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| Kawaoneechan |
Posted on 21-05-08, 18:20
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Put the bunny back in the box.
 Post: #555 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 109 days Last view: 1 hour |
It's the 80's. Do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Reagan. |
| creaothceann |
Posted on 21-05-09, 00:01 (revision 2)
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 Post: #331 of 449 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 31 days Last view: 2 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Gotta be cheap, programmer comfort be damned. https://www.epanorama.net/documents/joystick/pc_joystick.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A20_line My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10 |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-05-09, 00:14
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Dinosaur
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Also, I remember having read about being internal opposition against the PC inside IBM ranks, as they made their mainframes were their bread and butter back then. Some inside IBM really wanted it to fail, hence some of the questionable engineering decisions on the PC design. Tangential question: How do newest GPUs (without 2D guts at all?) like a $UNLIMITED_MONEY RTX3080Ti deal with DOS-era graphics? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| Kawaoneechan |
Posted on 21-05-09, 00:20
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A bit of a failure
Post: #556 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 109 days Last view: 1 hour |
LGR attempted that, actually. EGA games were miscolored and Duke Nukem 3D was laggy as hell depending on whether you used VESA or plain VGA. |
| creaothceann |
Posted on 21-05-09, 00:24
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Post: #332 of 449 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 31 days Last view: 2 days |
Posted by tomman It's still supported via the BIOS. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61521819/does-modern-pc-video-hardware-support-vga-text-mode-in-hw-or-does-the-bios-emul https://superuser.com/questions/1395914/how-does-the-cpu-communicate-with-the-gpu-before-drivers-are-loaded My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10 |
| funkyass |
Posted on 21-05-09, 01:38
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Post: #191 of 202
Since: 11-01-18 Last post: 445 days Last view: 77 days |
every video card newer than a voodoo2 has built-in vga and vesa support. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-05-09, 03:36
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Custom title here
 Post: #996 of 1151 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by tommanEvery established computer company had a powerful minicomputer or mainframe division that hated PCs. The IBM 5150 PC was actually intentionally developed on the other side of the continent from headquarters to insulate them from sabotage. The 5150 project had very little managerial oversight and a significant amount of freedom. * It is part of why IBM suceeded in launching a useful personal computer where every other established player stumbled. The PC AT, however, was deliberately crippled. It was underclocked to ensure it didn't offer minicomputer levels of performance. *As an aside... one of the few rules they had to abide by was IBM's stringent component reliability standards. This prevented them from building a 68000-based system, as there simply weren't enough 68000s in the world to test them to IBM's standards when the processor decision was being made. Not well, but they're still functional. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 21-05-09, 04:54
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Post: #395 of 426
Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 283 days Last view: 10 days |
Posted by tomman Afaik a lot of VESA modes are no longer supported. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Kawaoneechan |
Posted on 21-05-09, 08:42
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Draco in Hotpants
Post: #557 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 109 days Last view: 1 hour |
Found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS9hiSwL1KY |
| creaothceann |
Posted on 21-05-09, 12:45
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Post: #333 of 449 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 31 days Last view: 2 days |
Posted by Nicholas Steel SciTech Display Doctor to the rescue! My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10 |
