Received and set up a trendnet 4port KVM with audio switch. Works great! Computer 1 is my daily driver (FX60). 2 is my windows 2000 retro rig (slot A Athlon 750). 3 is my DOS system. And 4 is kept available to quickly attach to a setup for testing or mucking around with 😀

Changed hardware on my P133.
I took out the GUS-ACE and the CT2910 and installed an AWE64-Gold instead.
Sound volume can be controlled better this way.
Took out the Voodoo1 card, as it is of no use to me on a P133.
Only using it in Windows, and the P133 is simply too slow for this.
And I really do not have interest in Dos Glide anyway.
Perhaps I will go back to my CT2910 again later.
The Gus was not really working for my needs in this build.
So perhaps I will get a midi module for the SB16 in the future.

Worked all night on this awesome list of arcade games that are almost all older than myself! 😁
http://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Discrete

I visited someones home today because he said he would have for sale a Sound Blaster Pro 2. What he had was only the packaging, manuals and floppy disks. And he had disposed the old computer containing the sound card just a couple of months ago! He wanted 5 euros just for the box with manuals and floppy disks. In my opinion, it's not worth that much because the box wasn't even in good condition. If the sound card was included I would have paid it. Just don't like when people are disposing good old hardware .

Spent my weekend dumping magneto optical disks for a NeXT Cube. No issues until the second last cartridge which was apparently so unhappy its presence would make the system panic.

Then I got called in to work my Sunday. 😒

brostenen wrote:

Changed hardware on my P133.

Curious. I've got two P133s and can think of no use for such a system. What's the motivation for running an average Pentium?

Moved my 5x86 into a new case, and swapped the SBPro2+GUS+MPU for a single AWE64 Gold, and finally got it all set up at my new house. The old cards will go into a new 386 DX40 build I'm planning.

The amp is a Kenwood KRF-V5200D, and the speakers are some nice Australian-made bookshelf speakers. The setup sounds incredible!

brassicGamer wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Changed hardware on my P133.

Curious. I've got two P133s and can think of no use for such a system. What's the motivation for running an average Pentium?

Same reason as everyone else here. I like old hardware.

Very nice setup SquallStrife!

I liked that case a lot... it looks pristine!

philscomputerlab wrote:

Very nice setup SquallStrife!

Cheers!

alexanrs wrote:

I liked that case a lot... it looks pristine!

It was a generous and most awesome gift from badmojo, and just-about-new in box.

Finished assembly on my every-slot-filled-386.

Unfortunately, my 386 mobo only has 6 slots, so I had to forego a network card, and the planned Hercules cart (to try out ROTT debug screen etc).

So what made the cut?

- Diamond Speedstar Pro
- Adaptec AHA-1542
- SB Pro 2
- GUS Classic 3.4
- Roland MPU-IPC-T
- 8-bit UART+Parallel card

(The Diamond Stealth 24 ISA is also in this picture, it was the other candidate for video)

What I do have for connectivity is a Xircom Parallel Port Ethernet adaptor, and a packet driver for use with mTCP. So file transfer should be fine.

It's very crowded in there!!

brostenen wrote:

brassicGamer wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Changed hardware on my P133.

Curious. I've got two P133s and can think of no use for such a system. What's the motivation for running an average Pentium?

Same reason as everyone else here. I like old hardware.

No but I mean the P133 is kinda stuck in the middle technology-wise and is kinda unremarkable. A 386 is great for those 80s-era games, but the next batch like Doom and Quake can run on a bog standard Pentium but one may as well use an MMX system as it has a greater reach in terms of newer games.

I can run Dynablaster, Monkey island, Pinball fantasies, Doom and Duke3D.
Plus many more. So what's not to like? I like my P133.
And for newer games, I have my K6-III-400, and 4 other machine up to P3-933.

I like my P133. It's running MS-DOS-6.22. And with L1 off, it can run those 1990-93 games.

SquallStrife wrote:

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Finished assembly on my every-slot-filled-386.

Unfortunately, my 386 mobo only has 6 slots, so I had to forego a network card, and the planned Hercules cart (to try out ROTT debug screen etc).

So what made the cut?

- Diamond Speedstar Pro
- Adaptec AHA-1542
- SB Pro 2
- GUS Classic 3.4
- Roland MPU-IPC-T
- 8-bit UART+Parallel card

(The Diamond Stealth 24 ISA is also in this picture, it was the other candidate for video)

What I do have for connectivity is a Xircom Parallel Port Ethernet adaptor, and a packet driver for use with mTCP. So file transfer should be fine.

It's very crowded in there!!

Envy that GUS and that SB-Pro2. Cards missing in my collection.
Too expensive 🙁

Great build. Good work. Thumbs up.

@brostenen; Yeah, the P133 is a decent platform anyway. They were stable, easy to modify/upgrade and ran pretty much everything a 486 did but better.

But most of all I agree with

Same reason as everyone else here. I like old hardware.

It could be worse, he could be running an IDT WinChip or something. I do, it's rubbish, but do I enjoy owning it and using it? Yeah. Was it prohibitively expensive? No. Sure, I know I could stick a K6 in that board (I moved it to a PC Partner one) and leave it for dead, I know I could have never set it up in the first place and it drags it hangs its bag out when anything uses the FPU. Whatever, it makes me happy, it's good enough. As for the Pentium, like I said, decent platform. Besides, it would probably be enough to play a fair amount of older user content in games like Doom and Duke where the mapper cranked the detail up. You wouldn't want to play Billy Boy's maps on a DX2-66, that's for certain. Even Fernando's New York Rebellion would probably be stretching it and if you run a much newer system you may as well just run a port which would play on modern systems anyway.

On that note, I do go around saying things are rubbish a lot. But I will NEVER say that somebody should not like the object in question.

Yeah... That's like what I get from a P133 as well.
Besides, it is running on a Epox MVP3-C board.
A SS7 board with AGP, PCI and ISA. It's a baby AT.
And it even has AT and ATX connector for the PSU.
Oh... It has PS2 connector and USB.

Combined with a P133, 32mb SD-Ram, CL5446 and
an AWE64-Gold. Well. Yeah. I get a pretty decent PC.
I actually like a P133 over K6 cpu's on this chipset.
So yeah. Not much to say other than the original
mobo is stored in a box somewhere. The one with
some crappy Intel chipset, Dallas battery and no Ps2.

My IDT came in a 5AGM2. No idea what the generic PC Partner board is, but that is also an MVP3. Down-side is, no AGP on that as it is hard-wired to an onboard SiS. Said SiS seems fitting on the IDT though and it works fine.

I expect performance is generally similar to your P133 on both of these baords. I have slightly more RAM but only because the smallest stick I had spare was 128MB. Rather have too much RAM than not enough so I have no intentions of fixing that unless I just happen to find a smaller module.

Personally, I'd prefer to run a P133 in an older board like the TR5510, but that's just me, I like to be era appropriate when possible.

Unfortunately my Chaintech is missing the board which provided PS2 and USB. The serial ports are a non-standard pinout too, but with a K6 it makes a good system for stuff which needs to go faster... Though I do prefer the QDI-based Pentium II overall.

Managed to successfully test a 3DFX PCI card finally. 😀

SquallStrife wrote:

Finished assembly on my every-slot-filled-386.

Unfortunately, my 386 mobo only has 6 slots, so I had to forego a network card, and the planned Hercules cart (to try out ROTT debug screen etc).

Very nice!

That Adaptec card, is that FDD+ SCSI?

What motherboard are you using?