Couple acquisitions this past week: AST Advantage! card with 2 megs of RAM, and an Epson GW-BASIC guide.
I always love the look of these cards with enormous RAM banks. Somehow they always get me excited, even if the capacity isn't all that impressive. It's always a mystery until I know exactly how much is actually there.
Kahenraz wrote on 2023-02-13, 00:01:I always love the look of these cards with enormous RAM banks. Somehow they always get me excited, even if the capacity isn't all that impressive. It's always a mystery until I know exactly how much is actually there.
Oh Yeah!
What about my 486 motherboard sporting 16 30 pin slots? I recently filled it to 16MB using 1MB x 9bits chip simms only. That means 144 x 1mb x 1bit chips total.
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Cheers,
Great Northern aka Canada.
It's always more pleasing to me when I use more chips of anything, even if it's less powerful than something more integrated. I think this is definitely a common attraction for most of us here.
This one… I consider it really gorgeous as a design.
Kahenraz wrote on 2023-02-13, 07:08:It's always more pleasing to me when I use more chips of anything, even if it's less powerful than something more integrated. I think this is definitely a common attraction for most of us here.
Exactly. I find myself actually preferring the AT motherboards with no built-in I/O, meaning more expansion cards!
AlessandroB wrote on 2023-02-13, 11:17:This one… I consider it really gorgeous as a design.
I actually consider most of the early IBM PS1/PS2 design language to be very ugly. I always did, even as a kid, when these computers weren't even that old. It somehow felt dated even then.
Kahenraz wrote on 2023-02-13, 07:08:It's always more pleasing to me when I use more chips of anything, even if it's less powerful than something more integrated. I think this is definitely a common attraction for most of us here.
For this reason alone I had wanted to use an older ISA sound blaster instead of a Live! or something, especially one with the extra interface connections, but it just never came around to it except for a single build using an AWE64 iirc (and an ISA sound card for my 486 which of course used an ISA sound card).
I have just responded in another thread about older stuff sometimes looking better build where the newer stuff was often lightweight and cheaply made. I used optical and floppy drives to illustrate this.
I think my most impressive ISA card is actually my ActionMedia II. Basically useless but holy cow it looks impressive! And it's heavy as well xD
AlessandroB wrote on 2023-02-13, 11:17:This one… I consider it really gorgeous as a design.
It's not exactly my taste but wow, it looks like new! That's definitely aesthetic in my book 😀
More TIGA stuff. I think it is Spea HiLite. 2 MB VRAM + 1 MB DRAM.
Today I bought a Voodoo 5 6000 from ebay! It was very cheap, it costed me only my car and savings but it was worth it!
Just kidding of course. But I really wonder if the new owner uses this forum.
Is that the same one that I read about in the news? I know I'll never get one of them now. Oh well.
I quick ran out and bought not one but two Voodoo 5500s last year before they went too far outside of my reach. It was way more than I wanted to spend, but it's done now.
I wish I had gotten some of the DVI ones. Especially the PCI Mac card. It's not exactly what I wanted, but I'm still very happy with these.
mrfusion92 wrote on 2023-02-13, 18:39:But I really wonder if the new owner uses this forum.
Probably not. If he did he would have read all the posts saying that people should just get a Geforce 4Ti or high end FX series and run a Glide wrapper for the best 3dfx Glide experience possible...
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Now for some blitting from the back buffer.
You say that, but I would be happy to have one in my collection if it didn't require one of my kidneys.
Was looking for a CT1600. So today this came in:
i386 16 ⇒ i486 DX4 100 ⇒ Pentium MMX 200 ⇒ Athlon Orion 700 | TB 1000 ⇒ AthlonXP 1700+ ⇒ Opteron 165 ⇒ Dual Opteron 856
Someone local was giving away a massive stash of old computer parts, and I mentioned that if he had any AGP cards like a TNT2 Ultra I'd take them off his hands. He replied with "I have a Viper V550 and a Rage Fury MAXX." I immediately grabbed them and offered $20 (he was going to give them to me for free), but I figured he at least deserved to get some beer money for giving me some genuinely interesting hardware! Both are going to get used in my Pentium II-450/Voodoo 2 Windows 98 machine, and I'm interested to see if the micro-stutter on the MAXX is as bad as people said it was. My original intent was to use the TNT to replace an ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP, but now I may just use the Rage MAXX in single-GPU mode depending on which of the two I like better in the games that I play. No matter what, I am excited to give this oddball graphics card a try!
MadMac_5 wrote on 2023-02-13, 21:38:Someone local was giving away a massive stash of old computer parts, and I mentioned that if he had any AGP cards like a TNT2 Ultra I'd take them off his hands. He replied with "I have a Viper V550 and a Rage Fury MAXX." I immediately grabbed them and offered $20 (he was going to give them to me for free), but I figured he at least deserved to get some beer money for giving me some genuinely interesting hardware! Both are going to get used in my Pentium II-450/Voodoo 2 Windows 98 machine, and I'm interested to see if the micro-stutter on the MAXX is as bad as people said it was. My original intent was to use the TNT to replace an ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP, but now I may just use the Rage MAXX in single-GPU mode depending on which of the two I like better in the games that I play. No matter what, I am excited to give this oddball graphics card a try!
Those are both awesome finds and only 20 bucks too
mpe wrote on 2023-02-13, 17:36:More TIGA stuff. I think it is Spea HiLite. 2 MB VRAM + 1 MB DRAM. […]
More TIGA stuff. I think it is Spea HiLite. 2 MB VRAM + 1 MB DRAM.
Been seeing so many PCI and higher video cards, finally an ISA!
MadMac_5 wrote on 2023-02-13, 21:38:I am excited to give this oddball graphics card a try!
Congrats man. 😀
i386 16 ⇒ i486 DX4 100 ⇒ Pentium MMX 200 ⇒ Athlon Orion 700 | TB 1000 ⇒ AthlonXP 1700+ ⇒ Opteron 165 ⇒ Dual Opteron 856
MadMac_5 wrote on 2023-02-13, 21:38:Someone local was giving away a massive stash of old computer parts, and I mentioned that if he had any AGP cards like a TNT2 Ultra I'd take them off his hands. He replied with "I have a Viper V550 and a Rage Fury MAXX." I immediately grabbed them and offered $20 (he was going to give them to me for free), but I figured he at least deserved to get some beer money for giving me some genuinely interesting hardware! Both are going to get used in my Pentium II-450/Voodoo 2 Windows 98 machine, and I'm interested to see if the micro-stutter on the MAXX is as bad as people said it was. My original intent was to use the TNT to replace an ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP, but now I may just use the Rage MAXX in single-GPU mode depending on which of the two I like better in the games that I play. No matter what, I am excited to give this oddball graphics card a try!
Wonder if he later realized that Fury MAXX card is worth more than your average Voodoo5 5500....I have two of them a broken one from a scrap lot and a very nice working boxed one, I can confirm the cards are as picky about boards and chipsets as the rumors suggest. I have had great results with BX chipset based boards (AGP 1x/2x) and bad results with anything Via based...doesn't matter what the AGP speed is. Its for sure a fun card to play around with and I ended up just leaving it in my Slot 1 Pentium III 500 Voodoo2 SLI box where it seemed very happy.
There is a thread here on Vogons that has an archive with every MAXX driver released in it, its worth going through the newer drivers to find one that works with your setup, avoid the older drivers as they all have issues with textures.
I have a MAXX as well. The fans are obnoxiously loud, the performance is lackluster, driver support is poor and compatibility is worse. It's an interesting relic of it's time, but I would never make a build around it. And even if I did, I would want to replace the fans, which would be risky because they are glued on.
