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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 18:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes at $55 would be a good price but really is only good for XT's, not something you would run in a 286 or better. I got one a decade ago for about 1/2 that (8bit PAS mod number 650-0002-01 rev1) and am surprised it went for under $75 being that they now quite rare. Added: they only thing that can …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 00:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Aggghhh.. a boxed PAS. Wish I would have seen it. I only have a bare card which is enough for me, but I like archiving the old box art, manuals and disks. I'm not seeing it. Do you have a link to the original listing? It must have been more than a couple months, I can't find it either. I can't even …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-17, 18:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally found a Pro Audio Spectrum Plus... The card in between the PAS 8-bit dual OPL2 card and the PAS16. It was mislabeled but I immediately recognized it from the pics. I saw that a week or so ago... those are pretty hard to find! I was interested but didn't want to spend that much since I'd …

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-04-16, 18:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks all! It is dual socket indeed, just one is populated. And just one vrm as well. And it's got 8 72p sockets (4populated) and no less than 5 power connectors! It's got a millennium with expansion onboard, plus the same card as PCI errors the same expansion! Full SCSI on the hard drive, CD-ROM …

Re: Found this interesting comparison of (up to) 1996 3D graphics cards, chips, and accelerators

Posted on 2021-04-15, 15:34

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Here, try this! Sorry if there is a button covering part of some of them. It was tough to get it it to translate every line on some of the pages. https://photos.app.goo.gl/XAFL3KVGMGqWwra6A Definitely want to have the original handy for the charts and anything in English though, as the translator …

Re: Found this interesting comparison of (up to) 1996 3D graphics cards, chips, and accelerators

Posted on 2021-04-15, 15:15

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Strangely, I've found that the Google Translate app on my phone is working quite well for this. I have to take screenshots of the app, but it is working. I'll upload them when I get a chance.

Re: Found this interesting comparison of (up t0) 1996 3D graphics cards, chips, and accelerators

Posted on 2021-04-15, 14:50

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

@Ozzuneoj: What's an OCI? Did you mean OCR? Sorry, I've been doing a lot of research over at "Bob is the Oil Guy" and mixed up a letter. Strangely enough, I have a Korean car and my OCI (oil change interval) for it is something I've been thinking about as well. :lol: Makes perfect sense lol I did …

Re: Found this interesting comparison of (up t0) 1996 3D graphics cards, chips, and accelerators

Posted on 2021-04-15, 14:20

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

mr.cat wrote on 2021-04-13, 19:07: @Ozzuneoj: What's an OCI? Did you mean OCR? Sorry, I've been doing a lot of research over at "Bob is the Oil Guy" and mixed up a letter. Strangely enough, I have a Korean car and my OCI (oil change interval) for it is something I've been thinking about as well. 🤣

Re: Solution to slow copy of lots of files to FAT32 pendrive

Posted on 2021-04-15, 13:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

An alternative solution would be to get a cheap but decent SSD and use a USB adapter. It's incredible how much faster a real SSD is compared to a flash drive or hard drive, even over USB. A lot of that speed improvement comes from the transfer of small files. A pile of used low capacity SSDs can …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-13, 18:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally found a Pro Audio Spectrum Plus... The card in between the PAS 8-bit dual OPL2 card and the PAS16. It was mislabeled but I immediately recognized it from the pics. I saw that a week or so ago... those are pretty hard to find! I was interested but didn't want to spend that much since I'd …

Re: S-MOS Systems PIX 3D, what the hell was this? Was it ever released?

Posted on 2021-04-13, 07:14

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Very interesting! I'm also amazed that the card had a website printed on it back in 1996. If I saw one of those I would have thought for SURE it was a modern made retro-compatibility card. It really looks like something modern and simple. We need more information on this!

Re: Mystery chip on Trident PCI graphic card

Posted on 2021-04-13, 07:08

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Try dumping the video BIOS while the card is in the PC and see if the checksum is correct. I'm sure you've already tried this, but quite often I can fix intermittent issues like this by thoroughly cleaning the gold fingers using isopropyl alcohol. Or a pencil eraser. Fixed dozens of cards this way. …

Re: Found this interesting comparison of (up t0) 1996 3D graphics cards, chips, and accelerators

Posted on 2021-04-13, 06:50

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Might help let it run and dump bios via NSSI software - model numbers are often written in bios too.... Please do this! I'm curious too! :) By the way... is there any way to translate the PDF in the original post to English? My Korean is... yeah... nonexistent. :lol: I've tried a few Korean OCI …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-29, 12:54

in Milliways

in Milliways

i guess the card is as good as GeForce 7950 GX2 though no longer win9x support ;) This thing runs like a Cadillac. It idles at 1% CPU utilization. Nice system, just beware of anything that needs high per-core performance or memory bandwidth, like modern games. With that many cores it isn't going to …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-27, 15:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Aublak wrote on 2021-03-26, 17:30: Didn't buy it but heres something interesting I found at ewaste. It's still there "left on the side". Interesting looking card with dual S3 Virge MX mobile chips. Probably no practical use, but interesting none the less. Virge mobile chips on a PCI card are pretty …

Re: CGA Light Pen Showcase

Posted on 2021-03-27, 03:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm a little confused. Light pens existed for IBM and Tandy, among others... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pen I remember seeing some on eBay within the last few years, and they weren't that expensive, and there were several available. There isn't much info out there, but I've seen the cards …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-26, 15:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dug up two Creative 12mb V2s from the same scrap bin at ewaste: https://i.imgur.com/j3Kmp57.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gI68Y31.jpg The PixelFX chip on the bottom took a noticeable ding (two pins were pretty bent, straightened them out) but otherwise they are in decent shape, and I can't complain …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-26, 07:09

in Milliways

in Milliways

Well, I didn't buy this today, but the other day I finally upgraded my GPU after 6 years. I got a really good deal on a Dell G5 gaming computer with an RTX 3060 Ti. The system has decent specs, but the amount of non-standard components they put into these systems makes me physically ill, so I had no …

Re: Help me identify this early 90's car racing game

Posted on 2021-03-19, 19:16

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

MegaRace doesn't fit your timing/specs, but the game is similar to what you talked about. Just thought I'd mention it, just in case.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-18, 07:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not found much of late, but made a few pucrhases this week so far... ...Matrox Millennium II 8MB Matrox Mill II 8MB.jpg ...Lian Li drive bay kit Lian Li MF-30.jpg I'll use this to replace the lower 3.5" bay housing in my PC7-II / dual socket 604 build as to me it ruins the internal lines of the …

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