What sorcery/fakery is this. 🫢

Dunno, but honestly better than a rebranded 9550 core. The M10/11 core used here is derived off 9600XT 😀

PcBytes wrote on 2024-06-10, 16:44:

So I just got around cleaning the "9600 Pro" from my previous post, the one with fake Rubycons. But it wasn't just those fake Ru […]
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So I just got around cleaning the "9600 Pro" from my previous post, the one with fake Rubycons.
But it wasn't just those fake Rubycons that came as a surprise 😀

Mobility radeon 9700 🤨

R300 series is a mess. Some manufacturers produced very weird/out of specs things.

I'm always very suspicious when buying these cards.
I've seen :
- 9800 "pro" with 128 bit bus
- 9700 on 9800 pcbs
- 9800 on 9700 pcbs
- New in box 9600 pro with "windows vista" support advertised on the box (so 2007+ for a 2003 card) with a driver CD also containing nvidia drivers.

From my experience it's very difficult to tell what it is without looking a the die. So buying an r300 is a gamble.

Nice find. I would keep it just for the weirdness.

That's weird, all the fake Rubycons I've come across have been like "Rulycon" or "Rudycon" or other misspellings in same font.

PcBytes wrote on 2024-06-10, 16:44:

So I just got around cleaning the "9600 Pro" from my previous post, the one with fake Rubycons.
But it wasn't just those fake Rubycons that came as a surprise 😀

That's pretty cool and definitely a keeper.

Of course I'm keeping it! IIRC the Mobility 9700 was made from the XT variant of the 9600, so chances are I might be able to pull off some XT speeds. Or "die" trying 🤣

EDIT: And just when I thought this card couldn't surprise me any more. Look at the way the AGP is keyed, and keep in mind this is marketed as a 9600 Pro.

Received a handful of motherboards this week.

ABIT VH6T (with 1.4 GHz Pentium III CPU):

ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA:

ASRock 775i65G R.20:

Axiom Tech IMB200:

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-06-10, 23:20:

Received a handful of motherboards this week.
ABIT VH6T (with 1.4 GHz Pentium III CPU):

What a nice motherboard and you found one with the king. Very lucky!

Bought a Macintosh Classic M1420 from shopgoodwill.com for an okay price.

The system needs a recap, logic board deep cleaning, and a shell cleaning.

This is the system next to my MacBook Air M1 Late 2020.

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-06-10, 23:20:

Received a handful of motherboards this week. […]
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Received a handful of motherboards this week.

ABIT VH6T (with 1.4 GHz Pentium III CPU):

Abit VH6T motherboard.jpg

ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA:

AsRock 4CoreDual-VSTA motherboard.jpg

ASRock 775i65G R.20:

ASRock 775i65G R2.0 motherboard.jpg

Axiom Tech IMB200:

AXIOM Tech IMB200 motherboard.jpg

all with CPUs? that's a nice selection, the AXIOM Tech IMB200 with its agp, isa and 775 is time-spanning!

Today I got this Guillemot maxi sound home studio pro 64 (does any other sound card have more words in its name?). A little bit dusty, scratched up and packed in just bubble wrap. It's an ISA sound card with Dream9407 wavetable and ESS 1869 Audiodrive for Soundblaster and OPL/FM-Compability. It's got an optional RAM slot that now has a 4mb stick (max 16) I believe it also has a wavetable header and an optional daughterboard that im missing. I just tried it in windows and it thankfully works just fine. I know that it has been problematic to get it working in DOS but I saw that Unisound now supports it so hopefully it will go smooth. Honestly on paper it seems like one of the best sound cards you can get for Dos gaming, but I will have to try it out some more.

acl wrote on 2024-06-10, 17:36:

Mobility radeon 9700 🤨 […]
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PcBytes wrote on 2024-06-10, 16:44:

So I just got around cleaning the "9600 Pro" from my previous post, the one with fake Rubycons. But it wasn't just those fake Ru […]
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So I just got around cleaning the "9600 Pro" from my previous post, the one with fake Rubycons.
But it wasn't just those fake Rubycons that came as a surprise 😀

Mobility radeon 9700 🤨

R300 series is a mess. Some manufacturers produced very weird/out of specs things.

I'm always very suspicious when buying these cards.
I've seen :
- 9800 "pro" with 128 bit bus
- 9700 on 9800 pcbs
- 9800 on 9700 pcbs
- New in box 9600 pro with "windows vista" support advertised on the box (so 2007+ for a 2003 card) with a driver CD also containing nvidia drivers.

From my experience it's very difficult to tell what it is without looking a the die. So buying an r300 is a gamble.

Nice find. I would keep it just for the weirdness.

The only good thing(about this series) ,you can fix them with the documentation I provided many mo. Ago 😎

my03 wrote on 2024-06-06, 17:40:

Got delivery of this little guy today, Toshiba Protege 3110CT. Very neat little machine that came with floppy, CD, dock, etc.

Will replace the mechanical HDD with a CF solution (as usual).

can you attach a beter photo of the paralel connector of the cd-rom?

Baleog wrote on 2024-06-11, 17:18:

Today I got this Guillemot maxi sound home studio pro 64 (does any other sound card have more words in its name?). A little bit dusty, scratched up and packed in just bubble wrap. It's an ISA sound card with Dream9407 wavetable and ESS 1869 Audiodrive for Soundblaster and OPL/FM-Compability. It's got an optional RAM slot that now has a 4mb stick (max 16) I believe it also has a wavetable header and an optional daughterboard that im missing. I just tried it in windows and it thankfully works just fine. I know that it has been problematic to get it working in DOS but I saw that Unisound now supports it so hopefully it will go smooth. Honestly on paper it seems like one of the best sound cards you can get for Dos gaming, but I will have to try it out some more.

That's a great card. I use one in my 6 sound card 486 DX4-100 build. Being able to house two MIDI sources with it is especially great.

It was a pain to set up under DOS, but the combination of UNISOUND and the official drivers does work.

These are my AUTOEXEC.BAT settings for this card:

1@REM ----- Guillemot Maxi 64 init ----
2SET BLASTER=A240 I7 D3 M300 F388 P320 U10 T4
3CALL C:\UNISOUND\UNISOUND.COM /C3 /VC99
4C:\DOSMAXI\MAXINIT.EXE C:\DOSMAXI\
5C:\DOSMAXI\VOLUME.EXE V:15 W:14 S:14 D:15 C:15 M:0 L:0
6@REM ---------------------------------

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-06-11, 18:44:

That's a great card. I use one in my 6 sound card 486 DX4-100 build. Being able to house two MIDI sources with it is especially […]
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Baleog wrote on 2024-06-11, 17:18:

Today I got this Guillemot maxi sound home studio pro 64 (does any other sound card have more words in its name?). A little bit dusty, scratched up and packed in just bubble wrap. It's an ISA sound card with Dream9407 wavetable and ESS 1869 Audiodrive for Soundblaster and OPL/FM-Compability. It's got an optional RAM slot that now has a 4mb stick (max 16) I believe it also has a wavetable header and an optional daughterboard that im missing. I just tried it in windows and it thankfully works just fine. I know that it has been problematic to get it working in DOS but I saw that Unisound now supports it so hopefully it will go smooth. Honestly on paper it seems like one of the best sound cards you can get for Dos gaming, but I will have to try it out some more.

That's a great card. I use one in my 6 sound card 486 DX4-100 build. Being able to house two MIDI sources with it is especially great.

It was a pain to set up under DOS, but the combination of UNISOUND and the official drivers does work.

These are my AUTOEXEC.BAT settings for this card:

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1@REM ----- Guillemot Maxi 64 init ----
2SET BLASTER=A240 I7 D3 M300 F388 P320 U10 T4
3CALL C:\UNISOUND\UNISOUND.COM /C3 /VC99
4C:\DOSMAXI\MAXINIT.EXE C:\DOSMAXI\
5C:\DOSMAXI\VOLUME.EXE V:15 W:14 S:14 D:15 C:15 M:0 L:0
6@REM ---------------------------------

Thanks, i will try it tomorrow! Yeah I have seen your builds and im really impressed. To get one of these old cars to work can be hard enough. But six...

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-06-11, 18:44:

That's a great card. I use one in my 6 sound card 486 DX4-100 build. Being able to house two MIDI sources with it is especially […]
Show full quote

Baleog wrote on 2024-06-11, 17:18:

Today I got this Guillemot maxi sound home studio pro 64 (does any other sound card have more words in its name?). A little bit dusty, scratched up and packed in just bubble wrap. It's an ISA sound card with Dream9407 wavetable and ESS 1869 Audiodrive for Soundblaster and OPL/FM-Compability. It's got an optional RAM slot that now has a 4mb stick (max 16) I believe it also has a wavetable header and an optional daughterboard that im missing. I just tried it in windows and it thankfully works just fine. I know that it has been problematic to get it working in DOS but I saw that Unisound now supports it so hopefully it will go smooth. Honestly on paper it seems like one of the best sound cards you can get for Dos gaming, but I will have to try it out some more.

That's a great card. I use one in my 6 sound card 486 DX4-100 build. Being able to house two MIDI sources with it is especially great.

It was a pain to set up under DOS, but the combination of UNISOUND and the official drivers does work.

These are my AUTOEXEC.BAT settings for this card:

Copy code to clipboard

1@REM ----- Guillemot Maxi 64 init ----
2SET BLASTER=A240 I7 D3 M300 F388 P320 U10 T4
3CALL C:\UNISOUND\UNISOUND.COM /C3 /VC99
4C:\DOSMAXI\MAXINIT.EXE C:\DOSMAXI\
5C:\DOSMAXI\VOLUME.EXE V:15 W:14 S:14 D:15 C:15 M:0 L:0
6@REM ---------------------------------

Thanks.
I have this card too and never had the perseverance to set it up in dos.

There is also a "lite" version of this card (shorter, probably less RAM and without the optional additional io bracket connector) and a similar card in PCI (Maxi studio ISIS).
I remember this brand being strongly advertised for home studio users in the late 90's. It was probably quite popular in France and Canada.

Found this little gem on ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/126523091727?mkcid=1 … emis&media=COPY

There is a reason I tool 60 seconds to hit the buy-it-nao, and it is NOT obvious. The ones who know, will know why. I'll leave it a bit of mystery as a bit of a game for the younger players.

luckybob wrote on 2024-06-11, 21:50:

Found this little gem on ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/126523091727?mkcid=1 … emis&media=COPY

There is a reason I tool 60 seconds to hit the buy-it-nao, and it is NOT obvious. The ones who know, will know why. I'll leave it a bit of mystery as a bit of a game for the younger players.

Was it the DX-50?

zuldan wrote on 2024-06-11, 01:26:

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-06-10, 23:20:

Received a handful of motherboards this week.
ABIT VH6T (with 1.4 GHz Pentium III CPU):

What a nice motherboard and you found one with the king. Very lucky!

Thank you! I was indeed lucky to grab it when I did. 😁

gerry wrote on 2024-06-11, 07:36:

all with CPUs? that's a nice selection, the AXIOM Tech IMB200 with its agp, isa and 775 is time-spanning!

Yup, all came with CPUs. Although the various P4 / Core2 CPUs are less exciting than the Pentium III 1.4.

And I'm pretty excited about the IMB200. Once I test it and if everything is good, I may use it in my Pentium 4 build.

luckybob wrote on 2024-06-11, 21:50:

Found this little gem on ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/126523091727?mkcid=1 … emis&media=COPY

There is a reason I tool 60 seconds to hit the buy-it-nao, and it is NOT obvious. The ones who know, will know why. I'll leave it a bit of mystery as a bit of a game for the younger players.

The gold Pentium Pro, by any chance?

luckybob wrote on 2024-06-11, 21:50:

Found this little gem on ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/126523091727?mkcid=1 … emis&media=COPY

There is a reason I tool 60 seconds to hit the buy-it-nao, and it is NOT obvious. The ones who know, will know why. I'll leave it a bit of mystery as a bit of a game for the younger players.

Well I see 3 or 4 hundred in PS/2 crap and 100 in processors, so I guess you just wanted to make 10x your money 🤣