I remember paying a lot of money for that AIW card back in the day. And I still have it!

Zapp3012 wrote:

I remember paying a lot of money for that AIW card back in the day. And I still have it!

I like the AIW cards. For the most part they are very easy to identify and you know what you're getting in regards to clocks and features.

I thought I'd share some of the items I've got relatively recently for my collection:

Creative 3D Blaster in sealed box


Luckly I have a bulk one otherwise I would've been tempted to unseal it to test/use it on occasion.

Jazz Multimedia 3D Magic STG2000 NV1 early sample




This one is rarely seen card and you might ask what's the purpose of the daughter card and it might have to do with the special features it has when compared with other NV1 cards like the Diamond Edge3D series which are mentioned here:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Jazz+Multimedia … w...-a017549298

Cheers,
G1nX

G1nX wrote:

Jazz Multimedia 3D Magic STG2000 NV1 early sample

Awesome - thanks for sharing! I'm guessing that's the DRAM version then?

G1nX wrote:

I thought I'd share some of the items I've got relatively recently for my collection:

Creative 3D Blaster in sealed box

How I longed for that card back in 1995! Mainly to be able to play Nascar Racing at a higher resolution than what was possible on my 486 DX2-66 of the time... 😀

3 Graphics cards I got this weekend.
Creative Labs 3dfx Voodoo banshee CT6750.

Trident 3D BLADE Turbo 8mb AGP.

STB Velocity 128 G-WAY Nvidia RIVA 128 4 MB AGP.

brassicGamer wrote:

G1nX wrote:

Jazz Multimedia 3D Magic STG2000 NV1 early sample

Awesome - thanks for sharing! I'm guessing that's the DRAM version then?

Yes it's the DRAM version. I 'd like to see the VRAM version of the Jazz 3D Magic card if someone has pictures to share.

And this rather nice ISA soundcard. Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO90.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Zapp3012 wrote:

I remember paying a lot of money for that AIW card back in the day. And I still have it!

I like the AIW cards. For the most part they are very easy to identify and you know what you're getting in regards to clocks and features.

It was the first card I saved up to buy. I'd built my first PC after owning an IBM off the shelf. I ran out of money and had to settle with a no-name card based on the S3 Trio chip. It cost me a whole £20, but it got my PC running until I could afford the card I wanted. The All-in-Wonder Rage 128pro with 32Mb. I still have it in it's original box.

I’ve been picking up various things over the last few months to keep my fun points ticking over, and I’ve been in a bit of a retro sound mood by the looks of things.

I was eyeing off this cute little Aztech Sound Galaxy BXII as a replacement for the noisy Creative SB2.0 in my 386. It is of course a SB2.0 clone with a real OPL2, and while it works exactly like the real deal (all jumpers, no drivers required), the output is somewhat muffled - it’s certainly less noisy and has a line-in which is nice, but I don’t think it’s the card for me.

Someone around here recommended me this Rolls MX41B stereo mixer - thankyou whoever you were because I love it. Some gain is lost of course due to its passive nature, but not enough to cause an issue. It works exactly how I imagined it would and now I can mix my PC, MT32, and SCC-1 with ease.

Also pictured is an Acer Magic S20 (OPTi 82C929A based) I picked up to try. This card has a lot going for it (real OPL3, decent software, no TSR, wavetable header) but lets itself down with reverse stereo and less than stellar sound quality.

Next up is a nice MidiMan MIDI cable for hooking modules up to your joystick port. I have a couple of these but this one is short and has female DINS, where the others are a meter long and must be plugged directly into the back of the module, which is annoying.

And I snagged this sound card / wavetable DB for a couple of bucks, mainly because I can’t resist cheap wavetable DB’s. I haven’t tested the sound card – I don’t expect much – but the CS9233-CQ Dream chipset based DB works like a charm and sounds pretty damn good to my ears.

Finally there’s this nice Crystal CS4232-KQ based Aopen AW32, which caught my eye because of its onboard wavetable and was NOS. Like the wavetable DB above, this one is CS9233-CQ based. The SB Pro support is excellent and sounds beautiful. It has WSS support, great software, and the GM works perfectly and sounds nice. The only downside is its terrible OPL3 emulation; this is a late-ish ISA card (circa ’97) so I guess their thinking was “why would the user bother with OPL3 anyway, we’re giving them GM support” and I get that, but it’s a shame all the same. I think it also required a TSR to make the GM work in DOS but I didn’t notice how big it was – it didn’t trouble any of the games I tested it on at least. Yet another ISA sound card that falls short of greatness – my CT2290 SB16 wins again.

Just bought a banshee on eBay for 15$ goes to show you can get 3dfx stuff in the cheap on eBay haha.
Oh and I got gobs of slot 1 cpu's for benchmarking along with a be62 and 2 slockets! I also got a rev 1.8 fic sd11 for I think 12$ on eBay. I been having good luck on eBay lately.

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And a rush and voodoo 1.
Someone lock my paypal account!

BSA Starfire wrote:

And this rather nice ISA soundcard. Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO90.

Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO90.JPG

From eBay? I think that I have seen one for sale lately. I looked at the card, then on the screen with my homebanking, then back at the card and deciding that I did not have enough money this month. 😢

badmojo wrote:

Finally there’s this nice Crystal CS4232-KQ based Aopen AW32, which caught my eye because of its onboard wavetable and was NOS. Like the wavetable DB above, this one is CS9233-CQ based. The SB Pro support is excellent and sounds beautiful. It has WSS support, great software, and the GM works perfectly and sounds nice. The only downside is its terrible OPL3 emulation; this is a late-ish ISA card (circa ’97) so I guess their thinking was “why would the user bother with OPL3 anyway, we’re giving them GM support” and I get that, but it’s a shame all the same. I think it also required a TSR to make the GM work in DOS but I didn’t notice how big it was – it didn’t trouble any of the games I tested it on at least. Yet another ISA sound card that falls short of greatness – my CT2290 SB16 wins again.

Not sure if you're down for this, but CS4232 cards make a good complement to SB16 cards. You can disable the OPL3 on the Crystal card and disable MPU401 on the SB16. This gives you SB16, SB Pro, WSS, accurate OPL3, and clean Wavetable with no duplication.

gdjacobs wrote:

Not sure if you're down for this, but CS4232 cards make a good complement to SB16 cards. You can disable the OPL3 on the Crystal card and disable MPU401 on the SB16. This gives you SB16, SB Pro, WSS, accurate OPL3, and clean Wavetable with no duplication.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I've done the multiple sound card thing in the past and am never happy with the result one way or another. Also, the machine in question is already rocking the SB16 + XR385 + CT1920 (goldfinch) + Roland SCC-1, so I'm not sure I'd actually have a spare slot for it!

I'd say you're covered 😀. Perhaps time to make a new system?

A nice morning with the postman's deliveries. 😊

I've been hunting now for a while to buy some parts to build a Pentium III machine and I saw this on ebay for BIN 99p + £6 postage. It was listed as not tested but for 99p who could pass it up. It even came with processor (unknown) and a stick of ram. Its a Asus CUSL2-M with a Pentium Coppermine 733 and 128mb of ram. Will fire it up in a bit to see if it works or not.

These also arrived. an Hitatchi Deskstar 160gig £5 delivered and an 8 Brand New unopened 128mb PC133 Crucial Memory sticks. I think i'm sorted for spare memory now. 🤣 🤣

I really love them AGP-Pro slots. They are like the ultimate. AGP 1.5 and 3.3 volt, AGPx2, AGPx4 and AGP-Pro all in one.

brostenen wrote:

BSA Starfire wrote:

And this rather nice ISA soundcard. Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO90.

Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO90.JPG

From eBay? I think that I have seen one for sale lately. I looked at the card, then on the screen with my homebanking, then back at the card and deciding that I did not have enough money this month. 😢

No I bought it from the car boot sale on Sunday for £1, the STB Velocity was also from there for £1. got 3 Hard drives too from the same stall also £1 each, 4 gb & 6gb western digital caviars and a 6 gb Maxtor(that is sadly dead), the caviars work great tho, replaced the dying Fujitsu in my Cyrix MII.
The banshee and 3D Blade are from Amibay.

Best,
Chris

BSA Starfire wrote:

No I bought it from the car boot sale on Sunday for £1, the STB Velocity was also from there for £1. got 3 Hard drives too from […]
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No I bought it from the car boot sale on Sunday for £1, the STB Velocity was also from there for £1. got 3 Hard drives too from the same stall also £1 each, 4 gb & 6gb western digital caviars and a 6 gb Maxtor(that is sadly dead), the caviars work great tho, replaced the dying Fujitsu in my Cyrix MII.
The banshee and 3D Blade are from Amibay.

Best,
Chris

Damn.... That sort of market/sale is something that we do not have here. 🙁

He's lucky, we have them in my part of the UK too but they are comprised of prams, grimy kids toys, smelly kids clothes and old pop CDs - and not the good kind of pop. Sometimes you can get lucky at the Sunday market though, once every few years, as people occasionally have an old Sega or the odd computer part. Might have to go and walk around this weekend as I haven't been in a while, but I stopped going when everyone there started charging way too much.