debs3759 wrote:

Nice. I think that's the same card I have. Is it FCC ID ICUVGA-GW142? Cardex are better known as Gainward 😀

Yes it is. I didn't receive the card yet, but I can read out the ID from a higher resolution pic.

Got two nice AT cases today, perfectly beige, no yellowing. One had QDI Explorer II (VX chipset, soc7), other had QDI Titanium IE (TX chipset, soc7) board in it, both had EDO SIMM memories in them. One AT case will host 486 board in it, another most probably a super 7 board.

I paid for a S3 Trio 64v+ PCI.
11.30 British Pound including shipping.

An AU8820 and a PIII 600 for the Tyan build in sig.

Satellite 320CDT. P233MMX, 64MB RAM, OPL3! Beats my Tecra 740CDT with its 166MMX and Crystal chip.

Bunch of SCSI stuff. All the drives are 10K. Hard to find, not cheap when you do.

£15 for all if the above. Bargs.

A very blurry set of disparate parts for $5. Looks like a VLB card (probably Cirrus Logic), another ISA VGA card which I can't identify from the picture, a Mozart sound card with OPL4, and 4 unmatched RAM sticks.

stamasd wrote:

... another ISA VGA card that I can't identify

I bet it's an ATI with 512KB of ram.

devius wrote:

stamasd wrote:

... another ISA VGA card that I can't identify

I bet it's an ATI with 512KB of ram.

We shall see when it gets here. That would actually be interesting because I don't have any other ATI ISA cards. I used to have an ATI Mach-something years ago, but I don't remember what happened to it. Haven't seen it for a long time, I must have lost it.

BloodyCactus wrote:

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

rkrenicki wrote:

My MT-32 finally showed up from Japan today. I am waiting for a few more parts to arrive, and I will have both of my retro gaming setups ready to go.

From the angle of the photo it looks like it has a straight face at the front 😀

whoa, it really does!

Hah, well no.. it does not have a flat front. although I wish it did! It bugs me that this is slanted, and the SC-88VL is flat.

I picked the MT-32 up for 6000yen, and I already had some other items coming from Japan (mostly car parts), so it only increased the weight of the package a small amount. It probably ended up being about $100-110 USD by the time it got to me if I were to calculate out the percentage of weights and other fees.

Huh, so now it makes 2 of us in Connecticut who have the same setup that's been shipped from Japan. 😀
(I have a CM32P also, but that's not for games)

Hi

got this today, for free (only had to pay shipping):

stamasd wrote:

Huh, so now it makes 2 of us in Connecticut who have the same setup that's been shipped from Japan. 😀
(I have a CM32P also, but that's not for games)

I also have the old MT32 + 88VL as my setup, except mt 88vl is edirol + white instead of roland + black.

VA > CT 😜

BloodyCactus wrote:

VA > CT 😜

That's simply not true. We have more snow than you! 😁

nemail wrote:

got this today, for free (only had to pay shipping):

That's an awesome Deskpro you got there 😁

This has been a while coming, now I finally have enough time to write this up. All I can say is, I am on a goddamn ROLL right now.

About a month ago now at a vintage computer convention I met a fellow who happened to volunteer at a local computer upcycling/resale place. We chatted and after I mentioned the difficulty I was having finding 486-Pentium hardware, he told me he had some old hardware in the back room they could clear out for me. I went last Saturday, and here we are.

I got two machines, an ST 486DX2-80 machine using an industrial DFI motherboard with one PCI slot, and a pretty standard PMMX-166 rig in a nice little case. I will do full threads on these machines in System Specs later, for now I'm too busy setting up/using them.

Apart from that I got:

Dell AT101W PS/2 w/Black Alps
Leading Edge DC-92014 XT w/ Blue Alps
"Micro Q" VLB motherboard
2 or 3 SB16s, all with real OPL3s
SB Audigy 2
FX 5500, GF4 MX440, and GF4 Ti 4200 (bad fan)
Matrox Millenium and ATI Mach 64 PCI cards
Voodoo3 3000 AGP
Some hard drives, RAM and other misc spares

But wait, there's more!

As you may or may not know I'm in high school at the moment. Last Saturday while all of this was happening I was also fixing a laptop (i.e. installing drivers) for the school's robotics club. As most of the club managers/sponsors are also part of the school's applied tech/IT division, I asked them afterwards if I could grab a reward (or six) out of the many bins of cards in the computer maintainence room the club meets in. And to my surprise, they accepted. So I got even more stuff:

2x SB16 Vibra CT2800 (one not pictured, it's in the 486)
Aztech sound/modem card that probably came out of a Packard Bell.
S3 Virge PCI card
Another Voodoo! This time a V3 2000 AGP.
And a YMF724!!

Seriously can't believe my luck. Who would've thought a school would still have stuff like that laying around.

Oh wow, awesome haul ElementalChaos!

ElementalChaos wrote:

school's robotics club

FIRST?

Well, the last major components of my P3 build arrived today, so I built it up, got Win98SE loaded on one hard drive, MS-DOS 6.22 on another. I'll throw XP on a third, and probably Win10 on a fourth, just for giggles. (I'll put a PCI controller card in for the third and fourth hard drives. Probably a SATA card.)

Found out something funny: the Asus S370-133 slotket adapter doesn't fit with the Asus DR2 DIMM Riser! Using the stock Intel cooler on the S370 P3, it bumps in to the DIMM Riser, causing the HSF to not make good contact with the CPU core. (Thankfully, I went in to the BIOS first thing, and going through all the options, I ended up on the hardware monitor screen in time to watch the CPU core temp jump from 70C to 85C, then shut down and swapped out the DIMM Riser for actual RAMBUS memory. I only have 2x64 RIMMs right now, the 2x512MB RIMMs are on their way.)

Then scored off Craiglist an Amiga. No bloody 1000, 500, 3000, 1200 or 4000. Just an Amiga. (Like the original Macintosh, it was sold as just "Amiga" at first, then had "1000" slapped on later, like how the Macintosh had "128k" slapped on later.) Unfortunately, my internet went down at home, so I had to go in to the office to work (I work overnight shift, normally from home, but my ISP says they won't have it fixed until after my shift ends, so in to the office it is!) So I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. I did see it working at the gent's house I bought it from. Original Amiga, matching monitor, keyboard, mouse, Atari joystick, and about 100 disks of games/apps. The keyboard and front panel of the system are pretty yellowed, so I'll have to see if I can make those nicer.

Anonymous Freak wrote:

Well, the last major components of my P3 build arrived today, so I built it up, got Win98SE loaded on one hard drive, MS-DOS 6.22 on another. I'll throw XP on a third, and probably Win10 on a fourth, just for giggles. (I'll put a PCI controller card in for the third and fourth hard drives. Probably a SATA card.)

Found out something funny: the Asus S370-133 slotket adapter doesn't fit with the Asus DR2 DIMM Riser! Using the stock Intel cooler on the S370 P3, it bumps in to the DIMM Riser, causing the HSF to not make good contact with the CPU core. (Thankfully, I went in to the BIOS first thing, and going through all the options, I ended up on the hardware monitor screen in time to watch the CPU core temp jump from 70C to 85C, then shut down and swapped out the DIMM Riser for actual RAMBUS memory. I only have 2x64 RIMMs right now, the 2x512MB RIMMs are on their way.)

Then scored off Craiglist an Amiga. No bloody 1000, 500, 3000, 1200 or 4000. Just an Amiga. (Like the original Macintosh, it was sold as just "Amiga" at first, then had "1000" slapped on later, like how the Macintosh had "128k" slapped on later.) Unfortunately, my internet went down at home, so I had to go in to the office to work (I work overnight shift, normally from home, but my ISP says they won't have it fixed until after my shift ends, so in to the office it is!) So I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. I did see it working at the gent's house I bought it from. Original Amiga, matching monitor, keyboard, mouse, Atari joystick, and about 100 disks of games/apps. The keyboard and front panel of the system are pretty yellowed, so I'll have to see if I can make those nicer.

Windows 10 won't run on a P3 due to the missing SSE2 and NX Bit supprort, in fact, even most Pentium 4s can't even run 10 as well (all pre-prescott P4s and some early Prescotts like Pentium 4 5x0)

I have run 10 32bit on a 5x series Prescott. 64bit would not install however, which was fine since it only had 4gb of ram anyways.

ODwilly wrote:

I have run 10 32bit on a 5x series Prescott. 64bit would not install however, which was fine since it only had 4gb of ram anyways.

Pentium 4 5x0J or 5x1?

5x0J features NX Bit unlike the model without J, but is a 32 bit CPU

5x1 is the 64 bit version of the 5x0J