I won an auction for a scrap lot for 30€.
Most interesting piece: A Voodoo 1 from Diamond. Gotta have to earn my name!
Lets hope it works or can be restored.

RaiderOfLostVoodoo wrote on 2021-12-20, 11:34:

I won an auction for a scrap lot for 30€.
Most interesting piece: A Voodoo 1 from Diamond. Gotta have to earn my name!
Lets hope it works or can be restored.

heh hope so, cant let a good Voodoo go to scrap like that.

TrashPanda wrote on 2021-12-20, 11:38:

heh hope so, cant let a good Voodoo go to scrap like that.

Just what I thought!
There was another lot from another seller. 10kg of scrap. Also with a Voodoo 1. But that went for 70€.
Also the moron ripped out the socket with the CPUs, cuz time is money! -.-

RaiderOfLostVoodoo wrote on 2021-12-20, 12:52:

Just what I thought! There was another lot from another seller. 10kg of scrap. Also with a Voodoo 1. But that went for 70€. Also […]
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TrashPanda wrote on 2021-12-20, 11:38:

heh hope so, cant let a good Voodoo go to scrap like that.

Just what I thought!
There was another lot from another seller. 10kg of scrap. Also with a Voodoo 1. But that went for 70€.
Also the moron ripped out the socket with the CPUs, cuz time is money! -.-

Would take more time to rip it out than to just take the cpu out, them sockets are sturdy.

Few days ago met another local retro-pc (and some consoles) person, who gave me a Trio32 VLB videocard, which was a good improvement over my CL-GD5429 based VLB card on my 486 pc. (Quake benchmark went from 16.1fps to 16.5)

Even though he just gave it to me, i promised that this is not the end of the deal and soon we'll find something i have and he needs. 😀

Today I got the present of one of my colleagues, one Amiga 1200.

Wow, thanks for the photos ! I'm glad that it still works. It will serve you well ! 😀

I managed to pick up a Twin Turbo 128 graphics accelerator for PowerMac models that I don’t yet own. Sure it could be put in my G3, but there’s no point to that really.

My 7100/80 is nubus only as well, so literally nothing can put this to actually useful use.

Bondi wrote on 2021-12-12, 08:18:

bjwil1991 wrote on 2021-12-12, 07:11:

Bought/won a pair of MediaVision LPT sound cards on eBay. […]
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Bought/won a pair of MediaVision LPT sound cards on eBay.

Seller's photos:

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The yellowed one needs attention and the other needs a good sticker residue removal. Going to test them on a laptop that has a crappy sound card.

A good buy! I saw this listing, but did not realize it was for two devices.
Audioport has a Yamaha OPL chip and Sound Blaster support, but IIRC SB works only in Windows. Please keep us posted on testing results.

I got them this afternoon and sadly, I cannot find the drivers that'll work with WFW 3.11 at all. When I try to run the install program, it says to run the Multimedia Extensions first.

Any idea of how to fix that?

bjwil1991 wrote on 2021-12-21, 06:37:

Bondi wrote on 2021-12-12, 08:18:

bjwil1991 wrote on 2021-12-12, 07:11:

Bought/won a pair of MediaVision LPT sound cards on eBay. […]
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Bought/won a pair of MediaVision LPT sound cards on eBay.

Seller's photos:

s-l1600.jpg

s-l1600 (1).jpg

s-l1600 (2).jpg

s-l1600 (3).jpg

The yellowed one needs attention and the other needs a good sticker residue removal. Going to test them on a laptop that has a crappy sound card.

A good buy! I saw this listing, but did not realize it was for two devices.
Audioport has a Yamaha OPL chip and Sound Blaster support, but IIRC SB works only in Windows. Please keep us posted on testing results.

I got them this afternoon and sadly, I cannot find the drivers that'll work with WFW 3.11 at all. When I try to run the install program, it says to run the Multimedia Extensions first.

Any idea of how to fix that?

Not sure what the problem is. I tried to install the attached drivers to WIN 3.11 in DOsbox and they insatlled with no issues.
The only guess I have is that it needs Windows Sound System installed first.

I got it to install (the drivers using the control panel) after I got the power brick situation fixed.

Good news: it works in WFW 3.11

Bad news: doesn't work with DOS anything still and the install.exe doesn't work still.

I have a hunch that I need the 3 diskette set to get the adapter to work correctly.

bjwil1991 wrote on 2021-12-21, 08:21:

I got it to install (the drivers using the control panel) after I got the power brick situation fixed. […]
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I got it to install (the drivers using the control panel) after I got the power brick situation fixed.

Good news: it works in WFW 3.11

Bad news: doesn't work with DOS anything still and the install.exe doesn't work still.

I have a hunch that I need the 3 diskette set to get the adapter to work correctly.

I'm sure someone on the forum has a complete set. Cyclone3D IRRC had one.

OMORES wrote on 2021-12-19, 13:15:

This Number Nine video card (Savage4 Xtreme) with an unusual DVI to VGA implementation...

The card works!

Working…. Eight days a week!

Look closely against a light 😉

I received my last Mouser order today. Yummy organic polymer capacitors from Kemet and Nichicon for recapping two DFI K6XV3+ / 66 mainboards.

This Sun motherboard with 512MB SD-RAM and a 440Mhz UltraSPARC CPU...

The ATX connector looks like a very standard one, but it's not ... (or maybe I have to try an older PSU)

bjwil1991 wrote on 2021-12-21, 06:37:

I got them this afternoon and sadly, I cannot find the drivers that'll work with WFW 3.11 at all. When I try to run the install program, it says to run the Multimedia Extensions first.

Any idea of how to fix that?

Working with a rusty memory here, haven't done it recently, but I think you need to go to control panel and install the windows components that support sound and multimedia. (Will need the disks or a directory with all the .cab files)

edit: derp, guess you did that, just read following posts.

OMORES wrote on 2021-12-21, 14:03:

This Sun motherboard with 512MB SD-RAM and a 440Mhz UltraSPARC CPU...

The ATX connector looks like a very standard one, but it's not ... (or maybe I have to try an older PSU)

Nice board. The connector looks very similar to the ones Dell had: A Permanent Solution to the Dell 'Fake ATX' Power Supply Problem?

OMORES wrote on 2021-12-21, 14:03:

This Sun motherboard with 512MB SD-RAM and a 440Mhz UltraSPARC CPU...

The ATX connector looks like a very standard one, but it's not ... (or maybe I have to try an older PSU)

Sure it's not ATX? Did you have the AUX connector plugged in too? If not, that's your problem.

Here's a pic of an Ultra 10 with PSU hooked up:

And here's ATX pinout:

Perfect match with the ATX 1.x 20p connector. But that AUX-connector next to it is non-optional on the Sun systems.

Hirsch wrote on 2021-12-21, 12:43:

I received my last Mouser order today. Yummy organic polymer capacitors from Kemet and Nichicon for recapping two DFI K6XV3+ / 66 mainboards.

Looking forward to receive my K6XV3+/66 back. 😀

Not exactly computer hardware or my own purchase, but a friend I forward stuff to from here in the UK just bought me 3 sets of metal shelving to finish reorganising my collections. An awesome gesture from someone I only know online.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222779509044 (I hope it's OK to post a link showing what shelves I use)