Good looking boards.

Got a nice early-production Athlon Slot A 1000 Mhz Orion CPU. 😁

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote:

Received a couple of nice Slot 1 Baby AT boards from Gigabyte, both in great condition - a GA-686BLX (complete with a GA-6R7 slotket) and a GA-6BA. It looks as if the LX board maxes out at a Celeron 533 and the BX board (at least this particular revision) at a Coppermine 800. Shame I don't have a really decent AT case for either of them 😢

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Never have seen a revision 2.5a GA-6BA before. I know the revision 3.0 6BA and above will support a 1.1 GHz CPU.

Katmai500 wrote:

Got a nice early-production Athlon Slot A 1000 Mhz Orion CPU. 😁

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How do you tell the production date and what is considered early? I have a Slot-A 700MHz, I want to check mine out.

liqmat wrote:

Never have seen a revision 2.5a GA-6BA before. I know the revision 3.0 6BA and above will support a 1.1 GHz CPU.

Yeah, I've been told that before revision 3.0 these board are rock solid to 800MHz but beyond that, even an extra .5 on the multiplier for an 850MHz Coppermine, and they get seriously flaky.

liqmat wrote:

Never have seen a revision 2.5a GA-6BA before. I know the revision 3.0 6BA and above will support a 1.1 GHz CPU.

Hello. Sorry to be off topic but could you please share the Donald Duck Demo proto for PC? Not here but maybe could you send a PM. Sorry again to bother.

appiah4 wrote:

Katmai500 wrote:

Got a nice early-production Athlon Slot A 1000 Mhz Orion CPU. 😁

K7_1000_1.JPG

K7_1000_2.JPG

How do you tell the production date and what is considered early? I have a Slot-A 700MHz, I want to check mine out.

For Slot A Athlon CPU's the date code is in the second row of text. XXYYWWXXXXXX, with YY being the year and WW being the week. So the CPU I posted was made Week 13, 2000 (0013), just a few weeks after the 1 GHz Athlon was officially launched.

You can also tell which core it has (Argon, Pluto, Orion, or Thunderbird) based on the model numbers in the first row. (XXX denotes the clock speed)
Argon: K7XXXMTR51B C
Pluto: K7XXXMTR51B A / K7XXXMTR52B A / K7XXXMPR52B A
Orion: K7XXXMNR53B A
Thunderbird: AXXXXMPR24B A

Bought a Yamaha FB-01 on eBay (won the auction). My plan is to change the battery with a new one and add the DX-21/DX-100 sounds on it to have over 300 sounds on it.

My new old stock 10" SVGA monitor came in. Looks really good at 640x480, and text is slightly blurry at 800x600. Color, brightness and contrast are all good. Geometry is slightly skewed in the top right but it is ok.

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My new old stock 10" SVGA monitor came in. Looks really good at 640x480, and text is slightly blurry at 800x600. Color, brightne […]
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My new old stock 10" SVGA monitor came in. Looks really good at 640x480, and text is slightly blurry at 800x600. Color, brightness and contrast are all good. Geometry is slightly skewed in the top right but it is ok.

Awww... it's adorable.

Katmai500 wrote:

For Slot A Athlon CPU's the date code is in the second row of text. XXYYWWXXXXXX, with YY being the year and WW being the week. […]
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appiah4 wrote:

Katmai500 wrote:

Got a nice early-production Athlon Slot A 1000 Mhz Orion CPU. 😁

K7_1000_1.JPG

K7_1000_2.JPG

How do you tell the production date and what is considered early? I have a Slot-A 700MHz, I want to check mine out.

For Slot A Athlon CPU's the date code is in the second row of text. XXYYWWXXXXXX, with YY being the year and WW being the week. So the CPU I posted was made Week 13, 2000 (0013), just a few weeks after the 1 GHz Athlon was officially launched.

You can also tell which core it has (Argon, Pluto, Orion, or Thunderbird) based on the model numbers in the first row. (XXX denotes the clock speed)
Argon: K7XXXMTR51B C
Pluto: K7XXXMTR51B A / K7XXXMTR52B A / K7XXXMPR52B A
Orion: K7XXXMNR53B A
Thunderbird: AXXXXMPR24B A

Ah, mine is a K7800 Pluto core from 0012 so I guess it's also an early-ish model..

Look forward to trying this one out.

Damn it varies a lot....doom sounded good, alqadim sounded meh, but the PQ1 intro was *amazing*.

Fancy MIDI synth.

doaks80 wrote:

Damn it varies a lot....doom sounded good, alqadim sounded meh, but the PQ1 intro was *amazing*.

Needs more soundcloud recording clips.

I need time. But I'll see what can be done. Any other games?

doaks80 wrote:

I need time. But I'll see what can be done. Any other games?

Whenever I test a MIDI device I usually record these 11 games (it varies a bit, but this is basically my core list): https://soundcloud.com/user-470084971/sets/ro … nvas-sd-35-midi

I have a chance to get a Power Mac G4 in good optical and technical condition for around 20 USD incl. the system installation discs. I have never owned a Mac, is that considered to be a good price? Are these systems worth it? I just realized, they are all over the place on classified ads and eBay and can't really figure out if these systems are good or not. Are they fun to fiddle around with? Do they work out of the box with USB keyboard/mice? Do they require a VGA adapter like these super old Macintoshs? So much questions, so little Mac knowledge... 😵

blurks wrote:

I have a chance to get a Power Mac G4 in good optical and technical condition for around 20 USD incl. the system installation discs. I have never owned a Mac, is that considered to be a good price? Are these systems worth it? I just realized, they are all over the place on classified ads and eBay and can't really figure out if these systems are good or not. Are they fun to fiddle around with? Do they work out of the box with USB keyboard/mice? Do they require a VGA adapter like these super old Macintoshs? So much questions, so little Mac knowledge... 😵

Did you play mac games in the mid 90s? If not then no, as every game on the mac in the late 90s onwards was also on PC. However if you have a thing for hypercard based black and white games and lode runner and the original prince of persia...then maybe. Of course they all run under emulation on the g4, so you might as well run a mac emulator on windows, or find an earlier g3 imac with system9, or an even earlier model. Note old mac games basically suck....but have big nostalgia value for people who went to school in the 90s, as we used them more than PCs.

i remember to 1993 (94?) - our school got a Mac. I was like a spaceship, compared to the average PCs in the high school (286-486 w/o sound card, etc). Basically nobody could use it, just showed it. 😀

it looked like this (or similar), with a lot of ram (24m maybe), high resolution educational game (not 320x200).