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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 22400 of 54980, by bjwil1991

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Wish there was a way to change the font to another one to not get confused with the letter l (L) within the thread.

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Reply 22401 of 54980, by appiah4

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Got a second Edison Gold-16 in the mail today, exact same PCB and revision. It's a non-PnP ES688 with a clone (but perfect clone) OPL3 onboard. I really LOVE this card for 486 and earlier builds.

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Reply 22402 of 54980, by bjwil1991

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Interesting card, especially that it has different CD-ROM ports (Sony, Mitsumi, Panasonic, standard IDE), and a wavetable header for General MIDI daughterboards. I'm planning on getting one soon as well. The one I see on eBay has an ES1868 chipset with CD-ROM IDE and Wavetable headers (plug-n-play).

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Reply 22403 of 54980, by Woolie Wool

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Cyrix200+ wrote:
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The processor in my Athlon rig is severely bottlenecking the system, so goodbye Thunderbird, hello Thoroughbred!

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I think this is the fastest processor my motherboard (Abit KT7A) can use without a socket mod.

Nice!

I you change the url to the image on imgur a bit, you get a resized version. Add an l (L) before the .jpg:

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There are 6 total thumbnails that an image can be resized to. Each one is accessable by appending a single character suffix to the end of the image id, and before the file extension. The thumbnails are:

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Sorry, I recently got a 4K monitor and what looks normal to me might look humongous to others. I resized it.

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Cool. Thought I recognized the board name. I used to have that motherboard years ago, but sadly, the USB 1.1 ports broke, and the board is long gone by now. Had 512MB of RAM installed, an Athlon 900, and was later upgraded to a Socket AM2+ back in February, 2008.

My USB 1.1 doesn't work either so I'll also have to get a USB 2.0 card.

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Reply 22404 of 54980, by rikukos

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2 x 3M (3dfx) Mouse Pads

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Sealed Monster Goodness..Box crushed inwards but not in such a way it would cause any damage, I believe.

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This puppy then..Boxed AdLib Gold 1000. Heavy wear on corners, though.

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She is a virgin. Absolutely no wear on this one.

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However, I don't see much added value in something "sealed" if the outer box is not in shrink wrap. Besides, I do want to play with her in near future. So let's bring her into light, shall we! 😎

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Till The End..Got a little teaser to myself. Kind of "to Keep up the Faith" I would say 😀

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Reply 22405 of 54980, by jheronimus

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rikukos wrote:

This puppy then..Boxed AdLib Gold 1000. Heavy wear on corners, though.

Awesome! Where do you find all your stuff? Ebay?

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Reply 22406 of 54980, by rikukos

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Thanks! I would say 9 out of 10 are from eBay..Rarely something local. I see images are a bit off, may be something has changed. Need to fix those links later.

Reply 22407 of 54980, by DaveJustDave

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rikukos wrote:

Thanks! I would say 9 out of 10 are from eBay..Rarely something local. I see images are a bit off, may be something has changed. Need to fix those links later.

did you really pay $6000USD for a sound card?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/AdLib-Gold-1000-ISA- … =p2047675.l2557

thats amazing.

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Reply 22408 of 54980, by derSammler

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I wonder why people spending money on the Adlib Gold card at all. That card was technically outdated already when it came out and got bad reviews mostly. And it's not even special like the Innovation SSI-2001, for example. That's just wasting money on a crappy card. But it's obviously "rare", which seems to be enough for many people to want one, it seems. Though I wonder how rare it really is, seeing them pop up quite often.

Reply 22409 of 54980, by The Serpent Rider

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I consider Creative 3D Blaster VLB much rarer and it was sold for much less.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 22410 of 54980, by arncht

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Reply 22411 of 54980, by The Serpent Rider

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Welcome to ASUS P5A club.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 22412 of 54980, by arncht

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Welcome to ASUS P5A club.

thx, i will pair with a v3 3000, as an alternative config to my p3 + gf256 konfig.

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Reply 22413 of 54980, by Ozzuneoj

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DaveJustDave wrote:
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rikukos wrote:

Thanks! I would say 9 out of 10 are from eBay..Rarely something local. I see images are a bit off, may be something has changed. Need to fix those links later.

did you really pay $6000USD for a sound card?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/AdLib-Gold-1000-ISA- … =p2047675.l2557

thats amazing.

I'd like to know too. 😵

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Reply 22414 of 54980, by bjwil1991

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derSammler wrote:

I wonder why people spending money on the Adlib Gold card at all. That card was technically outdated already when it came out and got bad reviews mostly. And it's not even special like the Innovation SSI-2001, for example. That's just wasting money on a crappy card. But it's obviously "rare", which seems to be enough for many people to want one, it seems. Though I wonder how rare it really is, seeing them pop up quite often.

The Innovation SSI-2001 is a SID chip to IBM sound card, right? There're remakes being made and selling/sold right now, and I think it's cool to see something like that. The Adlib Gold had a Yamaha YMF-262M chipset on there (OPL3), but didn't sell very well due to bad reviews as you stated.

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Reply 22415 of 54980, by blurks

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@rikukos: really nice. Looking at the current going rate of these babies I'm kinda thankful, that I'm not into soundcards that much. Enjoy them to the fullest extent. 😉

Reply 22416 of 54980, by rikukos

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DaveJustDave wrote:

did you really pay $6000USD for a sound card?

No, not even close. Check the seller ratings and you get the right figure I believe (if you're that interested 😕 )

derSammler wrote:

I wonder why people spending money on the Adlib Gold card at all.

I think you're missing the whole point here. AdLib Gold is a collectible in its own right.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

I consider Creative 3D Blaster VLB much rarer and it was sold for much less.

Cannot comment on 3D Blaster as there is no nostalgia factor on it for me. For the same reason I have not been particularly interested to bid on the ones I've seen appearing.

Reply 22417 of 54980, by luckybob

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rikukos wrote:
DaveJustDave wrote:

did you really pay $6000USD for a sound card?

No, not even close. Check the seller ratings and you get the right figure I believe (if you're that interested 😕 )

As long as you are happy, who am I to say anything, but at $4000 It must be nice to have more money than sense.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 22418 of 54980, by rikukos

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blurks wrote:

@rikukos: really nice. Enjoy them to the fullest extent. 😉

Thanks! Now I just need to find a sealed copy of Dune.. 😊
I was positively surprised how that AdLib Gold turned out. Box was overall in a bit better shape than in seller's pictures and with a careful cleaning it turned out quite alright! All disks were readable as well and the first thing I did was to make images with HD-COPY. Still have those old computer magazines from my childhood from the era when AdLib Gold was released..and short after the company went down. It's just amazing to have a boxed version in my hands after so many many years. Really happy with a purchase 😀

Reply 22419 of 54980, by meljor

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Wow.... is the Adlib Gold THE most expensive retro computer part now? And i thought voodoo5 6k's were expensive! Even normal ''non Gold'' versions are rare and very expensive.

Seems that in 2016 a Gold was sold for 3400 and that was a used one and without a box or anything else. 2 Years later, sealed, boxed and complete.... yeah, that's an expensive item. 😲

So, since a voodoo5 6k is actually ''cheap'' now, i want one! 🤣

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