Re: Card Identification

Posted on 2021-06-16, 02:15

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by Ozzuneoj

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I found this. https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-861368877-placa-computacion-interface-usada-zocalo-isa-zona-ballester-_JM Not sure how helpful it is though. Try searching for the part numbers on the chips, like the big Siemens one. That may tell you what the card is for. My uneducated …

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Re: Samsung KS82C614A "Double Dragon" 3D Accelerator

Posted on 2021-05-10, 15:16

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Bingo ? Cool! A new thing to scour the internet for. :D Was anyone at Comdex in Chicago back in 1996 and do you remember booth W1628? :lol: Stuff like this makes you wish there were youtubers back then, wandering around with cameras the way they do at tradeshows these days. It's possible that booth …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-05-05, 19:19

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Nice Tandy! We had a Tandy 1000HX when I was a kid. I really wish I had appreciated old PCs at the time, because it was already quite outdated when I started using it. I hated the fact that it wouldn't play basically any game I could find. Bear in mind, this was the mid '90s, so the lack of Tandy …

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Re: Savage 4 is it useful for anything?

Posted on 2021-04-27, 06:03

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For what it's worth, I believe all Savage4 cards are limited to a 64bit memory bus. My experience with them is that they are a neat alternative for late 90s games, but outside of playing with S3 Metal there isn't much point in using a savage4 when a TNT/TNT2 provides a better overall experience and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-24, 17:21

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Bought two more Pentium AT towers from ewaste for $40 each. Bottom one for a friend: https://i.imgur.com/q1NwLHV.jpg The top tower didn't seem too special from the outside, but it had two nice surprises inside. Not complaining for the price ;) https://i.imgur.com/2xBoRU2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ …

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Re: Looking for a japanese vintage computers forum

Posted on 2021-04-21, 14:43

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by Ozzuneoj

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I have no idea what this page says or if it is legit, but I figured it would be worth posting in case you hadn't seen it. It may just contain the windows 95 drivers you mentioned. http://www.ratocsystems.com/services/driver/sound/5571.html I just followed the link for the 5570 drivers in this thread …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-18, 18:36

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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 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-18, 00:07

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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 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-17, 18:41

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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 …

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

Posted on 2021-04-16, 18:58

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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 …

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

Posted on 2021-04-15, 15:34

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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 …

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

Posted on 2021-04-15, 15:15

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by Ozzuneoj

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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.

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

Posted on 2021-04-15, 14:50

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@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 …

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

Posted on 2021-04-15, 14:20

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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. 🤣

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

Posted on 2021-04-15, 13:26

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by Ozzuneoj

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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 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-13, 18:58

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by Ozzuneoj

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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 …

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

Posted on 2021-04-13, 07:14

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by Ozzuneoj

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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!

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Re: Mystery chip on Trident PCI graphic card

Posted on 2021-04-13, 07:08

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by Ozzuneoj

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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. …

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

Posted on 2021-04-13, 06:50

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by Ozzuneoj

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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 …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-29, 12:54

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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 …

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