Haven't managed to find a driver for that Reelmagic card yet. But I pulled the small daughterboard off and found this....

A yamaha OPL chip??? strange... this might be an integrated sound card as well....

I have the AGP version of the Prophet 4000XT, but it's only 32MB. Maybe sometime I'll see how the two compare.

I have that exact same video card! I used it for a LONG time in my server! Its a quite capable little card!

DonutKing wrote:

Haven't managed to find a driver for that Reelmagic card yet.

I don't recall where I found these, but here you go. You'll want to install the 111 drivers prior to applying any of the later versions.

http://www.symphoniae.com/misc/reelmagc.zip

But I pulled the small daughterboard off and found this.... a yamaha OPL chip??? strange... this might be an integrated sound card as well....

The ReelMagic card supports 8/16-bit PCM playback, and is Sound Blaster (2.0) compatible. It's a pretty decent almost-all-in-one device - They should have just gone all-out and thrown on an SVGA chipset... 😀

Awesome! thanks very much. I'll just have to make up a ribbon cable for the feature connector and I'll see if I can watch movies on my 386 😁

Two retro video cards. Radeon 9100 PCI 128mb (finally!) and BFGTech GeForce 6200 PCI OC 256mb $37 shipped for the pair. Would have preferred the 6200 had 512mb, but for the price I really can't complain and with a card as slow as the 6200, even factory overclocked, the benefit of more memory is highly debatable. In a PCI only Win98 machine you're probably not going to have a lot of games that would demand that much memory, anyway.

I got a brand new looking laptop today, a Dell Latitude XPi P133ST. It has a Pentium 133Mhz inside and ESS-FM sound chip 😀

miroSOUND PCM12

Sound card which is rather hard to find especially boxed with software and drivers

THE card I`v been looking for ages Turtle Beach Multisound Classic

I found a GF4 MX 460 for a reasonable price. Got it for half of what the last few that I saw were listed for. Figured I better grab it because another might not come along at that price for a long time. Was like $13.50 shipped instead of the $25-$30 I usually see them being listed for. Of course now that I have one, someone will list one for $5. That's how it always is.

Woo Hoo! So happy. My 128mb Radeon 9100 PCI arrived today and the first thing I did was cross check the part number on the memory chips and it cross references to a 250mhz speed so this card IS the Visiontek Xtasy card I was hoping for which is the only one I have found specs for that uses the 250mhz RAMs called for by ATi's reference design. Most of the others use 200mhz memory and a few used even slower memory than that to keep the price down. Visiontek also used a black PCB that I have never seen used on any other 9100 PCI but I wasn't sure if anyone else might have used that color hence the verification of the RAM numbers. The others I have seen were all green or red except for Gigabyte, which was blue.

Here's a pic of the 64mb Visiontek card from the internet. The 128mb card looks identical.

Got myself a new 386 motherboard today. I like poking fun at the ebay sellers that list items for $100+ and let them sit for years, so occasionally I offer one a "reasonable" price and I've always been turned down.

Until today. I just "won" this board for $15: www.ebay.com/itm/390152642472

I don't NEED it. I feel kinda bad, but it does have eight more ram slots than my current 386 so I figure if it works, I'll use this new board and sell the old one. I also got one of these for $12 http://www.ebay.com/itm/200500095020 It was another item I threw a low-ball bid on and won. 😜 Its okay though, I have an iomega clik drive that I can use to transfer files between my 386 and laptop. Or whatever. Who knows.

WOO HOO!!!

Nice score on the 386 board! I'll be looking to building one when I get my other projects settled.

Picked up a Palm TX at a thrift shop for $10 today. At Starbucks toying with it on this site right now. Pic when I get home I get home later.

With wifi, the ability to play music and hardware powerful enough to run various emulators, this thing is like a gameboy on steroids. To increase usefulness, I installed a patch that replaced the Graffiti 2 handwriting system with the original Graffiti.

EDIT: Pic

Just got in the mail a Real3D Starfighter PCI 24mb!! Check off one more holy grail video card from my want list. I offered the seller half what he was asking and he accepted, though I probably still paid too much, but when did you last see one of these for sale? I felt the expense was worth not waiting around for years for another one just to save a few bucks.

Just got my 2 boxed Gravis Ultrasound Extreme cards 😜

Not much, but today I bought a second hand serial scroll mouse 😁

NEC t128 SCSI 8bit card for my XT computer

I have tested it and working perfect, only need an seperate
terminator, because the harddisk doesnt have one..

IBM 80 MB SCSI harddisk for my XT computer..

second set of Philips CMS SAA 1099p chips

Burst pipe coast module..

TOP853 eprom programmer.

12 PCS TI TMS2764-20JL Eproms.

2PCS of ST 64K EPROM M2764A-2F1

Robin4 wrote:

Philips CMS SAA 1099p chips
TOP853 eprom programmer.
12 PCS TI TMS2764-20JL Eproms.

Let us all know how you go!

how go on what??

About my XT computer?? Iam still working on it.. But first iam going to collect the stuff and testing them before i will post my build here on this forum..

Its not easy to find good stuff these days.. You need to test it before you can use.. And if an eprom is bad i need fix that to. Otherwise i wouldnt have a working system after all..

The things thats are bin done..

Motherboard (thinking of placing an co processor aswell for the vintage historical..)

The motherboard have 1024KB of memory installed (hardcore) (i know it would only use 640KB after all) But maybe i can use it as EMS mem.)

Only need parity mem chips. (i know i dont need them to use it as game computer.. But when installed those chips, its more a complete system)(and i like that)

I have an working XT keyboard over here. Want to find some more as spare ones.. You never have enough of them..

VGA 8-bit do i have over here and its in working shape..
But i want to have an EGA or CGA card.. (have to go find an 9 pin color monitor as well.)

I have mount a new 1.44 TEAC floppy drive.. The other one was dead..

And using an temporary 1.2MB 5,25 inch floppy drive.. Ill go buy an other one that matches the case. The TEAC iam going to use on an other system.

Iam thinking of using the Soundblaster 1.5 CT1320C on the system.. If this is useless ill stick an other one in i think..

The harddisk and NEC t128 controller is working, but only need to buy some Internal 50 pin terminators.

So the system is almost running..

Iam think of using an tape drive in it for make backups of the harddisk..

Few days ago i played some games on this system. Like elevator, paratrooper, tapper.. Those games i have played in the 80s when my dad bought are first Headstart VENDEX EXPLORER XT computer..

It doesnt had an harddisk at all, but you could buy an miniscribe in that time, but was very expensive.. I know it only could read 720KB floppy disks.
Had ms-dos 3.31 on the system, and you need to boot it from floppy disk..

The monitor was an yellow monochroon display.. 🤣