meljor wrote:

Bought a Leadtek Winfast A350 (Very nice fx5900 non-ultra card, completely wrapped in an alu cooler, great looks!)

That is one gorgeous looking video card! Especially from a time when video cards were butt ugly at the best of times.

Not really retro.. but got a deal on a pair of these to go with my recently purchased Asus A8n32-SLI Deluxe motherboard. Pair of EVGA GTX-260 SuperClocked cards. Buyer accepted my offer of $50 for both with free shipping.

Probably ludicrously overkill for an AMD 939 system. But hey whatever, they're great cards and I couldn't pass it up for $50. 1 Original owner and came with SLI bridge connection and everything.

dexter311 wrote:

nekurahoka wrote:

Bought an Audigy 2zs for my in-progress DirectX 9 build. Pictures indicate it is a platinum even though it wasn't advertised as such. Great buy and I can't wait to try it out.

Funny that... I just won an eBay auction for the same thing! Mine is the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum with the PCI card, drive bay front panel and cables, and will be going in my dual P3 build (black case).

It'll go nicely with my SB Live Platinum that I have in my single P3 build (white case)!

Great choice for a dual p3 build. You should be able to run a wide range of games with it.

nekurahoka wrote:

Bought an Audigy 2zs for my in-progress DirectX 9 build. Pictures indicate it is a platinum even though it wasn't advertised as such. Great buy and I can't wait to try it out.

There is no difference between the ZS and ZS Platinum aside from bundled accessories - the ZS Platinum included the front-bay, a remote control (which isn't great), and a lot of additional software (two games, some cut-down versions of pro audio software, etc). The drivers will detect "ZS Platinum" based on the ribbon cable to the front-bay being installed, otherwise the card will just show up as a ZS. There is no difference, functionally, between the two aside from the drivers not showing all of the various duplicate/extra I/O ports and not asking to install the remote control software. Creative also used to sell the front-bay as an upgrade kit for ~$80 back in the day. If you don't need the extra I/O ports on the bay (it offers nothing the normal ZS cannot do), the bay is worthless. So if you're just plugging into the rear ports on the card, it's the same no matter what, and I'd probably skip the bay because it requires extra power (4-pin Berg connector), and the big ugly ribbon (which has a special pin-out, but if you have a non-keyed IDE cable you can make it work if you take your time to line it up right).

Boxed Canopus Spectra 3200 (TNT1 16MB with SGRAM)

This should support Voodoo2 Witchdoctor with Canopus Pure II, so last chance to get my Canopus Voodoo2 card working 😉

obobskivich wrote:

There is no difference between the ZS and ZS Platinum aside from bundled accessories - the ZS Platinum included the front-bay, a remote control (which isn't great), and a lot of additional software (two games, some cut-down versions of pro audio software, etc).

This is true. The only reason I wanted the Platinum (with it's front drive bay panel) was to have the front drive bay panel to match my second build with the SB Live! Platinum drive bay in the front. I will use the MIDI Out and Headphones sockets, but that's about it. It'll be purely for retro cred, and to fill up my drive bays with something interesting. 😎

dave343 wrote:

Notice anything with this SB CT2940 I got...? :happy: […]
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Notice anything with this SB CT2940 I got...? 😀

Yes. The crystal oscillator for the OPL3 chip has apparently broken off. 😵

dexter311 wrote:

meljor wrote:

Bought a Leadtek Winfast A350 (Very nice fx5900 non-ultra card, completely wrapped in an alu cooler, great looks!)

That is one gorgeous looking video card! Especially from a time when video cards were butt ugly at the best of times.

I thought so too! Funny thing is i knew about the winfast A200 series and assumed the card was a Geforce 4. After googling it i found out it was a fx5900! Nice to have a smartphone at a fleamarket, otherwise i might have left it since i have several geforce 4 (mx and ti) cards. 🤣

Game Commander electronic joystick switch, this one is powered from the joystick port.

I must wonder, is there anyone who hasn't had a Gravis Gamepad at one point? I've never known someone who hasn't.

I got a Gateway 2000 desktop, and it's a baby compared to my big one. 🤣

Pictures here: https://twitter.com/ReeseRiverson/status/547101922516533248

compgeke wrote:

I must wonder, is there anyone who hasn't had a Gravis Gamepad at one point? I've never known someone who hasn't.

Only the very unlucky 😀

Me, I'm too young to have had one (don't know for certain if I've had any Gameport-era device bar one joystick...)

badmojo wrote:

compgeke wrote:

I must wonder, is there anyone who hasn't had a Gravis Gamepad at one point? I've never known someone who hasn't.

Only the very unlucky 😀

I still have both those very controllers, AFAIK! 😁

I didn't have one back in the day, but I did have a Logitech Wingman Extreme joystick, which I mainly used for playing Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance. Of course, I no longer have the Wingman, but I did eventually find a Gravis Gamepad at the local Goodwill. Perfect for games like Mega Man X. 😎

compgeke wrote:

I must wonder, is there anyone who hasn't had a Gravis Gamepad at one point? I've never known someone who hasn't.

I'm one of those unlucky ones. My gamepad was an original PSX controller wired up to a hacked parallel port adapter. Worked perfectly, was a fun project when I was a kid.

obobskivich wrote:

nekurahoka wrote:

Bought an Audigy 2zs for my in-progress DirectX 9 build. Pictures indicate it is a platinum even though it wasn't advertised as such. Great buy and I can't wait to try it out.

There is no difference between the ZS and ZS Platinum aside from bundled accessories - the ZS Platinum included the front-bay, a remote control (which isn't great), and a lot of additional software (two games, some cut-down versions of pro audio software, etc). The drivers will detect "ZS Platinum" based on the ribbon cable to the front-bay being installed, otherwise the card will just show up as a ZS. There is no difference, functionally, between the two aside from the drivers not showing all of the various duplicate/extra I/O ports and not asking to install the remote control software. Creative also used to sell the front-bay as an upgrade kit for ~$80 back in the day. If you don't need the extra I/O ports on the bay (it offers nothing the normal ZS cannot do), the bay is worthless. So if you're just plugging into the rear ports on the card, it's the same no matter what, and I'd probably skip the bay because it requires extra power (4-pin Berg connector), and the big ugly ribbon (which has a special pin-out, but if you have a non-keyed IDE cable you can make it work if you take your time to line it up right).

Ah sweet. I thought the gold connectors indicated a platinum vs a regular 2zs. I was behind the times for sound cards at the time the audigy hardware was the standard. I ran a SB PCI512 for most of the 2000s.

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compgeke wrote:

I must wonder, is there anyone who hasn't had a Gravis Gamepad at one point? I've never known someone who hasn't.

I never had one. But got it when I bought an Amiga 1200. It has Atari joystick connector.

compgeke wrote:

I must wonder, is there anyone who hasn't had a Gravis Gamepad at one point? I've never known someone who hasn't.

Me. I got my first joystick two years ago 😀

edit: that's my 1000th post 😎