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@@ages2001 Well, anything is possible... On this SIS motherboard featured in video when using NT 4.0 the CPU would stay under 100% load unless the USB was disabled in the BIOS...So I had to disable USB...

@@O_mores no, not about this video. Few months ago, we talked about installing windows 2000 on Samsung model laptop. You gave me some installed windows zip files but didn't work any of them.

There are gigabit PCI cards with Windows 98 32bit drivers from Intel and Realtek. I haven't found a PCI-E card yet. Some early PCI-E Realtek cards are supposed to be Windows 98 compatible. Once I had a PCI-E gigabit card from Broadcom that worked with Windows NT 3.51 from 1995... But this is not a big surprise since NT was about servers and networks... I don't have that card anymore to see if it works in 98.

Well, PCI-E Voodoo 2 is doable. Right now, you can use a PCI-E to PCI adapter and a Voodoo 2 will work on any modern configuration. In the same time is not practical with Voodoo 1... simply because V1 cards don't like high speed CPUs. After 1Ghz they will output some garbage on the screen and that's it. Even under 1Ghz there are some problems with 133Mhz FSB.

Don't forget to check this other video about Windows Me: ruclips.net/video/YILmK5xkRZc/видео.html

Windows 98 will install with a USB mouse as long the USB chipset is recognized. This of course is not the case with newer motherboards. Anyway you can install it without a mouse (and deal with drivers later) - just use your keyboard Enter/Space to press a button - TAB to jump between buttons and select them. ALT + underlined letter to select an option or a button, e.g. - ALT + N to press the NEXT button.

@@O_mores that i know... and yes the laptop is more modern... but is there anyway for add it on installer?

Well... there is the following switch for Windows 98 setup.exe : "/l This switch enables a Logitech mouse during Setup. " So you should modify the .cab file where lmouse.drv resides and replace it with the lmouse.drv from Windows 3.11 (there is also a link in description to this file) I never tried it, but this switch that forces setup to specifically use a Logitech mouse helps a lot in this scenario...

Mainstream support for Windows Vista ended on April 10, 2012 and extended support ended on April 11, 2017. So between 2012 and 2017 you still might find some motherboards with official Vista support. But as shown in this video Vista is still very compatible with modern hardware.

I payed exactly 1$ at a thrift store.

@@O_mores oh okay then no problem. i just checked the prices online and this retro stuff pricing is outrageous!

I watched that part a couple of time and I still don't get it... :)

Original .ISO + Daemon Tools. To run DT in Windows 95 you need to install the USB supplement and IE 4+.

Doc Brown: I foresee two possibilities. One: it may create a disequilibrium which might be fatal at high RPM. Or two, the encounter could create a time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that's worst-case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.

I think there will be one more 3dfx Voodoo before I return the cards.

Actually this is the way it was done - the FPGA chip steals signal from the FBI chip. Analog to digital was my assumption..., but Daniel from sdz-mods.com made it all clear here in the comments section.

Yes, CRT adds a "beautify" filter... I was planning to show some CRT footage from my Samsung 755DFX 17 inch flat screen (the one on the thumbnail) but the built in VGA cable is broken and everything is yellowish now. For a while it worked correctly if I wiggled the cable... Not anymore.

I agree, the HDMI is more like a gimmick, unless if you have only one big gaming monitor with DP/HDMI ports. In this scenario it's better to get HDMI signal from your Voodoo rather than using a VGA to HDMI converter. I have two such converters and they are rather bad: one is outputting some analog garbage, and the other one has better image quality but is getting very hot.

​​@@O_mores it's not a gimmick, the HDMI signal from the card on an LCD screen is just perfect, with no loss whatsoever. Many LCD monitors have crap VGA input, and even the good ones aren't perfect, and they can never be. VGA signal was intended for CRTs, not LCDs. It doesn't carry any resolution information, it's just an analogue waveform, there will always be some "guesswork" and quality lost when displaying it on an LCD panel.

Well, some bad business moves and competition killed 3dfx. First 3dfx wanted a business model like Apple - to produce and sell their own hardware. For this they acquired STB and and they made their own cards by late 1998. By doing this many Taiwanese producers like MSI, Asus, Gainward etc. sold more nVidia cards instead, this diminished 3dfx market share and they were eventually bought by nVidia.

I still have it on my PC, but also on my phone. Check it out if have Android: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stainlessgames.carmageddon&hl=en

The ISO you originally download has standard ACPI and no NVME drivers, it's more or less the original SP3 ISO released by Microsoft. Packed with the .ISO there is a folder with lots of subfolders and drivers. You use the Patch Integrator to add the needed drivers and to create a second custom .ISO. That's why you need the original .ISO in the first place, because the content is somewhat standardized and the patch integrator expects certain files with certain versions to be there.

Too bad nVidia is not releasing a special Voodoo card since they own the brand.

Yes, indeed! These cheapo adapters are way better than expected, I have to dig in to check what hardware/chip is used.

RE1 will switch back to 2D card to show the cut scenes. I know for sure since I didn't use a VGA pass through cable. The S3 Virge DX card that I used is outputting some analog garbage, more visible on certain resolutions and refresh rate.

With a faster CPU there will be more FPS, but on a Pentium 200MMX with a Voodoo 1 with 2 TMUs we get 40FPS in Quake 1 and 25FPS in Quake II. A Voodoo Banshee operates at 100Mhz/1600MB memory bandwidth vs 50Mhz/800MB, it's way better than a Voodoo 1. Actually Voodoo Banshee was slightly better than a Voodoo 2 in games that didn't use multi texturing.

512x384 it's not a standard HDMI resolution.(every resolution has a predefined ID code) Even if the card is sending signal - the HDMI receiver (monitor or capture card) in most cases won't be able to handle it. Daniel from sdz-mods.com told me that 512x384 might work with some capture devices that are more tolerant... I guess the solution is to convert on the fly 512x384 to 640x480 using the FPGA logic.

@@O_mores 1024x768 with pixel doubling would make more sense and be more authentic.

@@thedopplereffect00 Yes, indeed. This is how my Epiphan capture card deals with resolutions like 320x240, 400x300, 512x384.

You have to take in consideration that we are dealing 640x480 footage that gets upscaled to 1920x1080. Won't look very crisp even with a 1500$ capture card. First, the original bitstream gets compressed by the capture software, the video editor will also degrade the image to some degree, and finally RUclips compression will introduce more degradation. I guess, the only way to enjoy 640x480 full screen resolution is on a CRT.

Is this a reference to Ben 10? :-?

3dfx was acquired and terminated by nVidia in late 2000 so it was indeed destroyed...

Yes, and depending on the Chip there is a HW audio bug according to Marcan. Still, for that price its a no brainer.

According to HWiNFO the chip is produced by MacroSilicon Technology with the following Hardware ID: USB\VID_534D&PID_2109 | When searching the hardware ID this shows up on google: www.magewell.com/static/tech-specs/USB_Capture/USBCaptureHDMIGen2EN.pdf

"Carma" was one of my favorite games but it looks I don't have the "NO CD" version for the 3dfx executable. If you have it, please send me a link.

Also, Starsiege: Tribes.

I believe so. However Daniel from sdz-mods : www.youtube.com/@sdz-mods is more qualified when it comes to 3dfx Voodoo technical details.

Unfortunately those old chips still perform better than any current open source GPU implementation (like FuryGPU).

You underestimate the use of 90s hardware in modern day. Most common in industrial and machining situations. A lot of machines still run on 90s tech. The mechanical parts were meant to last 40-50+ years while the computers controlling those machines die out much earlier

​@@reecebower9934 Well, there are developing countries and fully developed countries like Japan or S. Korea. I think many software/hardware solutions achieved this status in the 90's. After some point the need to change a working platform is just marketing... :)

@@O_mores Japan just this year got rid of the use of floppy disks 😂😂😂

@@O_mores a "fully developed country" doesn't actually exist. It's equivalent to a utopia.

@@O_mores all the fancy bullet train systems ran off... yup! You guessed it. Floppy Disks! Among many other systems.

Yes, they are... I have one more to show, so I guess I'll make another 3dfx video. :)

Not sure if I understand your comment, the FPGA taps into the digital bus between the FBI and the RAMDAC. If you were to remove the RAMDAC, assuming the FBI/TMUs would still be clocked, the HDMI output would function.

@@sdz-mods The description made it sound like the FPGA was taking the resulting analog video signal that would have gone out via the output VGA connector, presumably to a CRT monitor. _Most_ console HDMI mods usually try to intercept or tap into the digital signal _before_ it reaches the DAC so that it can have the cleanest, unfiltered source to work from and yield the bespoke output quality a modder implementing such would be trying for.

Grabbing analog signal was my assumption, I mean I would have done it this way since I'm more familiar with analog to digital conversion... I didn't ask Daniel (from sdz-mods) how the HDMI part was implemented.

There's no logical reason to do it that way. It's more likely to be a digital to digital converter - probably for creature comforts like better upscaling.

You should ask Daniel from sdz-mods >> www.youtube.com/@sdz-mods

@@O_mores Thank you so much. Oh really cool. He have lot of fpga projects. 🤝

​@@sumuduranathungahey! I used Vivado for this project.

I don't this is possible with an FPGA chip, the result would be a "soft Voodoo" anyway.

@@roberto88958 In this case, I'd prefer that versus "no Voodoo" at all.

You don't seem to understand the difference between hardware and software.

@@miregoji2959 I'm sure I know what's the difference. My point is that you can't recreate on a FPGA the exact same circuits like on a real Voodoo chip - you have do some emulation.

​@@roberto88958 In addition to an imperfect emulation of the graphic effects specific to the analog signals of a CRT, agree with you 3dfx original will always be better than in FPGA, we lose graphic effects in Descent for example, that we cannot have on a Geforce 1 to 4xxx ... The best is to use the latest 3dfx cards by dedicating certain tasks to the gpu's, the advantage of the 3dfx multigpu in its time (which has its limits to basic 2D and 3D). I think it would be time to develop new 3D game cards with multi gpu's, in order to dedicate certain tasks, but for that it is necessary that the development of the games is in function to take advantage of them, compared to our current powerful single gpu, but whose architecture makes drops fps. Which was not the case for some arcade games of the time, which cannot be emulated identically, at least in their fluidity. We also see on N64 games, which the new Mister is not able to emulate everything, I also think that it loses some graphic effects like the reflection in mario kart (to be confirmed during development). But for 3dfx cards with its multi gpu's it is even more complicated, it is also the case for the emulation of the Neo Geo AES and its 2 68000 processors (fpga not ready). These old hardwares are also better suited for low resolution.

@@PixelPipes Yes, it is, especially considering what a cheap HDMI capture card was used...

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@@O_mores I mean, it's a digital signal, so technically it should look the same on any capture card or display (ignoring scaling methods). 😉 Cool video, btw.

@@THU31 Yes, it's digital but it not compressed. "The higher the resolution, color depth and frame rate, the more bits need to be transmitted until the maximum bandwidth is reached. Then, the only way to transmit more bits is to add more lanes to the cable or compress the signal." At 640x480 I think these tiny adapters are doing great... but try to capture a full HD resolution at 120FPS and things will get ugly. That's why some capture cards are very expensive.

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Yes, these options should work with any 12/13th Gen motherboard.

@@O_mores This awesome! Thanks for your immediate response.