#modex — Public Fediverse posts
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Many beeps later, it turned out the green pin on the GPU was accidentally bridged with the ground pin next to it. A relatively easy fix. Not pretty by any means, but I managed. Card back in the PC, flux and all, and it was stable as well as displaying the right colors! 🙂
It's a bit faster than the #ATI #Mach64 card I had in it before, but by no means super fast. A high quality Quake speed test gave around 72 FPS. I think it was in 640x480.
Also, I read that the ET6000 has issues with #ModeX - a tweaked version of the standard mode 0x13 that offered a slightly higher resolution of 320x240 pixels in 256 colors with some improvements to addressing, if I'm not mistaken. A few games used this, but also quite a lot of demos of the time.
Anyway, bottom line: purchased a €160 vintage graphics card for €25 and nearly shot myself in my foot repairing it! Everything worked out in the end though! 🙂
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Many beeps later, it turned out the green pin on the GPU was accidentally bridged with the ground pin next to it. A relatively easy fix. Not pretty by any means, but I managed. Card back in the PC, flux and all, and it was stable as well as displaying the right colors! 🙂
It's a bit faster than the #ATI #Mach64 card I had in it before, but by no means super fast. A high quality Quake speed test gave around 72 FPS. I think it was in 640x480.
Also, I read that the ET6000 has issues with #ModeX - a tweaked version of the standard mode 0x13 that offered a slightly higher resolution of 320x240 pixels in 256 colors with some improvements to addressing, if I'm not mistaken. A few games used this, but also quite a lot of demos of the time.
Anyway, bottom line: purchased a €160 vintage graphics card for €25 and nearly shot myself in my foot repairing it! Everything worked out in the end though! 🙂
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Many beeps later, it turned out the green pin on the GPU was accidentally bridged with the ground pin next to it. A relatively easy fix. Not pretty by any means, but I managed. Card back in the PC, flux and all, and it was stable as well as displaying the right colors! 🙂
It's a bit faster than the #ATI #Mach64 card I had in it before, but by no means super fast. A high quality Quake speed test gave around 72 FPS. I think it was in 640x480.
Also, I read that the ET6000 has issues with #ModeX - a tweaked version of the standard mode 0x13 that offered a slightly higher resolution of 320x240 pixels in 256 colors with some improvements to addressing, if I'm not mistaken. A few games used this, but also quite a lot of demos of the time.
Anyway, bottom line: purchased a €160 vintage graphics card for €25 and nearly shot myself in my foot repairing it! Everything worked out in the end though! 🙂
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Many beeps later, it turned out the green pin on the GPU was accidentally bridged with the ground pin next to it. A relatively easy fix. Not pretty by any means, but I managed. Card back in the PC, flux and all, and it was stable as well as displaying the right colors! 🙂
It's a bit faster than the #ATI #Mach64 card I had in it before, but by no means super fast. A high quality Quake speed test gave around 72 FPS. I think it was in 640x480.
Also, I read that the ET6000 has issues with #ModeX - a tweaked version of the standard mode 0x13 that offered a slightly higher resolution of 320x240 pixels in 256 colors with some improvements to addressing, if I'm not mistaken. A few games used this, but also quite a lot of demos of the time.
Anyway, bottom line: purchased a €160 vintage graphics card for €25 and nearly shot myself in my foot repairing it! Everything worked out in the end though! 🙂
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Many beeps later, it turned out the green pin on the GPU was accidentally bridged with the ground pin next to it. A relatively easy fix. Not pretty by any means, but I managed. Card back in the PC, flux and all, and it was stable as well as displaying the right colors! 🙂
It's a bit faster than the #ATI #Mach64 card I had in it before, but by no means super fast. A high quality Quake speed test gave around 72 FPS. I think it was in 640x480.
Also, I read that the ET6000 has issues with #ModeX - a tweaked version of the standard mode 0x13 that offered a slightly higher resolution of 320x240 pixels in 256 colors with some improvements to addressing, if I'm not mistaken. A few games used this, but also quite a lot of demos of the time.
Anyway, bottom line: purchased a €160 vintage graphics card for €25 and nearly shot myself in my foot repairing it! Everything worked out in the end though! 🙂
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A "Back In My Day" for all you #programming whipper-snappers ;)
In the days of yore before #OpenGL, even performing the most trivial tasks at any decent pace involved herculean feats. I give you:
-=Drawing A Line=-
First of all, OF COURSE you needed to write your own routine (with some exceptions, see later). We'll ignore everything about getting the #VGA card into #ModeX, a series of graphics modes which ***aren't even supposed to exist***, and just focus on blitting the line.
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A "Back In My Day" for all you #programming whipper-snappers ;)
In the days of yore before #OpenGL, even performing the most trivial tasks at any decent pace involved herculean feats. I give you:
-=Drawing A Line=-
First of all, OF COURSE you needed to write your own routine (with some exceptions, see later). We'll ignore everything about getting the #VGA card into #ModeX, a series of graphics modes which ***aren't even supposed to exist***, and just focus on blitting the line.
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A "Back In My Day" for all you #programming whipper-snappers ;)
In the days of yore before #OpenGL, even performing the most trivial tasks at any decent pace involved herculean feats. I give you:
-=Drawing A Line=-
First of all, OF COURSE you needed to write your own routine (with some exceptions, see later). We'll ignore everything about getting the #VGA card into #ModeX, a series of graphics modes which ***aren't even supposed to exist***, and just focus on blitting the line.
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A "Back In My Day" for all you #programming whipper-snappers ;)
In the days of yore before #OpenGL, even performing the most trivial tasks at any decent pace involved herculean feats. I give you:
-=Drawing A Line=-
First of all, OF COURSE you needed to write your own routine (with some exceptions, see later). We'll ignore everything about getting the #VGA card into #ModeX, a series of graphics modes which ***aren't even supposed to exist***, and just focus on blitting the line.
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A "Back In My Day" for all you #programming whipper-snappers ;)
In the days of yore before #OpenGL, even performing the most trivial tasks at any decent pace involved herculean feats. I give you:
-=Drawing A Line=-
First of all, OF COURSE you needed to write your own routine (with some exceptions, see later). We'll ignore everything about getting the #VGA card into #ModeX, a series of graphics modes which ***aren't even supposed to exist***, and just focus on blitting the line.
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Another broken Lizard world...
#ModeX #DOS #LizardNES -
With just the sprites converted to the new format this looks pretty wild. ;)
#ModeX #DOS #LizardNES
