Setting up a stereo 3d game system - i-glasses - old man needs help please

[zarneewoop]

Hi,
In a kind of sad and desperate attempt to one up the kids with there flash PCs and games I was hoping to cobble together something cool.

What started this off wasn't the kids laughing at the old 386 laptop i used to use as a main machine (and most of my current hardware) but digging through my old stuff and found a forgotten about pair of i-glasses.

Ive a few old machines about P2 and P3 around 400mhz one with a TNT and another with a voodoo, others with ati 3d rage pro's.

I believe most of the games that will run with these glasses are old so the above machines should have enough power but what should i look out for as I'm sure there will be problems with graphics and sound compatibility with these newer cards.
Are there any particular cards to look out for?

Are there any newer games that have some kind of stereo output that may work with these old glasses? (really would P*** the kids off if I could get warcraft in 3d if anyone has any idea?)

finding a working msdos5 install is proving to be interesting... :)

so any ideas, suggestions, hints, tips, tricks, recommendations would be gratefully received and if anyone has for sale old games/software/hardware that would be useful and compatible.

I just bought doom trilogy, comanche3, terminal velocity and shattered steel. have madspace but there is a corrupt file on the disk.

I plan on going out taking some 3D photographs and maybe video to view on the system

Many thanks
Jay

[Chylde Roland]

Wow... never even heard of those things before, I wouldn't have the dlightest idea of where to start... have you tried googling the glasses, to see if anything helpful turns up? That's about the best help I can give, maybe one of our other members knows something...

[Kalbrecht]

These guys?

http://www.i-glassesstore.com/

Have a check out in their Help section. Can't say much more than that, sorry! I didn't think these guys were still around, to be honest.

edit: gaming wise they seem to be nVidia certified, so a nVidia based card could be the best bet. To be honest, you won't need a top range one, since these things don't need a very big output resolution.

[Karlsweldt]

I would forget about any true DOS-based setups. With pure MS-DOS, the memory is limited to 64 Mb recognized.. and that is with the 6.22 version. Any version prior to that will be less useful. And you are still limited to 2.4 Gb max hdd partition size!
Best bet would be to have a Win 95 or Win 98 setup, which can utilize 128 Mb or higher memory, and would still have the true command-prompt feature.. plus recognize up to 20 Gb hdd size, if the system's BIOS can utilize it. A BIOS flash update may be required. Very difficult to find a good hdd of less than 20 Gb today!! Most sound cards and video cards will default to a command-prompt mode, if the drivers are compatible. But otherwise for true DOS setups, no drivers can be easily found. www.driverguide.com/ may have some, but not much in the 'legacy' category. Every bit of programming in use for the past 10 years has been rooted in the Windows OS shell.
You may be able to find some newer drivers for those glasses, which work well. Doubtful they would work with another model of video card. A lot of older programming could utilize the Vesa video extensions. Most programming will have default stereo sound files, or mono sound. Most sound cards will not drive speakers directly.. they need amplified speaker setups.. but will provide adequate sound through headphones.
And most older programming had an internal "setup" file which must be run to manually configure the devices used.

I have an older Slot 1 P III 600 setup which I maintain for my old "faves" running Win 98. That was the 'last of the breed' to have a true command-prompt mode. A lot of older games don't perform well if at all, at a bus speed higher than 66 Mhz. Any sound card of the ISA type should work well.. if you can find the drivers, and it is PnP compatible.

Sorry for long post.. hope it was helpful.