Hi Guys,

I know I'm in far away Canada, but I have a fancy EPROM programmer and probably reams of 27(C)128's (see my signature comment, 🤣). If desperation sets in, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you.

Er, not exactly retro hardware, but CH USB controllers work great to play DOS games through DOSBOX, especially since you can "mask" those devices as a four axis joystick or a pair of two axis joysticks.

I successfully map the joystick, throttle, and rudder axis into a pair of two axis joysticks to play Gunship 2000 in DOSBOX. The game was too old to support throttle and pedals, but it supports a pair of joysticks, so there I went.

Fiddling for a moment, I eventually changed the throttle axis to emulate keyboard keypresses '+' and '-' for throttle, because it is more precise that way. But still keep the rudder axis as the X axis of the second joystick for analog pedal movement.

CH Control Center rocks. And I start questioning myself: what the hell am I doing, sticking with Thrustmasters all these years? 😁

Never been a big user of those flight sim joysticks myself, but i found myself logitech force 3D for 5 bucks at the flea market, did not use it yet.

However ive been on a (retro) shopping spree recently

And my XT motherboard is in!! 😈 🤣

Its a JUKO ST CLONE i think. On the bios chip it says: FLYTEK ST-12
Very good deal i thought, in comparing if you mind that the JUKO ST is a lot expensiver on Ebay. This is really a bargin! 😁

Now the pictures ofcourse 😅

1MB DIP memory is on his way! 🤣 🤣

thats a v30! wow! thats probably the FASTEST 8086/8088 compatible chip made. the NEC chips were cool because they had could emulate an 8080 so the "older" software could be ran as well. I don't know what you paid for it, but you have a real gem there!

Its an V20 not an v30..

Bought it for 43 euros included shipping..

Caculated in American dollars included shipping: $55,29

Found a local guy selling a bunch of old 4:3 LCD monitors for cheap. Got a few old dells 19" for $40 a piece. Just ordered a DVI-D cable for 3.49 shipped off ebay for it. Hopefully that will bring a better picture.

ABit BP6 with single Cel. 433 and 256mb RAM.

Wish I could find the time to post on this thread more, because I get some kind of interesting computer related stuff every few days at least. At any rate, as far as the last two buys are concerned, last Friday I nabbed two HP Compaq LGA775 Pentium 4 3ghz HT towers. They each had sata 80gb hd, 512 meg DDR2, and a standard cd burner. Paid 10 bucks each.

Today I nabbed a Saitek X52, some older HP tower with a slot A/Athlon 850 motherboard cpu combo, with a Soundblaster 128 and TNT 2 card installed also, and a loose Gainward Geforce Ti 4200 128meg (cant remember if this is the golden sample version or not, need to look it up). The Saitek ran me $4, the Ti 4200 $2, and the HP tower $8. Here are some pics of the Saitek both before and after the software has been installed:

Just to note, the Saitek looks and feels totally unused. Other then a little dust from sitting on a shelf, it is near mint condition.

EDIT: Silly me, I should have looked at the sticker on the ram on the TI 4200. It is indeed a Golden Sample.

Hey i just bought a box of 12 lbs of graphic cards, and i got two of those trio64. You know what the funny 1/8 jack is there for ??

Not positive, but I think it is for audio passtrough.

that line out jack is for audio when you have installed on the card the mpeg decoder module

Yea, this one i got is with decoder chip on the card already. So theres vga, tvout and audio out. Scenic/MX2 is audio/video MPEG1 decoder.

Thanks for the insight guys, this is one of the reason i love this forum, always people around knowing the answer to these kinds of questions 😀

Btw, i thought you might want to see what 12 pounds of video card looks like ( minus a few cards that i took elsewhere). I bought this lot from an electronic recycler guy for 1$/LBS. So 12 $ total 😁 . Good thing i bought this since the next guy probably would have sent all this to metal recovery... R.I.P. All the cards appear to be in good condition.

On the right are all variations of the ATI Rage chipset... A load of them, pretty worthless since they are very common but good cards in their own. On the left are other cards : I have one original 3dfx voodoo2 , 4 3dfx Voodoo3 ( at least one is a 3000) , one creative 3d blaster banshee , a diamond s3 savage 4, riva 128 2x trio 64 and maybe another card or two.

So far i tried 6 cards, 100% working yet... So for 12$ ?? 🤣

Good grab. If the Voodoo cards are all in tip top condition then you more then got your moneys worth.

My kouwell HD floppy card has arrived. It was not cheap at all, but very happy to have it here!

And bought an Future domain like SCSI HDD controller.. It has an 2 pins LED jumper on it. Dont know exactly wich type it is, but looks usefull to me to use it as HDD controller card. (dont like to use an MFM or RLL drive)

Only have to look for an EEPROM for it, and program it with 8.20 bios. And hopes it will boot..

Yesterday the mailman delivered a package containing my ibm model m.
It still work fine considering the packaging was a plastic bag and a piece of cardboard wrapped around it that was being weld together with LOTS of tape.
The led's are not working properly (as in flickering or not working at all) , hopefully it's a simple fix .
Now i need an active ps2 to usb adapter and a 5,5mm thin wall nut driver.

I still have three of them in my cabinet (perfect condition), anyone wants to buy one?

schlang wrote:

I still have three of them in my cabinet (perfect condition), anyone wants to buy one?

"click click click click..." Hmmm, maybe if i had been in germany 😜
I have a couple of them clicky keyboard but never tried the true model M to compare.