Re: Adlib Card - Clone / Real? Audio quality?

Posted on 2022-06-30, 00:14

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you can see by the texture that this is a very old PCB, noone makes them like this anymore ^^ also why wouldn't you use it? that's what it's there for and the original Adlib sounds great and it's a great choice for a 286. I consider myself lucky having gotten one from scrap, but mine doesn't look …

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Re: How much is worth?

Posted on 2022-06-29, 22:21

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well said, and if all that people can see are dollar signs and not the intrinsic historical value then idk x3

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Re: How much is worth?

Posted on 2022-06-29, 11:00

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we're talking supply and demand for goods that are not really necessary, not food etc. which always was and always will be more valuable than money itself, of course there is also inherent supply and demand for that, but we obviously should always try and meet demand in this case as it is necessary …

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Re: How much is worth?

Posted on 2022-06-29, 00:01

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There is never objective value of something. It is all supply and demand and what people are willing to pay for something that decides a value of something and that changes over time. If the people who try to sell something for higher price than before find buyers then objectively its value goes up …

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Re: Modern ATX cases for older AT motherboards?

Posted on 2022-06-27, 20:43

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Baoran wrote on 2022-06-27, 19:53: How well something like SilverStone Grandia GD09 would work for this purpose? I was considering it some time ago. One problem I see is that there is no room for both optical drive and floppy drive. the GD07 has four 5 1/4" bays 😉

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2022-06-27, 20:09

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I mean, it's a good storage spot to not loose it 😁

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2022-06-27, 20:07

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that's a nice outhouse ^^ oh how I miss LAN parties

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-06-26, 16:53

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The hardware is not relevant. The hardware is just about “Speed and Performance” of the software. that's a pretty bad take, of course the hardware is relevant, not just for the sake of running software on it but purely for it's historical significance, it's developement over time and how PC …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-23, 15:42

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dionb wrote on 2022-06-23, 12:51: Aztech MMSN830, with optional Wavetide module on proprietary headers. haven't seen that one before, neat ^^

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-21, 20:28

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"Batman" and "Batman's Revenge" are more like codenames for each revision, the actual name for the board is "Premiere/PCI" or something like that, much like the "Advanced/ZP" is also known by its codename "Zappa". Intel's naming scheme has always been strange. yeah, but we still don't know how they …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-21, 14:30

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Good for u the faumos Batman revenge board, i am not in into that much, but a fellow HW collector was talking much about that board, so it seems it is a pretty huge deal.. How much did you spend for that Batman board ( i also wonder wtf is with that name, i dont see bats or Batman name on it..) it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-20, 23:30

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I think the point was primarily to be able to ENcode realtime video capture ^^ ...but whatever floats your boat

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-20, 23:14

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Radical Vision wrote on 2022-06-20, 16:00: Fast Multimedia AG Philips ISA FAST sure were on point with their box designs 😁 Filename hardware39_41.jpg File size 418.02 KiB Views 1632 views and speaking of batmobiles... I got this one recently ^^ Filename hardware40_86.jpg File size 433.65 KiB Views …

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Re: Roland Scc1 + MT32!

Posted on 2022-06-19, 19:42

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yeah, it just doesn't play for me, I tried downloading it and it only worked in VLC... maybe because you somehow put AAC encoded audio into a .mp3 file?

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Re: Roland Scc1 + MT32!

Posted on 2022-06-19, 18:55

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I often run multiple MIDI modules in parallel to give the instruments more depth, but that usually only works with GM, as tracks made for MT-32 will not play correctly on a GM module and vice-versa and while some GS/GM modules have a MT-32 mode it never sounds as good as a real MT-32 tbh, but no …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-17, 14:34

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that's some nice cookies in that tin

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Re: The moment you were hooked

Posted on 2022-06-16, 19:56

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probably Monkey Island, the PC speaker intro tune will be stuck in my head for eternity.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-16, 12:55

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Kahenraz wrote on 2022-06-16, 12:16: That's a Skywell Magic TwinPower. But it's a universal AGP connector. I've never seen that before on a banshee, or any 3Dfx card for that matter. I think that's just the slot bracket of the I/O board laying on top of it 😁

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Re: Can I soon certificate and grade my processor collection ? (PCGS,CGC,VGA,WATA,PSA)

Posted on 2022-06-13, 12:24

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So I'm not an expert on the matter of how grading companies work etc, but afaict they seem quite susceptible to fraud on top of causing price hikes you just summed up how grading companies work in a nutshell. grading companies are made to make money, nothing else, there is no benefit to it …

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Re: Is there anything better than a Voodoo 5 6000 from 2002

Posted on 2022-06-13, 02:15

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you can get a reproduction made in russia though and even that will cost you like over $1k How would recreating it cost $1000 if there are cards now that are about 1000x faster. idk where to even begin with this one :D ...but I will try: - sourcing an original V5 6000 to base the design off - …

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