Re: Found an AWE64 Gold II for sale... for only $20,000

Posted on 2019-04-02, 00:31

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Anonymous Coward wrote: Anyone know what it can do? The board itself seems pretty dull...it just looks like a regular AWE64G with more memory. If I had to guess it probably offers little or nothing over a CT3670 with lots of memory.

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Re: Thoughts on sound blaster for XP Games?

Posted on 2019-03-31, 00:30

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I used an Xtreme Music for several years and rarely had any problems. They are good cards and should work with just about anything from that time period. I don't believe you will see any noticeable improvement with any other card for games that support DirectSound3D, or OpenAL. As far as I'm …

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

Posted on 2019-03-30, 23:43

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Gahh! The heaped mannequin parts are hilariously creepy... I have been to places like that where the owner says "There's more in the basement..." and you go down there and see things that make you wonder how you got to this point in your life (while looking over your shoulder to be sure the door …

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Re: Found an AWE64 Gold II for sale... for only $20,000

Posted on 2019-03-30, 02:14

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Huh. I had no idea that existed. Neat, but not $20,000 neat. Yep, I've known about it for a while from the official sound blaster milestones page: https://www.soundblaster.com/about/ Uhg... that page is embarassingly bad. There are so many errors. And it is the manufacturer's website... the mind …

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Re: Promise SATA300 TX2 Plus versus Asus P5A On-board IDE

Posted on 2019-03-30, 01:31

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Wow... this is really weird timing. I was just thinking about booting from a SATA card for one of my tester systems rather than using a convoluted series of adapters. In the end it'll probably still boot faster (the most important thing for a tester) without having to load a SATA card's BIOS, but it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-30, 01:17

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This came in a mixed lot of cards today. Can anyone identify this crazy thing? It says "Timer" on it and it has a Dallas RTC, but it also has a 3.3v - 5v switch (blue and red thing), what appear to be RJ11 and RJ45 recepticles and a 9 pin dsub... with both PCI AND 8bit ISA card edge connections? …

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Re: 5150 Keyboard Tray

Posted on 2019-03-30, 00:48

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Just wanted to bump this thread to say that I finally decided to order a couple of these (one for my standing work desk and one for my IBM 5150). I found the store Shoplet.com had by far the best price. https://www.shoplet.com/Innovera-Standard-Desktop-Keyboard-Drawer/IVR53001/spdv $23.10 each with …

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Re: Found an AWE64 Gold II for sale... for only $20,000

Posted on 2019-03-29, 09:39

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Amazing to think that things like this still turn up. For $20k I'd like to think it'll be there for a long time... But I honestly wouldn't be all that surprised if someone bought it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-28, 21:11

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I already have this card for many years, but kept it stored and never tested it. Until I stumbled upon it again today. And since I was testing a GUS classic I bought earlier this week, I decided to put this card in the same PC and give it a go.... And what do you know? Works perfectly! 20190328_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-28, 19:01

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I picked up several items lately, but I'm not all that familiar with old network cards. Are these useful or in any way special?

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Re: Blue Hercules cards

Posted on 2019-03-25, 19:47

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If you like blue cards in general, there's also a very uncommon Gigabyte brand Voodoo Banshee that has pretty nice looking blue PCB. Probably one of the first blue video cards.

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-25, 19:37

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Your Runnings windows 2000? Give XP a try it could be a driver combo problem. This is starting to sound like a very odd system. A K6-2 gaming in Windows XP or even 2000 seems like an experiment to find the absolute limits of what is functional on socket 7, rather than a usable gaming system. Unless …

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Re: Adding my 486 to my Network

Posted on 2019-03-25, 13:47

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Maybe one would like to have some sort of documentation about pros and cons, and how to build such thing ? I would be interested in this. Also, would it be possible to do this somehow with a second router using a third party firmware? I'm sure I'll eventually want to get an old machine on my …

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Re: Can we settle this? NV3x Quadro FX vs Geforce FX ROPs...

Posted on 2019-03-25, 00:56

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Got my hands on a QuadroFX 3000 (FX 5900 Ultra equivalent). Here is what everest says. QuadroFX3000_everest.jpg Yup. 4 pipelines, 8 TMUs, as expected. It also shows 3 vertex and 1 pixel shader, for what that's worth. The specifics of those seem a bit hard to figure out based on other info online. I …

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Re: IBM AT 5170 wont start. PSU failsafe?

Posted on 2019-03-25, 00:48

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My card have some extra cords on it for some reason compared to the one on ebay. Which ones? I only see the FD/HD and LED connectors. Maybe post the image of the card you saw in the bay so we can make sure it is compatible. The yellow lines near the big chips. Link https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage- …

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Re: IBM AT 5170 wont start. PSU failsafe?

Posted on 2019-03-24, 20:19

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I had the same problem with a new old stock Everex EGA card. It had a shorted tantalum (silently failed... it didn't blow or smoke) which caused my 5150 to have a pretty similar problem. It wouldn't turn on. After replacing that cap (I just used whatever standard electrolytic I had laying around …

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Re: Prometheus ARIA16 Sound Card

Posted on 2019-03-23, 22:35

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Small update. I made a bit of progress with this card but not much. For some reason the disks I had do not have any of the .bnk files required by the "playmidi" application to play back midi files. Using an already-extracted installation of aria drivers I found online, I was able to get the card …

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Re: Fan for Voodoo-3 ?

Posted on 2019-03-18, 23:21

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I think it should be easy to attach 50 or 60mm fan directly to the original heatsink using zip ties for example.... if you don't mind the extra slot occupied and less than perfect look of such solution. Btw - this looks very nice. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3067655 That is super cool. I …

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Re: Diamond Viper V330 4MB with Riva 128ZX chip?

Posted on 2019-03-18, 23:18

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I replaced the capacitor on the card and it is working now. It installs normally with the Riva 128/128ZX driver and Everest clearly identifies it as a 128ZX, but it says the RAMDAC is 206Mhz (same as any Riva 128), it only has 4MB of RAM and the clock/RAM speed is only 95Mhz. Basically, other than …

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Re: Old videocards change primary video output from SUD-D to DVI?

Posted on 2019-03-16, 20:50

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I would recommend checking the small components around the DVI port. I had a couple of cards that appeared to do this but were actually only doing this because they were damaged. I think the inductors (usually small black rectangles) and capacitors near the outputs are very susceptible to damage …

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