Iam using the same XT boards also.. They show up very frequency on ebay. For Graphics iam using an ATI wonder XL.. Its a 16-bit card that can used in 8-bit mode.. And its a very usable card, i can also set the graphics mode with what i want to use.. Its supports herculus / MDA, till VGA. So i dont have to mess with older an rarer monitors. I just can use a simple 14 inch VGA one for my system.

retrofanatic wrote:

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Two of these cards just sold on eBay Canada. I wanted to buy them but was too slow. Didn't get a reply to overseas shipment.

Yes that's where I got this one from (I am almost 100% sure)...from this seller who has two other FX5950's on sale right now....http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Lot-of-2-Nvidia-Geforc … =item2ed0c9b303 I'm thinking of going for it...but I have already maxed out my budget this month for retro hardware 🤣.

I nabbed these two when he put them on 50% off sale. Couldn't pass them up for that. 😊

JoeCorrado wrote:

I nabbed these two when he put them on 50% off sale. Couldn't pass them up for that. 😊

Good on you 😀 He eventually replied and wouldn't ship overseas.

Bought IBM 586VE SBC. Paid $90 with shipping. A bit overpaid price in my thinking, but won't buy it in korea like this quality again.

Backplane with SBC, ISA SCSI?, LAN and AT power.

Unofficial Korean enginners(?) are always lose screws assembling any products. (Looks lost 4 of them.)
Shamefully, the captain was also layman and over 20 dozens of peoples were lost at sea. Korea is still small nation.

looks like the pictures are dead links.

kithylin wrote:

looks like the pictures are dead links.

Same with me.

Got some more stuff today for $25 including shipment + the mouse from the revious post is clean and disposable 😀

Matrox IS-Athena R1 2Mb + 2Mb expansion board
Hercules Thriller 3D - Rendition Verite V2200 4 MB
Terratec Gold 16/96 (gold-plated jacks and backplate)
AMD DX4-100 SV8B

Surprisingly ergonomic Genius G-6000 mouse. You can not imagine what it looked like. I suppose it was from electric systems department judging by the amount of colophony on the buttons and the cable. It has seen a lot of oil/grease a s well.

Got some videocards.

NVidia Riva TNT2 m64 with DVI only.
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EGA Chips 82c435 256kb
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AccelGraphics Eclipse (AccelEclipse) 15+16mb.
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Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro (3DLabs Permedia2)
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Diamond Monster 3D II 12Mb (Got another one, will try SLI mode)
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TsengLabs ET6000.
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Nvidia TNT2 m64 for PCI bus.
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easy_john, the first videocard is a nice find, does it have good signal quality? Cheap nvidia cards are notorious for blurry output caused by filters, yet your card seems to be more OEM/business-oriented.

And what's inside Eclipse? Тот еще динозавр!

RacoonRider wrote:

easy_john, the first videocard is a nice find, does it have good signal quality? Cheap nvidia cards are notorious for blurry output caused by filters, yet your card seems to be more OEM/business-oriented.

Not tested yet, sorry.

RacoonRider wrote:

And what's inside Eclipse? Тот еще динозавр!

Based on "Mitsubishi 3DPro/2mp", I found more info on this site:
http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/component … raphics-eclipse

RacoonRider wrote:

Тот еще динозавр!

Yes, and you can find on this http://www.ixbt.com/video/ogl_proboards.html russian site, that Eclipse has twice-tripple more performance, than diamond fire gl 3000.

Video Capture device:

Creative VideoBlaster SE CT6040
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Creative VideoBlaster RT300 CT6061
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Quadrant Q-Motion 100 (or 150? Impossible to find detail informatio about this card)
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Few old motherboards

486 PCI+ISA, AMD DX4-120
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486 VLB+ISA, DX2-66
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486 VLB+ISA, Overdrive DX20 PR66
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Asus P2B-D Dual Pentium2, P2-433.
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Picked up 3 19" Compaq P920 CRT Monitors for free. These heavy bastards use Mitsubishi Diamondtron tubes.

http://www.cnet.com/products/compaq-p920-crt- … 9-series/specs/

Don't you love it when all the goodies arrive after the long Easter weekend? 😐

There must've been a couple of versions of the MX3S-T board, because the photo I found of one has a game port as well, and the header above the red one is populated. Still, this one looks like a nice and simple S370 board, presumably from the tail end of the lifespan (I thought it was an early S478 board at first glance).

Lukeno94 wrote:

There must've been a couple of versions of the MX3S-T board, because the photo I found of one has a game port as well, and the header above the red one is populated. Still, this one looks like a nice and simple S370 board, presumably from the tail end of the lifespan (I thought it was an early S478 board at first glance).

Yes there are other versions and also OEM boards from Acer based on this.

Last week I was given for free a Soundblaster Awe64 gold in near mint condition!!
The real question is: where to use it? On a dos Pentium 120 socket 5 machine or on a windows 95 Pentium mmx eith voodoo1 or on a windows 98 with k6-3 400 and voodoo3?
Alternatives are sb vibra16s with real opl, sb 16 and sb16 value, sb0220 pci, sb128 pci. 😀

Well, I'd put the SB 128 PCI with the K6-3 system, and the AWE64 with the Pentium MMX, just based on the release dates of the cards and processors.

I took a risk on a zero feedback seller for this boxed NES, and for a while there it seemed like I’d been scammed – “I’m having trouble with my email”, “the lady at the post office got your post code wrong”, etc – but he eventually came through with the goods. I was pleasantly surprised when it arrived well packed and in excellent condition – it needed a good clean but somebody loved this thing, it’s perfect. It was doing the well known “no game inserted” flashing thing and generally failing to load, but it turned out to be the game cartridges that were dirty, not the connector. After I went at them with an eraser, and in one case sand paper, they’re all booting 100% every time.

I was a sega kid but owned an NES later, and a friend and I would ritualistically play Mario for hours while his poor girlfriend watched on. I lost that machine years ago, so I’m pumped to have one again after all these years. Mario, here I come:

That's cool 😀

That Sony might have a service menu that you can access by keying in certain buttons on the remote. The reason I mention it is because in PAL regions games are squished vertically (black bars top and bottom). To fix this you can adjust the geometry in the service menu. Newer Sony TVs are awesome for this 😀