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this RISC pipe dream will never take off why, the Sun-4/110 and DECstation 2100 are slower than the first shipping 68040s are projected to be, and you know Motorola is just going to keep churning out faster CPUs
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fyi it gets funnier when you take the incorrect side of the retro argument
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i think deus ex was literally the last game to require 3dfx / glide to run well I feel like early releases of Starsiege(R) Tribes(TM) required glide for 3D accel but I could be remembering wrong
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something the dilbert chud actually decided was worth arguing in a book they were writing: I predict that isdn is totally going to hold its own against the cable companies because the isdn companies know how to do customer service
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Progressive JPEG posted:I feel like early releases of Starsiege(R) Tribes(TM) required glide for 3D accel but I could be remembering wrong tribes was 1998, deus ex 2000.
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I never played deus ex for more than 10 minutes or so, so this is a fair assessment isn’t that the game with all the mosquitoes or whatever?
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Progressive JPEG posted:something the dilbert chud actually decided was worth arguing in a book they were writing: I mean its not isdn per se but I sure as hell get my internet from a phone provider not a cable provider, and that is very much because of the relative quality of customer service
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WilWheaton posted:Retro Argument: Fun fact: the guy who writes X-Plane still believes this and says that if you're getting more than 25-30 fps you should boost your graphics settings to stop "wasting" your computer power (It's kind of academic though because x-plane is so horribly optimized you're lucky to see more than 40 in most situations regardless of settings)
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x-plane? I can’t imagine wanting a new flight simulator, they’ll never improve on 4.0 I bet “x-plane” doesn’t even have hercules support, smdh
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eschaton posted:besides, multibus is clearly the superior bus architecture, having been designed by actual engineers ISO/IEC 10861:1994 supremacy
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i got deus ex working on a voodoo 2. incredibly smooth frame rate but blurry and lovely because voodoo2 It runs fine/great on a TNT2 or higher on Windows, even on 32 bit (with a low res) the mac port just sucked rear end. The glide version is worse imo because ~dithering~
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Mar 23, 2020 10:09
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16-bit color should be enough for anyone
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:16 colors should be enough for anyone bring back ega
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CGA's colour palettes actually were genius since they played off the CRT scanlines with a bunch of hacks to look way better than they seem to us now
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Web-Safe Colors 
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WilWheaton posted:CGA's colour palettes actually were genius since they played off the CRT scanlines with a bunch of hacks to look way better than they seem to us now Early CGA stuff did, anyway. Once VGA was common and games just had a CGA mode for backwards compatibility, developers stopped bothering to make it actually look good.
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Mar 25, 2020 05:24
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WilWheaton posted:CGA's colour palettes actually were genius since they played off the CRT scanlines with a bunch of hacks to look way better than they seem to us now idk watched some youtube about cga graphics and spent ages before they finally showed the goods which was cga on crt and idk wasnt that good
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WilWheaton posted:CGA's colour palettes actually were genius since they played off the CRT scanlines with a bunch of hacks to look way better than they seem to us now You mean when using composite right? Here's a video about it. Skip to 7:24 if you want to see the comparisons' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKblgZupOc I suppose it's not very impressive for today's standard s, but having played some of those games in ugly-rear end RGB mode when I was a kid I had no idea that this was even possible, so it was somewhat of a revelation learning about this decades later.
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Can't believe there are actual people who spend all that money on a DVD drive and forget to buy a decoder card
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It's worth buying a MPEG-1 card just to be able to experience Video Cube 3D and the Special Edition of Return To Zork.
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maniacdevnull posted:Can't believe there are actual people who spend all that money on a DVD drive and forget to buy a decoder card decoder cards are a scam, wait until the new Pentium 3s with SSE come out and can do it in software. if anyone is buying a DVD drive for their K6 just buy a stand alone unit instead.
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I don't think you needed a P3 to do software DVD decode, I'm pretty sure my P2 at 350mhz was doing it in software.
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yeah wasn't the deal with those cards that you could watch dvds on a 486
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iirc as late as the yosemite G3 they were still a thing, sorta. the rage 128 in dvd-equipped models had a daughter card for decoding mpeg in hardware, i think i remember when i got mine, i had to choose between the dvd drive (and i think that card) and the 450MHz processor. i chose the latter
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drat i wanted a tv capture card don’t know why. just seemed cool
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echinopsis posted:drat i wanted a tv capture card I had one, it was actually really cool. I could watch TV in a little window. Fortunately the US will always require open analog TV tuners so this will always be free and available.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I don't think you needed a P3 to do software DVD decode, I'm pretty sure my P2 at 350mhz was doing it in software. mpeg2 @ 720x480 with scaling to 800x480 would have been a mighty tall order for a p2 @ 350 mhz i definitely bought a decoder card because my pentium 2 or pentium 3 or whatever didn't reliably handle dvd video
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watching an extremely low res mpeg-1 video on a dos 486 of somebody lighting a grill with liquid oxygen
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huh weird, my parents spoiled me big-time and got me a new PC for christmas '98, it was a pentium 2 at 350MHz and i remember it was a Big Deal that it had a DVD drive and i don't remember it ever having a dedicated decoder card. could the video card have been pulling double duty as a decoder?
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:huh weird, my parents spoiled me big-time and got me a new PC for christmas '98, it was a pentium 2 at 350MHz and i remember it was a Big Deal that it had a DVD drive and i don't remember it ever having a dedicated decoder card. could the video card have been pulling double duty as a decoder? Yes.
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echinopsis posted:drat i wanted a tv capture card with a hauppage tv capture card you can build your own pvr and not have to deal with a dumb tivo! just install mythtv under gentoo and face to bloodshed spring for a card with a hardware mpeg-2 encoder, too, otherwise they're only really useful for live tv, which is still analog! the ati all-in-wonder stuff is terrible so avoid that
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:huh weird, my parents spoiled me big-time and got me a new PC for christmas '98, it was a pentium 2 at 350MHz and i remember it was a Big Deal that it had a DVD drive and i don't remember it ever having a dedicated decoder card. could the video card have been pulling double duty as a decoder? 1998 makes it doubtful
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remember the ati all in wonder
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:huh weird, my parents spoiled me big-time and got me a new PC for christmas '98, it was a pentium 2 at 350MHz and i remember it was a Big Deal that it had a DVD drive and i don't remember it ever having a dedicated decoder card. could the video card have been pulling double duty as a decoder? Probably not in that generation.
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it's hard to be absolutely certain but it looks like MPEG-2 decoding came in with the Rage 128 on the ATi side
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Mar 27, 2020 10:17
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Remember this poo poo lmfao
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:huh weird, my parents spoiled me big-time and got me a new PC for christmas '98, it was a pentium 2 at 350MHz and i remember it was a Big Deal that it had a DVD drive and i don't remember it ever having a dedicated decoder card. could the video card have been pulling double duty as a decoder? my computer came with a DVD golf game lol. it was so futuristic!
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psiox posted:with a hauppage tv capture card you can build your own pvr and not have to deal with a dumb tivo! just install mythtv under gentoo and face to bloodshed i had a tv wonder at one point and yeah, it was complete trash
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spankmeister posted:Probably not in that generation. this was really gnawing at me for some reason so i went digging around the internet, and it looks like NEC was selling systems with ATI 3D Rage II and Pro cards in 1998 (which did support MPEG-2 playback), so i'm guessing whatever video card my PC came with was doing decoder work as well
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echinopsis posted:drat i wanted a tv capture card it was so so bad op
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