Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2018-11-12, 02:26

by

by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Time for some classic game giveaways. Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 new/sealed in box 5¼" disk version. Box has minor shelf wear and tear, but in overall good condition. Inside everything is still sealed (manual, disk envelope). I fly in the air and swim in the ocean Fish are not my friends, but …

---

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

Posted on 2018-11-11, 11:11

by

by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finished a project that I started in 2011 (yes, SEVEN years ago!) and now I have a nice and spiffy AT&T PC6300. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_8204.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_8207.jpg http://i11.photobucket. …

---

Tariffs and PC parts prices

Posted on 2018-11-10, 11:28

by

by liqmat

in Milliways

in Milliways

If you're going to build, do it sooner than later according to this article. Of course this only applies to you if you live in the U.S. https://www.pcmag.com/news/364870/why-pc-buil … -components-now

---

Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-11-10, 04:26

by

by liqmat

in Milliways

in Milliways

Luckybob, let me know if you need for your ALR server's the Infor Manager software. I have an ALR Revolution 2x server (little one compared with 6x6) and I just found this monitoring software. It's rebranded Gateway (they bought ALR) but it runs perfectly. I didn't remember where I managed to find …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-10, 03:01

by

by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sort of an interesting little parallel port LAN device for older laptops without a LAN port. I imaged the driver disk if any of you come across another one all by its lonely. Going to get the manual up on minuszerodegrees hopefully soon with the help of vcfed member modem7. Genius LAN E3000II Driver …

---

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

Posted on 2018-11-09, 22:31

by

by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Turned on my RaspberryPI and gamed RetroPIE with both of my children for two hours today. And I can recommend the controller called "Speedlink Strike NX". It is soooo good. Thanks for that. Thinking about setting up a retro gaming Pi with something called Lakka. Have you tried this out yet? …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-09, 17:33

by

by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice! ^^^^ Your place is beginning to look like mine. 🤣 That'll keep you busy for awhile.

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-09, 14:29

by

by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is it not just a standard 8-pin mini DIN as the manual shows? http://i.imgur.com/WeFyr7Cl.jpg That looks like it. Never was able to find cables with the 8-pin to S-Video or composite that comes with the card, but I am sure someone with better skills than mine could build one. Not that you would …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-09, 01:36

by

by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

what kind of connectors do the proprietary cables have? I bet it'd be not too hard to make up new ones; just map the pinout with a multimeter. Looks like standard DIN & mini-DIN jacks from in the photos. Sounds like you're sorted, but for all those bare-bones cards on Ebay... ;) I'm actually almost …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-09, 01:01

by

by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some of you may remember about six months back I purchased the VERY hard to find (complete) Cardinal SNAPplus video capture/overlay card new & sealed in box. Well, grabbed another one off Ebay for cheap for two reasons. 1.) This is an earlier revision of the bundle which has a slightly different …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-08, 23:56

by

by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Whiskey wrote: Totally cheap stick but I'm glad to own it again! Who cares if it's cheap, it looks awesome.

---

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-11-08, 23:30

by

by liqmat

in Milliways

in Milliways

^^ I did the then-very-new competitive LAN party circuit around the east coast right when Quake II got huge. It wasn't my "main" game (that was Descent I/II), but I played it, along with everything else that somebody might want to set up a match of. In 1998 I did alright; I was probably in the top …

---

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-11-08, 22:01

by

by liqmat

in Milliways

in Milliways

I have come to a realization that I will never be competitive in Quake II. I truly suck at this game. Not that being good at it in 2018 matters much, but at least I know my limitations if it was the late 1990s. Hard to believe it's 21 years old now.

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-08, 21:50

by

by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Been looking for a case and a mobo for a little while for a 1999ish build, everything on ebay expensive or wont ship. Spotted a listing for pallet of 25 pcs with hdd removed for spares 2 hours away. The cases looked good and i figured i could build at least a couple out of the spares, keep some for …

---

Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-11-08, 19:23

by

by liqmat

in Milliways

in Milliways

Apparently some did hit the recycler before us. A load of 386/486 gear we were told got scrapped. Someone told him the stuff was worth money, so the rest he took the time to tell the community. Long story short. Too bad about the 386/486 stuff, but at least the PPros were saved. A little bit of the …

---

Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-11-08, 18:26

by

by liqmat

in Milliways

in Milliways

So what the actual hell were these supposed to go in, originally? Does anyone know the providence of these? Were these leftovers from Ascii Red or some other giant system of that era? I mean, just one of those trays I think would have been worth $10k back in the day and I see 5 of them just sitting …

---

Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-11-08, 18:08

by

by liqmat

in Milliways

in Milliways

So I just opened the second of five sealed OEM boxes of new old stock Pentium Pro 200MHz/1MB cache CPUs since I am running low in the first box. I noticed that Intel was not too concerned with blemishes on the tops of these CPUs since they are OEM and were meant for server use. I guess they figured …

---

MEGA Montreal Expo Gaming Arcade Nov. 9-10, 2018

Posted on 2018-11-08, 02:27

by

by liqmat

in Milliways

in Milliways

If any of you live in Montreal or near it this is happening this weekend. https://mega-mtl.com/en/

---

Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-11-07, 20:56

by

by liqmat

in Milliways

in Milliways

Golly? What is this? Leave It To Beaver?

---

Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-11-07, 19:17

by

by liqmat

in Milliways

in Milliways

After giving Luckybob his new old stock ALR 6x6 dream machines I am gearing up to populate the other three floor models. If you have not watched Luckybob's Pentium Pro haul video yet I gave him two NOS ALR 6x6 floor models and a NOS ALR 6x6 rack model. I kept the other three NOS floor models. We are …

---