rec.autos.simulators

by **Goy Larse** » Tue, 19 Feb 2002 05:08:46

> "JD" <
> > Those who followed the fortunes of IBM, Apple and Commodore during
> > the 80s will, I'm sure, recognize this pattern.
> ssshhh I still miss my Amiga....hehehe
> dave henrie

As usual I went against the majority and bought an Atari ST...:-)

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by **Bill Yowel** » Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:52:49

Wrong. Yes the readme says that, but if you spend $7.95 for the Metabyte Wicked
GL drivers and copy the Opengl32.dll file into the MOHAA file, it will run just
fine. At least it does on my PIII 550.

Don't know why the readme says that; it's misleading a lot of folks.

Bill Yowell

> > Who says I'm playing Medal of Honor? So far every game I have runs fine
> > including newer titles such as Rogue Spear-Black Thorn, Ghost Recon and
> Sub
> > Command. Not to mention all my flight sims look and work just fine.
> > --
> > Chris L

> I never said you were personally playing it - I just pointed out that the
> voodoo series are unable to display the game correctly - and it is a current
> game.

by **mbeave** » Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:45:32

I don't know. The demo seemed to run fine on my voodoo5.

by **Chris Townsen** » Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:49:07

Remembering the stern warning in MSCFS2 about 3DFX vidcards which run that
sim quite well.

> I don't know. The demo seemed to run fine on my voodoo5.

> > Wrong. Yes the readme says that, but if you spend $7.95 for the Metabyte
> Wicked
> > GL drivers and copy the Opengl32.dll file into the MOHAA file, it will
run
> just
> > fine. At least it does on my PIII 550.

> > Don't know why the readme says that; it's misleading a lot of folks.

> > Bill Yowell

by **Heckler 2oo** » Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:39:00

> > Nope, Haven't gone to the dark side. In fact just bought a 5500 a few
> months
> > ago. I wanted features I could use today, not features that might be
used
> > tomorrow. got a great price too!

> > --
> > Chris L

> As in a voodoo 5 5500? According to the medal of honour read-me - none of
> the voodoo series can render the visuals in that game properly....

The fix for that game is very simple, so simple in fact that EA could easily
have implemented it in the game with a few minutes extra work. All you have
to do is take the wicked3D gl .dll and add an extension to the shortcut to
run the game using the opengl32.dll. Problem solved, all movies play and all
graphical erros solved.

There is a thriving community creating drivers for the Voodoo cards still,
including the X3DFX guys, and the cards will be around for some years to
come. There isn't a card on the market yet that can do FSAA better than hte
V5... When the GF4 hits the streets we may see some competition, but the GF4
is going to be using 3DFX designs and tech....

Heckler

by **Heckler 2oo** » Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:44:00

> > "JD" <
> > > Those who followed the fortunes of IBM, Apple and Commodore during
> > > the 80s will, I'm sure, recognize this pattern.
> > ssshhh I still miss my Amiga....hehehe
> > dave henrie

> As usual I went against the majority and bought an Atari ST...:-)

I have 2 Amigas and 1 ST in the cupboard complete with monitors, printers,
scanner and boxes of games.... I don't know whether to hang onto them until
they become antiques or flog them for a few quid to makes some space.

Heckler

by **Eldre** » Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:01:50

writes:

Nope, and don't *plan* on contributing in the future...

Eldred
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by **Stephen F** » Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:22:35

> writes:

> >did you contribute to this 129 % ???

> Nope, and don't *plan* on contributing in the future...

Well, I certainly did. Nvidia has provided me with a notebook which gives
me substantially better framerates and beautiful visuals in GPL and F1-2001
than the current ATI chips. Nobody else is even a player in the notebook
market. OK, notebook simmers are a minority, but my hat's off to Nvidia for
this one.

Stephen

by **Don Burnett** » Wed, 20 Feb 2002 02:45:12

> writes:

> >did you contribute to this 129 % ???

> Nope, and don't *plan* on contributing in the future...

> Eldred
> --

Yep, and my dumb ***will probably contribute again when the GF4 comes out.
I'll give em about 3 months to get the drivers stabilized.

Don Burnette

by **Pierre Legra** » Wed, 20 Feb 2002 06:24:45

hehe...Ok Im sorry but thats just malarkey. I have seen it on a GF3
and a Voodoo 5 and my V5 is doing just fine.

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by rb » Thu, 21 Feb 2002 03:20:10

complete st? check at some audio sites.... if you want to sell them....
many garage musicians still use the st as their main sequencing computer for
midi because they swear the timing is still better with it than any newer
computers.

http://sustenance.va.com.au/d/atari.html

http://www.sospubs.co.uk/

by **Dave Henri** » Thu, 21 Feb 2002 05:57:35

"> complete st? check at some audio sites.... if you want to sell them....
I remember the first lan event I saw...a local user group got a bunch of
ST's together at a mall and tried to get a multiplayer going with midi
patches...Us Commodore users just laughed and went back to our serial
patched head to head machines...
ahh the good ol days.
dave henrie

by **John Metco** » Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:32:24

hi stephen

been looking for notebook *** for a looooooong time
I gave up
and Nvidia annouce mobile ***

I am just ahead of the times
:-)

notebook which gives
visuals in GPL and F1-2001
player in the notebook
hat's off to Nvidia for

by **John Metco** » Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:33:47

don

wait another 6mths
till ATI comes up with something to press
the prices down

GF4 4200 is just waiting for that

when the GF4 comes out.