PeterLI wrote:

Bought a second PC Raider joystick @ a thrift store today

Wow that takes me back... I got one of those for Christmas as a kid. First joystick I ever owned!

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CT3620 - only 2MB RAM though

CT3980

CT3980 was the last card to have real OPL3. The CT3990 and AWE64 had Creative's dreadful emulated OPL.

Creative SoundBlaster 1.0 with CMS
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Orchid SoundWave 32 + scsi
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Looking for "sw32+scsi" drivers.

If it's like my SB16 SCSI, you don't need special SoundWave 32 SCSI drivers - just use the generic Future Domain drivers for that chip.

bjt wrote:

If it's like my SB16 SCSI, you don't need special SoundWave 32 SCSI drivers - just use the generic Future Domain drivers for that chip.

Ordinary SW32 don't have WBH, so i wonder, there must be different version of drivers, that support WBH. But I still don't test it, so, may be all works with ordinary drivers.

For 10$ (50zł) Teac PD Drive PD-518E ATA in fully working condition with 5 pd maxell cartridges (1pc nos, 3 unused, 1 used). Also it reads cds.

Fully operational under w98se:

I got this graphics card in today. It was still factory sealed in the anti static wrap! 🤣

Bought an Audigy 2zs for my in-progress DirectX 9 build. Pictures indicate it is a platinum even though it wasn't advertised as such. Great buy and I can't wait to try it out.

8 various 386/486/Pentium motherboards. Rather than resizing\uploading here's the album:
http://imgur.com/a/JF9q6

QuickShot Sound Machine\Creative Soundblaster CT1350

28 or so 9-track tapes

And a not retro HP XW8600.

That second motherboard looks tiny!

That is either a 386sx or 486slc. Last gen boards are usually half size - ie small. I have a few 386 SX and DX and even 486DX half size (or even smaller).

compgeke wrote:

8 various 386/486/Pentium motherboards. Rather than resizing\uploading here's the album:
http://imgur.com/a/JF9q6

Very nice collection you got there, however I highly recommend removing those barrel batteries ASAP, and the ones that have leaked acid on the board should be cleaned with vinegar and then alcohol. 😀

I'll take some pictures later for your viewing but I picked up these parts today, all for $40. There is a store near me that sells electronics/PC's, but mainly computer parts. It's one of those stores where everything is everywhere... boxes and boxes, "mostly" old early 2000's 1990's PC parts, some more recent but nothing newer than 2005. He's getting low on the 486 stuff now. Anyways, onto what I grabbed...

S3 Trio64/V2/DX 2MB PCI
SB 16 (CT2940) ISA
2x16mb EDO, 4x8mb EDO, 2x8mb FPM, 4x4mb FPM (All 72pin)
8x IDE Harddrives, which includes two 2.5GB Quantum Bigfoot drives. The other 6 are 1gb-2gb Seagate + WD Cavier
Cyrix 5x86 120mhz CPU
Intel Pentium 120mhz CPU
486 Socket 3 Motherboard (bought it for the 128kb cache, which I need for another 486 board)
i486DX/33 CPU
24x AOPen CD IDE Drive
Cheap Stereo Speakers

All for $40... not bad eh? I usually buy multiple parts eg; the hard drives, because lets face it, eventually everything will die, and the longer I can keep playing Duke 3D or Quest for Glory on retro PC's, the better 😎
The biggest problem is the motherboards, Socket 3... and AT Socket 7 boards are becoming far fewer. I know quite a few people, even this store owner, who sold lots of older parts for scrap when the prices were high for scrap. It's too bad... wish I could buy 20 486 boards to last me my life time 😀

I have still got a great day today...

I have bought 39 pieces of Samsung KM41256AP-12 DRAM to fill up the whole EMS part of my Laser 8086 system motherboard..(so every empty socket is occupied)
I have bought one Intel 8087 -1 co-processor for the same system *maybe i dont use it often*, but i really like the idea to have the full options on my 8086 XT machine.

When i have the stuff, the motherboard is ready to install it again on the chasis. Only have to polish the outside of the power supply housing so it would look as new again..

My main focus is now on my V-tech laser 8086 Xt machine, so i can finish it in limited steps.. So i decided for now to buy the new stuff more minded on that laser computer..
Because this computer do only have three options to only install 3x 5.25 options. So i needed an 5.25 sized 3.5 inch micro floppy drive. (the old one seems to be 720KB capacity only, and that bracket that comes with the drive looks ugly in my opinion) The other downside was the color.. In the earlier days it was very easy to getting those grey drives / bracket.. Today white / beige / black seems to be more common to find..
I really got a headache to find those matching gray drive / bracket stuff.. It seems i had very limited options here, and really dont wanted to install a lighter color beige / white to that older gray system..

I ended up with this:

It doesnt looking dirty or damaged and it seems to be gray in my eyes..

I think this would be a grey one also, but iam not 100% sure about it. As you guys maybe can see on the latest picture in the right corner, there is written black, gray and the other is empty
And if iam look sharp to it, it seems that the gray has been` ticked`, but because of age, its a litte bit faded away.. But it seems to be a 5.25 bracket for the teac 235 micro floppy drives.

Next item is the diamond speedstar:

And a 2theMAX Tseng ET4000 W32p 1MB VLB which could be easilly could be upgraded to 2MB if i want to. Only have to solder the new chips to the board.

I've got a floppy drive in one of those adapters somewhere. Never tested it though...

nekurahoka wrote:

Bought an Audigy 2zs for my in-progress DirectX 9 build. Pictures indicate it is a platinum even though it wasn't advertised as such. Great buy and I can't wait to try it out.

Funny that... I just won an eBay auction for the same thing! Mine is the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum with the PCI card, drive bay front panel and cables, and will be going in my dual P3 build (black case).

It'll go nicely with my SB Live Platinum that I have in my single P3 build (white case)!

I was at a fleamarket today and found a few items. Too bad i didn't find anything for my socket7/slot1 love so i settled for a few newer items...

Bought a Leadtek Winfast A350 (Very nice fx5900 non-ultra card, completely wrapped in an alu cooler, great looks!), a Radeon 9800se and a geforce 4 mx460 (don't see these too often).

Three nice cards for 10 euro, i think that was not a bad deal...

Fingers crossed, will be testing these tomorrow 😀

Grabbed this along with a Pentium 120 for $2.

Grabbed these as part of the $40 bundle, all were pre-tested for bad sectors/issues.

Notice anything with this SB CT2940 I got...? 😀

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