Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-09-20, 19:13
that looks almost like the monitor stand on the toshiba dock... if it didn't look like wood on the first thumbnail you'd almost assume it's stock ^^
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-09-20, 17:47
Hezus wrote on 2020-09-20, 17:34: Second one is a NEC XR385, which is a Yahama DB60XG clone. 4 mb of gorgeous MIDI soundfonts! Going to have some fun trying this in several games that support it. awesome ^^ definitely a good box
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-09-20, 17:25
Agreed. Especially if it's scrap lots which would otherwise get destroyed regardless of item functionality, one could say that these people are actually adding parts to the pool of existing parts which in the long run is a force that helps keep prices down (disregarding the other influences on …
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-09-20, 12:57
It's thanks to the crazy-spending collectors that I can afford to have nice retro gear. I can buy a pile of untested scrap, safe in the knowledge that parting out half of it will pay for the other half that I want to keep. Some folks in our hobby don't have the time or patience to hunt down the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-09-20, 09:57
"no officer, this is just a modem" "a what now??? STEP OUT OF THE CAR NOW!" x3
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-09-20, 09:31
because I can't really see any evidence supporting this claim, and even if there might be a few cases here and there it still wouldn't make it "most of us". What do you think is the reason for the constant price increase? it has already been discussed in this thread many times... increased …
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-09-20, 09:12
Here in Germany we currently have a value limit of 22€ for import taxes. If the item is cheaper than that you don't have to pay taxes. But they're planning to remove this limit next year, so even if I buy some microchips for 5$ I will need to pay taxes on top of that. Modern highway robbery at its …
Re: S3 Vision 968 VLB replica
Posted on 2020-09-20, 08:33
awesome project! you say SPEA didn't make a VLB version, but here smeone got a Spea V7-Mercury P64 VLB at least with the S3 Vision 964 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=655363#p655363 ...which incidentally looks very similar to your final design based on the Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM VLB also you …
Re: How to power this ISA backplane computer?
Posted on 2020-09-20, 00:28
well anything that needed computer control somewhere, including machinery yes.
Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards
Posted on 2020-09-19, 23:37
well, I guess I ain't getting that card then ^^, but yeah it got me pretty intruiged too.
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-09-19, 23:28
indeed, I can't even count how many parts I've found on ebay.com for cheap that I'd have gotten in a heartbeat... but shipping to EU usually costs multiple times what the item is worth and add to that customs and taxes on top and it just becomes entirely unreasonable ^^ but yeah, same is true the …
Re: "Fake Sound Chips"...? Particularly Yamaha.
Posted on 2020-09-19, 23:17
well if you're buying a yamaha chip from china with a new datecode... you do "know" 😁
Re: Is a Voodoo 2 worth the cost
Posted on 2020-09-19, 20:05
I agree, unfortunately the Voodoo 1 I bought is currently lost in the mail (which is sad as it was a pretty good deal at 40E). So I decided to buy this Voodoo 2 as a temporary replacement. Where do you live? At least in Germany the naked card can be regularly had for 5€-10€. I bought two this year …
Re: Picked up a couple of interesting PCs, what to do...
Posted on 2020-09-19, 20:02
that tiny case looks nice indeed 😁 even though wholly impractical with that curved top panel... but I don't think that's what this thread is about ^^
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-09-19, 19:48
No, MOST of us, that excludes some. Big difference. And what happened? People who claim they are not part of the problem started to write a wall of text denying the problem. It indicates a guilty conscience being present otherwise they should just keep quiet. It's not about them, right? it's not " …
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-09-19, 18:51
you're not stealing it if you pay for it ^^ but yeah, for all the hate that ebay gets, I have made a lot of really good deals there.
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-09-19, 17:33
Again people interpreted this as a personal attack and not as a phenomenon you literally adressed "us" :p Someone already mentioned the reason for the price increase.. it's you! And by that I mean most of us. and no, I did not take it personally, hence why I said you're adressing the wrong people. …
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-09-19, 16:22
well hence why I used the example of midi modules, the going rate for those is usually €100+ at least around here, so I was actually happy I got them for "just" €50 and sometimes even under, of course I'm going to jump on them for that price if I can afford it, which I said I'm lucky I can, because …
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-09-19, 14:54
you realize the people you're trying to talk to are not in this forum? ^^ yeah there may be a few "rich" people here that can afford stuff at prices that most of us can't, but they usually are after unicorns that are expensive anyways, and I for one am happy they share it with us at least. as I said …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-09-19, 11:38
kolderman wrote on 2020-09-19, 07:56: TIL joystick cards could come electrically shielded. I think that's just a plastic cover for looks, you know, because "gaming" ^^ ...or maybe to make installation easier, who knows. I also have a "QuickShot" gameport card with a plastic shell in a different …
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