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vetz wrote:

Got these for a very good price. […]
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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?

Now you can listen to 32 channel midi files on a SC-88 or better 😀

Too bad the SMPU doesn't natively support intelligent mode. Probably the cause why they are cheaper than a MPU-401 or it's pc card derivatives (MPU401AT etc)

I have that same Tyan board Darkman.
Are you using 3dfx on it?
I had nothing but problems with Nvidia cards on it in 9x, which is why its in storage.
I did use it for awhile with a V3 before I got less finicky boards.
I got it out of a junk pile like 12 years ago, 🤣 its one of my older saves from being recycled.

AlphaWing wrote:

I have that same Tyan board Darkman. Are you using 3dfx on it? I had nothing but problems with Nvidia cards on it in 9x, which i […]
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I have that same Tyan board Darkman.
Are you using 3dfx on it?
I had nothing but problems with Nvidia cards on it in 9x, which is why its in storage.
I did use it for awhile with a V3 before I got less finicky boards.
I got it out of a junk pile like 12 years ago, 🤣 its one of my older saves from being recycled.

yes, a Voodoo 5500 AGP specifically, which I was also using with the Athlon board, basically all of the parts are the same with the exception of the board and CPU.

another wierd thing with both boards is that with some DOS games (like Warcraft 1, Lion King or Descent) I would get strange flickering , kind of faint horizontal white lines flicking on the screen. with the Tyan this still happens in Windows, but in DOS its fine.

again quite odd.

Went to the local scrap shop and bought a few things.

iBook G4 12 inch 800mhz for $10 in bad shape.
Dell e1505 for scrap only $10
Very decent condition Dell 9300 for $20

Bought today:

Key Tronic with DIN-connector, needs some clening, 5 €

P III-S 1266 MHz, Tualatin, 512 kb L2, multiprocessor support, 10 €

Got some new toys from my retired uncle, he cleaned out his office and took the electronics over to my cousins place.
What I Got:
3 8-bit voice modems (probably gonna toss)
1 Kingston KNE100TX PCI
1 PROMISE Tx2 133 (with floppy!)
Geforce 2 MX (probs dead, but gonna try anyway)
USB ZIP 100 Drive (gonna use ZIP drives in my DOS/W9x builds)
Bunch of 1.44MB Floppy's
Pics or never happened:

EDIT: There was more stuff, like an old random 486DX/2 that I couldn't get because time constraints. I have nothing to worry about though, its not like it's gonna grow legs and run away

went to my local once a month electronics swap meet today. unfortunately for the past two months there's been this guy there that basically buys every older PC he can get his hands on since the ones at the boy scouts booths are super cheap. last month before I could even look be bought an entire row (maybe 15 PC's). so when I got there today I was late because I just got off work. half the venders were gone. I got to my favorite booth and I only saw 1 kinda old looking PC (maybe a 486 or an early Pentium). I'll never know cause as I was making a B line for it the same guy seemingly materialized out of nowhere and bought it. I made the effort of going to this thing so after searching around at another venders booth I found a PCI SCSI card with a stick of 64mb EDO RAM. I probably won't find much use for the card since it only has drivers for Win NT/2k/XP but I thought the RAM may come in handy. also found a ASUS V6600 which is based off the geforce 256 and I don't have one of those cards. I paid $10 which is more then I would probably spend under normal circumstances but I felt I needed to buy something to make the trip worth it. I have no clue if that was a decent deal.

Got bid-sniped the other day on a great looking Toshiba Satellite 300CDT, which was gutting (it only needed a hard drive, and maybe a battery/CMOS battery).

And soviet conscript, that sounds annoying; given my above experience, I can definitely sympathize! I'd say that a decent sized EDO stick and a GeForce 256 is worth $10 easily, at least to me, with the SCSI card being a bonus. Still need to get one for myself to test some old high RPM drives I have - I have a SCSI card, but it's the older connector type, and far too slow for such quick drives.

Decided it was time I played with one of these;

@darkman 3dfx cards VB\V3 PCI or AGP give me flickering issues like that in old VGA games like Space chase series, or Rock Roll on LCD's... The one CRT I still have it doesn't happen on.
Its probably just an issue with them on LCD's?

HighTreason wrote:

Decided it was time I played with one of these; http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODcxWDg3OQ==/z/H0IAAOxyVaBS9qeo/$_57.JPG […]
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Decided it was time I played with one of these;

Is that podp5v83? I used to have that on my 486 AST early 90's. It was expensive but i had to have it and my god, after that Duke Nukem 3D was so fun to play deathmatch wih my brother who had Cyrix 5x86 100 MHz. Podp was so much faster that i could use much better resolution than he was. Arena level was really funny because i could see him but he couldn't see me until bfg was too close to hit...it was so damn funny, oh those days and memories 😀

Today's acquisition:
aopen dx34 plus-u with dual coppermine 1000, works with tualatin 1.4/512/133.

Asus p2l97 pII 266, dtk i440LX oem pII 333, ms6167 + athlon k7 argon:

All in working condition for about 50 bucks, found locally.
Aopen and msi k7 needs to be recapped.
I was thinking that k7 mobo is with athlon 700, but when i look closer... it is 500MHz Argon 😀

Anyone got any specs for a Toshiba Satellite 210CDT? After the bid sniping on a 300CDT, I bought one of these instead, but there isn't much on the web for it.

Great findings Callahan! I envy you that dual Tualatin board 😜

VooDooMan wrote:

Great findings Callahan! I envy you that dual Tualatin board 😜

Whiteman pulled me from under the nose 3dfx V4 card, and so I had to comfort myself, somehow...

tokroger wrote:

Is that podp5v83? I used to have that on my 486 AST early 90's. It was expensive but i had to have it and my god, after that Duke Nukem 3D was so fun to play deathmatch wih my brother who had Cyrix 5x86 100 MHz. Podp was so much faster that i could use much better resolution than he was. Arena level was really funny because i could see him but he couldn't see me until bfg was too close to hit...it was so damn funny, oh those days and memories 😀

It is and, strangely, I bought it partly because of Duke 3D. Duke (And by extension, other Build Engine titles) are generally optimized for Pentium processors... It ran terribly on the P5 60MHz I had though so I'm hoping that being based on the P54C core this will yield better results. The SX-40 I have in right now can run it, but I may need to crank it up later and don't want to have to move another machine over to do it.

Mildly curious as to whether it will work on the 40MHz BUS or if it will have to be turned down to 33MHz, shouldn't be too much of a performance hit as the board it is for allows serious alterations to be made to the BUS clock divisor. Sucks that it has to come from the US so I could be waiting until next month to find out.

The other reason I bought it was simply that I never got to play with one and always wondered how well they worked. It also leaves me only needing a U5D and an mP6.

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I like ibm desktops. Got one: 330GL type 6282, 233MMX & 128MB edo dimm. Looking for pc365...
Today, some scsi stuff:

St51080N 1GB 50pin fast scsi 2, st39140W 9.1GB 68p, ultra wide2 controller card with amd pcnet ethernet onboard-i think is from kayak workstation.
All stuff works! For 5$ with shipping.

HighTreason wrote:

It is and, strangely, I bought it partly because of Duke 3D. Duke (And by extension, other Build Engine titles) are generally optimized for Pentium processors...

Duke 3D is completely integer based, it was Quake that was optimized for the pentium. Yet I suppose the 64-bit 60..66MHz Pentium motherboard bus helps the framerate.