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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 19340 of 52769, by Batyra

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Just got Colorgraphic Predator Pro 2
(dual Savage).

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Reply 19341 of 52769, by Munx

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Batyra wrote:

Just got Colorgraphic Predator Pro 2
(dual Savage).

Wow. I didn't know that there existed multi-chip Savage cards. Is this purely for dual monitor stuff or can it actually be used to run games faster (like SLI or what rage pro maxx did)?

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Reply 19342 of 52769, by lazibayer

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Munx wrote:
Batyra wrote:

Just got Colorgraphic Predator Pro 2
(dual Savage).

Wow. I didn't know that there existed multi-chip Savage cards. Is this purely for dual monitor stuff or can it actually be used to run games faster (like SLI or what rage pro maxx did)?

No, just for dual monitor. Colorgraphic had made quite a few dual monitor cards with single output chips, such as CL5480 and Permedia2.

Reply 19343 of 52769, by jade_angel

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IIRC, Appian did that too - they had multi-chip Permedias, Trios, Matrox G100/G200, TNT2, and I think a few others. AFAIK, pretty much all of these multi-chip/multi-display cards evaporated pretty quickly after the G400 came out and was followed by multi-head cards from nVidia and ATI (and then onboard Intel stuff sprouted it too).

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Reply 19344 of 52769, by Batyra

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Munx wrote:
Batyra wrote:

Just got Colorgraphic Predator Pro 2
(dual Savage).

Wow. I didn't know that there existed multi-chip Savage cards. Is this purely for dual monitor stuff or can it actually be used to run games faster (like SLI or what rage pro maxx did)?

AFAIK only dual monitor... sadly not dual performance... 🙁

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Reply 19345 of 52769, by xjas

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^^ Just had to google that too... Apparently they also made a QUAD Savage 4 version. Madness!
Does it appear as multiple separate video cards to the system?

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Reply 19346 of 52769, by lazibayer

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jade_angel wrote:

IIRC, Appian did that too - they had multi-chip Permedias, Trios, Matrox G100/G200, TNT2, and I think a few others. AFAIK, pretty much all of these multi-chip/multi-display cards evaporated pretty quickly after the G400 came out and was followed by multi-head cards from nVidia and ATI (and then onboard Intel stuff sprouted it too).

Matrox themselves did that, too, since G100 MMS and G200 MMS.
The difference is Matrox can make video chips!

Reply 19347 of 52769, by bjwil1991

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What I got today from eBay:

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Reply 19348 of 52769, by probnot

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This is a post on what I didn't end up buying. Shipping prices to Canada are just....stupid.

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Reply 19351 of 52769, by cyclone3d

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probnot wrote:

This is a post on what I didn't end up buying. Shipping prices to Canada are just....stupid.

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Lame. That is because it is UPS.

Just checked USPS and although still expensive compared to US to US shipping, it would cost around $15.50 US to ship that.. maybe less.

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Reply 19352 of 52769, by Unknown_K

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Everything shipping out of the US is airmail, but RAM that can ship in a padded envelope should be pretty cheap to ship. Oddly enough it would be cheaper to get the same product shipped from China.

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Reply 19353 of 52769, by Deksor

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on the deep web....the drivers i will find

The drivers are on yamaha's website

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Reply 19354 of 52769, by Pabloz

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Deksor wrote:
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yamaha YMF 724F-V

and somewhere
on the deep web....the drivers i will find

The drivers are on yamaha's website

i saw someone posted the link on vogons but the link got removed,like if yamaha changed its website

Reply 19355 of 52769, by Deksor

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Hm yeah it seems like they removed them for some reason, I wasn't aware of this, sorry

Archive.org has them though : https://archive.org/details/YamahaDSXGSoundChipDrivers.7z

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Reply 19356 of 52769, by yawetaG

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Unknown_K wrote:

Everything shipping out of the US is airmail, but RAM that can ship in a padded envelope should be pretty cheap to ship. Oddly enough it would be cheaper to get the same product shipped from China.

China mass-subsidizes its postal system, sometimes even resulting in actual shipping charges equal to zero.

Reply 19357 of 52769, by keropi

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Received this ULTIMATE EGA PLUS card today:

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I have to say, it's a really nice and speedy card , I was surprised TBH. The maker of the main IC is unknown to me and I was thinking it was just a clone IC.
The jumper settings are the same as the JUKO Ultimate EGA, no idea wha the "PLUS" added: http://th99.classic-computing.de/src/v/I-L/50064.htm

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Reply 19358 of 52769, by appiah4

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Considering buying this lot simply because the VGA looks interesting, but can anyone ID what it is?

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