bjwil1991 wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Picked up a machine consisting of the following for 15 local: […]
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Picked up a machine consisting of the following for 15 local:

Generic and unimpressive AT Minitower
Matsonic Socket 7 Board (Apollo VPX based)
Intel Pentium 133
64MB RAM
2GB HDD
Matsonic Virge DX 4MB PCI (Dead, replaced with Diamond Virge 325 2MB)
Yamaha OPL3-SAX based ISA sound card (a lot of static, but it works)
24x CD ROM
Zip Drive
3.5 Floppy
Windows 98

Tomorrows project will be getting Windows 3.1 onto it. I think this is another machine that will be used for DOS.

$15 is a good price for that type of system. I paid $17 for the Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus, keyboard, and mouse at a thrift store back in February. Went through upgrades and features from the HDD up to sound (2GB CF Card, 48x CD ROM Drive, Dual FDD, Conner Data Tape Drive (uses the floppy port), Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro that is repaired successfully (Line-in volume is still weak, but still gets sound), Gravis Analog Pro 4-button joystick, SX2-50 to DX2-66 upgrade, 8MB to 32MB upgrade, Lo-Tech Tandy Compatible Sound Card, Music Quest MIDI MPU-401 Clone Card, 3Com EtherLink III 10BaseT Ethernet card). It still runs smoothly, just needs L2 cache and a DX4-100 upgrade (Overdrive since the system supports 5V processors only).

Meh, I was hoping the machine was a 486 because of the Turbo switch (that doesnt even slow down the current setup).

I already had a Socket 7 machine of nearly identical configuration.

Bought a Roland SB-55 Sound Brush today. 😀

derSammler wrote:

Bought a Roland SB-55 Sound Brush today. 😀

Wow, I've never seen one of those before. Pretty cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxFHnqysCo0

I have an MT-200 that is mainly meant for recording and mixing MIDI but has similar GM\GS MIDI disk playback capabilities. There's something really special about hooking up a device from 1991, inserting a floppy disk and having access to dozens of songs copied from a computer with fantastic audio fidelity. Its like downloading and playing a big pile of lossless audio files on a device with flash storage, except its from a time when the internet barely existed, high quality digital music had to be on a CD (generally speaking) and an entire computer hard drive would be filled with one modern FLAC file. 😀

Just picked up a BFG 7800GS AGP on Mercari for $34 and a 4x4GB set of Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1866 (1.5v CAS9) for $37.

I'd say I've done enough damage for one night, but holy cow... those were both fantastic prices. 🤣

The mailman brought me this upscaler for my Amiga. I have tested it out, and it is working well.
It was well packed, and came with a manual and a power supply. Has component input and 23pin Amiga RGB.
Both the 23pin plug and the powersupply, have really long cables. And there is a dedicated on/off switch.
Love it.... 😜

Though not perfect, yet this is an external box, and things could be much much much worse.
It outputs too much green, yet this is nothing that can't be solved by lowering green on the monitor.
Got faint vertical spaghetti lines, just as ISA cards display on some flatscreen monitors.
This however, does not show up in every game. It does in workbench, yet not on Adams Family and so on.
I guess this has to do with what resolution the game or software will output.

It might have been a bit expensive, yet this is probably the best I can do compared to a real scandoubler.
All that said.... Looks great on an 21 inch IBM ThinkVision flatscreen monitor. 😜
And finally, I can make some use out of that monitor. Black, big and no glossy panel. Just a great monitor.

I also recieved a 1gb Sandisk CF card for my Amiga PCMCIA-to-CF adaptor. Great day.... 😀 😜

Oooh Amiga goodies. I got some of that in the mail today:

PCB is courtesy of some very nice Aussie guy at EAB, I got the components online and had them soldered on. Did not end up costing less than something I would buy from Amigakit in the end, but it's unique and I like it.

I also got this even though I don't necessarily need it.. It was being sold as a Vibra 128 in a Vibra 128 box, so I bought it for next to nothing.

appiah4 wrote:

Oooh Amiga goodies. I got some of that in the mail today: […]
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Oooh Amiga goodies. I got some of that in the mail today:

PCB is courtesy of some very nice Aussie guy at EAB, I got the components online and had them soldered on. Did not end up costing less than something I would buy from Amigakit in the end, but it's unique and I like it.

I also got this even though I don't necessarily need it.. It was being sold as a Vibra 128 in a Vibra 128 box, so I bought it for next to nothing.

Good sound card. My home theatre pc has one.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Oooh Amiga goodies. I got some of that in the mail today: […]
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Oooh Amiga goodies. I got some of that in the mail today:

PCB is courtesy of some very nice Aussie guy at EAB, I got the components online and had them soldered on. Did not end up costing less than something I would buy from Amigakit in the end, but it's unique and I like it.

I also got this even though I don't necessarily need it.. It was being sold as a Vibra 128 in a Vibra 128 box, so I bought it for next to nothing.

Good sound card. My home theatre pc has one.

Isn't that the card that has the 5.25" bay controller for that card (outputs and inputs, volume, etc)?

It has a 5.25 record/playback io panel for the platinum model but not for the regular version I have.

appiah4 wrote:

It has a 5.25 record/playback io panel for the platinum model but not for the regular version I have.

The only difference is the 5.25" I/O panel. You can add the panel no problem if you want.

Then there is the Platinum Pro which has an external I/O module that connects with a proprietary cable.

Munx wrote:

As well as a 3Dlabs Permedia 2.

P_20171111_140322.jpg

Great! You got the holy grail for any developer learning to make DirectX enabled display drivers. The Win2k3 DDK includes a full working Dx9 driver in source code form for this card, so it can be recompiled with Debug mode enabled, useful for API tracing.

hyoenmadan wrote:

Munx wrote:

As well as a 3Dlabs Permedia 2.

P_20171111_140322.jpg

Great! You got the holy grail for any developer learning to make DirectX enabled display drivers. The Win2k3 DDK includes a full working Dx9 driver in source code form for this card, so it can be recompiled with Debug mode enabled, useful for API tracing.

Uugh...I liek to play Quake 🤐 🤣

Well the second case to replace the one that arrived broken a couple weeks ago arrived today:

😁

No issues that I can spot. The box it arrived in was quite a bit larger this time around due to all the extra packaging. Understandable really, I'm sure the seller didn't want to be out yet another one (or the cost of one anyway) if this also arrived broken.

BTW The seller is k-systems-store (eBay) if anyone was curious. I'm sure most are familiar with him as he sells a bunch of ridiculously overpriced things (even this case was overpriced IMHO, but I don't see them for sale very often so meh). But at least I can vouch for his customer service.

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Well the second case to replace the one that arrived broken a couple weeks ago arrived today: […]
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Well the second case to replace the one that arrived broken a couple weeks ago arrived today:

😁

No issues that I can spot. The box it arrived in was quite a bit larger this time around due to all the extra packaging. Understandable really, I'm sure the seller didn't want to be out yet another one (or the cost of one anyway) if this also arrived broken.

BTW The seller is k-systems-store (eBay) if anyone was curious. I'm sure most are familiar with him as he sells a bunch of ridiculously overpriced things (even this case was overpriced IMHO, but I don't see them for sale very often so meh). But at least I can vouch for his customer service.

Oh yeah, that guy. He wants $2-300 for standard Pentium AT systems.

This arrived today. Leadtek Winfast GF2 GTS 64mb. Saw it listed £6.50 shipped. Hard to pass up at that price.

Won an MSI slocket from liqmat 😁

I acquired a 10$ beige case with a mystery case that turned out to have the following highlights :

Asus P3B-F version 1.03 (single ISA slot version)
Slot 1 P3 550 CPU
CT4520 AWE64 Value
AGP Radeon 7000
3.5'' floppy drive

all fully working

darry wrote:

I acquired a 10$ beige case with a mystery case that turned out to have the following highlights : […]
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I acquired a 10$ beige case with a mystery case that turned out to have the following highlights :

Asus P3B-F version 1.03 (single ISA slot version)
Slot 1 P3 550 CPU
CT4520 AWE64 Value
AGP Radeon 7000
3.5'' floppy drive

all fully working

That radeon is a bit out of place.

No more out on f place then a voodoo5500 or gf256

Jade Falcon wrote:

No more out on f place then a voodoo5500 or gf256

Radeon 7000 is a late 2000 part. The rest of that machine is early 1999