alexanrs wrote:

A CGA clone from Bulgaria.
only tested composite output, and it worked. No colors, but that was to be expected

There can be mono- only composite output to reduce costs, or different color system (pal or secam), so you can't see colors on ntsc monitor.

easy_john wrote:

There can be mono- only composite output to reduce costs, or different color system (pal or secam), so you can't see colors on ntsc monitor.

Brazilian TVs (I was using a capture card, though) can switch between PAL and NTSC. I'll look into it further and try to get more info on the card

$25.

A whole lotta Vaios. PCG-C1VN (300mhz Transmeta), PCG-C1XG/BP (400mhz PII), PCG-Z505LSK (750mhz PIII) and the famous PCG-R505GL (1.2ghz PIIIm) with its docking pad.
Plus as you can see, the respective PCMCIA optical drives, USB drives, spare batteries (all dead), USB dongle and the AC adapter for the picturebooks, docking station, plus a red fabric carrying bag for the picturebooks. (not seen as it was being washed) There's also a cool Vaio color theme firewire cable.
Aside from the R505GL which I did not get an AC adapter for, they all work and they all have an install respective to what they should have on them.

Problem: It isn't the original OEM installations. The last guy must of wiped and tried to reload the machines.
Problem 2: Most Vaios are pretty much useless without their restore discs. These machines are no exception. Memory Stick, scroll wheels, cameras, display drivers.......nothing works properly.
Problem 3: Neither of the Picturebooks have the proprietary ram expansion boards so they are stock in that regard. Assuming you got around the driver issue below they would be slugs.

Sony is terrible at supporting their machines. Hell, I got GPS units here Sony flat-out denies they ever manufactured. More than half of the driver downloads available are either upgrades for existing drivers, drivers not even for my specific machine or drivers that will only install if prerequisite (and not downloadable) software is installed. Everything about these installs are broken. Even the display driver can't be loaded because it can't find an existing Sony display driver. Nice and wide LCD? Too bad you need a driver to do anything other than 4:3. It also doesn't help that the C1XG is a japanese model which Sony will belligerently hang up on you if you dare ask for support as a Canadian customer. I badly need those restore discs but that I've found so far, nobody has them. Even the usual restore disc brokers don't have them and the stuff that is on ebay are the "one disc sets them all up" pieces of junk that just don't work in this case.

0belisk wrote:

I have a Hercules 3D Prophet III with the original packaging, is that worth anything?

Is that a GeForce 3?

devius wrote:

The last one is still not a PCI card... In fact I don't think they ever made 3D/2X in PCI form.

They did. I saw one for sale on ebay once years ago and have been kicking myself for not buying it ever since. The problem with those is that they make the AGP cards with or without the tab for securing it in the slot. Whenever someone sells one on ebay that doesn't have the tab they assume that it is PCI and put PCI in their description but when you look at the edge connector it has the zipper pattern of the AGP cards instead of straight pins like PCI. It makes it really hard to find them because there are usually a few dozen AGP cards listed at any given time so you really have to scrutinize the listings carefully.

133MHz wrote:

It's been a long while since I've found anything remotely retro hardware at my usual flea markets, but today I grabbed all these […]
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It's been a long while since I've found anything remotely retro hardware at my usual flea markets, but today I grabbed all these for a bit less than a buck each:

I am severely lacking in VL Bus cards (my 486 build is stuck because of that) so the Cirrus Logic is really welcome. The AWE64 is just icing on the cake. 😀

The Graphicsblaster Eclipse, if I remember rightly, was rubbish on it's own drivers ... I forget which Cirrus Logic chip it had, but it was more stable and performed better with the Cirrus Logic drivers. There were some other drivers for CL around that were better still, but I can't remember the name - at one time, they cost money, then they went free, then they went, and In think the company started with an I

I throw the challenge open 🤣

CelGen, I know how you feel about Sony drivers. They really are a pain. However, have you tried looking up exactly what the parts are, and seeing if you can get alternate drivers for at least the sound and video cards? The PCG-C1VN looks like it may have an ATI Rage Mobility chip in, so it should be easy enough to get drivers for that. No idea what the specs are for the PCG-C1XG/BP, as it looks like a Japanese market model (at least, all the manuals are in Japanese). PCG-Z505LSK used a Rage Mobility chip as well, and the PCG-R505GL used Intel 830MG integrated graphics from what I see, so video drivers shouldn't be too bad for those two. I don't know how specific the drivers are for the Picturebooks, but the other two should be easy enough to find alternatives for. 😀 I use IBM Thinkpad ATI Rage Mobility M1 graphics drivers and generic AC97 sound drivers to get my Vaio PCG-FX601 to run under Windows 98 properly.

On that note, if someone has a disc for the Vaio PCG-SR21K, I'd much appreciate a copy of it. Doubt that'll get the PCMCIA slot to work, but it may get some of the other bits and bobs to work... maybe. I wouldn't object to an original disc for a PCG-FX601 either (I know that the FX602 and 604 discs should be identical pretty much), but Windows XP has all of those drivers already anyway, so that's hardly vital.

Got this soundcard some times ago.
Can someone help me identify it?
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easy_john wrote:

Got this soundcard some times ago.
Can someone help me identify it?

Looks suspiciously similar to this Toptek Golden Sound card I have.

easy_john wrote:

Got this soundcard some times ago. Can someone help me identify it? http://kawai.spb.ru/photo/d/122742-2/IMG_9367_v1.JPG. […]
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Got this soundcard some times ago.
Can someone help me identify it?
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Terratech Profimedia perhaps? Looks like OPL-2 on that card, not shure though.

brostenen wrote:

Terratech Profimedia perhaps? Looks like OPL-2 on that card, not shure though.

Looks like no. This board is created around 1992, and Terratec founded in 1994.
Yes, bugger chip is yamaha opl2.

Ok. Just that terratec have been producing cards under the Profimedia name.

easy_john wrote:

Got this soundcard some times ago. Can someone help me identify it? http://kawai.spb.ru/photo/d/122742-2/IMG_9367_v1.JPG. […]
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Got this soundcard some times ago.
Can someone help me identify it?
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There is written PROFIMEDIA on the bottem near the ISA slot.

The best lot i seen so far!

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NEC CPU 8938NP V30 (16 bit microprocessor, object-code and pin compatible with Intel 8086 but faster)
640 KB RAM
8x 8 bit ISA slots
JUKO Nest Bios v. 2.01

With the original NEC 8-bit all in one Floppy controller card with bios.

Robin4 wrote:

There is written PROFIMEDIA on the bottem near the ISA slot.

I know. This gives me nothing. Internet is full of Terratec profimedia, but don't know about earlier profimedia.

NEC CPU 8938NP V30 (16 bit microprocessor, object-code and pin compatible with Intel 8086 but faster) 640 KB RAM 8x 8 bit ISA sl […]
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NEC CPU 8938NP V30 (16 bit microprocessor, object-code and pin compatible with Intel 8086 but faster)
640 KB RAM
8x 8 bit ISA slots
JUKO Nest Bios v. 2.01

I have one of these boards. I like it a lot. The V30/8086 is relatively uncommon for standard AT boards. V30 at 10MHz is pretty fast too.

Hmmm....
Knowing nothing about terratec or profimedia, I have searched for those brand names.
Looking at it in perspective, the logo of terratec profimedia, looks like two brand names slammed together.
The brand is German. So... Could it be that there were an early and local company named profinedia.
Wich those two German guys have bought in order to have the basic technology for soundcard production?

If so....
Profimedia could have been such a small company, that virtually no information pre-1994 exists today.

Compare with the Toptek card I posted. It's a different revision of the same card.

Got an Headland based ISA VGA card, it seems that it can do 8bit operation and i still have to put it through the CGA Compatibility Tester. Also seems this board was inside an Hewlett Packard computer.

jwt27 wrote:

Compare with the Toptek card I posted. It's a different revision of the same card.

Looks similar, same irq/dma jumpers, position of chips...
Can it be earlier Toptec sound?

Great! Found my card here http://www.yjfy.com/museum/sound/sound-8-ISA.htm listed as "Toptec Golden Sound"