Disney The Sound Source & Roland LAPC-I

Posted on 2011-02-23, 06:50

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by EscapeVelocity

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Too rich for my blood. I guess the early 00s were the good ole days for things like this on eBay. Disney The Sound Source external card BOX RARE http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320649937208&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_1072 This fellow has been listing a bunch of great sound …

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Re: Computer Shopper January 1996

Posted on 2011-02-23, 05:36

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by EscapeVelocity

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Gateway 2000 was a huge favorite of the readers of this magazine...and hugely popular in 1995-1996. Best Pentium Desktop PC Gateway 2000 P5-133XL Best 486 Desktop PC Gateway DX2-66 Family PC Best Multimedia PC Gateway 2000 Multimedia P5-120 Family PC Best Portable PC IBM Thinkpad 701C & 701CS Best …

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Re: Computer Shopper January 1996

Posted on 2011-02-23, 05:13

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Zeos Micron AST EPS ABS USA Flex Acer Royal US Computer Vecktron Quantex Zenon Insight Maximus Midwest Micro Compaq Dell Packard Bell Computer Discount Warehouse Computability Tiger Direct TC Computers NECX Direct PC Zone Sunshine Computers Dirt Cheap Drives Sound Blaster AWE32 $150 to $200 Matrox …

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Re: Looking to build or buy a DOS ONLY gaming platform

Posted on 2011-02-23, 03:52

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by EscapeVelocity

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Motherboards: *Asus P5A ATX *EPoX MVPG2 Iwill XA100Plus CPUs: Pentium 133MMX, 166MMX, 200MMX, 233MMX *AMD K6 II RAM: *256MB (double sided) 512MB Max PC133 or PC100 non ECC SDRAM Case: *ATX Case *ATX Power Supply Drives: Teac 3.5" Double Density Diskette Teac 5.25" Floppy 1.2MB Double Density CD-R/W …

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Re: Looking to build or buy a DOS ONLY gaming platform

Posted on 2011-02-23, 03:36

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by EscapeVelocity

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CD RW - Not really interested in serious audio and cd burning though....in Win98se or Dos. Plextor Plexwriter Premium - Quality Build Excels at Audio CDs Lite On 48x - 52x - Fast - Loud - Handles Lots of Different Media - Good Scratched Media including external models. Yamaha F1 - External - …

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Re: Computer Shopper January 1996

Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:32

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by EscapeVelocity

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Not the whole thing! 🤣! 🙄

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Re: Looking to build or buy a DOS ONLY gaming platform

Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:24

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by EscapeVelocity

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Maybe this thread should be moved to System Specs....now that Im more familiar with teh board.

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Re: New Celly 400 Rig

Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:21

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by EscapeVelocity

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So WD and Seagate are the way to go. What about Quantum? These HD's get really hot?

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Computer Shopper January 1996

Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:16

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by EscapeVelocity

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10th Annual Best Buys of the Year - Readers Pick the Top Products Just got this in the mail today. I post up some scans and info later.

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Re: Looking to build or buy a DOS ONLY gaming platform

Posted on 2011-02-22, 22:44

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Probably going with Asus CD Rom and Lite On CD-RW in 48x or 52x flavors. Possibly Plextor Premium. But I need to think about what I can fit in the box. 1 3.5" Hard Drive 1 CD Rom 1 CD RW 1 3.5" Diskette 1 5.25" Floppy 1 Iomega Zip Drive Looks like Ill need a PCI ATAPI interface card....or perhaps I …

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Re: Looking to build or buy a DOS ONLY gaming platform

Posted on 2011-02-22, 22:40

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Recommend a Hard Drive and your thoughts on the best set up. Dos 6.22 (most likely) to Windows 98se Possible dual boot/ ATA-33 support from the Motherboard FAT 16 for Dos I guess. 2GB limitation partition size in DOS, FWIU. Thanks!

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Re: Looking to build or buy a DOS ONLY gaming platform

Posted on 2011-02-22, 10:03

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cd rw lite on 48x to 52x plextor premium plextor 1210 plextor 1610 plextor 2410 cd-rom asus or aopen dvd rom asus e616 dvd rom dvd rw benq 1620 1640 1650 1655

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Re: Chess Games Survey

Posted on 2011-02-22, 05:36

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Cant disagree with that. The Chessmaster series went like this... 2100 = much improved graphics 3000 = expansion into personalities and teaching modes 4000 = CD-ROM with lots more expansion of same

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Re: Apocalypse 3DX complete in box

Posted on 2011-02-22, 05:09

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by EscapeVelocity

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What would really be something was 1992 to 1996 reviews... Or magazines scans... Yes, indeed. I chose the Trident (I think it was a 944*) based on reviews and pricing....a budget choice. Computer Shopper PC Magazine PC World are 3 good ones from the US. We also had/have UK mag publications over …

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Re: Apocalypse 3DX complete in box

Posted on 2011-02-22, 05:00

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by EscapeVelocity

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Here are some old articles from this one fellow... http://davidenglish.com/pub.html

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Re: Apocalypse 3DX complete in box

Posted on 2011-02-22, 04:57

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by EscapeVelocity

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Oh nice! Looks like the US site goes back further! This is the "master page" and the first articles are indeed from 1997: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Com...,4/38.html Ha! Ha! I just read most of that Tomshardware stuff from Page 38 97 up until about Radeon 9500 the other day. Anandtech.com …

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Re: Quantum3D AAlchemy board on ebay

Posted on 2011-02-22, 00:29

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by EscapeVelocity

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Ill probably just get a Diamond Monser Fusion. The relative rarity and the cool black pcb would have been nice though.

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Re: Quantum3D AAlchemy board on ebay

Posted on 2011-02-22, 00:23

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by EscapeVelocity

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I was looking to bid on the Quantum3D Raven Voodoo Banshee which was listed at .99, but I didnt lock in a bid, and the seller delisted it.

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Re: Quantum3D Onsidian S-12 CIB if anyone is interested.

Posted on 2011-02-22, 00:22

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by EscapeVelocity

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The X-24 (with 24MB of RAM) like new in box went for $180 last week.

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Re: Quantum3D AAlchemy board on ebay

Posted on 2011-02-22, 00:17

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by EscapeVelocity

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😮

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