Haven't posted nothing from a while - all my free time goes on making my latest build - that I will present soon.

Today I got this 😀 Audiotrix Pro with Effects Daughterboard
Quite rare this days...

No Batyra watermark on the photo? That's a first. 😀

appiah4 wrote:

No Batyra watermark on the photo? That's a first. 😀

OMG! you're right! Fixed! Thanks 😁

Batyra wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

No Batyra watermark on the photo? That's a first. 😀

OMG! you're right! Fixed! Thanks 😁

It would be trivial to remove your watermark if someone wanted to reuse the photos anyways. I don't see the point.

And BTW - yes! I noticed that effects DB is upside down 😀
Corrected it...

dr.ido wrote:

xjas wrote:

An ATI Rage LT Pro PCI, with some kind of mini-D-sub flat panel connector on the front (anyone know what this is for?) and a Sound Blaster 16 for five bucks each. Not bad!

I've seen early Compaq branded LCD monitors with this connector. I've also seen cables with this one one end and a DVI on the other. It could also be a pre-DVI digital output (panellink?). Can't read the numbers on the transceiver chip near the connector, but there may be datasheet for it somewhere.

That's a VESA DFP conntector. I had one of those Rage LT Pro cards (AGP version, not PCI). I even remember having had a monitor to connect to it, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. The phyisical connector was similar to SGI's OpenLDI connector but a bit smaller. And not compatible with it - otherwise I would have connected an 1600SW to it 😉

Picked up a ton of C64 stuff. The C64 itself is a bit rough, but i think i can bring it back.

(or a video if you want to watch me unbox everything)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P83RjLdEsEw

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

It would be trivial to remove your watermark if someone wanted to reuse the photos anyways. I don't see the point.

Watermarking pictures this way is actually childish and ridiculous. He's picturing hardware that wasn't designed or built by him, so the watermarks are only for bragging. I can't recall ever seeing someone else doing something similar when showing rare, or supposed to be rare items, no matter how rare they actually are.

derSammler wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

It would be trivial to remove your watermark if someone wanted to reuse the photos anyways. I don't see the point.

Watermarking pictures this way is actually childish and ridiculous. He's picturing hardware that wasn't designed or built by him, so the watermarks are only for bragging. I can't recall ever seeing someone else doing something similar when showing rare, or supposed to be rare items, no matter how rare they actually are.

It does help with scammers trying to "sell" hardware they don't actually have. I have seen a large number of stolen pictures on eBay from scammers just copy/pasting a listing onto their stolen account.

ASUS S3 cards:

Yep, for some strange reason they've decided to produce S3 Trio64 on late Virge PCB with 4 mb expandable. Both are 35ns and pretty much as top tier S3 as you can get (in their respective chip families).

Interesting. Didn't know that the board layout allowed for interchangeability of the chipset. Chipsets must be completely pin-compatible to each other.

cyclone3d wrote:

derSammler wrote:

Watermarking pictures this way is actually childish and ridiculous. He's picturing hardware that wasn't designed or built by him, so the watermarks are only for bragging. I can't recall ever seeing someone else doing something similar when showing rare, or supposed to be rare items, no matter how rare they actually are.

It does help with scammers trying to "sell" hardware they don't actually have. I have seen a large number of stolen pictures on eBay from scammers just copy/pasting a listing onto their stolen account.

It also helps against shoddy Retro Tech!(tm) sites and low-rent Youtubers stealing your pics without permission. Both of which happen quite often. You take the photo, you own the rights to the photo, regardless of what the content of it is, and you get to decide whether you want to let someone else to use it or not.

(For a while one of my cars - complete with my numberplate & mods visible - could be found in a retrospective article from a pretty big shitty online car mag who should have been employing professional photographers. My own photo, lifted straight off my host. I never got any reply or acknowledgement from the site operators despite repeated efforts, but the photo disappeared after a while. Yeah, that irked me pretty hard.)

Got the Toshiba Tecra 780CDM... just waiting for the power adapter. It's complete with a hard drive and it came with a Xircom ethernet card. https://imgur.com/a/8JRJUhn

I normally put my username as the watermark when I post something online so that way everyone knows it's copyright. Whoever steals it, lawsuits will be piling up.

@oeuvre: nice laptop, dude.

blurks wrote:

Interesting. Didn't know that the board layout allowed for interchangeability of the chipset. Chipsets must be completely pin-compatible to each other.

Funny how this exact question interested me a month ago. At that moment I found the explicit notion of pin compatibility between the 86C775 and 86C375 in their datasheets, and now this picture proves that.
Attention all you Quantum3D fans, I'll show you something interesting related to this topic sometime soon, in the course of a month or so. Stay tuned 😀

Didn't know that there will be discussion on watermarking…

There are few reasons I'm doing it.

Often - when I look for some stuff in the net - I want to see more pictures, compare my card etc. it is easier to find it and seek for owner or his collection to get more info or more photos… the same thing is done for example by easy_john, amoretro, enigma, yjfy.com, even Artex photos even if there is no watermark are allways on the same light brown background so when I see one in google graphics I know this is his photo etc - i think it's helpful and OK... it helped me many times to find some more pictures, data etc. that way.

Maybe by this watermark someone will visit my website and see my collection - why not. Maybe find some mistake, or write to me to ask about something or be willing to trade... why not?

For me it has nothing to do with my "artistic photography" hahah copyright or to prevent stealing and useing it by someone... oh come on! Yeah but it's easy to call it childish, ridiculous, pointless… blah blah blach

DaveJustDave wrote:

Picked up a ton of C64 stuff. The C64 itself is a bit rough, but i think i can bring it back. […]
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Picked up a ton of C64 stuff. The C64 itself is a bit rough, but i think i can bring it back.

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(or a video if you want to watch me unbox everything)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P83RjLdEsEw

I had watched your video prior to this post; I really hope you share some videos of your adventures into Commodore Assembler. I really enjoy your channel and wish you best of luck with it.

Ignore them Batyra and keep posting your great pics of great hardware.

badmojo wrote:

Ignore them Batyra and keep posting your great pics of great hardware.

ditto , I find the "maybe someone contacts / visit the site" quite a clever thing too 😎

Bought a cheap 1994 Lexmark-era Model M today. 2 key caps missing, which is just an excuse to go buy a whole new custom set 😉

First wait until it arrives. If it's good, new caps are go, if not it's just a source for spares for my other Model M's.
(this is sort of developing into a fetish...)

I'm using my rubber dome QuietTouch at work and regularly get colleagues taking pics of it 😉