I picked up a Psion 5MX the other day and have been having fun playing Sim City on it 😀 Took quite a bit of effort to find a CF card that worked in it though!
Oh and also, it plays Doom 😁 https://twitter.com/stevec00ps/status/1400095913692086274
That's awesome. I love those old palmtops. I have a HP jornada 728 somewhere
PTherapist wrote on 2021-06-04, 20:11:All in all, I'm quite happy with the newest addition to my collection. 😎 Just testing the waters at the moment, going to be loading games from .cas tape images before getting 1 of the addon cartridges later in the year (probably the MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD). I may even consider an MSX2 or MSX2+ in the future.
The MSX is a great little machine. In 2+ guise it is genuinely shocking at what it can pull off in terms of gaming.
If you intend to invest in the MSX scene, then my recommendation for the best, all-round expansion is the MegaFlashROM SCC+ available from: https://www.msxcartridgeshop.com/
Hard drive and floppy emulation, memory expansion and Konami sound cart emulation all in one.
My collection database and technical wiki:
https://www.target-earth.net
Got last week this ...
a) a SPI-300G AT Power Supply (NOS, working)
b) a PCChips A101 Mainboard with Memory and a Pentium 166 MMX (working)
(was sold as a 233 MMX but it came rather cheap and the seller gave me a discount and so that's fine with me.
Probably will sell it on cause I don't need another mobo+Cpu of this type)
Anyone in Europe with a spare Mobo + 233 MMX? 😉
Building my own PCs since 1991 - for my retro builds it's "no CF-disks, no Floppy emulators, no modern cases etc.", only the real and authentic stuff whenever possible/sensible/affordable.
@ildonaldo, i do have some working socket 7 motherboards and some pentiums (up to mmx 200) laying around in Estonia, waiting to be assembled into some AT cases. (I have desperate shortage of AT cases) But i'm always willing to find a good new owners for those as components as well. 😀
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - And i intend to get every last bit out of it even after loading every damn driver!
GigAHerZ wrote on 2021-06-07, 14:55:I have desperate shortage of AT cases
Who has not, at least here at vogons 😉
GigAHerZ wrote on 2021-06-07, 14:55:i do have some working socket 7 motherboards and some pentiums (up to mmx 200)
Sorry, I am looking only for a MMX 233 to bring out the best of my Matrox m3d machine.
But anyway thanks for your offer, you won't happen to have a 486DLC 40 in your pool?
I am desperatly looking for this cause that was my second or third PC (after a VC20/C64/ST1024/8088/386DX40)
Building my own PCs since 1991 - for my retro builds it's "no CF-disks, no Floppy emulators, no modern cases etc.", only the real and authentic stuff whenever possible/sensible/affordable.
ildonaldo wrote on 2021-06-07, 15:05:But anyway thanks for your offer, you won't happen to have a 486DLC 40 in your pool?
I am desperatly looking for this cause that was my second or third PC (after a VC20/C64/ST1024/8088/386DX40)
I do have one, but i'm not willing to let go of it. 😀
I have one set of 486DLC + FPU from cyrix.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - And i intend to get every last bit out of it even after loading every damn driver!
GigAHerZ wrote on 2021-06-07, 15:30:I do have one, but i'm not willing to let go of it. 😀
Hells blazes ... 😉
Building my own PCs since 1991 - for my retro builds it's "no CF-disks, no Floppy emulators, no modern cases etc.", only the real and authentic stuff whenever possible/sensible/affordable.
megatron-uk wrote on 2021-06-07, 14:13:The MSX is a great little machine. In 2+ guise it is genuinely shocking at what it can pull off in terms of gaming. […]
PTherapist wrote on 2021-06-04, 20:11:All in all, I'm quite happy with the newest addition to my collection. 😎 Just testing the waters at the moment, going to be loading games from .cas tape images before getting 1 of the addon cartridges later in the year (probably the MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD). I may even consider an MSX2 or MSX2+ in the future.
The MSX is a great little machine. In 2+ guise it is genuinely shocking at what it can pull off in terms of gaming.
If you intend to invest in the MSX scene, then my recommendation for the best, all-round expansion is the MegaFlashROM SCC+ available from: https://www.msxcartridgeshop.com/
Hard drive and floppy emulation, memory expansion and Konami sound cart emulation all in one.
I'm definitely tempted by the MegaFlashROM SCC+, will probably consider one of those either later this year or at some point next year. For the meantime I've ordered a pre-built CASDuino to load .cas files and until that arrives I'm just converting select games to .wav and loading from my PC.
Some purchases
Nice score today on “marktplaats”.
Two SC-155’s.
One took a fall and the display only worked half (and it’s missing it’s bezel) but I managed to fix the zebra strip and it’s fully functional again!
MIDI comparison website: << Wavetable.nl >>
(Always) looking for: Any Wavetable daughterboard, MIDI Module (GM/GS/XG)
Salient wrote on 2021-06-07, 18:57:Nice score today on “marktplaats”.
Two SC-155’s.One took a fall and the display only worked half (and it’s missing it’s bezel) but I managed to fix the zebra strip and it’s fully functional again!
Nice score with the two 155's and excellent work fixing the broken one.
dataino.it wrote on 2021-06-07, 18:33:Some purchases
I gots an Aopen AX6... most boring Slot 1 board ever. Just runs. Not remarkably fast, not remarkably slow, supports what it says it supports. If you put a water cooling system on it, it would turn the coolant into chamomile tea.
2017: Basement full of ancient PC stuff, starting to go through it. 2021: Still starting, heh, many setbacks. So what's this BitWrangler guy's deal ??? >>> Taming the pile, specs to target?
BitWrangler wrote on 2021-06-07, 20:54:dataino.it wrote on 2021-06-07, 18:33:Some purchases
I gots an Aopen AX6... most boring Slot 1 board ever. Just runs. Not remarkably fast, not remarkably slow, supports what it says it supports. If you put a water cooling system on it, it would turn the coolant into chamomile tea.
Lol. We need more of this......^^^^
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
BitWrangler wrote on 2021-06-07, 20:54:dataino.it wrote on 2021-06-07, 18:33:Some purchases
I gots an Aopen AX6... most boring Slot 1 board ever. Just runs. Not remarkably fast, not remarkably slow, supports what it says it supports. If you put a water cooling system on it, it would turn the coolant into chamomile tea.
It's my card then !! I don't like slow things or fast things. I would prefer it to transform the coolant into Beer but who knows ...with the right tuning can be ,( Chamomile does not make me sleep).
mhh stuff :3
iomega clik! drives, and a nice NEC cd-rom
two nos IBM PS/2 mice
fully boxed Yamaha SW1000XG and XGworks software
CH Mach I and some other goodies
nice Aztech card with ICS WaveFront and an ALS100 with CS9233 wavetable
> Yamaha SW1000XG
Is this a very good card considering PCI?
> ALS100 with CS9233 wavetable
Never once heard of that, cool.
it's in essence a MU100 sound module on a PCI card, it's more of a workstation card, but you can just use it like an external MIDI module in another PC and feed MIDI into it if you feel like it.
SYBA IDE adapter and TRANSCEND 2gb CF..... as seen on LGR and PhilsCompterLab.
Pentium 200/ Biostar M5ATA / 2 x 32mb EDO / Seagate 3.2gb 5400rpm / Diamond Stealth3D 2000 4mb / SB16 CT2980 / 40x cdrom / 3.5'' Floppy / Solar Power 250w / Win95c
Bought some parts for my retro portable consoles: shells, displays, buttons, membranes, and parts for my DMG-01 and GameBoy Color systems (well, modern items for retro consoles). The DS Lite is considered modern in this day and age.
Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to FX-8350
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser
