Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-07, 03:09

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Yesss! I got Hexen in the mail, from a VCFED member. To save on shipping, it was packaged inside something else I bought. This might stir up some controversy, LOL. I honestly had decent luck with WinMe back in the day, though I found it all came down to what hardware you were running it on. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-06, 15:50

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The Amiga 1000 was the precursor to the more popular models and was marketed more as a business machine. So this might not be the best gaming machine or something but it has its charme and can be seen as a nice collectors item in its own right. Considering I was there in 1985 to pick up my first …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-06, 13:51

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mcobit wrote: Got this nice TA 80186 machine. […] Show full quote Got this nice TA 80186 machine. IMG-20181105-WA0095.jpeg IMG-20181105-WA0022.jpeg IMG-20181105-WA0019.jpeg What a fantastic looking case. Beautiful.

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Fantastic Star Wars demoscene demo for the Commodore 64 from X'2018.

Posted on 2018-11-06, 03:15

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I don't know if any of you are into the demoscene, but an incredible Star Wars demo was released for the Commodore 64 just a few days ago at the X'2018 demo party. While watching this remember demos have to be real time and this is on a machine that is runniing at about 1MHz. Incredible work! You …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2018-11-05, 15:50

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Looks like I have some scanning to do too. ;) This was too cool to pass up. CameraZOOM-20181104235635446-sized.jpg CameraZOOM-20181104235718342-sized.jpg CameraZOOM-20181105000123344-sized.jpg CameraZOOM-20181105000319100-sized.jpg CameraZOOM-20181105000327031-sized.jpg Holy HELL that's a lot of " …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-05, 01:04

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After long searching, I finally found an ALR Revolution 2x server. Two slotket's ( Slot 1 to Slotket 8 converter) with Pentium Pro 200 MHz 256KB cache, 4x128 MB ECC Edo Ram, 36 GB Scsi Hdd, 18 GB Scsi Hdd, 6 GB IDE Hdd, 3,5" Fdd, Sony SDT-9000 DDS Scsi backup drive, Nec MultiSpin 4Xi Caddy Scsi …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-11-04, 16:03

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Luckybob was kind enough to throw up another video from the haul. This one showing him powering on one of the many new old stock FIC dual socket Pentium Pro motherboards that were acquired and how to modify the ALR server HSF units to work with standard motherboards. Skeletor makes an appearance AND …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-04, 03:03

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STB Soundrage 32 with the AMD InterWave synth. This was a difficult card to get up and running, and I have the original driver disks. I tried to set it up in a DOS-only build, and I couldn't get the card to initialize. Finally got it to work in a 98SE build but only after following the instruction …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-11-03, 14:09

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Could be dried out capacitors, or a cold joint somewhere, but, that's just my $0.02 I agree with you, but this card has such tiny capacitors that even with my nice solder station I don't trust myself in the world of tiny soldering. I can do the larger caps all day long, but my hands aren't steady …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-11-03, 00:48

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No sir, tried all three slots and all the Cirrus Logic and Trident VLB video cards work like a charm on the same mobo. Welp, tried everything. Off to Luckybob's Labs for analysis.

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-11-03, 00:16

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Mmmmm... minty fresh! Found this in a box. IMG-2279.JPG Sadly I get nothing but screen garbage (random colored ASCII characters) all over the screen at post. I then gave it a good scrub with alcohol and a soft bristle toothbrush. It then posted normally, but after a few more reboots it went back to …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2018-11-02, 03:47

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You wouldn't have to break the box down. Just a scan of the front and back would be great. Well, I don't quite know how to do that with any scanner I would have access to.. they don't need the lid closed or what? Oh. I have Zero Divide (PC) but I got it on one of those CD racks back in the day for …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2018-11-02, 01:59

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You wouldn't have to break the box down. Just a scan of the front and back would be great.

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2018-11-01, 23:26

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I got a factory sealed copy of Zero Divide for PC from ebay today. I didn't even know a PC version existed until I stumbled upon it, so I lowballed at 50% asking and won it. I used to play the hell out of this game on my PSX, still have my original copy for that system. Excellent soundtrack too.. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-31, 22:53

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Picked up a few ISA network cards, NOS, appear unused. https://i.postimg.cc/ydvcPr7W/ae3.jpg Probably just the lighting but when looking at the ISA connector I am not convinced this card is actually new. It's not. It came from the Pentium Pro haul and these are lightly used, BUT all the AE3 NICs I …

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

Posted on 2018-10-31, 02:32

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^^^^ Oh man, that makes me laugh so hard. ^^^^ I just heard about that a few days ago. For the uninitiated: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/falling-stars-challenge

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-30, 02:24

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I think these were used as basic file servers from the company they came from.

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-30, 01:38

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So from left to right. 1.) Pentium 100 2.) Pentium Pro 200 3.) Pentium 100 4.) Pentium Pro 200 5.) Dual Pentium Pro 200 Most have SCSI CD-ROM drives and basic Trident ISA video cards. Lots of SCSI drives of course.

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-29, 23:05

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They are 27in tall and 18in deep.

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-29, 21:11

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Will be peeking inside these tonight from the haul. There is a tad bit of surface rust on the bottom of the cases, but nothing breaching the metal. Luckily there are quite a few boxed caster wheels for these cases in the lot so I will be using those. Filename servers1.jpg File size 1.02 MiB Views …

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