derSammler wrote on 2020-02-23, 10:30:

Better save for a Blizzard 1260, a Warp 1260, or an ACA1260. The Vampire might be a masterpeice to some, but it's an FPGA clone of a large part of the Amiga hardware and still has many quirks and drawbacks. What you have in the end is no longer a real Amiga. If at all, wait for the stand-alone Vampire V4.

Huh??? It is still a real Amiga. Sam460 and AmigaOS 4.1 are just as much a real Amiga as an Amiga 1200 with a Vampire.

derSammler wrote on 2020-02-23, 10:30:

Better save for a Blizzard 1260, a Warp 1260, or an ACA1260. The Vampire might be a masterpeice to some, but it's an FPGA clone of a large part of the Amiga hardware and still has many quirks and drawbacks. What you have in the end is no longer a real Amiga. If at all, wait for the stand-alone Vampire V4.

I ended up picking up an Apollo 1230 40/50 which is pretty much what I use to have back in the day, I had a GVP 40Mhz 68030 accelerator but I sold it to a friend before I moved out of state when I was 20 years old. So I see your logic and I intend to try to source the full standalone vampire and keep my 1200 with original parts.

I'm excited, contacted someone about recapping and am waiting to hear back. I would love to do the recapping myself but given that I'm just getting back into my amiga and how they are not cheap anymore I figured giving it to someone with more experience who can give the board a complete check and recap would be a good idea.

A 68030 is fine as well. My main A1200 has an ACA1233n-40 as well, which is fast enough for most stuff. If you are going for MP3 or web-browsing however, anything below a 060 won't get you far.

I had an amazing opportunity to visit RE-PC in Seattle, WA.

Felt like a small child in an amazing candy shop. 😁

Though, i kept the amount of products small, as i didn't have too much room flying back to home.

So, 2x ISA sound cards, S3 Virge DX, REALmagic decoder card and brand new DVD RAM.
Total price a little under 6$. 😮

GigAHerZ wrote on 2020-02-23, 17:46:

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I had an amazing opportunity to visit RE-PC in Seattle, WA.

Felt like a small child in an amazing candy shop. 😁

Though, i kept the amount of products small, as i didn't have too much room flying back to home.

So, 2x ISA sound cards, S3 Virge DX, REALmagic decoder card and brand new DVD RAM.
Total price a little under 6$. 😮

Love the vintage VHS security camera. Gotta stay authenticate.

derSammler wrote on 2020-02-23, 17:21:

A 68030 is fine as well. My main A1200 has an ACA1233n-40 as well, which is fast enough for most stuff. If you are going for MP3 or web-browsing however, anything below a 060 won't get you far.

Yeah, I'll wait for the V4 standalone to see what a blown out modern interpretation of the amiga can do.

Unrelated I took apart my 1200 to check it out and the board is pristine, no cap leakage or anything but I found a crumpled up rolling paper in the case, 🤣, I wonder how I got that in there all those years ago. I saved the rolling paper and intend to replace it when the recapping is done.

Snagged a set of laptops for $25 locally. 1 very interesting laptop, 1 nice-to-have, and 2 that I could care less about.

The best of the lot is a Toshiba Portege S5005 with a DESKTOP Pentium 3 1.1GHZ CPU, 512MB of RAM, and a GeForce2 Go with 16MB of DDR memory. I had to order a power supply for the first time in forever (I thought I had adapters for everything at this point TBH) so I won't know if it works until that arrives but the person I bought it from said that she used it in college. Aren't these the same 1.1GHZ PIII's that have some weird stability problems relating to voltage? The specs on this thing are obscene given that its arguably in that prerunner class of "Multimedia Notebooks" that eventually gave way to monsters like the XPS Gen1. https://usermanual.com/document/8324/toshiba- … cification.html

The runner up is a Dell Lattitude D610 with a 1.6GHZ Pentium 4M, 1024MB of RAM, and a Mobility Radeon X300 with 64MB of memory. 1024x768 screen, this should be nice for most titles from 2002.

The other two are a Pavilion DV4 with Core2 of some sorts and integrated graphics, and a Inspiron 1300 again sporting a Core2 with integrated graphics. Might sling these out to family members needing word processing beaters.

On a sidenote: Why am I buying more equipment? I haven't played a game for more than 10 minutes on a retro gaming PC since probably last year, yet I spend ridiculous amounts of time cleaning them, setting them up, working on them etc. At this point I'm not sure if the hobby is playing retro games on PCs or maintianing a ridiculous collection of retro PCs.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2020-02-23, 22:10:

Snagged a set of laptops for $25 locally. 1 very interesting laptop, 1 nice-to-have, and 2 that I could care less about. […]
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Snagged a set of laptops for $25 locally. 1 very interesting laptop, 1 nice-to-have, and 2 that I could care less about.

The best of the lot is a Toshiba Portege S5005 with a DESKTOP Pentium 3 1.1GHZ CPU, 512MB of RAM, and a GeForce2 Go with 16MB of DDR memory. I had to order a power supply for the first time in forever (I thought I had adapters for everything at this point TBH) so I won't know if it works until that arrives but the person I bought it from said that she used it in college. Aren't these the same 1.1GHZ PIII's that have some weird stability problems relating to voltage? The specs on this thing are obscene given that its arguably in that prerunner class of "Multimedia Notebooks" that eventually gave way to monsters like the XPS Gen1. https://usermanual.com/document/8324/toshiba- … cification.html

The runner up is a Dell Lattitude D610 with a 1.6GHZ Pentium 4M, 1024MB of RAM, and a Mobility Radeon X300 with 64MB of memory. 1024x768 screen, this should be nice for most titles from 2002.

The other two are a Pavilion DV4 with Core2 of some sorts and integrated graphics, and a Inspiron 1300 again sporting a Core2 with integrated graphics. Might sling these out to family members needing word processing beaters.

On a sidenote: Why am I buying more equipment? I haven't played a game for more than 10 minutes on a retro gaming PC since probably last year, yet I spend ridiculous amounts of time cleaning them, setting them up, working on them etc. At this point I'm not sure if the hobby is playing retro games on PCs or maintianing a ridiculous collection of retro PCs.

that 1.1 GHz P3 might be a later Coppermine D stepping (which fixed the issue of the 1.13 ghz model) or even be a Tualatin 1.13

The Latitude D610 uses a Pentium M, not a Pentium 4-M

more Matrox cards \o/
G400, Mystique and Mystique 220 again

two Riva 128, one AGP one PCI
ICL ATI 28800 VGA Wonder+
Creative CT1830 CD-Rom Interface card
and an odd before unkown to me "InteGraphics Systems" IGA 1680_A

CT4390 AWE64 Gold
CT1740 SB16
and another PAS16LMSI

also got these two Toughbook CF-25 MkIIIs with matching suitcase ^^

this is to complete the CF-25 I bought before as a MkIII but turned out to be a MkII 😒
also I never showed these but I also bought a bunch of spare parts so I should be able to kit out one complete CF-25 MkIII easily now ^^

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2020-02-23, 22:10:

Snagged a set of laptops for $25 locally. 1 very interesting laptop, 1 nice-to-have, and 2 that I could care less about. […]
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Snagged a set of laptops for $25 locally. 1 very interesting laptop, 1 nice-to-have, and 2 that I could care less about.

The best of the lot is a Toshiba Portege S5005 with a DESKTOP Pentium 3 1.1GHZ CPU, 512MB of RAM, and a GeForce2 Go with 16MB of DDR memory. I had to order a power supply for the first time in forever (I thought I had adapters for everything at this point TBH) so I won't know if it works until that arrives but the person I bought it from said that she used it in college. Aren't these the same 1.1GHZ PIII's that have some weird stability problems relating to voltage? The specs on this thing are obscene given that its arguably in that prerunner class of "Multimedia Notebooks" that eventually gave way to monsters like the XPS Gen1. https://usermanual.com/document/8324/toshiba- … cification.html

The runner up is a Dell Lattitude D610 with a 1.6GHZ Pentium 4M, 1024MB of RAM, and a Mobility Radeon X300 with 64MB of memory. 1024x768 screen, this should be nice for most titles from 2002.

The other two are a Pavilion DV4 with Core2 of some sorts and integrated graphics, and a Inspiron 1300 again sporting a Core2 with integrated graphics. Might sling these out to family members needing word processing beaters.

On a sidenote: Why am I buying more equipment? I haven't played a game for more than 10 minutes on a retro gaming PC since probably last year, yet I spend ridiculous amounts of time cleaning them, setting them up, working on them etc. At this point I'm not sure if the hobby is playing retro games on PCs or maintianing a ridiculous collection of retro PCs.

To be honest I have the same feeling most of the time. Half the fun is doing the build, cleaning stuff up, testing, etc. Haven't played a retro game seriously in a while

GigAHerZ wrote on 2020-02-23, 17:46:

I had an amazing opportunity to visit RE-PC in Seattle, WA. […]
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I had an amazing opportunity to visit RE-PC in Seattle, WA.

Felt like a small child in an amazing candy shop. 😁

Though, i kept the amount of products small, as i didn't have too much room flying back to home.

So, 2x ISA sound cards, S3 Virge DX, REALmagic decoder card and brand new DVD RAM.
Total price a little under 6$. 😮

Mmmmh.. REALMagic .. For some reason I apparently have scrapped mine at some point - but hey, I still have the remote and receiver 🤣 gotta find me one, some day .. Oh well, and a Matrox M3D .. And an AWE64 gold .. and .. and .. and ..

Got this 386 board from a coworker today 😀

Unfortunately it's got the Varta plague .. Will be removed very soon. On the positive side, it looks like there's only GND plane under the battery, so might be lucky ..

Anybody knows what RAM to plug in? Is it just DIP chips, or is it SIP modules?

the ISA slot and pins around the battery seem fine, so it seems to be very localized still, but nasty ^^ should be able to clean that off

imi wrote on 2020-02-24, 11:40:

the ISA slot and pins around the battery seem fine, so it seems to be very localized still, but nasty ^^ should be able to clean that off

Not sure, that looks like it may have eaten through those ISA voltage lanes between the battery and the slots. Hope not, but it does look nasty..

yeah, might have to repair a few traces, and while it does look wild, I have seen worse in relation to damaged traces and corroded pins ^^

imi wrote on 2020-02-23, 22:48:

more Matrox cards \o/
G400, Mystique and Mystique 220 again

I was watching these, too, but decided not to get them in the end. Have way too many Matrox cards already.

Got the other three VGA cards from the same seller, however, which were more interesting. 😀

ah, so that was you ^^ well I got a few of the other lots from the same seller already (some of the cards posted above) so I figured why not just get those too, but yeah I'm beginning to have too many of them, mainly got it for the G400.
and they made me a good price on the AWE64 gold and CT1740 because I already bought the other lots, so that worked out well 😀

H3nrik V! wrote on 2020-02-24, 11:28:

Anybody knows what RAM to plug in? Is it just DIP chips, or is it SIP modules?

You need SIPP modules for this one. In addition the bottom slot might be a slot for some proprietary RAM upgrade card.

If you don't have any SIPPs you can always solder pins to a 30 pin SIMMs...

Another sound card to add to the collection!

Turtle Beach Malibu TBS-0550

mpe wrote on 2020-02-24, 13:14:

H3nrik V! wrote on 2020-02-24, 11:28:

Anybody knows what RAM to plug in? Is it just DIP chips, or is it SIP modules?

You need SIPP modules for this one. In addition the bottom slot might be a slot for some proprietary RAM upgrade card.

If you don't have any SIPPs you can always solder pins to a 30 pin SIMMs...

Thanks, so a pin on each pin of SIMM?

The bottom slot? You mean that one, that looks like 2 ISA slots after each other?