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Reply #390 - 02.07.13 at 22:32:42

Komponent wrote on 02.07.13 at 18:26:40:

Still having problems with image quality when using the dongle? If you were willing to deploy a setup more elaborate, I guess you could get as close as possible to perfect inverted output like this

Actually I have been thinking of a device to capture video better than a hand held camera, so elaborate doesn't bother me.

Hell, I did direct capture of video from a V5-6000 by looping the output through a witchdoctor setup on a second PC!!

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Loeschzwerg Senior Member Offline AAlchemy PSU maker :-) Posts: 396 Germany -> Bavaria -> Augsburg Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #391 - 03.07.13 at 10:28:03 And it would be a way to boost brightness
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Reply #392 - 07.07.13 at 16:25:40

@gdonovan:

Hi Gary,

An Ex 3dfx software engineer give me some demos he created when he worked in the company.
He used to write graphics demos to show off the 3dfx capabilities when he worked at 3dfx, about 15 years ago. So , you might be able to run these demos with your rampy perhaps.
Donut Demo, Surf Demo, Displacement Map Demo, Light Map Demo, Water Demo, Viewer Demo, High Performance Demo, Skinning Demo and Image Viewer.

Do you want them?

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #393 - 07.07.13 at 18:52:40 hey, I want them too and I think that every 3dfx fan would like them ! can you upload them ?
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Reply #394 - 07.07.13 at 19:21:43

m14radu wrote on 07.07.13 at 18:52:40:

hey, I want them too

and I think that every 3dfx fan would like them !

can you upload them ?

Sure but for now I just have 5 demos:

Donut Demo:

http://depositfiles.com/files/aept16sh8

Surf Demo:

http://depositfiles.com/files/ej66ohb9k

Displacement Map Demo:

http://depositfiles.com/files/2vjaxt8vt

Water Demo:

http://depositfiles.com/files/hogqicm0v

Viewer Demo:

http://depositfiles.com/files/wptwvs4xt

nb. demos I don't have yet:

Light Map Demo:

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/317544lights.jpg

High Performance Demo:

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/452680hiperf.jpg

Skinning Demo:

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/712099skin.jpg

Image Viewer:

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/492386imgview.jpg

nb. demos were for previous generations of Voodoo hardware from 1 to 5 but perhaps they can work with the Rampy.

Regards,
Trevor.

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #395 - 07.07.13 at 20:08:59 thanks ! its possible, to put all of them in only one zip file ?
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #396 - 07.07.13 at 20:23:04 m14radu wrote on 07.07.13 at 20:08:59: thanks ! its possible, to put all of them in only one zip file ? Sure, Five Demos: http://depositfiles.com/files/gno9quie2
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Reply #397 - 07.07.13 at 21:07:19

trevormacro wrote on 07.07.13 at 16:25:40:

@gdonovan:

Hi Gary,

An Ex 3dfx software engineer give me some demos he created when he worked in the company.
He used to write graphics demos to show off the 3dfx capabilities when he worked at 3dfx, about 15 years ago. So , you might be able to run these demos with your rampy perhaps.
Donut Demo, Surf Demo, Displacement Map Demo, Light Map Demo, Water Demo, Viewer Demo, High Performance Demo, Skinning Demo and Image Viewer.

Do you want them?

I grabbed them, will scope them out.

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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #399 - 08.07.13 at 10:58:09 gdonovan wrote on 08.07.13 at 10:53:44: Sorry, these are applications that require glide3 According to him, It was interesting to see them running on a modern PC with nGlide: http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide Perhaps it will work.
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Reply #400 - 08.07.13 at 11:23:09

trevormacro wrote on 08.07.13 at 10:58:09:

gdonovan wrote on 08.07.13 at 10:53:44:

Sorry, these are applications that require glide3

According to him,

It was interesting to see them running on a modern PC with nGlide:
http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide

Perhaps it will work.

Works fine on a 4500, don't see a reason to try and run them with a wrapper with Rampage.

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Reply #401 - 09.07.13 at 00:46:52

trevormacro wrote on 08.07.13 at 10:58:09:

gdonovan wrote on 08.07.13 at 10:53:44:

Sorry, these are applications that require glide3

According to him,

It was interesting to see them running on a modern PC with nGlide:
http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide

Perhaps it will work.

nglide requires a DX9 video card and Windows 2000, WinXP or Windows 7.

That would explain why it does not work! I finally read the "readme" file. Tongue

On another note a tried the jumpers on the board today with one exception no changes were noted. Jumper P6 will cause a black screen on boot up (no vga) tried twice to make sure.

All the rest no changes were noted. The machine would boot up normal, 3dfx tools showed no change in ram size or clockspeed, DX tools still reports 13.5 megs of video ram, all three Directx cube tests run fine and 3DMARK99 indicates 938k of video ram.

With the 3DMARK99 pro individual tests I was unable to get any of them to run aside from the CPU test.

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Reply #402 - 10.07.13 at 03:05:47

For fun tonight, I dusted off a spare HD and installed WinME. Well I tried to install anyways, my disc went bad! Since I have a valid key, I found a replacement copy via the intertubes Wink

No change. The blue screens of death are slightly different but show a crash at the same address. Quake3 ran a tad longer than usual but I only ran one demo.

Oscar needs to get his board up and running so we can compare notes.

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Reply #403 - 13.07.13 at 11:40:05

Update on motherboard and operating systems.

Abit KT7A socket A (KT-133A) is a no go for proper operation. The board will install no problem and even run the DX diag with no issues but for most other 3D rendering will crash in a few seconds.

Also I found the drivers and Rampage perfer Win98SE over WinMe. I was running the Final Reality benchmark on the VA6 platform under Winme and noted it crashed early on. I was able to repete this 3 times at the same location of the test. Swapping the hard drive and going back to Win98SE and it runs far longer into the test.

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Loeschzwerg Senior Member Offline AAlchemy PSU maker :-) Posts: 396 Germany -> Bavaria -> Augsburg Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #404 - 14.07.13 at 17:47:13 @Gary: If you find some time you could use my small color test for measuring the dongle output. http://www29.zippyshare.com/v/41453492/file.html A very very simple color test (red, green, blue and yellow) in 13h VGA mode. Written in assembler.
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