Here are the pics of my Intellistation

SCSI enclosure:

Manuals & CDs:

Another rare finds: Diamond Riva TNT2 Ultra in pristine condition and PowerVR Kyro II from SUMA

As expected, I received this baby today 😀

I didn't test it yet though.

It came alongside this :

and also this :

The wavetable sounds excellent. However the SB 16 has some problem I guess : when I first tried it, I couldn't hear anything. At first I even thought it was broken ! Then I noticed that these two jumpers were missing :

No I can hear sound ... barely. I need to crank up the wheel up to the maximum, same for mixerset and also my speakers to have "normal sound". But as you can imagine, that sounds terrible due to the noise it creates. I know early SB16 were noisy, however I never knew they lacked that munch power 🤣 I don't think that this is normal.

However after some testings with the wavetable, I figured out that it doesn't have the hanging note bug. Yay !

Deksor wrote:

As expected, I received this baby today 😀

Wow...very cool 😀

xeon3d wrote:

Here are the pics of my Intellistation

C'mon dude work with us here, fix your photos.

Those Korg have very low output level.

Well the Korg isn't the problem here, it's the sound card itself. I first tried this card alone, then I did put another SB16 (which has the hanging note bug) that works and the card aswell as the korg sounded properly and then I re tried the card and there I figured out that the output level was very very low

I bought 2 soundblaster isa cards today

CT1750

and
CT2230

any of these 2 is good? or bad
i noticed the 2230 is missing a chip in the socket

CT2230 is usually go to card from SB16 family.

I had been following an auction for a Midi-Land Sufflör (basically a sheet music displayer for use with midi instruments). Once they dropped the price enough for my tastes, I bid on it.

The one I got is an older version without a CF card slot. See the link below for information.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=aut … e%2F&edit-text=

I've already registered for the Midi-Land forum and am waiting for an admin to approve. The software that was available for it required a registration code and of course it is really old so no longer available.

I'm going to ask them if they can give me a registration code since the software is no longer available.

The fun thing is that I wondered what was inside so after confirming it booted up properly I took it apart to see what was inside. Seems to be a single board computer that could be mounted to an ISA backplane if I wanted to say add a sound card to it. It also has a Floppy and HDD controller as well as what looks to be a ps/2 and serial ports.

I may end up just using it for my old midi gear, but it would be fun to make it into a super compact computer... just wish it had a color screen instead of monchrome. The VGA port can take care of that though if I want.

A few other things showed up as well.

1. Slotcket that supports coppermine CPUs with Celeron 566
2. Compaq (STB) Interwave card
3. ISA/PCI POST diagnostic card - now I can actually diagnose boards with no POST LEDS built in
4. Tyan Tiger S2505T with dual Tulatin 1.13Ghz (has ISA slot, onboard video and no AGP slot)

Now that I've got a GUS MAX 2.1 with 512K of ram, I'm thinking ... What ram should-I use to upgrade it ? Is it specific ram for gravis ? The ram looks like the chips found on old PCI graphic cards, are those compatible with one another ? I've got two of these chips that are unused at the moment and if needed I can salvage some crappy card such as trident cards to get some too.

Got myself a VooDoo3 2000 PCI card in place of the STB Velocity 3D (S3 Virge/VX) and STB BlackMagic VooDoo2 cards since playing 3D games above 640x480 locks up my system, and the lack of SVGA that some of my games have never worked in either DOS or Windows 98SE. The VooDoo3 2000 PCI card made all of my games for both DOS and Windows 98SE run and play a heck of a lot better than the old setup, and the 3D games are more crisp and have higher frame rates than before and the text is a lot clearer than the other set up I had previously.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Got myself a VooDoo3 2000 PCI card in place of the STB Velocity 3D (S3 Virge/VX) and STB BlackMagic VooDoo2 cards since playing 3D games above 640x480 locks up my system, and the lack of SVGA that some of my games have never worked in either DOS or Windows 98SE. The VooDoo3 2000 PCI card made all of my games for both DOS and Windows 98SE run and play a heck of a lot better than the old setup, and the 3D games are more crisp and have higher frame rates than before and the text is a lot clearer than the other set up I had previously.

I'm curious how that would compare to just buying another V2 for SLI. Definitely IQ would be better due to less noise in the analog path. Since a V2 3000 PCI is a pricey card I would think going SLI would be more economically practical.

xplus93 wrote:

Definitely IQ would be better due to less noise in the analog path.

3dfx revamped pipeline starting from Banshee, which results in less rendering bugs like gaps between texture tiles and overall better color quality (dithering, 22-bit color).

My friend just brought me this collosus... Trinitron based HP P1100 from 1999... I was suprised that it has better specs than mine Sony 520GS.
I also bought this: quite hard to indentify but I found that in might be AUDIO WAVE AWS32

Bought one of those NOS Microsoft PS/2 IntelliMouse from one of the sellers on eBay with them and was contacted just a short while later by the seller letting me know that I could pick it up locally if I wanted (didn't realize he was near me when I bought it). So, I agreed and went.

Came out with the following (all new old stock):

• 2x IntelliMouse
• Astec 145W AT PSU
• Carmegeddon (box included but not pictured)
• 20x DSHD floppies + labels

After years of wishful thinking, I finally pulled the trigger on a 486DX2-66. Paid a tad more than I wanted, but it all seems to be in great shape, and also, is in the same case I had growing up, which was a definite selling point. Can't wait for it to come in.

dest wrote:

After years of wishful thinking, I finally pulled the trigger on a 486DX2-66. Paid a tad more than I wanted, but it all seems to […]
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After years of wishful thinking, I finally pulled the trigger on a 486DX2-66. Paid a tad more than I wanted, but it all seems to be in great shape, and also, is in the same case I had growing up, which was a definite selling point. Can't wait for it to come in.

Nice! And I love that this case has many many brothers (sisters?) 😀

dest wrote:

After years of wishful thinking, I finally pulled the trigger on a 486DX2-66. Paid a tad more than I wanted, but it all seems to be in great shape, and also, is in the same case I had growing up, which was a definite selling point. Can't wait for it to come in.

Nice. 😀 I also saw that for sale but the seller wasn't shipping outside the US, otherwise I definitely would've scooped it up myself, hehe. That case is my "holy grail" of sorts, but have not been able to find one (in fact the only one I've ever seen in person was the one we had back in the early 90's).

dest wrote:

After years of wishful thinking, I finally pulled the trigger on a 486DX2-66. Paid a tad more than I wanted, but it all seems to […]
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After years of wishful thinking, I finally pulled the trigger on a 486DX2-66. Paid a tad more than I wanted, but it all seems to be in great shape, and also, is in the same case I had growing up, which was a definite selling point. Can't wait for it to come in.

Interesting system. I have a 486 myself and only paid $17 for it (tower, keyboard, and mouse), upgraded a few things, installed some features, and it's a perfect system for all of my old games. BTW, welcome to the forums.