They are awesome aren't they 😀

badmojo wrote:

Picked up some IDE->CF adapters to try out - they're so freaking cheap that I figured I might as well.

TBH I think that's pretty good for a CF adapter. It's not like your running Windows 7 or 8 with constant writes on a multi-core cpu. Your probably doing permanent installations and mostly reads afterward right? I wonder if it even bottlenecks 486's (probably not).

Such a simple thing and so useful.

Splinter wrote:

Slide I never would have noticed to be honest, but thanks for pointing it out. Collected the card this morning and the bloke was […]
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I never would have noticed to be honest, but thanks for pointing it out.
Collected the card this morning and the bloke was very unhappy to sell it as he'd had it for about 15 years and is in pristine condition.
Perhaps down here in Argentina, they came with the Voodoo 1 pack, who knows?
Which missing CD's are you referring to?
Presumably the picture below is how the V2 was presented:

I would have to find which box I stored mine in to be sure, but of course the first thing that would be missing would be the driver CD for the Voodoo 1 card plus I think there may be another game missing. I'm pretty sure there was supposed to be 6 CD's in that pack.

Wait. You know what I think it is?

Mechwarrior 2 for 3dfx.

Got 3 exact same adapters. Very useful cute little things! As opposed to IDE2SD adapters, these work in almost any system supporting IDE. As a matter of fact, I think the main bottleneck in 486 stogare system is the controller/bus, not the card/adapter.

RacoonRider wrote:

As opposed to IDE2SD adapters, these work in almost any system supporting IDE.

I use two IDE2SD adapter on a similar bracket (KTC FC1306 T chip). On 486, socket 7 and Slot-1 systems. The previous 486 BIOS had little trouble detecting the 2GB card, but other then that I never had any issues. The advantage of SD was that fine ones were being discarded everywhere, and that I can plug them in any of my modern systems without adapter.
The Transcend Disk on modules (DOM) seem a little faster, but they are a little more temperamental to configure, also they don't give a means of easily transferring files to another system. One can always combine a DOM as primary and a IDE2SD as secondary.

Not saying there is anything wrong with Compactflash, and full fledged SSD's for that matter.

* Moved it to Marvin.

My current collection of 3dfx cards.
Powercolor Evilking V4 4500
Voodoo 3 3000
The two in the middle are Techworks Power 3D V2's
Bottom Diamond Monster 3DII V2

What about Voodoo1? xD

I stick with (fast) IDE drives. I need to hear the HDD working otherwise the silence is killing me 😁

GeorgeMan wrote:

What about Voodoo1? xD

Funny you should say that, I've just located two at around $15 each 😀

Splinter wrote:

GeorgeMan wrote:

What about Voodoo1? xD

Funny you should say that, I've just located two at around $15 each 😀

Target locked, fire! 🤣

schlang wrote:

I stick with (fast) IDE drives. I need to hear the HDD working otherwise the silence is killing me 😁

I know that feeling, I'm going to miss hard drives and their noise when SSDs finally take over.

Qbix wrote:

* Moved it to Marvin.

After 7 years 😀

Got these for a very good price.

New Roland S-MPU/AT with breakout box
Roland S-MPU/ATII

Anyone know if you can use the SuperMPU breakout box on the ATII?

I wish I knew, but from looking at the PDF manual for each, they both seem to have the exact same connectors including 2 MIDI IN and 2 MIDI OUT ports, but who knows if the circuitry is the same.

I don't blame you for asking though...I wouldn't be experimenting with those beauties either...their certainly not easy to find, especially at a good price.

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schlang wrote:

I stick with (fast) IDE drives. I need to hear the HDD working otherwise the silence is killing me 😁

Sometimes that's the only way to know the computer is doing something! There's a black screen, but you hear the hard drive doing its whiz and clicks, and you're like "Ahhh, it didn't freeze, it's just busy!"

Decided to take a chance and bought a K5 PR133 off amazon that isn't in the best shape. Payed a steep $14.49 for it D:
If it is alive going to do some overclocking tests with it including undervolting.

Picked up this lot for AUD10 ...

All untested, but includes 6 Voodoo 1 cards, 3 Voodoo 2, Matrox m3d, couple of SB 2.0s, an SB16, PAS, Video Blaster RT300, etc. Also a bunch of VESA cards, which I have never owned before. Looking forward to some long weeks of testing 😁