For complicated reasons, I have a bunch of stuff in storage ... about 5000 km away from where I live. I had the opportunity to go through it recently and shipped myself some things (mostly music gear.) I thought you guys would enjoy these...

First up, a sound card and a video card:

I mentioned I had an ATI Stereo F/X CD in the "rare sound cards" thread. Well, I found it! Hopefully it still works. 😀 This was the very first sound card my family got for our 386/16 when I was a kid, not a bad card and it blew all of us away because all we'd known until then was the PC-speaker.

I have a 386 I'm sort-of fixing up right now so I think I have an appropriate home for it. 😎

The video card isn't particularly useful to me at the moment but it was already packed in with the sound card, and I noticed it had a DB15 Mac connector as well as VGA so it piqued my interest. Anyone want to ID it for me?

Secondly:

Holy crap, how did I forget I had this?! Well I guess I sort-of vaguely knew it was there but it wasn't exactly on my mind, even since I got back into gaming a couple years ago. This was my first console believe it or not (bought used when the prices were in the toilet of course.) I have the box for it too but I didn't ship it yet, it seemed to have a Sega Saturn packed in it (WTF when did I even get that??)

Does it work? Of course it does!

...and those are some of the best games for it too. This is my favorite port of Flashback on any system, the cutscenes are in nice 3D-rendered FMV and the sound is much improved.

That's it for now! I need to clear out that storage room entirely sometime soon so more will come eventually. Hopefully some more nice surprises. 😁