HighTreason wrote:

I have one of those Genius mice. It is quite heavy and smooth rolling for an old serial mouse, never got the wheel working so I probably need drivers to do that. I don't really care to track down and install them though.

It's been a good mouse so far and I think I've been using it as my second go-to serial mouse for over a decade, so it must be doing something right.

I will also have to stock up on serial mice at some point as I think I only have two left working and my schizophrenic PS/2 mice have all stopped working on serial ports for some reason.

Guy seems to have quite a few more for sale, new-in-box.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

A fan sent me retro care package 😀

Sorry... Must have overlooked that statement, probably because I was a bit tired and had my first cup of coffee.
Doing this my self, sending something to someone. Oh well... Anyway. Nice to see stuff going around for free,
between youtube subscribers too.

keenerb wrote:

HighTreason wrote:

I have one of those Genius mice. It is quite heavy and smooth rolling for an old serial mouse, never got the wheel working so I probably need drivers to do that. I don't really care to track down and install them though.

It's been a good mouse so far and I think I've been using it as my second go-to serial mouse for over a decade, so it must be doing something right.

I will also have to stock up on serial mice at some point as I think I only have two left working and my schizophrenic PS/2 mice have all stopped working on serial ports for some reason.

Guy seems to have quite a few more for sale, new-in-box.

Unfortunately I'm flat broke after getting the NexGen, that was my electricity bill money. Think I had better wait a while, they might still be there next pay day and if not, well, there'll be other good mice for me to get hold of. I'm not too bothered about the box anyway, these mice will be seeing regular abuse so I may as well just grab a bunch of old, yellowed and scratched ones from somewhere.

I've been told that this is retro hardware so here it goes (deleted my previous post on the other thread), anyways...PC hardware and technology in general is expensive here, at least while its new, 2nd hand market is a whole different story, I got this AMD PC (Athlon X2 Kuma black Edition) 4gb ddr2, geforce 8400m Asus M2n-MX-SE mobo and a nice Antec 650watts PSU for $80 usd, this thing was barely used it seems....well, its an HTPC after all 😒 , my plan was to remove all the internals and use this box for a Super socket 7 build 🤣 or maybe leave it as is and get a new and more powerful videocard but don't know what to get, I will need something that don't get bottlenecked by the rest of the system.

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The joystick is particularly interesting, it has an AT keyboard connector that lets you map standard keyboard keys/macros to the eight keys on the base. Only $3.99. Haven't been able to thoroughly test this out though, no idea how well it works for DOS.

I have one of these myself, bought it new in the box last year. If you don't have it and want it I might can dig up the software floppy for it and image it for you. Let me know. I'm not 100% sure I still have it.. reasonably sure though, I'll have to dig through my floppies in the other room then hope it's still readable if I do find it.

I've got the floppy, it was new in the box. I just haven't tinkered with it much yet. Looks like a decent enough stick for a retro pc. Looking forwards to some Thunderhawk when I get my high-powered MSDOS system up and running instead of this ancient 80286.

Today came another package. Between other pieces come this ancient beauty, a Tyan Tiger 100 motherboard with dual P-III @ 500Mhz and an Evans & Sutherland Lightning 1200 AGP graphic card:

A close-up of the motherboard:

And the graphic card, this thing is HUGE:

With it come a 256MB very low density ECC memory module, but it doesn't work; right now it has 768MB noECC memory that I have lying around (the four modules you can see int the photo) and works like a charm.
It's checked up to boot-up; later I'm going to install Windows 2000, and then I'll try some games to see how they run in what was high end hardware in its time 🤣 .
After that, who knows, I love retro computing but I'm not a retro-collector per se, so probably I'll try to sell it.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

A fan sent me retro care package :) […]
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A fan sent me retro care package 😀

I love this mobo, but it's a troubled relationship 🤣 . I have three, one don't even post, other stops in mid-boot and the other mostly works but the PCIe don't work (it starts and goes up to the OS, but there's no image), so I've give up on it 😢 .

shiva2004 wrote:

Today came another package. Between other pieces come this ancient beauty, a Tyan Tiger 100 motherboard with dual P-III @ 500Mhz […]
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Today came another package. Between other pieces come this ancient beauty, a Tyan Tiger 100 motherboard with dual P-III @ 500Mhz and an Evans & Sutherland Lightning 1200 AGP graphic card:

A close-up of the motherboard:

And the graphic card, this thing is HUGE:

With it come a 256MB very low density ECC memory module, but it doesn't work; right now it has 768MB noECC memory that I have lying around (the four modules you can see int the photo) and works like a charm.
It's checked up to boot-up; later I'm going to install Windows 2000, and then I'll try some games to see how they run in what was high end hardware in its time 🤣 .
After that, who knows, I love retro computing but I'm not a retro-collector per se, so probably I'll try to sell it.

Love that GFX card. So simple yet lures of what might come in the future. I think it looks like something from the future at that time, yet build with well known technology. Looks like something from two era's at the same time. What a gem. Congrats.

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And the graphic card, this thing is HUGE: http://i67.tinypic.com/16k52ro.jpg […]
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And the graphic card, this thing is HUGE:

woo..what's chipset brand inside that thing? nvidia?

copados33 wrote:

woo..what's chipset brand inside that thing? nvidia?

http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/component … -lightning-1200

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And some more info.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/professio … air,191-13.html

I'm curious how it would perform in games. My guess is not so good.

copados33 wrote:

woo..what's chipset brand inside that thing? nvidia?

Not, it's a custom Evans & Sutherland chipset called REALimage 1200

Ed: brostenen beat me to it.

Got myself back on the 3DFX train:

I'm of two minds about this though. The seller technically advertised it as a Voodoo 3 3000, which is wrong (it's a 2000). But it was a reasonable price and I would have bought it anyways if it was accurately labeled. Should I raise a stink or just leave it be?

zerker wrote:

Got myself back on the 3DFX train:

I'm of two minds about this though. The seller technically advertised it as a Voodoo 3 3000, which is wrong (it's a 2000). But it was a reasonable price and I would have bought it anyways if it was accurately labeled. Should I raise a stink or just leave it be?

I would leave it be, it dosnt matter much as you can adjust the clocks your self. Perhaps just send a message to the seller letting him know so he can name them correctly if he is going to sell more Voodoo 3 cards.

Be sure to have some airflow over the heat sink if you adjust the clocks... on second thought make that regardless if you up the clocks or not as the Voodoo 3 runs very hot. My PCI Voodooo 3 2000 can handle "3500" clocks but this is with added active cooling. Almost all Voodoo 3 should handle beeing clocked to the Vóodoo 3 3000 spec as long as there is some airflow over the card.

The seller could've made a simple typo as well, so although it would be worth messaging them to let them know, I wouldn't kick up a stink personally. Although this does remind me of the time I bought a slim PS2 that was a model version I explicitly tried to avoid, because the seller didn't name it properly (and that wasn't a basic typo)... and it didn't come with the power brick that it was pictured with.

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Got myself back on the 3DFX train:

I'm of two minds about this though. The seller technically advertised it as a Voodoo 3 3000, which is wrong (it's a 2000). But it was a reasonable price and I would have bought it anyways if it was accurately labeled. Should I raise a stink or just leave it be?

I actually just got a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI almost identical to that (but with the silver 3000 heatsink), along with a Turtle Beach Montego II Vortex 2 and an STB Riva TNT 16MB AGP for $35 shipped from Canada to US. It arrived today and they are immaculate... I'm quite happy. 😀

I will say, I think a V3 2000 PCI in that style is less common than other 2000s, so its still a decent card from a collector's standpoint IMO.

My Voodoo3 2000 PCI has the same heatsink, but 8 memory chips, other components in completely different placement and many more the the really small surface mount components. It's weird just how different they are in layout. I'll add a photo later.

edit: photo added

The SGR version of the V3 2K pci is faster than the other version by 10% or 15% and it can overclock close to the 3500 spec with active cooling. Best to just pop off the stock cooler and put on something more decent.

Upgraded the vrm heatsink once on one of these, cooks meat!

Bought this DAC and headphone amp at the local thrift shop for $25. 🤣 Currently for decoding spdif from my sound card.

Not using it for this, but it can power speakers as well. One surround channel is failed open, so I'll fix that in time.