Search \ VOGONS

Login

Login

Username

Password

2FA token (optional)

Remember me

Hide my online status this session

Lost password
Send activation email

or Create a new account
Create a new account

Common searches

Active topics

Search results

Display options

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Today, 12:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After being bombarded with CRT videos on YouTube, I couldn't take it any longer and "treated" myself to this - my first CRT monitor, which I got for a very reasonable 15€ + 40€ shipping. It's a generic 19" monitor with mediocre sharpness, but the tube is still nice and bright. And I have to say, …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Today, 05:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After being bombarded with CRT videos on YouTube, I couldn't take it any longer and "treated" myself to this - my first CRT monitor, which I got for a very reasonable 15€ + 40€ shipping. It's a generic 19" monitor with mediocre sharpness, but the tube is still nice and bright. And I have to say, …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Today, 02:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought low 1.3V capable Slot1 motherboard with RGB :) ...as untested. Sadly it has typical metal scrapers processing flaw - someone with screwdrivers forcefully removed chipset sink. Well result is obvious... ...not working and I do not have skills to repair it. Quick probing result - at least +5v …

Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on Today, 02:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

of all beige towers made, the gateway ones of that era were the best looking. Yes, I still have my original Gateway G6-400 from early 1999 and it is the same style. It was the first modern computer that was personally mine, so I am slightly biased. :) ... also, since I built my own custom PC within …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-07, 21:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not bought "Yet" but this card is in a lot im looking at, best I can figure its some kind of CRT controller card due to the SY6845E CRT IC, does anyone here have some clue what its actually for ? Unkown STB.jpg I saw this listing myself and looked it up the other day. I believe it is an STB …

Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 02:15

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I accidentally found a game that natively supports DS201 device. It's Lode Runner: The Legend Returns. DS201 is the boring one, that has no SB emulation. Still turns out that there are games that support it. I don't have one to test, unfortunately. That's because this game apparently uses DIGPAK …

Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]

Posted on 2024-05-06, 20:14

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Unfortunately I wont recommend any ram chips, due to only ones I found are selling by only one Chinese guy. There is possibility they may not work, may be broken/fake, there is not good photos on auction. If you still want modify your velocity card, then take following things into consideration: * …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-06, 19:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, PCIe might not feel retro but this sound card is 15 years old and according to the box also supposedly works in Win2k. It's an ESI Prodigy X-Fi NRG. It's more importantly cream colored. I have never seen this model before and when a local company had a clearance for some old stock I snagged …

Re: Help needed in fixing a graphics card

Posted on 2024-05-06, 19:41

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I don't know about that. In my own tests with my 9200 SE (64-bit) and a 64-bit FX5200, both are pretty terrible cards for any games past 2001 time frame, especially at resolutions above 800x600. The 128-bit FX5200 is only slightly better, but not by much, since nVidia didn't include the memory …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-06, 07:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Saw this card in a flea market. My brain just went "it's an ISA card, must buy". It looked like a serial port interface, and the fact that it has a Z80 CPU made it interesting. Paid 1€ for it Upon closer inspection... I don't know what it is. It only uses 7 contacts of the ISA slot (haven't yet …

Re: 8 of my retro PC builds in all of the Lian Li cases

Posted on 2024-05-06, 05:24

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Nice collection! Funny thing, I've never even seen a Lian-Li case in person, and I remember when they were super popular back in the day. Probably just a bit too pricey for the people in my area. 😁

Re: No output from DVI ports on any ELSA Erazor III 32MB TNT2 Pro

Posted on 2024-05-06, 01:19

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Thanks for the input everyone! I appreciate it. I have several cards with that SIL chip. For DVI digital output if it gets EDID that it doesn't like there won't be an image. I solved this by using DVI EDID emulator between card and display (StarTech VSEDIDDVI). When connecting to capture card ( …

Re: Help needed in fixing a graphics card

Posted on 2024-05-05, 06:08

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'm all for fixing things, and I know it has been a few weeks since your original post, but I would recommend returning it if you still can, then getting something else. Problems like these can take many hours to diagnose and in the end may not be fixable (bad GPU for example), so think about how …

No output from DVI ports on any ELSA Erazor III 32MB TNT2 Pro

Posted on 2024-05-04, 20:27

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I recently purchased more than one of these and I'm sad to say that I can't get them to output to DVI at all. I have tried using single-link and dual-link DVI cables going to my old Dell 2001FP and I get no display at all when the DVI cable is connected. I also tried connecting it via a DVI to HDMI …

Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 06:13

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

In the same year of pixel shading there'd been geometry tesselation which didn't gain steam beyond the cards of that year. Ah, yes... that was interesting. If I remember correctly, there were screen shots of the tesselation on Radeon 8500 cards turning guns in popular (but not tesselation optimized …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-03, 23:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have found all sorts of cool PC hardware lately (will post more at some point), but this one caught me off guard. I bought a Sound Blaster 2.0 box with most of the disks and other stuff in it, and the seller included this as a surprise freebie: 20240503_153406 (Custom).jpg Anyone ever seen one of …

Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2024-05-03, 19:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is a shot in the dark, but is anyone close enough to western New York state or NW PA who would be interested in a broken Sony CPD-1302 "multisync" monitor from the late 80s? This would be a VGA, EGA, CGA, 15khz, etc. multi-function type deal... if it worked. I got it a few years ago but the …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 05:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is more retro hardware adjacent than actual hardware related, but it's something I've been wanting to do for a long time. I have a workbench I had previously built for model and miniature painting. I've decided to re-purpose it for papercraft and attempt restoration of old hardware and game …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 03:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If I remember right, those Evercool fans had chrome-colored plastic blades. I don't remember fans with metal blades. Papst (not to be confused with Pabst Blue Ribbon) has some metal fans, but they aren't shiny PC fans with home-friendly noise levels. Even the overclockers used the plastic Papst …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 00:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recapped my recently acquired MSI Tualatin MS-6368 v5 MB . Currently running on 1.1G Tualatin Celeron. Goal is to set up DOS machine with VIA C3 CPU. First test weekend ended up successful. After I reserved Legacy IRQ/DMA from bios PiocoGus is running just fine. It looks like VIA PLE133T sports …

Page 1 of 133

Go to top of page Go to top of page