Re: FireGL 2 Graphics Accelerator card
 

That's an awesome card for 3D work, but as you mention there's no 16-bit support. I remember when 16-bit started to be introduced. That was back in those dark days when I used a Macintosh IIfx.

I don't know Jim's plans on going mainstream with DirectX 8, as he'd have to leave Windows 95/98/ME users with 99L or 1.0 (or maintain both codebases).

why wouldn't the DX8 version work on Win9x?
 

>I don't know Jim's plans on going mainstream with DirectX 8, >as he'd have to leave Windows 95/98/ME users with 99L or >1.0 (or maintain both codebases).

Why shouldn't a DirectX8 Aquarium version work with Win9x? Most DX8 programs work just as well on Win9x systems with DirectX8 installed..

Re: why wouldn't the DX8 version work on Win9x?
 

Please read the FAQ Answer about this:

www.feldoncentral.com/Sac...M#Updates6

Re: why wouldn't the DX8 version work on Win9x?
 

Thanks for the link to your informative faq, and apologies for not having read this before posting :-)

Re: why wouldn't the DX8 version work on Win9x?
 

I'm glad I wrote that FAQ. Now I get to use it as a slegehammer over people's heads.

Just kidding. I think it's definately helping. Only 2-3 "Where's 1.0?" posts a week instead of a dozen. :) :)

Amd "irongate"
 

This is of topic, but can anyone tell me what is irongate chipset for Athlon?

in my pc i have 500 MHz athlon and motherbord supports up to 750 Mhz so i found on ebay 750 Mhz thunderbird for couple of bucks. But the guy says it need "irongate" chipset for it. I send same question to him but he haven't reply yet and auction will close soon. If anyone can provide any info i'll be very greatfull.

Re: AMD "Irongate"
 

The "Irongate" is another name for the 750/751 chipset. This is an early chipset for the Athlon and should use Socket A instead of Slot A. Perhaps this is what the guy means - that you can't hook it up with a Slot A processor. As far as I know, your 500 MHz is a Socket A CPU and should work out just fine, but please don't hold me responsible if it for some reason shouldn't work out...

Try a search over at
Google with some suitable phrases. That should give you some additional information...

/Tiny

VGA to BNC converter
 

Feeling a bit Off Topic myself tonight, so here goes...

Lots of people here ask about running the SS on multiple monitors. I'd like to do the opposite (!) and hook up two computers to the same monitor.

On my desk I keep a 19" Nokia Multigraph 446Xpro with both VGA (D-SUB) and BNC inputs at the rear and a button on the front to switch between 'em. Does anyone know if it's possible for me to find a VGA to BNC converter so I can hook up two PC's with VGA output to it?

/Tiny

Actually you don't really need a VGA to BNC converter if all you want to do is use the same monitor and switch between computers. I'm on such a setup right now. Just buy a Belkin switch box -- it has two VGA inputs and one VGA output to the monitor, and an A/B switch. Simple. Costs about $10.

They also make ones that switch not only the monitor but also the mouse and keyboard, so you can save desktop space. That's what I have, to switch between my Win2000 and Win98 systems.

Check it out:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSecti...s?Section_Id=5

3D glasses
 

Is anyone out there successfully using 3D shutter glasses with Win2000? If so, what drivers are you using?

I still havent found Win2K/XP drivers
 

Ever since I upgrade to XP, I haven't found any Win2k drivers that work with my 3D shutter glasses.

I hope that it is posssible to makes drivers for those particular OSes.

When they do, I will walk over the the computer with my grey hair and cane, pull the cob webs off of the computer and glasses and then look at the aquarium in 3D again. But by that time, there will be an aquarium that is a 3D halogram or something. :)

A different sort of hardware woe
 

Has anyone heard of any cases of SereneScreen precipitating RAM failure? Last night my computer started beeping, and apparently the memory failed. I was running SS at the time and the computer (a week-old Dell Dimension 8200) may have been trying to hibernate, where it writes the contents of the RAM to the hard drive and shuts down.

The memory may have just been going to fail anyway and what happened was completely unrelated to the screensaver. But, Dell users may not want to enable hibernation when using SereneScreen!

No, I haven't heard of that problem before.

It turned out it wasn't memory at all - the CPU most likely failed. It obviously wasn't the aquarium's fault!!

I hope I can get it fixed soon so I can look at my fish again.

XP + SB Live! = incredibly LOUD sound
 

I have a SB Live 5.1 card, Windows XP Pro, and the latest SB driver installed (SBLive51XPDrvUpdate.exe). The volume is extremely loud. I have set the volume control slider all the way down to the very first notch and it's at least bearable that way but still sounds like it's on around 5-6 on a scale of 10. If actually DO turn the volume up to 10, I can hear the aquarium bubbles from a couple houses down. :p

As Marvin Gaye once said: "What's going on?"

Have you double-clicked on the volume slider to bring up the sound volume and global sound volume? They are cumulative.

What volume slider(s) are you referring to?

I have a volume control icon in my taskbar. If I double-click on that, I get a "Play Control" window with a master volume control and individual controls for MIDI, CD Audio, etc.

I also have a volume control slider in the Sounds And Audio Devices control panel, under the Volume tab. This is actually the exact same control as the above one; just another way to get to it.

Double-clicking on either of these sliders themselves (rather than actually sliding them up and down) does nothing.

You got those panels open. Did you bring both the master volume and wave (WAV) volume down?

Yeah. Down. Waaaaay down. Down to the bottom notch.

I also discovered something interesting. The volume setting for "Wave/DirectSound" doesn't stick. I can set it to the bottom, then close the Play Control window, and when I bring it back up again, that volume is set up to the top again.

But regardless of that volume setting, the MASTER volume setting needs to be turned almost all the way down to be bearable.

How about the volume slider in the Aquarium settings?