Si. Pero por que no hablas en inglés? 😀

Yes please speak english for all the french ppl around 😁

From the same seller that sells the Nec yamaha DB50XG clones, bought this for $7,50.
Unfortunately arrived with a minor damage perhaps it was already like that before shipping. A smd cap (C27) was missing and that's why I had one channel missing, had no idea the value of it but I was ready to try some, the first one I put (100nf) worked and did not notice any difference at all between left and right.

Tried it with a Montego 2, will try it later in real mode DOS with this Santacruz.

You're lucky, mine is missing two solid caps and on one the copper lines are also pulled out a bit.

vmunix wrote:

podes bootear la maquina con esas no?

Yep, setting boot from SCSI in BIOS.

(You should use English, the natives grow uneasy when they watch foreign lingoes, think you're calling them names or something 😀 ).

vlask wrote:

Hercules (working) from SiS. So far oldest SiS card i seen.... […]
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Hercules (working) from SiS. So far oldest SiS card i seen....

I wonder if a card like that would see a performance increase by changing the dram chips to -10's... which I assume are 100 millisecond rather than 120.

Not exactly retro, but I got this thing with a molex adapter.

I'm going to make my 5x86 with a slugghish Conner drive run faster than ever! 😀

Some more arrivals this week! 😁 😁 😁

3DFX Voodoo2 - Quantum3d Obsidian2 200SBi 24MB PCI

STMicroelectronics Kyro II (PowerVR3 4500) - Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64MB AGP

3DFX Voodoo Banshee - Creative 3D Blaster Banshee CT6760 16MB PCI

3DFX Voodoo Banshee - Creative 3D Blaster Banshee CT6750 16MB AGP

NVIDIA RIVA TNT - Diamond Viper V550 SDR 16MB PCI (NV4)

Creative CT4540 (Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold) w/32 MB SIMMConn expansion module

NEC PowerVR PCX1 - Videologic Apocalypse 3D 4MB PCI

Gravis Ultrasound MAX 2.1 ISA w/512KB Addon *(Boxed)*

Hmmm, that Gravis sure does look familiar 😀

Is the Obsidian based on the Voodoo 2 chip?

Stojke wrote:

Hmmm, that Gravis sure does look familiar 😀

Is the Obsidian based on the Voodoo 2 chip?

Yes, thanks to you sir!! 😀 Yep - 2 x Voodoo2 chips = SLI on one card.

Oh i see, sounds awesome. I got my self a Voodoo Dragon 2. I am hunting for one more. After that id try to find me an obsidian 😀

Got a 486 in an at style case today. I thought it was rather ugly. It also felt cheap and plastic. Well. Its still pretty awesome:

What a surprise! Here are specs on the motherboard: http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/A/AC … ml#.UU-27BzvvZx

I honestly was on the fence with this case, it felt cheap and plastic, but good golly how often do you find an AT case, let alone one that is partially tool-less? The keyboard is ps/2 and has a ps/2 mouse next to it. the hole can be knocked out for the "standard" AT style keyboard if the need should arise. The cpu is a DX2-50. *bleh* And the motherboard only supports 1x and 2x multipliers. I tried several dx4's. none worked. Although the 50 would post and run just fine @ 66. I didn't leave it on that setting as it had no heatsink. Has 128k of cache, upgradable to 256k.

Its rather easy to spot in the 3rd picture, but it has onboard SCSI! An adaptec chipset too! Strangely, it only has ONE ide channel, and you cant set the scsi to the open irq 15. at least at first glance, I haven't played with it that much.

The hard drive is dead. Click of death. It wasn't worth much anyway. I would REALLY liked to have looked at the contents of the drive. Just in case there are any special drivers or programs for the motherboard.

I also got in the mail, an ebay auction, a pack of EIGHT, new aplha heatsinks. All I need to do is get some slim 60mm fans and I should be good to go for life! Its a little tight for room on my dual 462 board, but it should work fine in the end.

One of my recent acquisitions at one of the local surplus places. I haven't the foggiest of there is anything particularly special about it, except that it has an I2S connector, which I considered strange for something so old. The last time I took an interest in I2S was when the Live! was still popular.

I thought it was neat the way they designed the card with provision for either SMD or Through-hole capacitors. I'm going to recap this card with through-hole electrolytics. It's also equipped with a very powerful amplifier, which makes me curious how many volts it's receiving; obviously, not more than 12V at the most so I figure it can't be supplying more than about 5-6W maximum, and it's probably less, but it's a far cry from the TEA2025B which became the norm.

Some pro cards I've got recently:

Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 202 (1996, 16 MB)

Tried to play GLQuake on that cards, textures are missing:

Evans & Sutherland Tornado 3000 (1999, 30+32 MB) - based on REALimage 3000

Quake runs flawlessly 😀

NeTpower UltraFX (1996, 28 MB) - based on Dual 3DLabs GLiNT 500TX + Delta Geometry processor, the largest card in my collection. Unfortunately not working (SMD components missing, hope I'll repair it)

luckybob wrote:

Got a 486 in an at style case today. I thought it was rather ugly. It also felt cheap and plastic. http://i.imgur.com/swl5uC […]
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Got a 486 in an at style case today. I thought it was rather ugly. It also felt cheap and plastic.

Cheap and plastic? I *LOVED* your case. Even todays extreme cases with porshe level prices don't have this novel idea. I don't believe how easiliy accessable all the parts, just with a simple idea executed brilliantly.

I'd been working as a service tech during beige case era (from 386DX40 to early pentiums) and never seen anything like it. all the maintream cases were shit during that period. Cheap, crappy, razor sharp, misalligned and virtually identical(ly crappy) except their ugly plastic front finishes.

This one is a GEM!...

sprcorreia wrote:

Si. Pero por que no hablas en inglés? 😀

Deve ser porque o TELVM é "nuestro hermano" pá! 😉

Damnit! Where does everybody keep getting PowerVR PCX1's from?

I want one for a Mechwarrior 2 box!! 😒

SquallStrife wrote:

Damnit! Where does everybody keep getting PowerVR PCX1's from?

PM me to learn the trick if you are serious about acquiring one 😉

Just nabbed this lot of 5 cards. Hopefully I didn't piss off whoever was bidding against me when I just decided to hit the buy now listing.

Gainward 6800LE?
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB
Reference 5950 Ultra
LeadTek WinFast A280
Reference Radeon 9700 Pro

Slaventus86 wrote:

Some pro cards I've got recently: […]
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Some pro cards I've got recently:

Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 202 (1996, 16 MB)
Evans & Sutherland Tornado 3000 (1999, 30+32 MB)
NeTpower UltraFX (1996, 28 MB)

Awesome cards! I love vintage pro 3D cards too, have the Oxygen 202 and 402, a bunch of Diamond Fire GL cards, some Elsa Glorias, and a few Accelgraphics / Intergraph boards. Still pining for a working Tornado 3000 (mine's broken). There's one on eBay but it's priced way higher than I'm willing to pay.

Never seen the Netpower UltraFX board before - it's huge! Is it designed to fit into a custom enclosure?