Artex wrote:

I'm very excited to hear some actual XG stuff - I love the GM output of the DB50XG but never actually tried any XG material!

This post has a file attachment with some XG stuff from Mediatrix:
YMF-71x cards (OPL3SAx) software alternative

Also try Fields of Gold by Sting:

Thanks carlostex!

Lukeno94 wrote:

Put a new screen in my Powerbook G4 - that now works fine. Ironic that the old girl came apart again with no troubles, yet my crappy Acer Aspire V5-531 was a nightmare. Pro tip: do NOT buy an Acer "thin and light" laptop. The build quality is atrocious, and so is the design.

Which Powerbook G4 do you have and where did you get the screen from? I have two of the last Powerbook G4 model, the 1.64 ghz with the high resolution screen, and one of them has a cracked LCD that I have been using with an external monitor.

Some new additions to what little storage I have left...

sliderider wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

Put a new screen in my Powerbook G4 - that now works fine. Ironic that the old girl came apart again with no troubles, yet my crappy Acer Aspire V5-531 was a nightmare. Pro tip: do NOT buy an Acer "thin and light" laptop. The build quality is atrocious, and so is the design.

Which Powerbook G4 do you have and where did you get the screen from? I have two of the last Powerbook G4 model, the 1.64 ghz with the high resolution screen, and one of them has a cracked LCD that I have been using with an external monitor.

An A1095 - 15" screen, 1.33 GHz CPU. Got the screen on eBay as a complete unit for £20. There's one on eBay UK right now for £26, but that's the same seller I got mine from - they'll accept slightly lower offers (mine was at a slightly lower starting price). There's a complete A1138 higher-res unit for £50.

Just bought my first ever 386 motherboard!!! 😁
It's a the fastest ever 386Sx clocked at 40MHz and has 4MB of ram!!

It has a Cyclone chipset, 4 ISA, and the cpu is rated as being equivalent to a theoretical 386DX 30MHz! Making it an excellent high mid range gaming motherboard! I'm adding a Trident 9000C 512K vga card to it and hopefully an old Soundblaster Pro when I get the chance. I have an AT case all ready, plus 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives. Now all I need is a larger hard drive. Tell me fellas, what were available hard drive sizes for 1992-1993 that would match this 386SX in it's level of budget? (Not a high end drive, and I want it to be 100% period correct)

for a harddisk, look around for an 200 - 540MB one..

More period correct would be around 80 - 200MB

Cool! I was reading that the average 386DX 33 came with an 80MB...

Does anybody recognize my new 386 board and knows any info about it? Thanks.

Bought some Powerbook G4s over the past week.

12 inch 866mhz with 10.2.8 for $25 shipped, needed body work and new bat also had to order ram so total was around $40
12 inch 1.5ghz with 10.5, for almost $50 shipped but as usual seller said nothing about the keyboard nor the battery being dead.
15 inch (aluminum) but don't know the speed with missing hard drive but otherwise in Very nice almost like new condition except for a few scratches. $39 shipped
Got a spare 1.67ghz 15 inch board on hand if needed.

Expensive for their age but they won't get much cheaper these days.

Also scored a Thinkpad 701c and some Avertech 5100 for $27 shipped the other week. The butterfly needs lcd work sadly, either bad connection on the cable or bad cable or worse board or screen needs to be replaced. Boots into 3.1 on the original os install.

computergeek92 wrote:

Cool! I was reading that the average 386DX 33 came with an 80MB...

Don't worry about period correctness mate. I put a 240meg hdd to supplement my 286/16s original 40meg drive in 1993. Bigger the better. You'll fill a smaller drives space up fairly smartly. I run a 4 gig drive in my '89 386DX25 with DDO.

computergeek92 wrote:

Does anybody recognize my new 386 board and knows any info about it? Thanks.

Obviously a later SX board limited to 16megs of addressable ram and 4 ISA slots. 486DX/SX series were being marketed with gusto then. If I was in your situation I'd go for a 1meg video card at least to give yourself a bit of future proofing in case you want to expand the system somewhat or decide to use Win 3.x/wfw 3.11. Nics can be useful as well. They weren't common back then in the consumer enviroment but are a worth while addition all the same.

I found an older joy stick in one of the local thrift shops today.

Just found 2 Trident video cards, a 9000C and 9000i-1 plus a multi I/O card to go with my new 386SX board! I'll save one of the VGA cards for my 486SX. I got it all from the same seller, so it should arrive together the same time. Wooohooo!

You will have lots of fun with that 386 😀

A real 386 is always something special to me. My very first PC was a DX-33. I even hunted down an old magazine which had the advertisement for it 🤣

Also, curious about your screenshot process. I can see Paint and some OS or skin I don't recognise.

Nice to see you again philscomputerlab! 😁 BTW, I used the print screen key in Zorin Core Linux 9. (The GUI resembles Windows 7 or XP) I've completely switched to Linux since last month, but I still use legacy Windows offline. I have yet to find a good Linux image editor that will let me save in compatible formats for this site. The Wine emulated version of Paint is pretty limited. It only saves in BMP. So at least ordinary print screen in Zorin saves images in PNG, which works. haha, i'm too lazy right now to find good alternatives for Windows software just yet...

Featured graph editor for linux is GIMP. But for most usual task - it's overkill.
I'm using digiKam - it's photo management software, that has an easy and lightweight editor for usual tasks - rotate, crop, resize, sharp.

Found another ThinkPad next to dumpster:

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

New addition for the IBM PS/ValuePoint collection: 433DX/Si.

Here is a picture of the VGA card I got with the 286 computer I bought as I needed the case for a 486 project.

The systems motherboard posts but it seems battery corrosion has eaten up a couple of traces having to do with the keyboard as it wont respond to keystrokes and shows keyboard error at post.

Genoa systems Super VGA model 6400 (1990).

Review of the Genoa systems Super VGA model 6400

Edit: not a sound card.

computergeek92 wrote:

Nice to see you again philscomputerlab! 😁 BTW, I used the print screen key in Zorin Core Linux 9. (The GUI resembles Windows 7 or XP) I've completely switched to Linux since last month, but I still use legacy Windows offline. I have yet to find a good Linux image editor that will let me save in compatible formats for this site. The Wine emulated version of Paint is pretty limited. It only saves in BMP. So at least ordinary print screen in Zorin saves images in PNG, which works. haha, i'm too lazy right now to find good alternatives for Windows software just yet...

🤣 You use Zorin OS? How is it? I'm also a linux user but personally I use fedora. 😁