Actually, if memory serves, most floppy drives started black.
As for the ati 7000's, I honestly dont know a use for ONE card, let alone 18.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
wrote:Actually, if memory serves, most floppy drives started black.
As for the ati 7000's, I honestly dont know a use for ONE card, let alone 18.
Don't they have pretty good DOS compatibility? Also, most games which are in that niche of too old for Windows XP but works great on 9x should run just fine on a card like that. Obviously won't set any speed records but a good cost effective solution.
wrote:wrote:Actually, if memory serves, most floppy drives started black.
As for the ati 7000's, I honestly dont know a use for ONE card, let alone 18.
Don't they have pretty good DOS compatibility? Also, most games which are in that niche of too old for Windows XP but works great on 9x should run just fine on a card like that. Obviously won't set any speed records but a good cost effective solution.
I would be interested in one
So it's not that bad he bought them 😉
Bought this cute 386 board for £10.50! Didn't realise how small it was until it arrived 😀
Looks like the Forcom M396F board, but with 8 30pin SIMM slots instead of four. Being that it's an SX, this board probably can accept 2MB SIMMs.
wrote:Bought this cute 386 board for £10.50! Didn't realise how small it was until it arrived 😀
You sure got some amazingly huge coal shovels for hands...the board looks totally cute! 😁
Could you make another pic of it next to some piece of hardware most of us knows, like a Voodoo 3 or Voodoo 2 or a 3.5in floppy drive or something? 😜
Smallest motherboard I have is probably a Slot 1 BX board, was wanting to take a pic of it next to this Slot 1 Intel Nightshade board I believe it was called?
The size difference between those boards is quite impressive.
ISA slots are already on the picture and most of us should know them 😉
1+1=10
wrote:ISA slots are already on the picture and most of us should know them 😉
True.
But the more pics the better 😁
Scored an ESS Solo-1 for $1 (plus $3 shipping) was mislabeled "Yamaha sound card" on ebay even though clearly it wasn't that; and a TB Aureal Vortex2 for $3 plus $4 shipping.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
Sometimes sellers put the wrong pictures.... happened before...
Requests are also possible... /msg kixs
wrote:Sometimes sellers put the wrong pictures.... happened before...
Nope, it was the right picture (already got the card in the mail). In fact I would have preferred that it were a Yamaha PCI card, but I'm happy enough with the Solo too, especially at this price.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/152183558386?_trksid= … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
wrote:You sure got some amazingly huge coal shovels for hands...the board looks totally cute! :D […]
wrote:Bought this cute 386 board for £10.50! Didn't realise how small it was until it arrived 😀
You sure got some amazingly huge coal shovels for hands...the board looks totally cute! 😁
Could you make another pic of it next to some piece of hardware most of us knows, like a Voodoo 3 or Voodoo 2 or a 3.5in floppy drive or something? 😜
Smallest motherboard I have is probably a Slot 1 BX board, was wanting to take a pic of it next to this Slot 1 Intel Nightshade board I believe it was called?
The size difference between those boards is quite impressive.
Board under testing at the moment but so far so good.
Got this pic to compare it with a 3.5" disk and 5.25" disk - not the best i'm afraid 😀
wrote:Scored an ESS Solo-1 for (pl shipping) was mislabeled "Yamaha sound card" on ebay even though clearly it wasn't that; and a TB Aureal Vortex2 for pl shipping.
Awesome when you get a bargain! 😀
wrote:Also just got this motherboard from another vintage hardware forum: […]
Also just got this motherboard from another vintage hardware forum:
That looks like a PC Chips board with real cache, VLB, and PCI. Nice score!
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wrote:That looks like a PC Chips board with real cache, VLB, and PCI. Nice score!
One thing I don't see however is a FDD connector, which is surprising for a motherboard from that era. That's OK I have plenty of multi-IO controllers, just surprising.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
That's really cool. It would be fun to benchmark the same video card chipset in VLB and PCI on that board.
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
OPL3 FM vs. Roland MT-32 vs. General MIDI DOS Game Comparison
Let's benchmark our systems with cache disabled
DOS PCI Graphics Card Benchmarks
Looks to be the PCChips M915i also known as the Amptron DX 9200. I've got the same board, but the ISA slots are white and "Fugu Tech" stickers on the chipset (yeah, right), and fake cache. The lack of an onboard FDD is rather annoying too.
It looks like it's an AMPTRON DX-9200I
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
wrote:Looks to be the PCChips M915 also known as the Amptron DX9200. I've got the same board, but the ISA slots are white and "Fugu Tech" stickers on the chipset (yeah, right). The lack of an onboard FDD is rather annoying too.
Yeah I was searching TH99 and came to the same conclusion.
However since it doesn't have serial/parallel ports either it looks like one of the ISA slots will go to an IO card anyway. Just have to make sure I find one that won't conflict with the onboard IDE ports. Can you disable or change resources for those in BIOS?
wrote:That's really cool. It would be fun to benchmark the same video card chipset in VLB and PCI on that board.
It would, except that I don't have the same chipset in both PCI and VLB versions. In fact, the only VLB video card I have is a Trident-something, and the only PCI card I have is a Radeon 7000 (which is not even usable in a PC because I flashed it for Mac many years ago and used it in a beige G3 back in the day)
(edit) Not entirely correct. I do have a Geforce 8400GS PCI; for some reason though I suspect I'd have trouble finding this chipset in VLB. 😀
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
