BeginnerGuy wrote:

Ordered myself a Sidewinder 3d pro... (Stock image). […]
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Ordered myself a Sidewinder 3d pro... (Stock image).

Was going to get a Gravis Destroyer to add to my growing Gravis collection, but I wanted something very usable for ms-dos and possibly 95/98 and according to some other threads on this forum the old sidewinder wont let me down. Hopefully that's true 😊

edit: will be looking for a long list of flightey games to enjoy with it 😎

Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator is always a good start. I recommend the P51D and some instant battles to practices your dogfighting. It takes some time to master keeping your momentum up which is essential in a turning duel.

furan wrote:

After looking for days, I finally found a seller that had the TechMedia speakers case. This was really lucky - I found a seller […]
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After looking for days, I finally found a seller that had the TechMedia speakers case. This was really lucky - I found a seller selling AT cases on ebay, and asked if they had it. They did, and they listed it! It's now on its way to me.

Cool! I forgot those existed.

I love that case. I want one. I have no practical use for it.

in general, if the speaker magnets are completely covered by steel, then they are safe for use near hard drives and such.

BeginnerGuy wrote:

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Time for some Freespace and Freespace 2.

A few days ago Cherry ml4100 keyboard arrived.
Found locally for a 10$, since seller think, this is rubber top dome keyboard, but this one actually based on cherry ml switches.

For completing my "compact 486 dos setup": picmg 486 5x-133 mobo, awe64 gold + roland scc-1, ibm 4820 (10" 800x600 pos lcd).

easy_john wrote:

A few days ago Cherry ml4100 keyboard arrived. Found locally for a 10$, since seller think, this is rubber top dome keyboard, bu […]
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A few days ago Cherry ml4100 keyboard arrived.
Found locally for a 10$, since seller think, this is rubber top dome keyboard, but this one actually based on cherry ml switches.

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For completing my "compact 486 dos setup": picmg 486 5x-133 mobo, awe64 gold + roland scc-1, ibm 4820 (10" 800x600 pos lcd).

Cool case! Do you have more pics or information on this build?

luckybob wrote:

in general, if the speaker magnets are completely covered by steel, then they are safe for use near hard drives and such.

You need to take care of floppy disks, but a speaker magnet can not harm a hard drive in any way. Feel free to try it, nothing bad will happen. You know, inside a hard drive are neodym magnets that are probably 1000 times stronger, yet no magnetic force can be measured outside of the hard drive's case. So if the magnetic field of the neodym magnets can't leave the inner of the HDD case, the much weaker one from the speakers won't enter it either. You need about 7000 gauss to wipe data from an intact hard drive.

I bought something but I don't know what 😁

martin939 wrote:

I bought something but I don't know what 😁

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Looks like a PCChips M537! With a nice CPU 😀

http://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/pcchips/m537.htm

Just got another 20 pieces 128 MB IDE DOMs.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

martin939 wrote:

I bought something but I don't know what 😁

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Looks like a PCChips M537! With a nice CPU 😀
http://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/pcchips/m537.htm

PCChips?! Noooooooooo 😵

😊

derSammler wrote:

Just got another 20 pieces 128 MB IDE DOMs.

(offtopic a bit)

Which ones did you get? I have the ambition to somehow turn this 486 single board into a very compact 486 PC

Just need to figure out how to add sound to it. Maybe something like this?

http://www.cyberresearch.com/store/industrial … I_03_6433.2.htm

Cyrix200+ wrote:

(offtopic a bit)

Which ones did you get? I have the ambition to somehow turn this 486 single board into a very compact 486 PC

PQI, they are about as tall as a RAM module and directly attach to the IDE port. I've build myself a DOS 6.22 install with tools, games, and other stuff for testing which I write onto these. Each mainboard then gets such a DOM installed so that they are ready to use when I need them later. See this one for example:

My first bargain this year:

Paid 15€ + shipping for it. I was only really interested in the case, but lots of cool stuff inside:

* SUPER P6SBA Slot 1 mainboard with Intel chipset (BX, I guess)
* 128 and 256 MB PC133 RAM modules (already removed when I took the picture)
* Sound Blaster Vibra 16VX ISA (already removed when I took the picture)
* S3 Trio3D/2X AGP (already removed when I took the picture)
* Realtek 10 MBit/s Ethernet card
* Socket 370 adapter with Celeron 733 MHz
* ATX PSU with rare P9 connector
* 3.5" floppy disk drive, a 52x CD drive, and a 40x12x40x CD-RW drive

May use the case for my Pentium III 450 MHz board.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Cool case! Do you have more pics or information on this build?

The idea was - make as as small as possible 486, with ability to install isa soundcards.
Only few soundboards are fit "half-size" isa length, but actually enough to choose: some sb16, vibra16 and awe64 revision, gus ace, roland scc-1, etc...

- main board is: picmg single board computer (sbc) "Axiomtec sbc8243", soldered Amd x5-133, two simm72 socket, onboard vga chip&tech 65550, network.
The main problem with half-size sbc - found one with vga chip and that vga should be connected thru pci, since most of them use cheap isa vga, that tlo slow for 486 system.
- case is "IEI pac-53ghw-r11", desktop/wall mount 3 isa, one 2.5" internal drive case.
- disk drive: solid state Sandisk 80mb.

The first retro package of the year just arrived 😀

Having no luck removing the heatsink though, its stuck on there good and I'm curious what chip I got there exactly.

martin939 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Looks like a PCChips M537! With a nice CPU 😀
http://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/pcchips/m537.htm

PCChips?! Noooooooooo 😵

😊

At least half the cache is fake, too; I'd be surprised if the two PLB chips with "VX Pro" labels are connected to anything.

MSI KT880 Delta

SW-SSG wrote:

martin939 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Looks like a PCChips M537! With a nice CPU 😀
http://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/pcchips/m537.htm

PCChips?! Noooooooooo 😵

😊

At least half the cache is fake, too; I'd be surprised if the two PLB chips with "VX Pro" labels are connected to anything.

I dont think anything is fake on the PC Chips M537 "VX Pro" (VIA VP1 chipset) motherboard. Only two of those chips are cache chips though (2x256KB in all likelihood), the other two are data buffer chips (perhaps VT82C587VP). VIA VP1/VPX chipset motherboards with a full 1MB cache often have 6 chips, 4 cache memory chips and two data buffer chips.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator is always a good start. I recommend the P51D and some instant battles to practices your dogfighting. It takes some time to master keeping your momentum up which is essential in a turning duel.

I'm poking around on ebay now, I see there are quite a few versions of it.

Are we talking about "WWII Europe Series" ??