This is less "bought" these retro hardware and more "your free gift with purchase." I found a local guy prepping for an interstate move by clearing out a lot of stuff he had collecting dust. In this case, it was a rather substantial collection of boxed PC games, some of which had never had the seals broken. This ranged from 5.25" floppy games up to CD-ROM and even a few DVD-ROM titles. Pretty much an instant collection.
Now, unfortunately for him (and fortunately for me), he'd had very few bites on the stuff he was trying to sell off, so me arriving cash-in-hand meant that he basically asked, "Do you just want to take this stuff? I'll throw it in for free." Of course, I tried to hold back the excited squealing, etc. as it wouldn't have been dignified.
Only some of this is useful for my current P200 MMX rig, but since I wanted to set up a PIII rig down the road, a lot of these pieces will save me some hunting.
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So, here we have four sound cards with boxes, software and documentation (clockwise from top-left):
-Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer (not familiar with this card)
-Roland Sound Canvas DB (SCD-15)
-Sound Blaster 16 (CT2980)
-Sound Blaster Audigy 2
I've already installed the SB16 and Roland in my P200 and they seem to be working alright, if causing the odd anomaly here and there. I'm going to have to play with jumper settings, methinks as MIDI playback is incredibly quiet compared to the digital sound playback and both are pretty low in level, even if this is line output. I've actually been debating pairing the Roland with my Yamaha Audician card instead of the SB, but that'll come later if I opt for it.
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Here's the mostly PIII relevant stuff. Again, clockwise from top-left:
-Diamond Monster 3D II Voodoo2
-Verto G-Force FX 5700 LE
-This is an OEM card - labelled Velocity 128BIT OEM PC/TV Nvidia. I'm not familiar but it could be useful for capturing gameplay footage.
-Nvidia Xtasy 6564
I'm really not particularly familiar with ANY of these as this is the hardware that gained prevalence after I'd dropped out of PC gaming in the late '90s, but I did think the Voodoo 2 card could be of some use once I got Win98 running on the P200 for early 3d accelerated titles. Any suggestions on the rest?