RichB93 wrote:

Absolutely. I don't see the point paying over the odds for something because someone thinks that because its old it's worth a bomb.

A few years ago I picked up a brand new (sealed) Guillemot MaxiGamer 2 8MB Voodoo 2 SLI pack for less than £10! 😮

On the other side of the coin, though, some items just don't come along on a regular enough basis to warrant waiting for a bargain price. In the case of the extremely hard to find item that only turns up once every 5+ years, it might be worth paying a little more to get the item now rather than investing years of your time waiting for a seller who doesn't know the true value of what he has. You may end up waiting the rest of your life to get the item and what good does that do?

Agrees. When I bought all my Roland gear I wanted to fulfil my childhood dream and so you just go hard or go home 😀

sliderider wrote:

RichB93 wrote:

Absolutely. I don't see the point paying over the odds for something because someone thinks that because its old it's worth a bomb.

A few years ago I picked up a brand new (sealed) Guillemot MaxiGamer 2 8MB Voodoo 2 SLI pack for less than £10! 😮

On the other side of the coin, though, some items just don't come along on a regular enough basis to warrant waiting for a bargain price. In the case of the extremely hard to find item that only turns up once every 5+ years, it might be worth paying a little more to get the item now rather than investing years of your time waiting for a seller who doesn't know the true value of what he has. You may end up waiting the rest of your life to get the item and what good does that do?

True. I'm just cheap however! 😜 Most I've paid is £20 for a Rendition V2200 8MB. Paid around £12 (I think) for a Terratec EWS64S, £3 for a Rage Fury Maxx, £4 or so for a Kyro 64MB. Can't really remember the others.

BTW, worth mentioning that the Kyro cards are really disappointing and I wouldn't bother with them! Crappy drivers, incompatibilities with certain systems and they run ridiculously hot.

Small change when one considers when prices sky rocket or the money devalues 😒 but still getting a v5 5500 agp for only $9 after ship is pretty hard to do now days.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Agrees. When I bought all my Roland gear I wanted to fulfil my childhood dream and so you just go hard or go home 😀

Agreed! Like my Roland SCC1-A.. Not cheap, but a rare beauty.

I get pronounced screen moire at POST and on desktop with my Voodoo 1. I've swapped in 3 by-pass cable [all the thick original typye like the one pictured earlier in this thread] with no discernible effect. Right now it's teathered to a Stealth II S220 Rendition 4mb, but I believe the same thing happened with other primary cards. Game performance is fine though.

Is this a common issue I wonder?

Do you get the same issues when you hook up the monitor directly to the Voodoo?

Mau1 - unless you are suggesting something I'm not familiar with, that's the way I have it: by-pass S220 -> Voodoo, VGA cable Voodoo -> monitor. Swapping in a Voodoo 2 and the problem goes away. Latest reference drivers.

Sorry I was confused. The POST image is clear if you hook up the monitor directly to the S220 right?

That's correct. Quite a sharp image too. My concern is the V1 may be a bit flakey...

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Picked up some gems over the last few weeks. I will get some pix together VERY soon!

😁

Motherboard
ASUS P2B Motherboard

Memory
768MB MEMORY 32X64 168 PIN PC133 6NS 3.3V NON ECC SDRAM RAM

Video Card
nVidia RIVA TNT2 Ultra - Diamond Viper V770U AGP
AddA AP45005MX-G90 DC 5V .09A GPU Fan for Diamond Viper V770U

Case Badges
Genuine Intel Pentium II w/MMX
Genuine Intel Pentium w/MMX
Genuine Intel Pentium III
Genuine AMD K6-2 w/3dNow!

Cases
Enlight EN-7237 (4-bay) Case
Enlight EN-7237 (4-bay) Case

Monitors
Viewsonsic A90 19" CRT
Samsung SyncMaster 955DF 19" CRT

Audio-Related
CT1350B Rev. 3 (Sound Blaster 2.0) 😁
1 x CT1350B GAL chip
2 x CT1350B Phillps SAA1099 CMS Chips
CT1740 (OPL3, ASP socket, Waveblaster, MPU-401 UART, 16-bit playback)
CT1770 (SB16 SCSI) w/DSP CT1748A Chip 😁
CT3660 (Sound Blaster AWE 32)
CT3620 (Sound Blaster 32 PnP ISA with RAM)
CT1320C (Sound Blaster 1.5) 😁
Yamaha SW60XG MIDI ISA Card 😁
Roland SCD-15 MIDI Daughterboard 😁

Drives
2 x Sony 3.5" 1.44MB Internal Desktop Floppy Drive MPF920-Z

Power Supplies
2 x Enlight HPC-250G2 REV:A1-01 250W

-Steve

Enlight Cases!

Creative CT1350B Rev. 3 (Sound Blaster 2.0) without CMS & GAL Chips)

Creative CT1740 Rev. 4.04 (Sound Blaster 16)

Creative CT1740 Rev. 4.04 (Sound Blaster 16)

Creative CT1770 Rev. 4.12 (Sound Blaster 16 SCSI) with CT1748A DSP Chip

Creative CT1770 Rev. 4.12 (Sound Blaster 16 SCSI) with CT1748A DSP Chip

Creative CT2950 Rev. 4.13 (Sound Blaster 16 Value)

Creative CT2950 Rev. 4.13 (Sound Blaster 16 Value)

Creative CT3620 Rev 4.13 with memory (Sound Blaster 32)

Creative CT3620 Rev 4.13 with memory (Sound Blaster 32)

Creative CT3620 Rev 4.13 with memory (Sound Blaster 32)

Creative CT3660 (Sound Blaster AWE 32)

Diamond Viper V770U (nVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra 32MB)

Diamond Viper V770U (nVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra 32MB)

Genuine Intel & AMD Case Badges

NEC XR385 (Yamaha SW60XG Clone) MIDI Daughterboard

Roland SCB-55 (SCD-15) MIDI Daughterboard

Roland SCB-55 (SCD-15) MIDI Daughterboard

Epic!

I was reading past GPU reviews on Tomshardware and the TNT2 seems to have been the card that started the demise of 3DFX.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Epic!

I was reading past GPU reviews on Tomshardware and the TNT2 seems to have been the card that started the demise of 3DFX.

Yeah, the TNT2 Ultra version was REALLY difficult to find - mostly just the non-Ultra versions on eBay these days.

Thanks man! Really getting into this stuff... I have a Yamaha SW60XG ISA card on the way, two CMS Chips and GAL chip for the SB1350 as well.

Now that I have the beautiful Roland SCC-1A and will have the Yamaha ISA card on the way, I shouldn't have to deal with hanging notes anymore.

Now to find a CT1330 and CT1320C..hmm.

How did you manage to find all of these toys 😀 Quite the loot that's for sure.

Man I love reading old reviews on Tomshardware. Back in those days they had such a different style of writing. Nvidia was a 6 month product cycle, can you beli eve that?

I think I am ready to start leaving DOS behind (I have pretty much all I wanted) and have some fun with 3D accelerations and all of that.

I guess getting the games will be a little bit harder as they all came on CDs. And so far GOG.com doesn't really sell all these old games I still have in mind like Forsaken, G-Police, Blade Runner, WC Prophecy 😒

At least I could run 3D Mark over and over 😁

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How did you manage to find all of these toys 😀 Quite the loot that's for sure.

Man I love reading old reviews on Tomshardware. Back in those days they had such a different style of writing. Nvidia was a 6 month product cycle, can you beli eve that?

I think I am ready to start leaving DOS behind (I have pretty much all I wanted) and have some fun with 3D accelerations and all of that.

I guess getting the games will be a little bit harder as they all came on CDs. And so far GOG.com doesn't really sell all these old games I still have in mind like Forsaken, G-Police, Blade Runner, WC Prophecy 😒

At least I could run 3D Mark over and over 😁

I have my feelers out EVERYWHERE for this stuff - trust me.. I completely agree - I have been a reader of Toms Hardware since WAY back in the day. It's a complete addiction.. 😀

Boxed Creative Voodoo2 12MB.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/200792430195

The description says AGP, but the box clearly says PCI.

Now I'll have matching SLI'd Voodoo2's for my Tualatin rig. Ooh yeah.

And if it turns out he used the wrong photo, and it is indeed some frankenstein AGP Voodoo2 card, it'll be an interesting piece to have anyway. 😀

Edit: So "giochi" means games... I wonder what these 12 included games are?

Man, I paid $250 for that exact card back in 1998..

There's a computer store down the road from me which looks more like a museum; I think the old guy who runs it just keeps it open for something to do. The shelves are covered with boxes for voodoo 5’s, etc; unfortunately most of them are empty. Occasionally I find something in them though and yesterday I picked up this new-in-the-box Sony Multiscan 200ES, 16” (viewable) CRT. The image and colours are nice, and it remembers my settings as I switch b/w the various resolutions / refresh rates in DOS / VESA mode / Windows 9x.

He also had this 250mb internal ZIPdrive hanging around, so I snagged that too:

WOW 😳

That is unreal. A new 17" Sony Trinitrion CRT...

I'm so jealous... But I don't have the space anyway...

Sony CRTs are the shiz. I have two 21" Trinitron monitors, and a 25" PVM being used as an arcade monitor on my NeoGeo MVS cabinet.

A new in box Sony CRT is the sex.

Edit: And it seems I just won a copy of Jazz Jackrabbit on CD-ROM for 99c. Bargain.