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Reply 23920 of 52352, by cyclone3d

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Got this lot of cards today. Didn't know what I was getting besides the fact that they were ISA sound cards... think I did pretty good. Will probably end up selling most of these as I already have copies of most of them.

Creative Labs - SB 1.5, SB Pro 2, and SB 16

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2x PAS-16 and an OPTI 930 with onboard wavetable

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3x Aztech cards

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More Opti cards

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An AD and an Opti card

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Reply 23921 of 52352, by cyclone3d

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Also got a couple of these adlib clones - both NIB. First sound card I ever bought. This is the one that is in the best shape.

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Reply 23922 of 52352, by arncht

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cyclone3d wrote:

Also got a couple of these adlib clones - both NIB. First sound card I ever bought. This is the one that is in the best shape.

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haha, i had the same. my first sound card was a "sbpro comp" card, but died after a couple of weeks. then i spent the sound card price to upgrade my computer (to a 486dlc). finally i bought this card, it was very cheap.
a couple of months later I bought a "true" sbpro2 😀 since then sbpro2 is my favorite gamer dos card (gus for demos).

that happened in 1994.

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Reply 23923 of 52352, by root42

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Very nice catch, those sound cards! If shipping from the US wasn't so expensive... eBay always has more / better results for retro hardware like this from US sellers.

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Reply 23924 of 52352, by cyclone3d

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root42 wrote:

Very nice catch, those sound cards! If shipping from the US wasn't so expensive... eBay always has more / better results for retro hardware like this from US sellers.

I didn't get these off of eBay. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Reply 23925 of 52352, by liqmat

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Cleaning up an Intel branded Pentium 100 desktop for a Youtube demo of the Cardinal SNAPplus. The Socket 370 board I picked up at Alibaba NIB had one ISA slot, but the performance of the ISA slot was insanely bad. A member at vcfed.org said it might be because late Socket 370 boards did not implement DMA for the ISA slot. Have no idea, but this should do the trick for a MS-DOS build.

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Reply 23926 of 52352, by kixs

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Just had to BIN.

This is probably my last but certainly the longest item on my wanted list and I hope it really does work as it's supposed to 😉

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Requests are also possible... /msg kixs

Reply 23930 of 52352, by appiah4

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kixs wrote:
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Two Mach64 ISAs in the last two pages.. Interesting.

Where is the other one? 😕

Oh sorry it was in the other thread: What retro activity did you get up to today?

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Reply 23931 of 52352, by root42

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liqmat wrote:

Cleaning up an Intel branded Pentium 100 desktop for a Youtube demo of the Cardinal SNAPplus. The Socket 370 board I picked up at Alibaba NIB had one ISA slot, but the performance of the ISA slot was insanely bad. A member at vcfed.org said it might be because late Socket 370 boards did not implement DMA for the ISA slot. Have no idea, but this should do the trick for a MS-DOS build.

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For the love of... insanely huge capacitors!!!

Also, neat PLCC cache ICs.

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Reply 23932 of 52352, by xjas

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liqmat wrote:

Cleaning up an Intel branded Pentium 100 desktop for a Youtube demo of the Cardinal SNAPplus. The Socket 370 board I picked up at Alibaba NIB had one ISA slot, but the performance of the ISA slot was insanely bad. A member at vcfed.org said it might be because late Socket 370 boards did not implement DMA for the ISA slot. Have no idea, but this should do the trick for a MS-DOS build.

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Wish I'd seen that post; the VIA chipset on your 370 board absolutely does do proper ISA DMA, as does virtually every chipset that supports the P3. It wasn't until the (late!) P4 & Core era that ISA DMA got "obsoleted." (Even SOME P4 chipsets do ISA DMA just fine, e.g. i845/865.) Boards with those chipsets run ISA through a bridge chip anyway & you're extremely unlikely to run into one unless you deliberately order it from an industrial supply.

THAT SAID... the VIA KT133 and its variants are known to have pretty abysmal DOS performance & a lot of incompatibilities anyway; they're really better suited as a Win98/NT chipset. You may well have been running into an issue with the chipset but AFAIK it's not lack of DMA.

There's also the possibility that your board has some shonky half-featured pirate chipset conveniently labelled as a VIA KT133. 😜 The Gigabyte board it's a knockoff of had the real thing.

Anyway the P100 setup should work out nicely. Looking forward to the demo vid.

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Reply 23933 of 52352, by kixs

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appiah4 wrote:
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Two Mach64 ISAs in the last two pages.. Interesting.

Where is the other one? 😕

Oh sorry it was in the other thread: What retro activity did you get up to today?

I saw that one before... but that is DRAM version. My is VRAM and I hardly saw VRAM one on sale for the past 3-4 years anywhere. While DRAM is more common, even I had a few.

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Reply 23934 of 52352, by debs3759

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Just bought a P4 3.2 GHz RK80546PG0881M SL7QB (one of only two Socket 478 chips I know that will run a 64-bit OS). 3.50€ plus shipping (approx £11 shipped). Got an ASRock P4i945GC lined up for it 😀

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Reply 23935 of 52352, by God Of Gaming

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bought an IBM Thinkpad T42p (next to my old T60), it has win98se drivers available, it has 1600x1200 IPS, with 2.1ghz Pentium M and an Ati FireGL T2 graphics card based on the radeon 9600. Anyone know if I can flash the card bios to make it be recognized as a radeon 9600 so I can use radeon driver instead of firegl driver for better game compatibility?

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Reply 23937 of 52352, by God Of Gaming

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Winning bid was £65.. also surprisingly it came with a nice carry bag, I didn't expect that. My T60 also has IPS but just 1400x1050, great screen but 1600x1200 is much more suitable for retro gaming thanks to perfect upscaling of common retro resolutions

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Reply 23938 of 52352, by blank001

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A few recent buys

  1. Intel Celeron SL6C6 1.4GHz 100MHz
  • Enermax EG495P-VE, 32A on 3.3 and 5 and 22A on the 12s! noice
  • Diamond Stealth 64 Graphics

_: K6-III+ 450apz@550, P5A-B, 128Mb CL2, Voodoo 5500 AGP, MX300, AWE64 Gold 32mb, SC-55v2.0
_: Pentium III 1400 S, TUSL2-C, 512Mb CL2, Voodoo 5500 AGP, MX300