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Re: Rampage dongle
Reply #240 - 02.01.13 at 16:24:19

Hi and happy new year for all 3dfx fans.

@Garydonovan:

Did you find a man who can work on the drivers to optimize them?
Nightbird baught the Rampage card + dongle of Sirta many years ago and now nothing from her (no tests, no drivers, ...)
Where is Patiente?
If she doesn't want to test her card she can sell it no?
Perhaps you can contact her to ask please.

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #241 - 05.01.13 at 08:41:00 Michael, do you want to buy another Rampage ? Did you manage to find the drivers and run your 2 cards already ? Please post some screenshots
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Re: Rampage dongle
Reply #242 - 05.01.13 at 14:00:18

m14radu wrote on 05.01.13 at 08:41:00:

Michael, do you want to buy another Rampage ?
Did you manage to find the drivers and run your 2 cards already ?
Please post some screenshots

I don't have the 3dfx rampage card Sad

I would like to have one like all 3dfx fans

I already have the rampage source drivers and it's very hard to have them, take a look:

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #243 - 05.01.13 at 16:14:39 Do you have then 2 daytona ? 32mb or 64 mb version ? make some pictures please
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #244 - 05.01.13 at 17:12:33 m14radu wrote on 05.01.13 at 16:14:39: Do you have then 2 daytona ? 32mb or 64 mb version ? make some pictures please I have two daytonas 32mb yes Pictures later I will creat a topic. Here is the topic of gdonovan for the Rampage.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #245 - 01.06.13 at 11:37:06 Back to work! Had about a 1/2 hour free last night from my labors and set the machine back up. Image quality is still a bit funky but usable. I'll try to compare both Sunday and take some readings. Have a new driver to try out, baby steps..
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G1nX Senior Member Offline Running NSK Guardian Posts: 466 Romania Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #246 - 01.06.13 at 12:24:20 Great to see some updates here Gary. Looking forward to the new driver tests.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #247 - 01.06.13 at 12:50:23 G1nX wrote on 01.06.13 at 12:24:20: Great to see some updates here Gary. Looking forward to the new driver tests. Been VERY busy on home and work related projects, no fun at all.
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Loeschzwerg Senior Member Offline AAlchemy PSU maker :-) Posts: 396 Germany -> Bavaria -> Augsburg Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #248 - 01.06.13 at 19:13:37 I see, there still some room for improvement. Looks like I will have to take a very close look at some data sheets... Maybe Nightbird could do some pics how the original dongle behaves here. New driver sounds great Maybe a short Quake3 session possible now?!
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Re: Rampage dongle
Reply #249 - 01.06.13 at 20:41:21

Loeschzwerg wrote on 01.06.13 at 19:13:37:

I see, there still some room for improvement. Looks like I will have to take a very close look at some data sheets... Maybe Nightbird could do some pics how the original dongle behaves here.

New driver sounds great

Maybe a short Quake3 session possible now?! Cool

I have contacted her asking for assitance, not optimistic on the driver as it looks like the one I have might have been further along... still working on that but have more help now.

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Re: Rampage dongle
Reply #250 - 03.06.13 at 12:16:34

Loeschzwerg wrote on 01.06.13 at 19:13:37:

I see, there still some room for improvement. Looks like I will have to take a very close look at some data sheets... Maybe Nightbird could do some pics how the original dongle behaves here.

New driver sounds great

Maybe a short Quake3 session possible now?! Cool

1) I have attached two new pictures with just the dongle swapped with the camera in the same position. There is some "smearing" of the text that looks odd. I'm waiting to hear back from Patience if this is normal.

2) Currently I'm stuck in driver hell, I can't get out of 16 color mode for some reason. Any attempt to go to either 256 color or 16 bit color causes the machine to lock up when the hourglass shows right before the desktop.

I'm thinking about loading a new hard drive to eliminate any error in the OS. I had it clearly working before and now I'm at a loss why I can't get into 16 bit.

Here is how you load driver (my notes)

1) Start in VGA mode, pick driver, have disk, reboot.

2) Boot into safe mode, go to adapter refresh and change from unknown to adapter default (if you don't do this is sets the refresh at 120 hz) reboot.

At this point you should be at Windows desktop, 640 x 480 16 color.

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Re: Rampage dongle
Reply #251 - 04.06.13 at 20:31:30

Sorry if this has already been addressed; I haven't been following the thread.

What are the dates on the files for your driver? I assume the rampage drivers that I have are super common; dated 12/12/2000 (mostly). I think they're also super minimal -- I don't know if they actually work for 3D acceleration or only just to get a display out. I believe NuAngel posted them initially, years ago, but my memory might be a bit faulty at this point.

If drivers were worked on after that, it'd almost have to be by someone working as a hobby or by the community working after the source, I imagine.

Edit:// Nevermind. Looks like the driver set you have from Rashly is the same as the set that I have. :sad trombone:

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #252 - 04.06.13 at 21:24:08 @trevormacro: did you already sent the driver you have for Rampage to Gary ?
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #253 - 04.06.13 at 21:33:57 m14radu wrote on 04.06.13 at 21:24:08: @trevormacro: did you already sent the driver you have for Rampage to Gary ? It's a sources drivers. Need to be compiled for work with the card. Not the same date as gary's sources. I didn't sent my sources for gary.
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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Rampage dongle Reply #254 - 04.06.13 at 21:43:45 Please send him the source driver you have. What are you waiting for ?
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