Got one of these little floppy controllers, a SuperCard Pro off CBMSTUFF.com. Seems to work, but I don't think it supports single sided disk drives, which was disappointing since my plan is to archive flippy disks one side at a time.

xjas wrote:

SteveC wrote:

Is 2011 retro enough, or should this be in the modern section? A Matrox quad output PCIe graphics card: […]
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Is 2011 retro enough, or should this be in the modern section? A Matrox quad output PCIe graphics card:

I only wanted the cable, but it was cheaper to buy the card too (came in at just under £20 delivered). Another Matrox to add to my collection... I have about 7 or 8 now so I think I'll do quick roundup video on them.

Cheers,
Steve

What chip is on that? I found a Matrox card with a GeForce chipset (FX 5xxx or something IIRC) in a box of scrap a while ago. Was kinda surprised. (I actually thought they got out of the desktop market years earlier.)

I think that's still one of their chipsets (probably G550 or Parhelia based). I see some cards these days use AMD but I never knew they used any Nvidia chipsets.

Thinking of impulse buying an unidentified Socket 370 motherboard just because I like the color.. Can anyone help me ID it from a potato photo?

https://img.letgo.com/images/a1/94/e8/ad/a194 … 1b2112f520.jpeg

It seems to be this same board currently on sale on Alibaba, but it seems like a much much older production so it's probably another OEM's design initially?

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Wholes … 1223626521.html

The red PCB screams MSI. the closest board I can find in 5 minutes is the Gigabyte GA-6VX7-4X MSI is usually better about marking the boards though.

luckybob wrote:

The red PCB screams MSI. the closest board I can find in 5 minutes is the Gigabyte GA-6VX7-4X MSI is usually better about marking the boards though.

I initially thought MSI as well but apparently most MSI boards from the Socket 370 era were brown not red.. And the only marking I can see on the board is Rev 2.0, so I'm stuck.

I also impulse bought this, no idea what it is either though.

Buying unknown untested hardware.. Living dangerously..

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luckybob wrote:

The red PCB screams MSI. the closest board I can find in 5 minutes is the Gigabyte GA-6VX7-4X MSI is usually better about marking the boards though.

I initially thought MSI as well but apparently most MSI boards from the Socket 370 era were brown not red.. And the only marking I can see on the board is Rev 2.0, so I'm stuck.

I also impulse bought this, no idea what it is either though.

Unknown Socket370.jpg

Buying unknown untested hardware.. Living dangerously..

Super socket 7?

with AGP 4x? no.

luckybob wrote:

The red PCB screams MSI. the closest board I can find in 5 minutes is the Gigabyte GA-6VX7-4X MSI is usually better about marking the boards though.

Soltek SL-65KV is the board they took the design from. The only thing they modified is the ATX connector placement, PLCC32 BIOS instead of DIP32, a missing AMR slot (who uses that anyways?) and moved the DIP switches near the RAM slots.

And to add to that, their IMV8601-ISA board is exactly a Biostar M6VLQ, just with a red PCB, no gameport and NIC chip, no AMR (again, who needs it?) and a ISA slot that is not present on the original Biostar board (although the Biostar DOES actually have the silkscreen for a ISA slot)

It's not the same at all?

Somebody else bid on that one? :-p

It will be my 1st daughterboard:
http://www.amoretro.de/2011/06/terratec-waves … 24-ver-2-0.html

Crystal seems to be missing, already ordered a replacement...

Terratec Soundcard and Soundblaster also looking interesting...

So far so good,obtained Libretto CT50 finally,now only need to find PSU for it.
Happy af,tho it cost me 100$

appiah4 wrote:

I also impulse bought this, no idea what it is either though.

Unknown Socket370.jpg
Buying unknown untested hardware.. Living dangerously..

This one might be an MSI. Check the silkscreening between PCI1 and PCI2 (where the FCC logo is).

SW-SSG wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

I also impulse bought this, no idea what it is either though.

Unknown Socket370.jpg
Buying unknown untested hardware.. Living dangerously..

This one might be an MSI. Check the silkscreening between PCI1 and PCI2 (where the FCC logo is).

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MS6153VA.html

Thanks to fellow Vogons user Eep386...I have obtained unobtainium!

Reveal SC500 Rev. 3 sound card. The exact same model of sound card the 486 system from my childhood had, and the ONLY part I had been needing to finish my as-close-to-exact-as-I-can-get recreation of said childhood system. These things are rare, rare, RARE and I am so glad to finally have one again to complete my childhood system! 😊

PcBytes wrote:

SW-SSG wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

I also impulse bought this, no idea what it is either though.

Unknown Socket370.jpg
Buying unknown untested hardware.. Living dangerously..

This one might be an MSI. Check the silkscreening between PCI1 and PCI2 (where the FCC logo is).

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MS6153VA.html

Wow great find. I was hoping for a 694T but its a 693A, my first VIA Coppermine P3 board.

Predator99 wrote:

Crystal seems to be missing, already ordered a replacement...

Terratec Soundcard and Soundblaster also looking interesting...

The Terratec Card is the host card for the SOWT-24. Together it was sold as Maestro 32 before the Maestro 32/96 was launched.
I hope that it will work, after attaching the Quartz. It is quite nice. Sounds nearly like the real thing: Roland.

torindkflt wrote:

Thanks to fellow Vogons user Eep386...I have obtained unobtainium!

Is that an Orchid NuSound?

NVM: Answered my own question. This is where I saw it originally:
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?86592-Or … table-soundcard

torindkflt wrote:

Thanks to fellow Vogons user Eep386...I have obtained unobtainium!

That’s a great looking card! I really like that GM chipset and Crystal SB Pro / WSS is up there with the best IMHO.

I have something similar with this Aopen S23A and really like it:

ISA Sound Cards with Internal Wavetable

Yes, Orchid NuSound pnp and Acer Magic s23a is same boards with same chips. May be only wavetable rom content differ a bit.

An Outlaw ICBM Bass Management System isn't exactly "retro", but it is retro from Home Theater point of view, since HT gears perhaps become obsolete even faster than computer gears. Nonetheless, I'd need such crossover if I'm to connect sound cards without .1 analog output --like Diamond Monster MX300-- to an AV receiver, because AV most receivers typically don't apply bass management to its multichannel analog inputs. Full story here. Well, either that, or Creative DTS-610 to convert multichannel analog to DTS signal to the receiver could perform bass management to the incoming audio. Of course, I already have that too. It's always nice to have options.

In any case, I seem to be obsessed to play computer games with good sound. I don't know, perhaps it's just my upbringing.