It's an 8 bit jetpack if shorted properly! 😉

But seriously, a fully Roland MPU-401 compatible MIDI interface for my 386 build 😀

tikoellner wrote:

Got boxed Music Quest PC Midi interface. 25USD shipped :-) Exactly the one you see. […]
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Got boxed Music Quest PC Midi interface. 25USD shipped 😀 Exactly the one you see.

Dude, mind putting that puppy in the copy machine?

I haven’t been picking up much lately, partly due to lack of interest but our shite exchange rate is also a deterrent. I picked up the following pretty cheaply but paid well over 100 clams to consolidate and ship it all, which takes the fun right out of it.

These are all NOS – I was particularly happy with the Flightstick. I was hoping that the OPLSAx card was a better implementation than I’ve seen to this point – i.e. that it would be a full height card with nicer drivers - but alas it’s half height and the driver disk is missing altogether. The AWE64 is a nice card for the 25 bucks I paid and I have a simmconn here for it. I had a ‘gold’ once but didn’t like the posh rca connectors, which are just an affectation IMHO

^^ Haha! Nice stuff!

Picked up a second isa shoebox with 8 slot backplane/psu in it. This will be the home for my Xi8088 build!

oh, and a copy of Phoenix BIOS 2nd Edition

Hmm... Metal front plate!

badmojo wrote:

well over 100 clams

You're still on clams? We've moved on to samoleans now, try to keep up.

🤣

We'll accept clams, bread, scratch - anything but the British pound really.

Too soon?

The British pound is fine really from where I stand (I'm going on vacation to London but taking USD with me 😀)

badmojo wrote:

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Incredible!!!! I can't believe they still exist in boxed condition. Best joystick in the history of gaming, IMHO. I destroyed my regular Flightstick playing F1GP and X-Wing.

brassicGamer wrote:

I destroyed my regular Flightstick playing F1GP and X-Wing.

Those are good choices for destroying a joystick 😀

badmojo wrote:

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That's an interesting combo--I mean who, really played "Heretic" with a joystick? (One of my favorite games, by the way!)

Matthew

@badmojo: I have the same speakers, they're pretty great 😀

devius wrote:

brassicGamer wrote:

I destroyed my regular Flightstick playing F1GP and X-Wing.

Those are good choices for destroying a joystick 😀

I killed one steering wheel playing NFS IV, and one playing CMR 3. This is why I don't buy £30 wheels any more, they just don't last!

Logistics wrote:

...I mean who, really played "Heretic" with a joystick?

Good question, but in Hexen that's also one of the control options. This was before people realized that keyboard + mouse was the perfect combination for playing this kind of games. I played a lot of Hexen back then and I'm pretty sure I only used a keyboard. 🤣

Modern dual-analog gamepads can actually be pretty good for Doom engine games, mainly because they were designed around the keyboard and precise aiming is not necessary.

Unfortunately, the DOS versions have rather basic Joystick support; they don't even support analog movement.

Got this today: Sound Blaster 1.0 (CT-1320A) 😀 10 USD shipped from my local auction service.

I guess it was worthwhile (?)

tikoellner wrote:

Got this today: Sound Blaster 1.0 (CT-1320A) 😀 10 USD shipped from my local auction service.

I guess it was worthwile (?)

I'd say so! Those aren't too common anymore, especially the 1320A. Lovely card with those Phillips SAA1099 "CMS-301" chips. Looks like 40th week of 1989 for that card. Congrats!

Bought a 3rd Trio64 2MB VLB graphics card.

BloodyCactus wrote:

new panels have like 1ms refresh rates, old panels had very high refresh rates. TN faster than IPS.. IPS has better colour gamut […]
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new panels have like 1ms refresh rates, old panels had very high refresh rates. TN faster than IPS.. IPS has better colour gamut.

motion blur was that old panels had a slow grey-to-grey gradiation response time (pixel turning off). tn panels have a much fater g-t-g response time.

Some stats I found show you a huge difference in response times on some panels;

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1 Model           FlexScan EV2333W    FlexScan SX2462W    FlexScan EV2303W
2Panel Type              VA              IPS                 TN
3Panel Size              23"             24.1"               23"
4Native Resolution       1920 × 1080     1920 × 1200     1920 × 1080
5Maximum Brightness      300 cd/m2       270 cd/m2       250 cd/m2
6Contrast Ratio          3000:1          850:1           1000:1
7Response Time
8(black-white-black)     25 ms           13 ms           5 ms
9Response Time
10(gray-to-gray)          7 ms            5 ms            No
11Overdrive Circuit       Yes             Yes             No
12 

I meant to reply to these posts about monitor motion blur earlier, but I forgot. I don't want to derail the thread further, so I've made another thread to address the topic!

The problem with modern displays = Motion Blur