Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-16, 11:10

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that is an amazing find for that price 😀, have fun with those, Voodoo2 SLI is imho the best "3Dfx experience" at least for me 😀 I only had a single 8MB card back in the day and that was the only 3Dfx I had, so I'm glad to have a SLI setup now to experience what I couldn't afford back then ^^

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 11:04

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quite on the contrary, I'm getting sick of new operating systems, software and what people consider good web design nowadays, everything is becoming so cumbersome and unintuitive for power users, not to forget the downfall of most of the gaming industry with microtransactions... I am looking forward …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-12, 17:06

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well my mood is up again :) I fished this out and cleaned it up, it was scratched to hell, there's a long scratch along multiple traces on the backside but they all seem intact, and one of the ICs is bent out of place + a few bent pins that are going to be easy to fix though... I just quickly threw …

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Re: Restoring an AMD 386 system, need some advice

Posted on 2019-09-12, 15:55

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try putting them at a bit of an angle at first guiding the notches on the plug into the grooves of the connector you should also consider removing the battery from the board while you have the chance 😀

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Re: Good 386 motherboard with FPU socket

Posted on 2019-09-12, 15:09

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Anonymous Coward wrote: Which is entirely pointless. Well, this entire hobby is entirely pointless, so there's that. the entire universe is pointless if you tell me what to bench I can test my HOT-327, I finally have it up and running now, I haven't put a FPU in (yet) though.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-12, 13:27

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There's this old saying 'if it looks / sounds too good to be true, then it probably is'. The folks who sell scrap are often professionals; they know what they do. If they would identify really valuable stuff, then I'm sure that they would offer it separately. Yes, you can be a couple times lucky, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-12, 11:24

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I think I've got enough from scrap boxes for a while now... got burnt two times in a row now... things just loosely thrown into a way too big box, if it wasn't visibly broken on the original picture, it sure was after shipping... what's left is a pile of broken off caps, ram clips, scratched and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-11, 14:42

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Mumak wrote: To prove that I haven't joined here just for fun (and to test HWiNFO), I just bough this new toy 😁 I think I'm seeing double 😁

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Re: Soundblaster 2.0 CT1350B Question

Posted on 2019-09-11, 11:45

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there are so many versions of this card ^^ I have a late model with the SOP packaged OPL2

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Re: Soundblaster 2.0 CT1350B Question

Posted on 2019-09-11, 10:27

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I've seen another picture of a "rev 3" on google like that, I guess some just were made like that, the contacts are probably not connected to anything anyways.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-10, 20:56

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derSammler wrote: Seeing the ebay pictures, that unit is really done. For that price, I could have sold you an SC-155 in better condition. hmm? I don't really see anything wrong with it apart from some yellowing, which is normal I guess if it was exposed to the sun.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-10, 19:20

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Thermalwrong wrote: Nice, I saw those, they were gone before I spotted them though - that's a seller in the UK right? I bought an SC-7 from him 😁 yep, that one, the SC-7 were gone pretty fast as well, I almost added one of those too, but I didn't really see the point in addition to the SC-55ST …

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Re: Mix of Old But Not Really Vintage Systems - Ideas for OS's Etc?

Posted on 2019-09-10, 13:16

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the S3 and SB16 will probably be fine for dos games ^^ but yeah, sounds like a solid plan, SB live can usually be found even cheaper if you look around a bit. you could try and find a cheap TNT2/geforce/MX for the slot A, any of the cards that are available in masses.

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Re: Mix of Old But Not Really Vintage Systems - Ideas for OS's Etc?

Posted on 2019-09-10, 11:12

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T.J wrote: Gigabyte GA7IX (AGP / IDE) Slot A Athlon 700mhz 3.5" FDD 40GB IDE […] Show full quote Gigabyte GA7IX (AGP / IDE) Slot A Athlon 700mhz 3.5" FDD 40GB IDE that is a superb system 😀 and a prime candidate for win98SE

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-10, 09:56

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after not finding a soundcanvas forever, I found a white SC-55ST yesterday for 45€ + shipping tho 😒... the seller had three and they all were pretty much gone immediately, so who else got one? 😁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-09, 17:09

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🤣 yeah I've been watching all of those, but they always ended up too expensive ^^ the one in the pile doesn't look like the LMSI version though... also I already ordered the other card and the philips drive, so I have 2 cards now ^^

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Re: VGA card of my first ever PC.

Posted on 2019-09-09, 16:31

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if it was 1989 there's not that much choice as there were only two different trident series around (though I have never seen a TVGA8200LX), so it was most probably a TVGA8800** it's not that hard to find these cards around. 512kb was the maximum memory, sometimes with only 256kb populated. also good …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-09, 13:47

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If you need an LMSI interface card, you could buy this: https://www.ebay.de/itm/143367181774 thanks for the link, I was already watching that seller, more specifically the philips CDD 461 drive since it only cost a bit more and also includes the interface card... and since somebody apparently …

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Re: gotek emulator not working "drive not ready"

Posted on 2019-09-09, 11:39

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there is no indication on the board about orientation, but apparently whoever had the board before me did run into the exact same issue. quoting myself here... I stumbled upon the picture I took for this thread yesterday while looking through stuff... and actually saw that the cache sockets are …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-07, 12:05

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pan069 wrote: Found this Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 LMSI. guess I'll need one of these 😁

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