Oh nice !

I bought a dimond edge 3D few month ago but it was loose. I'm looking for pinouts for the PC and saturn game ports as well as games for it.

Can you (or anybody else) help me ? ^^

Big box of stuff came today.

Highlights: GeForce 3Ti 200 that needs caps, 2 GeForce 2Mx, 2 TNT2 Vanta, TNT2 Pro , 128Mb maxtrox parhelia, 2 16 Bit ISA Intel LAN cards, Soubd blaster 16.

40+ cards total, all indidually wrapped in bubble wrap! 😀

Will take forever to test it all. All for $60 shipped.

I put a low bid on this a while back, did not expect to hear from it again. Much newer than what I usually deal with, I don't think I have a fitting system for it yet...

Cyrix200+ wrote:

I put a low bid on this a while back, did not expect to hear from it again. Much newer than what I usually deal with, I don't th […]
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I put a low bid on this a while back, did not expect to hear from it again. Much newer than what I usually deal with, I don't think I have a fitting system for it yet...

The dual pIII board in your signature looks fitting?

senrew wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

I put a low bid on this a while back, did not expect to hear from it again. Much newer than what I usually deal with, I don't think I have a fitting system for it yet...

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The dual pIII board in your signature looks fitting?

Isn't it a bit to new for that? If I Google it a bit the 1950 Pro was released in 2006 and the PIII-S 1.4 in 2002. I will investigate further!

Cyrix200+ wrote:

senrew wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

I put a low bid on this a while back, did not expect to hear from it again. Much newer than what I usually deal with, I don't think I have a fitting system for it yet...

<snip>

The dual pIII board in your signature looks fitting?

Isn't it a bit to new for that? If I Google it a bit the 1950 Pro was released in 2006 and the PIII-S 1.4 in 2002. I will investigate further!

I seen a user on youtube playing fallout 3 on a dual p3 setup with a newer ati agp card. Ran rather well given the setup.

EDIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC5kd0lOXkk

Jade Falcon wrote:

I seen a user on youtube playing fallout 3 on a dual p3 setup with a newer ati agp card. Ran rather well given the setup.

EDIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC5kd0lOXkk

Huh, now I want to do that too 😜

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

I seen a user on youtube playing fallout 3 on a dual p3 setup with a newer ati agp card. Ran rather well given the setup.

EDIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC5kd0lOXkk

Huh, now I want to do that too 😜

Fallout 3 is based on GameBryo which is an upgraded version of Morrowinds engine so this makes sense.

ATI Sapphire X1950Pro, 512 MB (AGP)
ATI Sapphire X1550, 512 MB (PCIe)
Yamaha TG100

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

I seen a user on youtube playing fallout 3 on a dual p3 setup with a newer ati agp card. Ran rather well given the setup.

EDIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC5kd0lOXkk

Huh, now I want to do that too 😜

Why not bump it up to Crysis? 😎
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD1mSaGsgg8

Bought a clamshell case Dell Dimension 4500 for $10 monitor included.

A 17" 1600x1200 M782 Flatglass CRT. I'm more excited about that than the computer.

Oddly, the PC only had a Rage 128 Ultra 16MB in it. What that could drive beyond desktop at the monitors native I have no clue whatsoever. Odd mix of a bottom end configuration with the only upgrade being a ridiculously beefy WiFi card. I just hope the monitor works right. This would be my 16x12 CRT (actually, it would be the highest resolution monitor I have aside from my XPS Gen1 built in display)

^^ CRTs don't have a "native" resolution, it could handle 1600x1200 but it was likely used at 1024x768 for the most part. The picture doesn't degrade if you decrease resolution like on LCDs so anything you put through it will look as sharp as it can do.

(Posting on my 19" CRT dual-head setup at 2 x 1280x1024 right now, heh.)

And the Rage 128 Ultra is a rather nice card, as we've been discussing in the other thread. 😀

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Fallout 3 is based on GameBryo which is an upgraded version of Morrowinds engine so this makes sense.

What makes sense? Morrowind kills any PIII I've tried it on - a fast P4 is more appropriate if you want high frame rates.

xjas wrote:

(Posting on my 19" CRT dual-head setup at 2 x 1280x1024 right now, heh

Is that your retro rig or your everyday machine? I have a bunch of dual and quadro head Matroxes, Nvidias and even S3s, but I could never figure out a usecase for even a dualhead build (I only do gaming on those machines).

xjas wrote:

^^ CRTs don't have a "native" resolution, it could handle 1600x1200 but it was likely used at 1024x768 for the most part. The picture doesn't degrade if you decrease resolution like on LCDs so anything you put through it will look as sharp as it can do.

(Posting on my 19" CRT dual-head setup at 2 x 1280x1024 right now, heh.)

And the Rage 128 Ultra is a rather nice card, as we've been discussing in the other thread. 😀

How is it nice? A DX6 part in a 2002 machine is ridiculous.

Anywhoz the computer doesn't boot. Motherboards green standby light comes on but it won't boot. Which is weird considering the thrift store I bought from said it turned on yesterday (although it was left out in the heat all day).

I switched the power supplies and I got the same result. Pulled all the addin boards and still no result. I suspect front panel failure since it's unlikely to be the motherboard based on available information. Does anyone know which pins are the power pins on this Dell FP connector?

https://imgur.com/a/ukmJQ

And I'm also not sure I like this M782 display. It seems to have very washed out color, although I must admit it's very sharp. It's definitely NOT one of the famed Dell Trinitron displays I thought it was. The search for the perfect gaming CRT continues I guess.

Edit: Sure enough it CAN display 1600x1200 at 60hz and 1280x1024 at 75.

Edit 2: but it has to be forced which means most games will fail with a render creation error even when forced to run in that mode which makes this monitor useless. Why would they not expose the maximum addressable resolution to the computer by default?

Edit 3: can't get the geometry perfect either. Bowing at the bottom of the screen and one corner isn't perfectly straight. Pathetic for a flat glass CRT. It doesn't have a very great options menus with which to fix said issues either. Its better at 1280x1024 than my two KDS/ProScan monitors though so I guess it may very well steal one of there spots.

Does anyone know how to make 1600x1200 a fully exposed resolution?

jheronimus wrote:

xjas wrote:

(Posting on my 19" CRT dual-head setup at 2 x 1280x1024 right now, heh

Is that your retro rig or your everyday machine? I have a bunch of dual and quadro head Matroxes, Nvidias and even S3s, but I could never figure out a usecase for even a dualhead build (I only do gaming on those machines).

It's a modern machine (well, a Core 2 Duo with a Radeon HD4850.) I use it for writing Octave code for my work at the moment. 😀

I have two 19" CRTs next to each other on a desk with a bunch of systems connected to them. The two monitors are independently selectable on separate KVMs, I can switch the right one between the C2D workstation or the primary output of a P233MMX or a 386/25. The left display can be the C2D, a Mac Mini, or the Voodoo card in the 233MMX. Or whatever else I need to temporarily plug into the empty ports on either KVM. OS/X on a big CRT amuses me.

xjas wrote:

jheronimus wrote:

xjas wrote:

(Posting on my 19" CRT dual-head setup at 2 x 1280x1024 right now, heh

Is that your retro rig or your everyday machine? I have a bunch of dual and quadro head Matroxes, Nvidias and even S3s, but I could never figure out a usecase for even a dualhead build (I only do gaming on those machines).

It's a modern machine (well, a Core 2 Duo with a Radeon HD4850.) I use it for writing Octave code for my work at the moment. 😀

I have two 19" CRTs next to each other on a desk with a bunch of systems connected to them. The two monitors are independently selectable on separate KVMs, I can switch the right one between the C2D workstation or the primary output of a P233MMX or a 386/25. The left display can be the C2D, a Mac Mini, or the Voodoo card in the 233MMX. Or whatever else I need to temporarily plug into the empty ports on either KVM. OS/X on a big CRT amuses me.

I've never found a CRT bigger than 17" in the wild. Once I get properly employed I intend to sink a few hundred into a good well known top end CRT like a 22" Trinitron and then at some point later buy another as a backup. Keeping myself well equipped in CRTs for the remainder of my life is certainly an active goal.

I sincerely hope you have a strong back 😀

senrew wrote:

I sincerely hope you have a strong back 😀

It carries around all 350 some odd pounds of me. I doubt a CRT will be the straw that breaks it.

I bought some floppies on kijiji:

....lots of floppies

I was going to pick up an Asus A7V motherboard from the same guy, but turns out he had already sold it, but he did have something even neater!

Suntac 286-20Mhz motherboard from 1990...and it has an onboard Floppy and IDE controller! On a 286!

He also had some ISA/VLB video cards...which is just what I was looking for to upgrade my current 286 (though I think I'm going to use this motherboard in it too!)

- 2x Trident TVGA8900D (ISA)
- ATI Mach64 (VLB)

And finally, picked up a generic ISA NIC at the thrift store. I'm not planning to network my older machines yet, but this is nice to have if I decide to.