Actually the cheapest I can find costs 35.3 euros on ebay... 🙁

Not today, but some time ago get 486 mother board with ISA, VLB and PCI.

Looks like this is 486-VIP-IO board http://artofhacking.com/th99/m/E-H/32523.htm
Still not deside, in which project I can use it.

GeorgeMan wrote:

Actually the cheapest I can find costs 35.3 euros on ebay... 🙁

seems normal price to me if it's a complete bundle (card/cable/sli cable)

I am thinking of selling mine Voodoo 2 Gainward Dragon 3000 for 30e with pass trough cable..

GeorgeMan wrote:

Couldn't resist!
Oh and I forgot to mention that the 386/40 is a socketed one! 😁

I love that 386! Totally original which is rare for that era, people often messed around putting CD-ROM's in them, etc.

A$60 but now I have them if I ever want to play with one 😀

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman has almost *210,000* replies to this thread. Rock on KAN!!

tincup wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman has almost *210,000* replies to this thread. Rock on KAN!!

Actually, almost 210,000 views, not replies, but that's still amazing! 3167 replies is great. I love to see all the retro gear that is being kept out of recycling and garbage!

retrofanatic wrote:

tincup wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman has almost *210,000* replies to this thread. Rock on KAN!!

Actually, almost 210,000 views, not replies, but that's still amazing! 3167 replies is great. I love to see all the retro gear that is being kept out of recycling and garbage!

Thanks! *bows down* 😀

I've never thought this thread would be so alive either. First I thought the "Bought these games today" thread would get more replies, but it turns out we are more interested in hardware instead of games. 😳

Which is quite surprising, considering VOGONS stands for Very Old Games On New Systems. I thought most alive topics should be "I want to run this old game on Windows 7 but..." or "How to run this old game on Windows 8?" You know, such things. It seems we're more interested in Old Hardware For Old Games instead. 😁

I consider myself pragmatic; I actually hunt for vintage hardware out of pragmatism, but despite that, I have to admit that there is unexplainable appeal in vintage hardware; the Voodoo, the Yamaha XG MIDI card, the MT-32, the gameport Thrustmaster joysticks. Maybe I'm actually a vintage hardware lover instead of a pragmatic.

And guess we're not alone. In other areas of interest, there are people who love vintage stuff as well. Vintage amplifiers, vintage loudspeakers, vintage cars, etcetera. Maybe modern Fostex studio monitors are more accurate, but there are those who insist on buying JBL L300 instead.

Isn't vintage hardware great? 😀

PS: I remember the very reason I joined Vogons on the first place. I didn't come here to ask how to run old games on modern system, I didn't come here to ask how to run emulators on modern system; nope. I came here to ask questions about Voodoo5 5500 - a vintage hardware. Not only that, but from the very start, my concerns were mostly about vintage hardware instead of actually running old games on new hardware; Voodoo5 5500, Yamaha SW60XG MIDI card, Roland MT-32, modern mobo with ISA slots, etcetera, etcetera.

How about you? Why did you come here on the first place? Is it about old games, or old hardware?

Between dosbox, gog & steam, I'd venture to guess 95% of all retro gaming needs are met. The only remaining market are us weirdos that like to play the old games on original hardware. I ~HATE~ messing with software. I want to double-click it, and go; but I will spend countless hours tweaking hardware to its potential. For the record, I can't remember why I ever came here. *shrug*

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

How about you? Why did you come here on the first place? Is it about old games, or old hardware?

This could be the start of a new thread? Why did you come to VOGONS? 🤣

My very first post on VOGONS:

This forum brought so many memories back that I am now also planning on building something. I am very much into DosBox, but would love to build something hands on. It will very likely be based around a 440BX chipset, simply because I don't want to play around with old AT PSUs and towers and like to mix it up with some modern and easily available bits.

easy_john wrote:

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Not today, but some time ago get 486 mother board with ISA, VLB and PCI.

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Looks like this is 486-VIP-IO board http://artofhacking.com/th99/m/E-H/32523.htm
Still not deside, in which project I can use it.

Ive got one of those socket 3 VIA PCI chipsets and the memory performance is awful and I cant work out why.

When I run speedsys the default memory bandwidth is like 25mb/s after tweaking it gets to 45mb/s and that's it, its a total dud, I was hoping it would the ultimate chipset for running the cyrix 5x86-120 but I firmly believe the ALI chipset is king.

dirkmirk wrote:

When I run speedsys the default memory bandwidth is like 25mb/s after tweaking it gets to 45mb/s and that's it, its a total dud, I was hoping it would the ultimate chipset for running the cyrix 5x86-120 but I firmly believe the ALI chipset is king.

Sad to read about it. Which ram speed is normal for 5x86-120?

Ta-da! I'm a proud owner of a SpaceOrb360! It's also my first successful ebay purchase except for cheap chinese stuff which comes to our country more or less untouched. The package was cut in two places in customs, thank god they didn't damage the cables or find anything useful inside!

$25 shipped from USA.

Whoa! Siberia!! And I thought the "Polar Vortex" hovering over Wisconsin was bad..... Congrats on the purchase!

25$!
I payed about 60 for mine. Have fun with that hehe!

Straight from the post office 😀

A Jetway J446A-V2.0 motherboard and a Am5x86 Processor.

Nice, i had one of these. Boards of that era have so many jumpers to set.🤣

ratfink wrote:

Nice, i had one of these. Boards of that era have so many jumpers to set.🤣

That's one of the main reasons why I never build another one 🤣

Hey guys-

Been awhile since I've posted some new hardware so hang on tight!

For my new Time Machine build..
Motherboard - ASUS TUSL2-C REV 1.04 Socket 370 with 128MB & PIII 1.2Ghz Tualatin (2001)
Processor - Intel Pentium III 1.4Ghz 1400-512-133 FCPGA2 Socket 370 (Tualatin) (SL5XL) (2002)

8-bit goodness!
Media Vision Thunderboard ISA (1991)

Boxed and complete. Strange that the box (on the front) shows SB3980 (last true OPL version) but the sticker shows 3990 as does the card itself. Oh well..
Creative CT3990 (Sound Blaster AWE32 PnP) ISA (Boxed) (1995)

Gonna throw this in one of my Time Machines for some GLIDE lovin..
3DFX Voodoo3 2000 (STB 210-0364-003) (Black Heatsink) 16MB AGP (1999)

Thanks to a special VOGONS member!
Turtle Beach Maui with 8MB ISA (1994)

Finally managed to pick up a VLB Tseng ET4000/W32P!!
TSENG ET4000W32P - Diamond Stealth 32 (with disks and manual) 2MB VLB (1993)

Using these in my Time Machine builds with a PCI Sata Controller..Refurbed but cheap and much faster than the CF cards & notebook drives I've been playing with.
Storage - 2 x 30GB OCZ Vertex Turbo OCZSSD2-1VTXT30G 2.5 SATA II MLC Internal SSD

Another fancy VLB card..
S3 Vision864 (86C864-P) Number Nine 9GXE64 VLB (1994)

MOAR Roland!
Roland RAP-10 (SC-7) ISA (Boxed) (1993)

Picked this up because I love Canopus hardware & innovation!
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS - Canopus Spectra 8400 32MB AGP (NV15) (2000)

And finally...behold...
3DFX Voodoo2 - Quantum3d Obsidian2 X-24 24MB AGP (Boxed) (1998)