Well, it was more around $15 once shipping was covered. Unfortunately, it was sold as "As Is"... looks like that's finally caught up with me. Never had anything before that I couldn't repair or didn't work right out of the box. :blah: SCSI Interface, it's a Micropolis 2217 - I believe 1.7GB or …

...Well, the hard drive came today for the 486 build. She's got a bit of a problem, though, and past the severe damage from shipping (the idiots shipped it in a mail envelope with some bubble wrap - the cast aluminum frame was bent and cracked in several places) and the fact that the board was …

Hard and challenging tasks have never stopped me before. :neutral: Not sure it's worth the effort, though... the way it was explained to me before, was that .BNKs were essentially the AdLib precursor to SoundFonts and acted as sort of an abstraction layer between a GM signal and an FM Synth; It's …

Howdy! Got a follow-up on an old question I asked. I was playing Daggerfall the other day, when I noticed that the included HMI Setup was playing MIDI over an SB16 that sounded nothing at all like an OPL3. I finally realized that this was due to a set of .bnk files that are used by the program - …

@Samir: I'm definitely on the lookout for either an S3-based card or a Mach64... seems everywhere I turn, someone else recommends them. @NJRoadFan: Yep, that's what I've got... my AWE32 is model CT3990 which doesn't have a 'true' OPL3, but compared to an SB16 CT1740, it does have the same sound, …

It's not a half bad card... awfully noisy, but I suppose for its time the OPL4 was quite a bit better than the defacto-FM synthesis that was generally used. Two updates: Motherboard came today; Cx486 due in the mail tomorrow around eleven. This was an interesting unboxing; the motherboard itself is …

Yep, I've read about multiple matrox cards that were of later manufacture with 4MB onboard. I see Western Digital made a few choice cards that were designed for high-resolution GUI environments, but again, those were very limited cards that were $2000+ at launch and have since disappeared. It was a …

Yep... I've been doing a lot of reading into the matter and see now how much I'm asking of these cards. 1280x1024 would be fine... anything over that would be an added bonus. It's hard for someone with so little experience like myself to just go back through an archive of so many cards that were …

The problem is that I don't have the slightest clue what I'm looking for... I hail from the Reva TNT2 generation; 486-generation video cards are beyond what I already know, so I'm here to learn. At this point, I'm just looking to take what I can find - there just aren't enough cards readily …

Heh, I know the feeling. I've regretted getting rid of every single piece of hardware I've ever disposed of... even those stupid little OEM PCI modems. I now have a large cardboard crate that everything gets (gently) tossed into until I realize I have a use for it. :happy: I think I've found what I …

Howdy! Got a bit of a hunt going on. Here's the story. I've been in the market for an... upgrade... for my AOpen AX6BC + Pentium III, when I stumbled into a (like) NIB 486 4GPV4 motherboard with original manual and everything for $30. Needless to say it's in the mail, followed by a Cyrix Cx486 DX2- …