What retro things have you done today?

A few bits and pieces arrived today.

1) Hercules 4000XT (Kyro) PCI, shown here with my other two Kyro cards (4000XT AGP and 4500)

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2) Half Life Generation + Blue Shift

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3) Clone PCBs for making my own PC-Chips M919 cache stick. The new old stock cache chips are already here, I just need to order the passive components now.

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Does anyone know if a usb - PS2 adapter will work on a kvm switch? This microsoft mouse is nice but... The accuracy of the ball is not.
So I tried this with a really old "targus" mouse and it worked fine but was way too fast. So I tried it with my old corsair mouse which had built in dpi switch and that one did not work at all.

Also finally got the Transport tycoon soundtrack up. Took 3 nights in the end as I had to re record it all 3 times and also ended up finding a program that can record in windows 98 itself to eliminate the noise.

 
Yep, that was daft! Never had a B&O TV, but do still have my Beomaster HiFi system.
There was a similar b&o tv on facebook marketplace not long ago, free to collect but was at the other end of the country. Cornwall or somewhere similar i think. Looked in perfect condition and it was described as working but had no remote
 
Got a new lap record on Motoracer, Speed Bay 36.82. Getting hard to beat this now but still fun trying to shave off a few hundreds of a second

I had a go on Alien vs Predator (1999 game) last night, Marine mission and it looks so much better on a CRT in the dark. I compared it against my Acer Predator X34 (IPS Gsync screen) and CRT is definately still the winner for games that are dark / black. In my opinion, LCD was the cop out for advancements in CRT technology, probably because they cost so much more to manufacture / repair / dispose of. Imagine how good a £1000 2021 CRT would be! Who cares if they are big and heavy, its 2021. "big is beautiful!"
 
Got a new lap record on Motoracer, Speed Bay 36.82. Getting hard to beat this now but still fun trying to shave off a few hundreds of a second

I had a go on Alien vs Predator (1999 game) last night, Marine mission and it looks so much better on a CRT in the dark. I compared it against my Acer Predator X34 (IPS Gsync screen) and CRT is definately still the winner for games that are dark / black. In my opinion, LCD was the cop out for advancements in CRT technology, probably because they cost so much more to manufacture / repair / dispose of. Imagine how good a £1000 2021 CRT would be! Who cares if they are big and heavy, its 2021. "big is beautiful!"

OLED is better than CRT is every way, but it took a very long time to get to this point.
 
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OLED is better than CRT is every way, but it took a very ling time to get to this point.
Whats input lag like on OLED?

This is an interest post on Reddit by 'mdrejhon'

Most perceived display motion blur is no longer caused by pixel response, but by pixel visibility time. Your OLED has great response, but even 0ms instant GtG response still creates lots of motion blur due to non-strobed persistence -- creating a long frame visibility time (unlike CRT or strobing or other impulsed/flicker tech)

"1ms GtG" does NOT equal "1ms persistence"

You either need strobing (short frame/refresh visibility time) OR ultra-high refresh rates (short frame/refresh visibility time with no black gaps in between).

Either approach (short frame visibility time) minimizes motion blur caused by the use of a rapid series of static frames to try to represent analog motion. Most OLEDs continuously shine, and that's what creates motion blur caused by insufficient refresh rate (Even 240Hz 0ms GtG is insufficient if it isn't impulsed/strobed/flickered).

Motion clarity of 1ms strobing (1ms persistence/MPRT) would require each frame to be only 1ms each, which requites 1000 of them to avoid the black period of strobing = 1000fps @ 1000Hz non-strobed for CRT-clarity motion blur equivalence to "1ms strobe flash". So, that's why VR headset manufacturers still use OLED strobing at 90Hz for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift -- there's not enough refresh rate available and GPU frame rate available -- to match 2ms persistence WITHOUT strobing. 500fps @ 500Hz needed for 100% strobe-free flicker-free impulse-free "2ms persistence". That's why 60Hz CRT reigns supreme, in literally zero motion blur, thanks to phosphor decay (natural strobing).

As Chief Blur Buster, here's some ideas I've come up to achieve ultra-low-persistence OLED with a much brighter picture. It probably will take quite some time to achieve technologically, however.

Custom OLED Rolling Scans -- including 1000Hz OLED

Hopefully manufacturers will solve this over the long-term.
 
A crt is always going to have less input lag that lcd/led/oled. Also, hasnt there only been one maybe two oled monitors ever made?

There is no reason for OLED to have a bigger input lag as the pixel response time is currently at 0.1ms and will only improve with time.

That 6.7ms on the LG CX comes from the HDCP decoding in the HDMI chain and other processing that the TV does, which won't be necessary on a monitor. It also includes the PC's input latency in the test and not just the monitor's response time.
 
There is no reason for OLED to have a bigger input lag as the pixel response time is currently at 0.1ms and will only improve with time.

That 6.7ms on the LG CX comes from the HDCP decoding in the HDMI chain and other processing that the TV does, which won't be necessary on a monitor. It also includes the PC's input latency in the test and not just the monitor's response time.
How much for an OLED that matches a CRT capable of 160Hz at lower resolutions? This is the retro thread, so i'll throw in VGA capability on OLED too. Not sure how well AGP/PCI/ISA output would be to OLED via a VGA>HDMI (2.1?) adapter
 
How much for an OLED that matches a CRT capable of 160Hz at lower resolutions? This is the retro thread, so i'll throw in VGA capability on OLED too. Not sure how well AGP/PCI/ISA output would be to OLED via a VGA>HDMI (2.1?) adapter

How much for a 55-65” CRT? As you said, “big is beautiful”.

Takings step back though, they both have their place and I’m not here to convince you otherwise, I just have no desire to go back to either LCD or CRT as for me they offer no advantages over OLED.
 
How much for a 55-65” CRT? As you said, “big is beautiful”.

Takings step back though, they both have their place and I’m not here to convince you otherwise, I just have no desire to go back to either LCD or CRT as for me they offer no advantages over OLED.
haha, touché. It looks like CRTs reached almost 50" in the 90s but weighed around 200kg and cost £10k+
I always remember the Meadowhall display rig was like in the mid 90s, it was something like 8 x 6 large CRTs to make one big picture in the middle of the 'Oasis' Good times in Meadowhall Oasis and arcade as a child :)

Yeh, they have their place (in retro) but I do wonder what quality would be like if CRTs made advancements instead of tech moving to LCD
 
Picked up a boxed AWE32 for £45 delivered. Its a CT3990 so it's the final revision of the awe32. I actually wanted this version as it lacks gen OPL3 and I wanted to combine it with some cards with opl3. It also comes with both simm slots populated but I won't know what size simm's until it arrives.
 
My Quadro FX 3000 (Geforce FX 5900 Ultra) arrived in really nice condition. Threw it in my P4 shuttle to test (same rig I did all the previous GPU benchmarks with), and as expected it sits exactly between my Quadro FX 1000 (Geforce FX 5800 equivalent) and the Radeon 9800XXL in 3DMark2001SE.

I’ll do the full suite of tests tomorrow and add them to my comparison list, as well as get the obligatory pictures up!

I need to add the Kyro AGP and PCI cards to the list also!
 
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