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• Hardware guides
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• Hardware how-tos
  #REDIRECT [[Hardware guides]]
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• Main Page
  '''Welcome to ''VOGONS Wiki''''', a reference site covering vintage computer hardware used for playing games that don't run correctly on modern computers. ...out the details, advantages, disadvantages and quirks of useful old gaming hardware.
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• 3dfx
  ...tary Glide API - can be considered one of the prime reasons to use vintage hardware today, because many early 3D games starting from 1996 had versions for at l ...Voodoo 4 4500 cards are AGP 4x 1.5V capable. PCI and AGP versions of 3dfx hardware were considered to perform virtually identically with contemporary games, b
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• PowerVR
  ...performed decently in games that had a lot of overdraw. Although it lacked hardware T&L it was still fairly feature rich compared to other DirectX 6 graphics c ...w enabling a feature called EnT&L, which allows running games that require hardware T&L. T&L is done in software.
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• Paradise Tasmania 3D
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• NVIDIA
  .... It has a 206 MHz RAMDAC and supports DDC2 and VBE3. RIVA 128 has all the hardware features required for Direct3D 5 and has also good OpenGL compatibility. It ...ering support (up to 2x level), cubic environment mapping, and support for hardware dot product bump mapping.
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• Intel CPUs
  ...good availability of Slot 1 boards and their good compatability with other hardware, their good range of different CPUs which could be set up to running all th
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• Graphics Cards
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Sound Cards & Modules
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Socket 8 / Slot 1 / Socket 370 Motherboards
  ...as limited to 512MB) and was a very stable platform with very few critical hardware quirks. It also has good compatibility and BX motherboards often sport as m ...and it's also a well documented platform with lots of options on both the hardware side (think components like graphics cards and sound cards) as well as on t
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• Athlon Motherboards
  ...be replaced or it will cause system instability and possibly the death of hardware components.
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• Matrox
  ...ntary 3D accelerator with support for gouraud shading. It does not support hardware texture mapping. It is not Direct3D compatible. There were a few games incl ...udget VGA/GUI "productivity" accelerator card. It has somewhat improved 3D hardware compared to the Mystique and Millennium II, with bilinear filtering, but it
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• List of games with EMBM support
  ...The bump map is generated by comparing adjacent texels in the height map). Hardware that supports DirectX 6 bump mapping uses these values to perturb the texel [[Category:Hardware]]
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• List of games with 8-bit paletted texture support
  ...he palette. This reduction in space required is particularly important for hardware accelerators where texture space is limited. [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Matrox Mystique
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Rendition
  *[https://sites.google.com/site/martinsguistuff/home/hardware/rendition-verite-game-and-application-resources Rendition V2x00 Game and Ap [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Alliance Semiconductor
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Yamaha
  ...software synthesizer S-YXG50 is very similar to this particular series of hardware, with the 4 MB soundfont possibly being a dump of this card's ROM. [[Category:Hardware]]
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• S3
  S3 Graphics, Ltd is a graphics hardware manufacturer founded in January 1989. Their proprietary API's were S3D for ''*S3 chip sets were very popular among low-end graphic hardware manufacturers. Sometimes standard S3 drivers won't work on such cards. Use
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• Trident
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• SiS
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Hanging note bug
  The so-called ''hanging note bug'' is a hardware bug on certain models of the Creative [[Sound Blaster 16]] and [[Sound Blas
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• Windows 9x Builds
  == Hardware == ...486 will run these particular games as well. This defines the entry level hardware for a Windows9x gaming build.
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• Western Digital/Philips
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Creative Labs
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• DOS memory management
  In DOS hardware and memory access is closely related to the standards defined by the x86 ar ...s some drivers have to leave a part of their code in memory to handle e.g. hardware. This is called Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR). By default such drivers
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• Ensoniq
  Hardware settings are configured by PnP and by the SSINIT program. | hardware
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• Windows versions
  ...rt Plug and Play and USB. This is usually no problem since drivers for PnP hardware bring their own configuration sheet and for mass storage USB devices third ...ams are run in a Virtual DOS machine (NTVDM). It supports 486 code. Direct hardware calls are not possible.
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• Commander Keen 4
  ...former game on its own, it's often used to test video cards as most modern hardware has 'stutter' problems with it even with compatibility modes. ...cards still implement the standard some later local bus cards did not had hardware scrolling support anymore. On such cards the game will stutter.
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• Unreal Tournament
  ...fixed OpenGL renderer called UTGLR is recommended when playing the game on hardware other than 3dfx or S3 Savage.
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• List of CPU speed sensitive games
  ...st V: Roger Wilco - The Next Mutation (1993) || unable to initialize audio hardware || 486 25 (SB); 486 16 (GM) || Reduce clock speed or disable cache with [ht ...|| 486 33 [http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2013/06/ultima-vii-on-real-hardware.html] || Reduce clock speed, de-turbo, or disable test registers with [http
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• Terratec
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• EWS64
  === Hardware description === Due to a (hardware?) bug, the codec tends to mute several of its input channels (such as the w
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• Single Board Computers
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Example .TTM file for EWS64L/XL/XXL
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Example .TTM file for EWS64S
  [[Category:Hardware]]
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• Maestro 32/96
  [[File:M3296.JPG|thumb|400px|Terratec Maestro 32/96, hardware revision 1.0]] [[Category:Hardware]]
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• ATI
  * No Hardware Open GL Support ...e mode (AGP texturing). It is also the first ATI chip to support OpenGL in hardware. However, like the previous Rage chips, the Rage Pro cannot bilinear filter
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• Retrocomputing resources
  This is a compilation of magazines, videos, websites etc. concerning vintage hardware and games. ...chive.org/details/computermagazines Internet Archive collection of various hardware and game magazines in many languages]
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• Hardware how-tos
  #REDIRECT [[Hardware guides]]
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• TruForm
  ...ing with the Radeon R520 generation, TruForm was no longer advertised as a hardware feature. [[Category:Hardware]]
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• BEDO RAM
  *[http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ram-guide,89-7.html Tom's Hardware Guide]
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• Gravis Ultrasound
  ...le RAM. The Ultrasound cards were quickly adopted by the demo scene as the hardware mixing ability used no additional processor power and allowed for playing b ...s not based on the GF1 but rather on the Interwave chip made by AMD. It is hardware compatible with the original GUS when initialized in GUS mode but differs f
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• How to create an autobackup batch script
  In dayly DOS experiments with retro hardware it is useful to have a script to automatically back up your autoexec.bat an
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• 3Dlabs
  ...oodoo3/4/5 series. The Permedia 3 and GLINT R3 also introduced support for hardware dot product bump mapping, but this feature would not be extensively used in
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• Aureal Semiconductor
  ...ectSound and DirectSound3D support, and support A3D 1.x. They have only 8 hardware streams though so the system CPU may need to process some streams. This was the first and only hardware designed to process A3D 2.0. It has features similar to Vortex 1 but has
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• Tseng Labs
  EGA compatible. First card to offer extended 480 line EGA graphics modes. Hardware accelerated windowing, panning, and zooming.
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• PCB
  PCB is a website designed to allow you to store and record a list of your hardware. Currently it supports CPUs, GPUs & Benchmarks.
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• How to identify an expansion card
  There are basically 3 ways to identify what piece of hardware you have in your hands: ...fore the year 2000) then there is one more option which is to search Total Hardware 99 (a.k.a. th99) for similar boards (this may be particularly helpfull for
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• 386 Motherboards
  The following is a list of 386 motherboards from Total Hardware 1999. Please feel free to add missing entries.
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• Abit FU3 Version 2
  ...using the PEAK/DM chipset. Newer revisions of the board may have BIOS and hardware support for Cyrix 486DLC type chips. The CHIPs PEAK/DM chipset provides bri
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• ABC Prestige 386
  </font> <font face="Arial">Reset enabled through hardware only </font> Reset enabled through hardware and keyboard
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• Socket 7 Motherboard Lists
  ...B}}||{{no}}|| rev 1.05 and 1.06 has issues with K6-II+ and K6-III+ without hardware modification ...yes|512 KB}}||{{no}}|| rev 1.05 has issues with K6-II+ and K6-III+ without hardware modification
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• PC Chips M-209
  ...Chips M-209''' is a 286 motherboard capable of up to 20MHz operation, with hardware EMS support. === Hardware EMS ===
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• Interesting Vogons Threads
  Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware? ...minimum Windows system requirements? (talk about Windows versions and the hardware people put these on)
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• Property:Is device
  * '''[[Allows value::Codec]]''' - a hardware encoder and/or decoder, such as an MPEG accelerator
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• Headland HT12
  The maximum amount of RAM is 4MB, with hardware EMS support. These boards usually came with AMIBIOS and onboard diagnostics === Hardware EMS ===
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• Cirrus Logic
  ...se ([[Western Digital]]). For example, the Cirrus GD5422 (1992) supported hardware acceleration for both [[8-bit color]] and [[16-bit color]]. It was one of t * CL-GD5426 – Hardware [[bitblt|BitBLT engine]]. ISA bus and VLB up to 2 MB of memory.
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• DVD Illusion
  ...provide full decoding of DVD format video on systems too slow to do so in hardware, it was produced at a time when most consumer video cards did not have TV o ...ayback on a TV of non-MPEG video formats that the card could not decode in hardware.
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• Codec
  This is a list of all codec devices in the wiki. These devices provide hardware accelerated encoding and decoding of various audio and video compression al
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• Serial port
  [[Category:Hardware guides]]
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• Creative Sound Blaster 16 ASP
  ...]] that introduces a signal processing chip. This was supposed to provide hardware compression and decompression of audio, however it proved to be a short-liv
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• Year 2000 System Build
  == The Hardware ==
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• Year 2001 System Build
  == The Hardware ==
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• 72-pin SIMM
  ...were released which were 10 - 30 % faster but refuse to work in some older hardware. The difference can often be noticd fom the appendix on the memory chips or ...RS/6000 line and hp modules from hp 9000 series are not compatible with PC-hardware.
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• Storage
  * Hardware mod (short pin 34) or Female-Female 40 pin cable necessary to negotiate spe
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• List of games with EAX support
  | * Supported by ALchemy // Stereo only // Hardware openal by edited ini file | ''Hardware''
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• List of games with Table Fog support
  ...te table fog using vertex based fog. The GeForce 256 supports table fog in hardware.<ref>Rogers, D. (January 11, 2000), NVIDIA Corporation, Implementing Fog in ...p1046069 (screenshot)]</ref><ref>Savage4 Graphics/Video Accelerator Family Hardware Reference [http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item/375-s3-savage4-pro
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• List of MT-32-compatible computer games
  ...multaneously (press F9 to toggle)|| || Yes || || ||Gottlieb TMS34010 Based Hardware ...ame menu to change audio settings|| || Yes || || ||Data East Caveman Ninja Hardware
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