Posted on 2023-06-23, 22:18

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Thanks for these links... Thought I would watch one or two "Breaking Bad Influence" last night... ended up watching about 3 hours! ... I'm never going to be able to look at that show the same way again... Ha haa! Yeah his Breaking Bad Influence series is a total binge watch, so funny seeing the …

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Re: Boards with cool graphics on them.

Posted on 2023-06-23, 22:10

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They were quite conservative. The boards were most probably designed by quite a small team, and those proud of their work could have left their mark there. Amiga team had their signatures on the case like artists. And sometimes they wanted to make a point... Untitled.png Respecto points to anyone …

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Re: school text books "Try it in BASIC"

Posted on 2023-06-21, 15:34

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The book/article seems very provoking, indeed, because it seems to ignoring the availability of QBASIC and Turbo Pascal on 90s era PCs. It also seems to ignore Visual Basic, which was the #1 RAD IDE of the 90s (VB3) and early 2000s (VB6). All in all it seems to me as if it was written by some C64 …

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Re: school text books "Try it in BASIC"

Posted on 2023-06-21, 11:58

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Yes I remember maths books having code listings (usually in the back/appendicies) for various plots and statistics to suppliment some (not all) of the concepts. This would have been around mid 90's in the UK, however the books were probably older (late 80's/early 90's). They were always BASIC ( …

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Re: Less popular Youtube channels

Posted on 2023-06-21, 08:21

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https://www.youtube.com/@RoseTintedSpectrum Maybe a bit too British this one, but I find this channel's dry, self deprecating, witty humour right down my street! If you want to know what gaming felt like as a kid in the late eighties-early/mid nineties in the UK, he's yer man! Less PC stuff, more …

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Re: Stuffing new Win98SE computer: ideas?

Posted on 2023-06-17, 23:34

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TIL, Sheep.exe's actual name is SCMPOO ...

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Re: What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2023-05-23, 22:31

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Even after all these years, VRML is still my prefered choice when outputting 3D (and 2D) geometry during debugs. And my goto viewer, which is by far best (And I have tried a lot of VRML viewers, if not all of them) ... is this one. Screenshot 2023-05-23 230727.png Every development environment I …

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Re: ZSNES sound problem (AC97)

Posted on 2023-04-22, 22:48

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Have you tried different versions of zsnes? I had no problems running zsnes on P233MMX back in the day. I probably had a dedicated sound card though. Many a moon ago, I had to roll different versions of WinUAE to work correctly on a crappy Intel Atom machine as later versions seems to break sound …

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