Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-08-13, 04:06

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by Ozzuneoj

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Sometimes, I find a piece of junk card that looks useless (an old serial\parallel card or modem) and is too rusty to bother with, and for some reason I don't put it in the scrap pile with the rest. This time, I'm very glad I kept this one. I didn't take a pic yet, but its basically identical to this …

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Re: Question about connecting 3 midi modules to pc

Posted on 2018-08-09, 12:48

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by Ozzuneoj

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Sorry to necro this thread! But... how would I get the audio back out? Would I need to run audio cables from all three devices to a mixer of some sort? Thanks That is the best way, yes. I ended up buying one of these and I've been happy with the results: https://www.amazon.com/ammoon-AM-228-Ultra- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-09, 05:47

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by Ozzuneoj

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Not everyone was in the hobby years ago. I didn't start collecting until late 2015 when everything had already spiked up in price. Same here. I was into PCs when all this stuff was new but I didn't start collecting old stuff until 2016. I now have a rather large collection and I've never paid full …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-09, 05:33

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I made a low offer on a Roland MT-32, did not expect to win but I got it. Tested it today, works just fine! Now I need to find a compatible power brick and then probably trade or sell it. http://i.imgur.com/9zi0W9ll.jpg You realize doing exactly what your planning to do is what is pricing anyone …

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Re: Geforce 3 TI200 + Pentium III 933MHZ

Posted on 2018-08-07, 21:09

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If your graphics card is bottlenecked it shouldn't be slower than an older card, it will simply not be much faster in CPU limited situations. In less CPU limited situations, it should be faster with the newer card. I don't think the CPU limitation would be that extreme with a Ti 200 and a P3 933. If …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-07, 03:02

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Today I stopped by several Goodwills and found... nothing. Then, after stopping by KFC to pick up some supper, I spotted another Goodwill, and decided to give it a try... There were 3 monitors there; two Dells and a Sony. The Sony had what I think was a DVI cable. They wanted $9.99 for the Sony and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-06, 05:05

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And now for something I came across and since there is so little information about it I am guessing it is really rare. An Altec Lansing AMC2000 multimedia CD-ROM system. This sucker retailed for $700 back in the day. From looking at the driver packages, this sucker is also a sound card with some …

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Re: What memory expansion card is this?

Posted on 2018-08-06, 03:04

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by Ozzuneoj

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It's useless in absence of the specific motherboard that it originally came with. I'm not sure about useless, It definitely looks ISA-slot so could drivers not get it running? Or was that sort of stuff all ROM/hardware related back in the day? I highly doubt that's an ISA card since the connector …

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Re: AWE32 CT3900: good model?, where is its mixer chip, & q. about OPL3.

Posted on 2018-08-05, 17:04

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It will still have some hanging note bugs: https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/Hanging_note_bug

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-08-03, 03:03

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In the first one, a nice and never found before adapter for older floppy-flats to 'newer' one, with pins... strange; two CDRoms by Creative, maybe part of a kit? One of them was attached to the SoundBlaster 16 integrated IDE; the CPU is a 486 DX-33, the friend of mine was right. Nice those mini- …

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Re: To those who are in or near Sydney (rare opportunity)

Posted on 2018-08-02, 00:07

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Oh man... I was getting itchy and felt my blood pressure going up just clicking through a few random sections of that video. I don't think I should watch that. I'm on the opposite side of the globe and could picture myself leaving my sanity at the door digging through boxes for days and days there. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-02, 00:04

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bought this for 3 dollars. rendition verite v1000-e no clue if it works but is ancient. one of the first 3d cards..like half a voodoo1? Nice find. The Verite 1000 was actually a fairly decent 3D accelerator and had its own APIs that a lot of games supported. SODA Offroad Racing was a pretty neat …

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Re: Roland MT-200

Posted on 2018-07-31, 17:12

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I soldered in the extra memory on my two other units yesterday and both are working perfectly. I saw no garbled text on either one throughout the process so it must have happened on the other one due to a loose connection since it was half assembled when I tested it at first. Now I'd like to look …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-07-31, 00:40

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wasnt that lot on ebay? the tseng card is awesome for isa video. cant wish for a better card. looks like its only 256k, but is trivial to upgrade to 1MB. the diagnostic cards are dated, but probably functional. a port 80 diag card really can save the day if you have a bad part somewhere. Yes it was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-07-30, 23:15

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Got this nice lot in the mail today. Got them for a very reasonable price too. :) 4x STB Velocity 3D (S3 Virge VX 4MB) Matrox Mystique 4MB STB Nitro 64V (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446 2MB) Unusual Looking Tseng ET4000AX (beautiful condition... very old school layout with lots of big components and axial …

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Re: Roland MT-200

Posted on 2018-07-30, 03:08

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Just a quick note for any weirdos like me that actually try to use uniflash to flash the 2.01 BIOS to update an MT-200, it turns out that I did it correctly the first time. What I mean by that is, you have to flash with the boot block first (even though that will not work in the MT-200), then flash …

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Re: [Project] 3D Printed CPU Tray's

Posted on 2018-07-29, 21:48

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by Ozzuneoj

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Very nice! But I would add finger sized cutouts in the middle of each side, so they can be picked up easily.

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Re: Should I buy a 56k modem?

Posted on 2018-07-29, 20:16

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by Ozzuneoj

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Keep in mind you have to have land line phone service to be able to use dialup at all. In my area, you're paying $40-$80 per month (depending on long distance features) for a land line. My 120/15mbps cable internet is $80 a month and I get MagicJack for $20 per year, and Tracfone on my cell for …

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Re: hyunday super 286c

Posted on 2018-07-29, 17:15

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by Ozzuneoj

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Did you try spelling it Hyundai?

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Re: Roland MT-200

Posted on 2018-07-29, 16:24

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by Ozzuneoj

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NIce find! And you will have those capabilities for what I assume was much less than SC-55s are going for? Definitely. I got both of my newer MT-200s for less than what one SC-55 currently goes for on eBay. Both came with AC adapters and one of them came with the original box (sadly no paperwork). …

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