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Reply 1280 of 2685, by Tetrium

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Here is "Charon", my K6-2 (soon to be K6-2+) build. Shot with a 1997 Sony Mavica FD7 floppy disk camera.

Dude, that minitower case appears to be the exact same I have for my 486 in this topic I made like three minutes ago. Cheers! 😁

It's always fun when stuff like this happens 😁

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Here is "Charon", my K6-2 (soon to be K6-2+) build. Shot with a 1997 Sony Mavica FD7 floppy disk camera.

I've used such a camera at my work for a few years (it was already older tech by then) and it was a very interesting experience. Wish it somehow had ended into my hands, but oh well.

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A CHALLENGER APPEARS!!!

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WARNING, don't use Alcohol to clean these damn things. As you can see, it wipes the logo right off.

Gotta keep the chain going:

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(No, I'm not just holding 2 of the same model, they are technically different revisions! Look at the label differences! 😜)

I fold 🤣

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Reply 1281 of 2685, by oeuvre

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From a few months ago but I still have the gamepad.

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Reply 1282 of 2685, by KCompRoom2000

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Gered wrote:
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A CHALLENGER APPEARS!!!

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WARNING, don't use Alcohol to clean these damn things. As you can see, it wipes the logo right off.

Gotta keep the chain going:

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(No, I'm not just holding 2 of the same model, they are technically different revisions! Look at the label differences! 😜)

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From a few months ago but I still have the gamepad.

I'm jealous of you guys right now. I've been meaning to get my hands on one of those Gravis gamepads for years now, I've just never been able to find them at the usual places outside of eBay and Amazon. 🤣

Reply 1283 of 2685, by janskjaer

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Personally, I prefer the Gamepad Pro's due to the extra buttons available for Windows games, as well as these controllers working perfectly in real MS-DOS 6.22 too.
These work perfectly well for a few FIFA/Actua Soccer/NHL sessions with a few mates round.
I picked these three up on eBay for £1 GBP each 😁

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Reply 1284 of 2685, by Gered

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Personally, I prefer the Gamepad Pro's due to the extra buttons available for Windows games, as well as these controllers working perfectly in real MS-DOS 6.22 too.

I initially really wanted one when I first found out they were even a thing (only ever knew about the original SNES-alike one as a kid) and after I got one for myself this past year, I was extremely disappointed. Gravis D-pads have never been anything special, but the D-pad on the Pro controller I have is waaay to sensitive. Basically, I find it's far too easy to accidentally move your thumb ever so slightly without even thinking about it and suddenly be pressed a different direction.

Do other people find the D-pad on the Pro's to be lacking or is it just me? Perhaps too much time spent playing with Nintendo controllers has ruined me to all other d-pads. 😜

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Reply 1285 of 2685, by bjwil1991

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Here's mine:

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Bottom left: AMD K6-2/300
Bottom right: AMD FX-6300
Top: Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus
Keyboards: IBM Model M keyboard 1987 & Razer multicolored LED backlight
Mice: Precision Instruments Universal Serial and PS/2 & Razer Naga gaming mouse
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 215BW
TrendNet TK-400 KVM PS/2 & VGA 4-PC switch box for the Packard Bell and AMD K6-2/300 machines
Altec 2.1 Stereo Speakers with Subwoofer and 2 inputs
Roland MT-32 Rev. 0
Gravis Analog Pro 4-button (2 programmable via potentiometers) & throttle

Edit: forgot to add a few more things on here.

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Reply 1286 of 2685, by henryVK

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Here's mine:

Bottom left: AMD K6-2/300
Bottom right: AMD FX-6300
Top: Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus
Keyboards: IBM Model M keyboard 1987 & Razer multicolored LED backlight
Mice: Precision Instruments Universal Serial and PS/2 & Razer Naga gaming mouse
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 215BW
TrendNet TK-400 KVM PS/2 & VGA 4-PC switch box for the Packard Bell and AMD K6-2/300 machines

I like the approach of using hardware to prop up other hardware.

I knew this guy who sold weed out of his mom's basement and he had this enormous tv set, maybe a meter and a half across, and it was sitting there, not on a tv table, but on an ever bigger f***ing tv set.

Reply 1287 of 2685, by janskjaer

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Gered wrote:
janskjaer wrote:

Personally, I prefer the Gamepad Pro's due to the extra buttons available for Windows games, as well as these controllers working perfectly in real MS-DOS 6.22 too.

I initially really wanted one when I first found out they were even a thing (only ever knew about the original SNES-alike one as a kid) and after I got one for myself this past year, I was extremely disappointed. Gravis D-pads have never been anything special, but the D-pad on the Pro controller I have is waaay to sensitive. Basically, I find it's far too easy to accidentally move your thumb ever so slightly without even thinking about it and suddenly be pressed a different direction.

Do other people find the D-pad on the Pro's to be lacking or is it just me? Perhaps too much time spent playing with Nintendo controllers has ruined me to all other d-pads. 😜

Agreed. They are consistently sensitive to altering directions. Some games (sports, fighting etc...) are not affected by this due to the style of play. However, games such as Tomb Raider are. I find it extremely frustrating to keep Lara in a straight line! 😉
In comparison, an MS Sidewinder gamepad is head and shoulders above the Gravis Gamepad Pro. Notably, there is a massive improvement in the D-pad control and the contours of the Sidewinder are a joy to hold. However, due to a lack of buttons and no proper support for MS-DOS, it does have its limitations. I swap between the Gravis and Sidewinder depending on my mood.

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Reply 1291 of 2685, by darkstar79

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Reply 1292 of 2685, by creepingnet

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Just some shots of my Tandy and my 486. Dusted out the Tandy a week ago and fixed a power connector issue, 486 was doing a few posts here yesterday while working on a pesky Gateway 2000 Socket 5 system.

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Reply 1293 of 2685, by stinkydiver

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Rig 1:

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CPU: Slot 1 Pentium III 800Mhz 100FSB
Motherboard: Intel SE440BX-2
Ram: 256MB
Video card: Geforce2 GTS 32MB (Soon to be upgrade to Geforce2 Ti with Zalman passive heatsink)
Video card: 2x Voodoo 2 8MB in SLI
NIC: Intel Pro 1000
Sound: Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold
Floppy Drive: Sony
Optical: ASUS QuieTrack

Monitor: Compaq 171FS
Speakers: Altec Lansing ACS90
Mouse: Microsoft Optical 1.0A

Take that there and put it in here

Reply 1294 of 2685, by NostalgicAslinger

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Here is one of my 3Dfx retro PCs, build in autumn 2017.

CPU: Intel Pentium III 1000E SL4KL@ 1100MHz 1,70V (110MHz FSB)
CPU Kühler: The biggest one that I have (Gelid Extreme Thermal Compound, 50 mm AMD fan@7V)
Case: Chieftec Dragon CS-601 black
Mainboard: Asus P3B-F 1.04 i440BX
USB: 1.0 Onboard
RAM: 2x 256MB Samsung PC133 CL2/2/2
Grafik: Asus V8420 Geforce 4 Ti-4200 128MB with a new cooler from ebay
3D additional card: Hercules Stingray 2 Voodoo² 12MB in SLi @120 mm Fan 7V
Sound: Diamond Monster Sound MX300
HDD: Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 8 40GB
ODD: Toshiba SD-M 1902
FDD: Sony
PSU: FSP 300PAF 300W
OS: Windows 98 SE with SP 2.1e

Here is a small intro video of the system and Incoming Subversion Expansion Pack Gameplay. 😀

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Reply 1296 of 2685, by feipoa

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Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management […]
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Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management

Hercules MT Tower
Asus PCI/I 486SP3G using SCSI on Board
32MB
AMD AM5x86 133Mhz
Video: Ark Logic ARK2000 PCI 2MB
Pionner 305s Slot-in DVD RomSCSI
Sound 1: Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 with Yamaha DB50XG Daughterboard
Sound 2: Gravis Ultrasound Classic rev 3.7
2GB Seagate SCSI HDD (needs to be replaced by something quiter soon)

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That is probably the most advanced case display I've seen on any consumer 386/486. Was this case from an industrial setup?

I've had so many of those Pioneer slot drives in the past and they always break before the tray-based CD/DVD-ROM drives I've had.

Nice clean look to the front of the case. Where's the case cover?

Plan your life wisely, you'll be dead before you know it.

Reply 1297 of 2685, by cd_player

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2.2GHz ATHLON TWINS 😀

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Shiny VooDoo2

P!!! 700MHz
Kingston 256Mb SDRAM 133MHz
ECS P6BAP-A+
S3 Trio
VooDoo II
Maxtor 40Gb
Chieftec 360W

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Reply 1299 of 2685, by oeuvre

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They're MULTIPLYING!

Barely squeezed in a shot of a Gravis Gamepad in there.

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