A beauty of a card came in the mail today, an Antex SX-9. This is a broadcast grade ISA sound card with balanced outputs and more ICs on it than...well there are a lot of them. I just wanted to show it off. Anybody every played with one of these? This particular one works great; sounds better than …

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote: llamaboy wrote: I have the ugliest graphics card with the ugliest box ever coming in the mail today for my Pentium II build. Diablotek 9800 Pro? Close-ish, 7500. It might just be because I'm not really fond of red PCBs.

Hrmmm... I'd say stick with Windows 98SE because I can't really think of any compatibility you are losing over Windows 95. Both can be restarted in DOS mode, and, if all else fails, you can set up a DOS partition. Mobo and CPU, I've been looking at a lot of different sockets lately, after restoring …

I've been looking at really old versions of AutoCAD and Photoshop, among others. When I was little, I had all of the Voyetra stuff that came with the Packard Bell. No midi keyboard, though. Does anyone here currently use their old, old machines to create stuff? If yes, what do you use and do? I'm …

I have the ugliest graphics card with the ugliest box ever coming in the mail today for my Pentium II build.

That's my retro-gaming rig! Three retro-pc to cover in the best way all games before WinXP era. 1) Asus P3V4X, Intel Pentium III 1000MHz, 512MB PC133, Geforce 3 Ti200, 2x 3DFX VoodooII 12MB (SLI), Aureal Vortex 2 - WIN98SE 2) Asus P5A, AMD K6-2 (166-250-333-500 MHz selectable), 128MB PC100, Geforce …

Since we're talking old monitors, there is something important to mention: Backlight. All of these were lit with cold cathode, which doesn't last anywhere near as long as LCD and dims over time before it dies. So, make sure you plug it in, test it with preferably a white screen before you buy it. …

Found this oldboy in one of the air conditioner rooms at work. Still works, motherboard looks good, cracked open the PSU and all of the caps -appear- fine. It's turned into a project. Sanyo capacitors! 1999 Vectra: Pentium II 400Mhz / Integrated Matrox G100 4MB / 64MB PC100 / Diamond Monster Sound …

Found this oldboy in one of the air conditioner rooms at work. Still works, motherboard looks good, cracked open the PSU and all of the caps -appear- fine. It's turned into a project. Sanyo capacitors! 1999 Vectra: Pentium II 400Mhz / Integrated Matrox G100 4MB / 64MB PC100 / Diamond Monster Sound …