Ozzuneoj wrote on 2021-02-13, 17:16:

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Purchased these today. All are missing brackets, which really stinks, but there's definitely some decent stuff here.

Best of the lot:
CT1350B Rev. 3 with an original CMS upgrade kit installed (notice the stickers)
Cirrus Logic GD510\520 8bit VGA\EGA card (Eagle II)

Not amazing, but worth grabbing:
Octek EG-3000 Gemini VC-001 EGA card
Two different OAK VGA+EGA cards
Trident ISA VGA (probably 8900D... I have another similar card with those big fat memory packages)
Diamond Stealth64 Video 2MB, with audio out
ISA Riser... because why not...
Some chips\CPUs... I believe one is a 486 SX25 (not sure), with intact pins. The others look like an AMD 286 10Mhz (possibly broken pins) and possibly the parts from the Headland chipset that ran it's motherboard.

Also decided to grab a couple of weird CDROM cards. One is for an external CDROM (something I might actually have), and one is an IDE interface card with a BIOS (hopefully bootable) and audio jacks on the back.

Great haul! Be sure to post in my Eagle II thread if you happen to test your card and find anything worth mentioning 😀

Predator99 wrote on 2021-02-13, 15:16:

Puh, long story but the parcel finally arrived :-) […]
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Puh, long story but the parcel finally arrived 😀

Sellers pic:
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My cards:
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Amazing grab! Did you test the SCC-1, is it working?

Predator99 wrote on 2021-02-13, 15:16:

Puh, long story but the parcel finally arrived :-) […]
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Puh, long story but the parcel finally arrived 😀

Sellers pic:
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My cards:
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definitely worth it ^^

got this nice box recently for a steal imho :3

yup, that's a new in box microsoft bus mouse including the ISA card, the box itself is a bit beat up, but the contents are pristine, the floppy folder is even still sealed :3

W.x. wrote on 2021-02-13, 21:44:

amadeus777999 wrote on 2021-02-12, 21:09:

I have two of these Geforce2Mx's(PCI) and have always been wondering why there's no heatsink.

Someone has taken down the heatsink, probably for other card. Another reason is, as in its time, it was famous for overclocking, they've put something bigger on it, that covered also memory. As geforce 2 MX most performance gain was through overclocking memory. Most of GF2MX gained 20-25% after overclocking in most favourites resolution in its time 1024x768x32.

I doubt these were user-modified overclocking cards... many many Geforce 2 MX cards were produced and sold without heatsinks. They could function fine this way and I have had at least a couple dozen like this in the last few years. For what it's worth, I have never come across an MX with an aftermarket heatsink.

MMaximus wrote on 2021-02-13, 23:38:

Predator99 wrote on 2021-02-13, 15:16:

Puh, long story but the parcel finally arrived :-) […]
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Puh, long story but the parcel finally arrived 😀

Sellers pic:
s-l1600 (1).jpg

My cards:
IMG_3967r.jpg

Amazing grab! Did you test the SCC-1, is it working?

Thanks! Yes, SCC-1 works and sounds fantastic! 😀

Got myself a 6800 Ultra AGP

@Ozzuneoj: I'm still new here so I can't send you a PM but thank you again the card works beautiful !

Bought a optocoupler midi cable.

This is surreal.... I never thought that I would get an Amiga1200 for the price of shipping plus what I then decide that it is worth. Right now it is stripped down and the board is hooked up, in order to let it sit idle for that fishy smell. If it needs a recap, then the price will be lowered. After the initial idling, then I will hook up more stuff. The case however, is not that beautifull. It is really yellowed.

There were no accelerator inside the machine, however there are the original 120mb Conner drive, and I hope it works. Else there are always CF cards. Kickstart are 3.0 (need to buy 3.1.4 anyway) and the board revision is 1D.1 and is cosmetically in excellent shape.

Have you tried powering the Amiga on yet? Will be interesting to see if it's working or not. Definitely replace the HDD with a larger CF card, then you can use WHDLoad to load all your games and not have to rely on Floppy Disks or Gotek. I went with a 16GB CF card for mine.

Regarding Kickstart, I still have 3.0 in my Amiga 1200 and I've not had any issues with it. So far it does everything I need it to.

Bought another "scrap" motherboard from Russia. This time a Forex 386DX. Looks to have a cracked 74-series IC between ISA slots, some small battery leakage and a couple of missing pins in the first ISA slot. I have all the parts needed so thought it would be worth a try.

Again it was almost peanuts. Inc shipping about £20 with the 128k of cache and soldered DX40..

I just received some of those green Nvidia P50 that are Quadros DCC cards based on a Geforce 3. It has a shiny green color.
Are the driver recommendation from here is still up to date? Re: Quadro DCC - Some drivers will not work?

PTherapist wrote on 2021-02-15, 18:29:

Have you tried powering the Amiga on yet? Will be interesting to see if it's working or not. Definitely replace the HDD with a larger CF card, then you can use WHDLoad to load all your games and not have to rely on Floppy Disks or Gotek. I went with a 16GB CF card for mine.

Regarding Kickstart, I still have 3.0 in my Amiga 1200 and I've not had any issues with it. So far it does everything I need it to.

Yup, it has been powered on. The floppy drive is completely dead, spinning violently and making strange noises. I will have to take a closer look on it.
Though I am in luck as I have a couple of loose drives ready. So far I have cleaned it up and are in the process of soaking the keycaps in soap water.

Once it is all ready to be tested in dept, then I will do it. As of now it is back in a cleaned bottom shell with the shield.
Speaking of. Then I have cleaned rust stains off the shield, using vinagre and finally sealing the spots off.
Also, a small pecentage of the yellow were actually orange. And yes, it is bromide yellow as well as it had a layer of nicotine on top.
The nicotine cleaned off in no time, yet the bromide yellow need retrobright if I want to. Personally I will go for a new case.

EDIT:
Regarding the kickstart and all that. Then I have plans with this machine. In time it will get some serious upgrades.
I am thinking about scandoubler, accelerator and all that. I have had better experiences with microdrives, than I have had with CF or SD
cards in my Amiga600. Those microdrives transfer faster than CF cards.

quickly testing out some stuff with my new hardware photography setup for cataloging my collection, lighting etc. isn't finished yet though ^^ and still need to decide on lenses etc.

got this Mozart WaveTable card with OPL4

and someone was selling a bunch of "Adaptec SCSI" cards, one of them looked kinda different, decided to take that one ^^

Nice setup! What kind of base/table is that?

it's a cheap (well at least one of the cheapest I found ^^) hama copy/repro stand I snapped up on ebay, basically a stand specifically made for photography like this, the only downside with this one is that it isn't quite tall enough to cover a larger motherboard with a comfortable longer focal length.

like I said I still have to work out lighting and change the background, the lines are nice for working out the placement and all but the structure of the table eats up file size quite a bit ^^
there were two adjustable lights included but one of them has a broken mount that needs repair (hence why it was cheaper) but I wanna swap those out with LED panels anyways.

my goal is to basically have a static setup for the least effort post-processing the images, I basically just wanna snap a pic of each board, card etc. and use it as is out of camera ^^

brostenen wrote on 2021-02-15, 15:38:

This is surreal.... I never thought that I would get an Amiga1200 for the price of shipping plus what I then decide that it is w […]
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This is surreal.... I never thought that I would get an Amiga1200 for the price of shipping plus what I then decide that it is worth. Right now it is stripped down and the board is hooked up, in order to let it sit idle for that fishy smell. If it needs a recap, then the price will be lowered. After the initial idling, then I will hook up more stuff. The case however, is not that beautifull. It is really yellowed.

There were no accelerator inside the machine, however there are the original 120mb Conner drive, and I hope it works. Else there are always CF cards. Kickstart are 3.0 (need to buy 3.1.4 anyway) and the board revision is 1D.1 and is cosmetically in excellent shape.

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Every A1200 needs recap. Board in original shape is a timebomb.

Done testing the 1200. There are some issues, that need to be fixed. First it gives a slight smell of fish from one capacitor, so it needs a full recap.

Other stuff that needs to be fixed, are a new membrane and a new floppy drive. Else it is in perfect shape. Cosmetically it needs a new case.
I have mailed the seller an offer, because he wanted me to test it and see what kind of issues it has. Also, it was just sitting in a closet doing nothing,
and he would rather have someone take it over in order for it to be looked after.

Wolfus wrote on 2021-02-15, 21:27:

brostenen wrote on 2021-02-15, 15:38:

This is surreal.... I never thought that I would get an Amiga1200 for the price of shipping plus what I then decide that it is w […]
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This is surreal.... I never thought that I would get an Amiga1200 for the price of shipping plus what I then decide that it is worth. Right now it is stripped down and the board is hooked up, in order to let it sit idle for that fishy smell. If it needs a recap, then the price will be lowered. After the initial idling, then I will hook up more stuff. The case however, is not that beautifull. It is really yellowed.

There were no accelerator inside the machine, however there are the original 120mb Conner drive, and I hope it works. Else there are always CF cards. Kickstart are 3.0 (need to buy 3.1.4 anyway) and the board revision is 1D.1 and is cosmetically in excellent shape.

IMG_20210215_162359435.jpg
IMG_20210215_162350334.jpg

Every A1200 needs recap. Board in original shape is a timebomb.

Yup. I know.... 😉

Needed a new CD-Rom unit in my Pentium 75 rig to reinstall Windows 95, after crashing it with a driver installation.
PS. Anyone knows how could I remove the 52x marking on it? Please PM me. Thanks.

Inspired by a recent Phil video, I thought I'd try using a G41 motherboard to build a Windows 98 box with PCIe. He also showed that you could use the X800 driver with a Fire GL, so I picked one of those up for a pretty reasonable price. But the seller shipped it in bubble wrap with no anti static bag (!) and sure enough, it barely has a display. Why do people do things like that?