Been messing around with the background music in "Retro Orange PI"...
Instead of playing old game tunes, my RetroPI is now playing Africa by Toto.
This is totally awesome, as it can be used for some 80's party entertainment.
Just go into the desktop, find the music folder and replace the OGG files.
According to the PY file, it might be possible to use MP3's instead.
Who knows... I am going to check it out tomorrow.

Uhhh....
Almost forgot to mention, that in order to play the new music, then you
have to restart background music or just reboot.

A friend is swapping his phenom iix2 out for a fx-6300. I'm gunna see if I can get the cores to unlock in my AsRock N68 am2-am3 board. Free phenom ii dual or quad will be a sick upgrade from the Athlon 64x2 7750

Got a pickup lined up for tomorrow. Been emailing and got a final confirmation today. Lets just say, i'm sleeping like a kid on christmas eve. Uploaded a couple of the pics I got. Thats a mac lc 575 for those who are curious.

.......

Well, it didn't happen today, but I had this Athlon 1000 cpu dusting down, so I put it in a frame and gave it to a friend of mine who has always been a little far out on the red side...

xplus93 wrote:

Got a pickup lined up for tomorrow. Been emailing and got a final confirmation today. Lets just say, i'm sleeping like a kid on christmas eve. Uploaded a couple of the pics I got. Thats a mac lc 575 for those who are curious.

I'll tell you what's curious - the ISA sandwich on that Intel board. Have fun digging through that box. Also, I had no idea Voodoo boxes were so enormous!

brassicGamer wrote:

xplus93 wrote:

Got a pickup lined up for tomorrow. Been emailing and got a final confirmation today. Lets just say, i'm sleeping like a kid on christmas eve. Uploaded a couple of the pics I got. Thats a mac lc 575 for those who are curious.

I'll tell you what's curious - the ISA sandwich on that Intel board. Have fun digging through that box. Also, I had no idea Voodoo boxes were so enormous!

They are more or less standard dimensions - like other (newer) graphic cards.

brassicGamer wrote:

xplus93 wrote:

Got a pickup lined up for tomorrow. Been emailing and got a final confirmation today. Lets just say, i'm sleeping like a kid on christmas eve. Uploaded a couple of the pics I got. Thats a mac lc 575 for those who are curious.

I'll tell you what's curious - the ISA sandwich on that Intel board. Have fun digging through that box. Also, I had no idea Voodoo boxes were so enormous!

I'm still trying to figure out what that board is. From what I can tell it's one of the very first boards intel released. I've got a P133 already, and i'm hoping it's compatible.

Because I finished high school, college is starting in autumn and they didn't want me for the parttime job in recycling centre, I am sitting home and kicking my butt from boredom. So I thought I could finish my SS7 project.
I started with case. I got it from friend, it had some super weird socket 7/slot A combination which didn't work properly. It also had inside ATX PSU with power button wired on reset button, stuck CD drive and dark orange floppy drive. So I threw out all the guts and started cleaning the front bezel.

One day of Retr0bright and it looks brand new!

So I assembled it back and started looking for some nice motherboard. I went through my stash and found only some generic LGA775 stuff, pretty much worthless. When I thought that I need to buy some nice board my eyes landed on computer I got YEARS ago. It was some ugly proprietary purple FIC LEO and when I powered it on, it had Windows XP on it, graphical artifact and it performed really, really poorly. Then the main filter cap in PSU blew and threw the breakers, so I tucked it in corner and left it there. When I finally disassembled it, it had nice Super Socket 7 board! It has Cyrix MII 266MHz, so that's also nice.

Few hours of digging in my supplies later I found some nice back brackets, AT PSU, white CD drive (which I might upgrade to DVD), never used 3,5" floppy and the only white (sadly yellowed) 5,25" drive which is being whitened right now. And also Seagate Barracuda 40GB IDE drive.

Then I stopped. I have dilemma what GPU I should use. I have few options, but I want to use brown board if possible.
- Asus AGP-V6600 32MB - had the best benchmark, but is DARN HOT - 75-80°C
- ManLi GeForce 2 MX-400 - Second best benchmark, but DARN loud fan...
- S3 Trio 3D - It is fully working, but when I tried to pull it from PC I got zapped. And the PC was two hours unplugged from wall...
- S3 Trio 3D/2X - worst benchmark from all of them (231 FPS 3DBENCH, 100 FPS PCPBENCH, 74,8 Quake bench), but it had no problem. I am afraid of lack of performance, but I will see...

Next really big problem - where to find soundcard that works in Windows 98 SE AND in Commander Keen and Wolf 3D. I love soundcards, but I don't have anything suitable. (I think, maybe some SB Live! is there, but I would like something like AWE64 a little bit more)

And the last problem - how to use the TURBO button since the board doesn't have option for it. I thought maybe I could add fan somewhere and turn it on with the button when needed. Maybe to front since it is perforated there. But then I will have to rellocate the speaker. Nevertheless, it might be nice, don't you think?

*Disclaimer*: I did NOT power it on without the CPU cooler. I didn't have thermal paste on hand so I left the mainboard unplugged while testing the PSU, front panel and drives.

I use the turbo button to toggle between jumper settings, either FSB or multiplier.

gdjacobs wrote:

I use the turbo button to toggle between jumper settings, either FSB or multiplier.

That also depends on the board if it has either the infamous DIP switches, jumpers, or CMOS jumper-less configuration, if my memory serves me right. Wish I had the turbo button in my Socket 7 system, but there are no jumpers, except for the Clear CMOS settings jumper.

Doing some bench marks on my K6-2 300 system.

Here's the benchmark (SpeedSYS):

Edit: Didn't realize SpeedSYS does, in fact, make a screen shot. Learned that the hard way after booting into Windows 98SE, which the picture uses a PCX file extension, so I had to install GIMP 2 and GTK+ 2 Runtime to convert the image from PCX to PNG.

/Edit

Received 3 extremely beat up externally CRTs. 1 15" and two 17". One the glass and components actually push back away from the screen. They all display perfect images aside from having mildly dirty screens. It never ceases to amaze me how resilent CRTs. I've dropped one 3 or 4 feet before personally and had it work fine and one of the ones I received looks like it was mauled by an animal. I'll create a separate thread for these tomorrow. It's about time vogons had a special thread for CRT enthusiasts.

I also received a Daewoo 1080i 32" model. Sadly it looks to be damaged beyond repair. It constantly cuts in and out picture, static for sound even when muted, random colorloss, bouncy image, horizontal lines on screen etc. It's a cluster fuck and it sounds irreparable.

Completed a Socket 370 build, pictures here http://imgur.com/a/4Wcr5

Having technical difficulties with my Aztech WaveRider 32-2D card (AZT2316R) with the sound output. Apparently, my left speaker is quieter than the right speaker, and I believe the jacks are jacked up since cleaning them didn't help at all. Luckily, I have a bag of 100 or less now jacks for the cards I have, or speakers with headphone jacks:

Aztech AZT2316R card
Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro
Sound Blaster 16 WavEffects CT4170
JBL Platinum Series speakers from Compaq

However, I don't have solder wick or a desoldering iron to remove the jacks at all.

Question though, what do the jumpers behind every input/output on the sound card do?

SPK1
LIN1
LOUT1
MIC1

Do they increase/decrease the amount of sound going in or out via amplification?

Edit: found something on the card.

Not good.

Helping a friend by giving him four 2gb sticks of DDR2 800 for his PC. His heat damaged q6600 won't OC at all so I think we are going to snag a Q9550 off eBay. (Q6600 came out of a dead dust clogged Dell)

bjwil1991 wrote:

Having technical difficulties with my Aztech WaveRider 32-2D card (AZT2316R) with the sound output. Apparently, my left speaker […]
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Having technical difficulties with my Aztech WaveRider 32-2D card (AZT2316R) with the sound output. Apparently, my left speaker is quieter than the right speaker, and I believe the jacks are jacked up since cleaning them didn't help at all. Luckily, I have a bag of 100 or less now jacks for the cards I have, or speakers with headphone jacks:

Aztech AZT2316R card
Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro
Sound Blaster 16 WavEffects CT4170
JBL Platinum Series speakers from Compaq

However, I don't have solder wick or a desoldering iron to remove the jacks at all.

Question though, what do the jumpers behind every input/output on the sound card do?

SPK1
LIN1
LOUT1
MIC1

Do they increase/decrease the amount of sound going in or out via amplification?

Edit: found something on the card.

20170617_150614.jpg

Not good.

Those little scuffs/scrapes should have 0 effect on the functionality. As long as there are no components missing or traces broken you should be fine. Good luck finding old hardware without some sort of scuffs/scrapes unless the owner(s) were OCD about keeping everything in the original boxes in anti-static bags as soon as it was removed from the system it was in.

The first Aztech card I got actually had a broken trace that somebody tried to repair but did a horrible job. The posting said that the one channel didn't work. Before even trying it out I replaced the glob of solder with an actual wire... which should not have affected anything from what I could tell because all the trace went to was the virtual parallel port jumper.

Put the card in a computer to test it out and it worked just fine.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Question though, what do the jumpers behind every input/output on the sound card do? […]
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Question though, what do the jumpers behind every input/output on the sound card do?

SPK1
LIN1
LOUT1
MIC1

Do they increase/decrease the amount of sound going in or out via amplification?

I suspect they're internal connectors for the back plate I/O connectors. There are additional pins which might be for spacing or perhaps for connecting filtration. A little testing with a DMM would reveal that for sure.

Having fun with my first (and last) 3dfx card. Got a couple V5500s in a CL pickup. Apparently my Dell XPS B1000r has a wimpy power supply and can't handle it. So I had to dig out my S370 rig and put it in there which was going to be it's new home anyways. I'd rather keep my systems as intel/nvidia as possible.

Tested two Socket7 and one s370 boards that I got at least a year ago... all work fine. Also tested ATI Radeon 9800 PRO card. It works at least in DOS. Will test in Windows some other time - in a year or two 🤣