A single-chip solution, the Banshee was essentially a legacy VGA core combined with a higher clocked but incomplete (only one Texture Mapping Unit) Voodoo2. The Banshee's single-chip form factor dictated a 128-bit memory bus, like the first Voodoo.
IT WAS A VOODOO2 WITH 2D ADDED ON, LIKE I SAID. It may have been missing one TMU BUT IT WAS STILL A FUCKING VOODOO2.
I still have the card sitting in an anti-static bag somewhere. I pull it out when geeks come over and we nostalgia about it a lot, especially on games like C&C Renegade and Quake II.
UniVBE was CPU-based. That's why your performance increased. I did Duke on my 133 PentiumMMX using UniVBE instead of the local video card for gaming. Much much better perfomance. Sucked if you tried it on a 90MHz machine but once you hit the 133MHz range Duke ran like a king at 800x600.
Actually the graphics for TF2 could have been done ever since the release of the GeForce 6 series of cards. I point you to.kkreiger , which comparatively (for only 64k of code) looks pretty comparable to TF2.
BTW anything using the Source Engine (TF2) can scale down to run on much older hardware. HL2 ran just fine on a GeForce 2 MX when I first played it, of course only at 640x480 but it certainly looked good and ran well.
MeTaL Drivers for the S3D ViRGE GX2 AND Savage cards. The S3D ViRGEGX2 was an AGP card that used MeTaL. I used it for UT'99 and UT'99 recognized it as a MeTaL device.
As a former tech that specialized in the repair of the DV9000 series of HP laptop, I can tell you firsthand it's the bullshit thermal pads they use on their internal heatpipe. Remove your logic board from the laptop, and replace all thermal pads (should be three) with a real thermal compound, like arctic silver. You will never have an overheating problem again. Those pads are just absolute garbage.
With the way portable devices are becoming ultra low-powered, who needs high energy density? With the improvements of PV tech, we can build laptops right now that don't require batteries at all. If we took some of yesteryear's tech (say a P3 and PC-133 SDRAM, and maybe a GeForce 4) and gave it a modern update (45nm or smaller manufacturing process, pipeline resizing, etc) you would have a very decent, low-powered system that might be able to run entirely off of solar. Eliminate all moving parts (use SSD drives and drop the optical drive) and use LED backlit display.
The 'MeTaL' acceleration was bullshit. On UT99 I think the software renderer looked about the exact same as the MeTaL. When I popped in a 12 meg Voodoo2, I promptly tore the S3 board apart and threw it away, and popped in a Matrox Millenium MGA card for 2D stuff.
Here's why you're proven to be a money-hatted site.
Advertising bandwidth versus actual article content bandwidth. Your advertising uses up about 2500% more bandwidth than the actual article content.
You care more about advertising than you do about content. That's why you split everything up into so many pages that I could have done in less than two, single-spaced, 20 point font.
They just guaranteed that I won't touch their products ever again. Tabbed browsing is the answer to the stupidity of Windows' "Group similar taskbar buttons" and other applications like Pidgin are implementing tabbed windows.
I passed physics and Hort. Sci. while daydreaming the entire time. I didn't even do the homework. Hell I ended up teaching the Hort. Sci class the next year when the teacher got sick and there was no substitute.
Well, some of us *DO* pay for a guaranteed level of service. It's called a service contract, maybe you should look into them.
And as a quick afterthought to those who say "Doing anything critical or having critical information on a beta version of an OS is stupid," Just how the fuck else are you going to test for reliability? Even garbage data generated for the purposes of database testing is critical data, and it's required to test how some of your stuff may or may not work under a new OS. Any test is a critical one. How do I ascertain reliability if I can't put some data on it and see if it actually will stay there untouched and undamaged?
I seriously think some of you people look at black and white only and never see the grey middle.
"But if you know how to get that REM while awake instead, I'm listening."
Transcendental meditation? Usually works just fine for me. Daydreaming hard enough will drop you into REM, I've done that many times in high school. The teachers thought I wasn't paying attention but I certainly passed those classes without any issues.
"it would be unfair to expect Google to shoulder this cost."
Then Google shouldn't have gotten into this business in the first place. If Google cannot afford to bear the costs of their own projects then maybe they need a better staff that can do cost-risk analysis and come to better decisions than what they are already making.
I'd be more than happy to be on-call if it were to do something other than help some poor lazy management head get their fucking quota.
Quotas are the bane of productivity. You may think otherwise but most any employee at that level will flat-out laugh in your face if you say otherwise.
"And, before you go on your "killing spree" please consider that these CEOs of these corporations are NOT responsible for what you are going through."
That is not entirely correct. I tried for a job at Rite-Aid - but as a Medical Marijuana user they won't hire me. Well, go figure they were one of the companies that begged/bribed the supreme court to make it where they didn't have to abide by a doctor's prescription if they didn't want to. Their lawyers even called me up to specifically tell me that after I had complained to their HR department.
So laying the blame on those companies seems pretty justified to me.
"You do NOT have the right to be their prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner."
When they've already bought the laws that effectively allow them to act as such, any and all action taken against them is fair and deserved. I am defending myself by any means necessary after all in light of the government's refusal to work for the people as they were conscripted to do.
"You think money doesn't kill? Try looking at a newspaper."
Why point at them when we have false journals being published by Merck and Elsevier to use as perfect examples of how entrenched corporatism is in our laws?
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I've been saying for the past decade "How nice it would be to have a BIOS that could just let you run two Operating Systems at the same time and let you switch between them seamlessly, an OS KVM SWITCH! Hey with this multi-core DEC Alpha I bet it could be done! I could run NT 4.0 and Slackware at the same time!"
Simply make an e-mail whitelist for that network. It's not that hard. Deny all external emails except for external authorized users (IE They're logged into the network thru a VPN or something) and basically deny any email outside of defined IP addresses. That should cut about 90% of your problem.
Wanna kill the other 10%? Get your network offline and keep it to internal usage only.
Turn in your geek card and GTFO. If you don't have a mountain of BAWLS bottles, McD's fry containers, and opened/unopened ketchup packets on your desk you don't belong here.
Not everything is as cut and dry as you make it sound.
I'm having problems finding work because of a drunk shithead that crushed the right side of my body back in 2007. Most companies that would hire me require the ability to lift 50 pounds, I'm on restriction to 20. I can't even get a job doing laptop repair because they need a minimum 25 pounds.
Let's not even get into the fact I'm a medical marijuana user with a card - Asshole Federal Judges in Asshole Federal Courts decided that companies apparently know more than a fucking doctor and don't have to hire people that have legit medical uses for pot, backed by a doctor's recommendation, when they fail that mandatory drug test. Yet someone loaded up on Xanax and Oxycontin can show their prescriptions and get hired.
Not everybody is homeless by choice and inaction. Some are close to being forced into homelessness because of the laws and court cases bought out by corporate lobbyists and lawyers.
And honestly, if I'm forced into homelessness due to this crap, I'm going to start a killing spree. Starting with the CEOs of every corporation I can get to. I'll take the three hots and a cot that will be provided to me, as payment for the service I perform to the public. I won't even consider it as a punishment. Survival is first priority.
We cause a Distributed Denial of ca$h attack. We start writing drafts and bills to put before our representatives to be voted upon. We start sucking away the money that these companies have by forcing them to lobby against the bills. We flood the system with bills designed to label these companies as dangerous to American Ideals of Freedom and force them to be removed. They'll have to pay out the nose to get these bills struck down, and quite quickly they will run out of money.
And they will get the point when we start calling for their heads or their exile in our submitted bills.
Apparently you've NEVER OWNED VINYL, otherwise you'd be able to equate static on a cell line with static in a VoIP call to a land line. Yes, there is static and popping/repeating, kinda like a vinyl with a groove across a couple of tracks will do. VoIP + weak signal = lag, pops, repeats, and static. Vinyl does all but one of those four things.
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A single-chip solution, the Banshee was essentially a legacy VGA core combined with a higher clocked but incomplete (only one Texture Mapping Unit) Voodoo2. The Banshee's single-chip form factor dictated a 128-bit memory bus, like the first Voodoo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3dfx#Voodoo_Banshee
IT WAS A VOODOO2 WITH 2D ADDED ON, LIKE I SAID. It may have been missing one TMU BUT IT WAS STILL A FUCKING VOODOO2.
I still have the card sitting in an anti-static bag somewhere. I pull it out when geeks come over and we nostalgia about it a lot, especially on games like C&C Renegade and Quake II.
The Voodoo Banshee was a Voodoo2 with a 2D chip added on. It did come in AGP flavor. And mine certainly wasn't made by Obsidian.
UniVBE was CPU-based. That's why your performance increased. I did Duke on my 133 PentiumMMX using UniVBE instead of the local video card for gaming. Much much better perfomance. Sucked if you tried it on a 90MHz machine but once you hit the 133MHz range Duke ran like a king at 800x600.
Actually the graphics for TF2 could have been done ever since the release of the GeForce 6 series of cards. I point you to .kkreiger , which comparatively (for only 64k of code) looks pretty comparable to TF2.
BTW anything using the Source Engine (TF2) can scale down to run on much older hardware. HL2 ran just fine on a GeForce 2 MX when I first played it, of course only at 640x480 but it certainly looked good and ran well.
UniVBE was CPU-based, though. No wonder it crawled on your 386.
Umm.
http://www.savagenews.com/drivers/s3/s3metal.php
MeTaL Drivers for the S3D ViRGE GX2 AND Savage cards. The S3D ViRGEGX2 was an AGP card that used MeTaL. I used it for UT'99 and UT'99 recognized it as a MeTaL device.
S3 Virge, not regular Virge. There was a difference. S3 Virge used MeTaL. Regular Virge/VX/DX/Trio3D did not use metal. S3Virge cards did.
As a former tech that specialized in the repair of the DV9000 series of HP laptop, I can tell you firsthand it's the bullshit thermal pads they use on their internal heatpipe. Remove your logic board from the laptop, and replace all thermal pads (should be three) with a real thermal compound, like arctic silver. You will never have an overheating problem again. Those pads are just absolute garbage.
With the way portable devices are becoming ultra low-powered, who needs high energy density? With the improvements of PV tech, we can build laptops right now that don't require batteries at all. If we took some of yesteryear's tech (say a P3 and PC-133 SDRAM, and maybe a GeForce 4) and gave it a modern update (45nm or smaller manufacturing process, pipeline resizing, etc) you would have a very decent, low-powered system that might be able to run entirely off of solar. Eliminate all moving parts (use SSD drives and drop the optical drive) and use LED backlit display.
The 'MeTaL' acceleration was bullshit. On UT99 I think the software renderer looked about the exact same as the MeTaL. When I popped in a 12 meg Voodoo2, I promptly tore the S3 board apart and threw it away, and popped in a Matrox Millenium MGA card for 2D stuff.
Here's why you're proven to be a money-hatted site.
Advertising bandwidth versus actual article content bandwidth. Your advertising uses up about 2500% more bandwidth than the actual article content.
You care more about advertising than you do about content. That's why you split everything up into so many pages that I could have done in less than two, single-spaced, 20 point font.
They just guaranteed that I won't touch their products ever again. Tabbed browsing is the answer to the stupidity of Windows' "Group similar taskbar buttons" and other applications like Pidgin are implementing tabbed windows.
I passed physics and Hort. Sci. while daydreaming the entire time. I didn't even do the homework. Hell I ended up teaching the Hort. Sci class the next year when the teacher got sick and there was no substitute.
Well, some of us *DO* pay for a guaranteed level of service. It's called a service contract, maybe you should look into them.
And as a quick afterthought to those who say "Doing anything critical or having critical information on a beta version of an OS is stupid," Just how the fuck else are you going to test for reliability? Even garbage data generated for the purposes of database testing is critical data, and it's required to test how some of your stuff may or may not work under a new OS. Any test is a critical one. How do I ascertain reliability if I can't put some data on it and see if it actually will stay there untouched and undamaged?
I seriously think some of you people look at black and white only and never see the grey middle.
"But if you know how to get that REM while awake instead, I'm listening."
Transcendental meditation? Usually works just fine for me. Daydreaming hard enough will drop you into REM, I've done that many times in high school. The teachers thought I wasn't paying attention but I certainly passed those classes without any issues.
"it would be unfair to expect Google to shoulder this cost."
Then Google shouldn't have gotten into this business in the first place. If Google cannot afford to bear the costs of their own projects then maybe they need a better staff that can do cost-risk analysis and come to better decisions than what they are already making.
I'd be more than happy to be on-call if it were to do something other than help some poor lazy management head get their fucking quota.
Quotas are the bane of productivity. You may think otherwise but most any employee at that level will flat-out laugh in your face if you say otherwise.
"And, before you go on your "killing spree" please consider that these CEOs of these corporations are NOT responsible for what you are going through."
That is not entirely correct. I tried for a job at Rite-Aid - but as a Medical Marijuana user they won't hire me. Well, go figure they were one of the companies that begged/bribed the supreme court to make it where they didn't have to abide by a doctor's prescription if they didn't want to. Their lawyers even called me up to specifically tell me that after I had complained to their HR department.
So laying the blame on those companies seems pretty justified to me.
"You do NOT have the right to be their prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner."
When they've already bought the laws that effectively allow them to act as such, any and all action taken against them is fair and deserved. I am defending myself by any means necessary after all in light of the government's refusal to work for the people as they were conscripted to do.
"You think money doesn't kill? Try looking at a newspaper."
Why point at them when we have false journals being published by Merck and Elsevier to use as perfect examples of how entrenched corporatism is in our laws?
I've been saying for the past decade "How nice it would be to have a BIOS that could just let you run two Operating Systems at the same time and let you switch between them seamlessly, an OS KVM SWITCH! Hey with this multi-core DEC Alpha I bet it could be done! I could run NT 4.0 and Slackware at the same time!"
Can we say 'Late to the game?"
Simply make an e-mail whitelist for that network. It's not that hard. Deny all external emails except for external authorized users (IE They're logged into the network thru a VPN or something) and basically deny any email outside of defined IP addresses. That should cut about 90% of your problem.
Wanna kill the other 10%? Get your network offline and keep it to internal usage only.
Turn in your geek card and GTFO. If you don't have a mountain of BAWLS bottles, McD's fry containers, and opened/unopened ketchup packets on your desk you don't belong here.
Oh, and you must be new here.
Not everything is as cut and dry as you make it sound.
I'm having problems finding work because of a drunk shithead that crushed the right side of my body back in 2007. Most companies that would hire me require the ability to lift 50 pounds, I'm on restriction to 20. I can't even get a job doing laptop repair because they need a minimum 25 pounds.
Let's not even get into the fact I'm a medical marijuana user with a card - Asshole Federal Judges in Asshole Federal Courts decided that companies apparently know more than a fucking doctor and don't have to hire people that have legit medical uses for pot, backed by a doctor's recommendation, when they fail that mandatory drug test. Yet someone loaded up on Xanax and Oxycontin can show their prescriptions and get hired.
Not everybody is homeless by choice and inaction. Some are close to being forced into homelessness because of the laws and court cases bought out by corporate lobbyists and lawyers.
And honestly, if I'm forced into homelessness due to this crap, I'm going to start a killing spree. Starting with the CEOs of every corporation I can get to. I'll take the three hots and a cot that will be provided to me, as payment for the service I perform to the public. I won't even consider it as a punishment. Survival is first priority.
I have a solution, inspired by TPB's recent idea.
We cause a Distributed Denial of ca$h attack. We start writing drafts and bills to put before our representatives to be voted upon. We start sucking away the money that these companies have by forcing them to lobby against the bills. We flood the system with bills designed to label these companies as dangerous to American Ideals of Freedom and force them to be removed. They'll have to pay out the nose to get these bills struck down, and quite quickly they will run out of money.
And they will get the point when we start calling for their heads or their exile in our submitted bills.
Apparently you've NEVER OWNED VINYL, otherwise you'd be able to equate static on a cell line with static in a VoIP call to a land line. Yes, there is static and popping/repeating, kinda like a vinyl with a groove across a couple of tracks will do. VoIP + weak signal = lag, pops, repeats, and static. Vinyl does all but one of those four things.