Muppets4 wrote:

This Quickshot, together with Arcade joysticks by Suzo were a large part of my youth (;

Same here. One of the best sticks that have "pistol" grip. All microswitches and turbo-fire funcktion. The build quality is high. As far as remember, then it is right up there with Wico Command Controll and The Arcade stick's.

I bought some "as-is" video cards today.

X1950 Pro - Haven't tested yet.
Radeon 7200 SDR - Works perfectly
Radeon 7500 64MB - Works Perfectly
Chaintech (I think, it is completely unbranded) Geforce4 mx440se - Slapped an MSI heatsink on it and it works great and overclocks very well.
Matrox Millennium - No output. Windows does recognize it.
Radeon 9800 Pro - Artifacting issues.

I also got 2 socket 939 CPUs to troubleshoot a motherboard and a Microsoft force feedback joystick.

Shagittarius wrote:

Just got my second DEAD Radeon 9800 Pro. Man I don't think many of these cards are in working condition given my luck. Both th […]
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Just got my second DEAD Radeon 9800 Pro. Man I don't think many of these cards are in working condition given my luck. Both the sellers claimed they were tested and working perfectly. They arrived in antistatic bags and bubble wrapped outside of that so I think they were broken prior to shipping.

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Same thing happened with a 9800XT I bought for $25. The stick indicated it was last tested in 2012. Makes me wonder if it had just been sitting in someone's inventory that whole time and then a reseller bought them out and listed it.

I just ordered this beauty today for 43€ (20€ + 23€ shipping)

Apparently that's a pentium machine with Asus TX97-E, 64MB of ram and what seems to be an AWE64 gold 😀

I'm not really intested by the pentium par (I have more than enough AT socket 7 boards), but rather by the case and the sound card ^^ (though the case will need a proper power switch, as you can see the one being there currently is loose because the original broke)

Just purchased a PIII machine for around £80

A Matrox Mystique for £15 and will be purchasing a 3DFX accelerator shortly.

Predator99 wrote:

Monitoring auctions since about 2 years now, but never spotted one. And then this :exclamation: Now its mine..mine...mine, but […]
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Monitoring auctions since about 2 years now, but never spotted one. And then this 😲 Now its mine..mine...mine, but without mobiles and spoons 😎

Spoon lot arrived 😎

Anybody can identify this card? 😘

CT1750:

80286 SBC with 287. Its from a Schneider Tower PC. Anybody knows how to test it? No power supply. Can I simpy remove the CPU from an ISA Mainboard and put it in together with a VGA..?

The Midiman WinMan I got from Ebay arrived, but the seller simply wrapped the box in packing paper. No padding whatsoever. Fortunately it was not crushed and seems to be okay.

^ why did you get it? some win3x build?

Predator99 wrote:

Anybody can identify this card? 😘

AdLib Music Synthesizer Card (1990)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Lib,_I ... ard_(1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrZ7xVJqDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3r2TF7jDxA

keropi wrote:

^ why did you get it? some win3x build?

P166 with integrated sound lacking a game/MIDI port that will likely be set up as a DOS/Win3.11 system.

yawetaG wrote:

keropi wrote:

^ why did you get it? some win3x build?

P166 with integrated sound lacking a game/MIDI port that will likely be set up as a DOS/Win3.11 system.

It is my understanding that the winman only works under a windows environment.
Please update when you test it, I am curious.

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote:

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Predator99 wrote:

Anybody can identify this card? 😘

AdLib Music Synthesizer Card (1990)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Lib,_I ... ard_(1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrZ7xVJqDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3r2TF7jDxA

$1200 sound card in a scrap lot. Where is this luck when I need it? That thing is worth more than my truck....

keropi wrote:

yawetaG wrote:

keropi wrote:

^ why did you get it? some win3x build?

P166 with integrated sound lacking a game/MIDI port that will likely be set up as a DOS/Win3.11 system.

It is my understanding that the winman only works under a windows environment.
Please update when you test it, I am curious.

It can work under DOS, but only with specially developed drivers. One is included for Cakewalk for DOS, and I plan to try to decompile it...

$1200? That smells like bullshit to me. I can see $120, MAYBE, but $1200?

luckybob wrote:

$1200? That smells like bullshit to me. I can see $120, MAYBE, but $1200?

Indeed, sounds quite high for me. Bute the value is difficult to estimate. Only found one sold item

https://www.ebay.de/itm/AdLib-Music-Synthesiz … =p2047675.l2557

But this seems to be a buy-at-once offer therefore the price might have been to low.

yawetaG wrote:

It can work under DOS, but only with specially developed drivers. One is included for Cakewalk for DOS, and I plan to try to decompile it...

what I really meant was DOS gaming 🤣
yes the cakewalk driver is advertised on the box , I suspect though it will heavily rely on cakewalk itself.
Please report on the windows driver when you test it, maybe it adds full mpu401 functionality similar to what softmpu does.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote:

AdLib Music Synthesizer Card (1990) […]
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Predator99 wrote:

Anybody can identify this card? 😘

AdLib Music Synthesizer Card (1990)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Lib,_I ... ard_(1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrZ7xVJqDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3r2TF7jDxA

$1200 sound card in a scrap lot. Where is this luck when I need it? That thing is worth more than my truck....

It is a soundcard and not 20 pound Kobe ribeye beef.

Zero_sugar wrote:

I bought some "as-is" video cards today. […]
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I bought some "as-is" video cards today.

X1950 Pro - Haven't tested yet.
Radeon 7200 SDR - Works perfectly
Radeon 7500 64MB - Works Perfectly
Chaintech (I think, it is completely unbranded) Geforce4 mx440se - Slapped an MSI heatsink on it and it works great and overclocks very well.
Matrox Millennium - No output. Windows does recognize it.
Radeon 9800 Pro - Artifacting issues.

I also got 2 socket 939 CPUs to troubleshoot a motherboard and a Microsoft force feedback joystick.

Have you tried rubbing down that Millenium in alcohol yet? I did that to my Radeon X1950XT that would not display and it was not recognized in Windows and driver install would fail. After rubbing the whole board in rubbing alcohol with a q tip, it works perfectly.

Lian Li Small desktop case arrived today.
Compact desktop size I don't know if a Baby AT case will fit. It's going to be tight.
Want to use this with an really nice Audio setup.
I can't wait to show you guys.
Maybe next month.
It's going to be a really nice build.

Photos taken with my iPad.

Bought a Reveal Musicstar MIDI keyboard (CIB, mostly) that has the MIDI-Joystick adapter, software on CD, manual, AC adapter, and the keyboard itself for $23.99 + tax.