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First post, by Mr_ppp

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Hi all

This weekend I had a bucketload of extra parts turn up to finally build a rig I had been longing for since forever..... The humble 486 build similar to what I had bitd

On Saturday morning I received the following motherboard as well as other parts such as 2x vlb I/O cards, 1x voodoo1 and 1xvoodoo2 card

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It came generously with 2 x 16mb Simms so 32mb should keep me going for a while

Its been setup with a Holtek VLB I/O Card, Awe32 with 8mb ram, 20GB Maxtor drive and a throwaway cd drive until I find one that matches the setup

Heres the lovely little case its been shoehorned into, genuine NOS AT case being assisted by my daugher 😁

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So far have DOS 6.22 and 3.11 tested as well as a quick blast on Win95 which seemed to work well but I'm limited as I don't have a mouse that works so a serial mouse is now on order 😀

I've also recycled the MSI-6156 board from my original Tiny Computers PC into a replacement case to setup some good old late 90s early 2000's gaming. There are a few suspect caps on the board but so far its working fine. Just need to find a decent AGP board to run as the 9700 pro I had is now faulty!

Amongst other bits and bobs I also received an Amstrad 1640 keyboard as I liked the look of it but it appears to have an XT connector, do adaptors exist?

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Next job is to make early to mid 2000's and mid 2000's to late 2000's rigs. I have more than enough cases, motherboards and parts to do it 😁

Reply 1 of 5, by bjt

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Cool build. That looks like a desktop version of a case I have here, never seen it before.

Unfortunately I believe the Amstrad 1512 & 1640 keyboards use a proprietary protocol and won't work with a standard XT or AT 😢 Shame because they are relatively easy to find in the UK.

Reply 2 of 5, by Mr_ppp

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bjt wrote:

Cool build. That looks like a desktop version of a case I have here, never seen it before.

Unfortunately I believe the Amstrad 1512 & 1640 keyboards use a proprietary protocol and won't work with a standard XT or AT 😢 Shame because they are relatively easy to find in the UK.

Thats a shame, ho hum - I may put it on display then instead 😀

I've seen another version of this case and a few others I have, sadly the rest are all towers as I prefer the desktop ones as that what I used to rock bitd 😀

Reply 3 of 5, by chinny22

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DX4 100, VLB, AWE32. Quite the dream machine back in the day.
What Video card are you using? also pics of the completed PC please 😀

Reply 4 of 5, by 386_junkie

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That's a quality board, cool keyboard too... not getting any cheaper either these older keyboards.

Keep us posted with the build!

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Reply 5 of 5, by Mr_ppp

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Cheers guys, I'll get a few pics of it completed soon!

Did try to play Theme Park on it but the lack of mouse caused it to throw me out after the intro 🙁

The Videocard is a VLB Cirrus Logic of some description, will get the number when at home!

Its certainly a nippy system, loads windows 95 uber quick and runs really nicely. I did have a DX2-50 Amstrad PC9486 bitd with 4mb ram upgraded to 8mb (for the princely sum of £270!) I wanted a system that covered the early to mid 90s well 😀

Oh and the case even has a turbo led and working switch, Woohoo!!!!!

Still finding drawer after drawer of all my games from dos era upto current in the garage!

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