Picked up a KATT Games Master Keyboard (circa 1993). A fairly rare & unknown MS-DOS gaming keyboard.

eesz34 wrote on 2022-07-24, 00:54:

Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-07-23, 22:15:

Not very retro, but old enough to get a good deal: a full FX 6100 system minus any hard drives for $25.00. The seller even had the spare cables for the power supply, and the power supply alone was worth the price. Sixteen gigabytes of DDR3 1600, a USB 3 card, a Syba SATA card (he had lots of drives), lots of SATA cables, a pair of HD6670 one gig DDR3 video cards, and everything works.

Looks fully worth $25 bucks to me. You don't get much these days for that amount.

I forgot to mention that it also has a Windows 7 Pro COA on the case. That power supply is more powerful than the Corsair CX 750M that I have in my main system, a Ryzen 7 3700.

Awesome deal for $25... really odd seeming config though, someone must have told them they needed 850W for two GPU, but HD6670s would run two to a 500W .. and I can only guess it was for only moderately heavy graphical work with multi monitors or something, doesn't really say "ideal gaming spec" of any year, even budget. Unless the HD6670 was a placeholder in the first place, then another one came up cheap and they thought "May as well see what 2 will do" and never got round to a "serious" crossfire setup.

edit: or maybe upt until the GPU crazy began in 2020, it did have two GPU needing near 850W, and owner cashed in and stuffed the HD6670s in then.

liqmat wrote on 2022-07-24, 01:20:

Picked up this wacky thing NIB. A fairly rare & unknown MS-DOS era gaming keyboard. […]
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Picked up this wacky thing NIB. A fairly rare & unknown MS-DOS era gaming keyboard.

Click my sig to see more about it on my channel.

Now that's a keyboard.

Bought my dream Sega console: the CDX. It'll get an OEM power brick and I'll need to fabricate an A/V cable for it so I can connect the CDX to my PVMs via RGB (that and if I get a 32X as well).

BitWrangler wrote on 2022-07-24, 01:43:

Awesome deal for $25... really odd seeming config though, someone must have told them they needed 850W for two GPU, but HD6670s would run two to a 500W .. and I can only guess it was for only moderately heavy graphical work with multi monitors or something, doesn't really say "ideal gaming spec" of any year, even budget. Unless the HD6670 was a placeholder in the first place, then another one came up cheap and they thought "May as well see what 2 will do" and never got round to a "serious" crossfire setup.

edit: or maybe upt until the GPU crazy began in 2020, it did have two GPU needing near 850W, and owner cashed in and stuffed the HD6670s in then.

It has a badge from this company so I guess it started as a prebuilt, then the customer added the Syba SATA card and the USB 3 card (who knows with the video cards). The guy I bought it from had a moderately nice home in Novato that's surely worth an awe inspiring amount of money.

https://www.cybertron.com/

bjwil1991 wrote on 2022-07-24, 05:32:

liqmat wrote on 2022-07-24, 01:20:

Picked up this wacky thing NIB. A fairly rare & unknown MS-DOS era gaming keyboard. […]
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Picked up this wacky thing NIB. A fairly rare & unknown MS-DOS era gaming keyboard.

Click my sig to see more about it on my channel.

Now that's a keyboard.

I thank you in the video. That Diamond Speedstar VGA you sold me made all the difference on that PC Partner VP DX2-66. Everything ran smoothly from there even without the cache. I will eventually find some cache that works, but I'm in no rush.

Sony TFM-7250W transistor radio

It was pretty grimey on the outside but nothing a little elbow grease can't fix. Looks a lot better now.

Still need to open it up for inspection, and de-oxit the knobs etc but it works pretty well as-is! The red LED lights up when it's tuned so that is pretty nifty

drosse1meyer wrote on 2022-07-24, 17:00:

Sony TFM-7250W transistor radio

It was pretty grimey on the outside but nothing a little elbow grease can't fix. Looks a lot better now.

Still need to open it up for inspection, and de-oxit the knobs etc but it works pretty well as-is! The red LED lights up when it's tuned so that is pretty nifty

Ten year old me would have loved to have had that. That's also the sort of radio my friend's father would listen to (tuned to the local AM country radio station) while he worked on projects out in the garage.

Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-07-24, 17:43:

drosse1meyer wrote on 2022-07-24, 17:00:

Sony TFM-7250W transistor radio

It was pretty grimey on the outside but nothing a little elbow grease can't fix. Looks a lot better now.

Still need to open it up for inspection, and de-oxit the knobs etc but it works pretty well as-is! The red LED lights up when it's tuned so that is pretty nifty

Ten year old me would have loved to have had that. That's also the sort of radio my friend's father would listen to (tuned to the local AM country radio station) while he worked on projects out in the garage.

That's cool. I wish I still had my grandfathers garage radio.

To me, it's always satisfying and practical to fill a need in a simple and relatively unique way, it's just a radio that is good for the kitchen or wherever but there is something to be said the 'patina' and classic Sony design, versus buying some crap chinese item on amazon.... And analog tuning is nice too haha

Thinking about his one...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175354859539

Almost at the precipice!

Meatball wrote on 2022-07-23, 20:59:

Rounding up the lot is my new favorite 2D card - Trident ProVidia 9685 w/2MB VRAM expansion (4MB total) & video-out modules.

I think it's the first time I've seen anyone praise a Trident. What's so special about this model?

devius wrote on 2022-07-24, 20:15:

Meatball wrote on 2022-07-23, 20:59:

Rounding up the lot is my new favorite 2D card - Trident ProVidia 9685 w/2MB VRAM expansion (4MB total) & video-out modules.

I think it's the first time I've seen anyone praise a Trident. What's so special about this model?

Nothing special - it performs well, looks good, and just works without a fuss in the games I play on a CRT (no problems with Commander Keen, Terminator Future Shock/SkyNET, Quake, Doom, and others).

Plus, I love cards having expansion options; the Trident ProVidia 9685 is perfect for a 1996 period correct build.

Finally got the MSI BX Master again, had this back in 2000 running the celeron 633@950 and the Abit BH-6, both nice bx motherboards. MSI is in bad need for new caps, most seem bulged.

Meatball wrote on 2022-07-24, 20:57:

devius wrote on 2022-07-24, 20:15:

Meatball wrote on 2022-07-23, 20:59:

Rounding up the lot is my new favorite 2D card - Trident ProVidia 9685 w/2MB VRAM expansion (4MB total) & video-out modules.

I think it's the first time I've seen anyone praise a Trident. What's so special about this model?

Nothing special - it performs well, looks good, and just works without a fuss in the games I play on a CRT (no problems with Commander Keen, Terminator Future Shock/SkyNET, Quake, Doom, and others).

Plus, I love cards having expansion options; the Trident ProVidia 9685 is perfect for a 1996 period correct build.

Yea this is actually my old go-to vid card for basic troubleshooting that will work in basically every build. I never did a benchmarks but runs DOS games fine, except I believe it lacks VESA 2

I also have one with a daughterboard for extra RAM, 4 MB total

Jccwu wrote on 2022-07-20, 18:45:

SIMM 128Mb FPM Module
it's crazy

What in the actual fuck.. 🤣

appiah4 wrote on 2022-07-25, 14:28:

Jccwu wrote on 2022-07-20, 18:45:

SIMM 128Mb FPM Module
it's crazy

What in the actual fuck.. 🤣

Its certainly large and girthy .. need an equally roomy case to accommodate it.

drosse1meyer wrote on 2022-07-25, 13:58:

Meatball wrote on 2022-07-24, 20:57:

devius wrote on 2022-07-24, 20:15:

I think it's the first time I've seen anyone praise a Trident. What's so special about this model?

Nothing special - it performs well, looks good, and just works without a fuss in the games I play on a CRT (no problems with Commander Keen, Terminator Future Shock/SkyNET, Quake, Doom, and others).

Plus, I love cards having expansion options; the Trident ProVidia 9685 is perfect for a 1996 period correct build.

Yea this is actually my old go-to vid card for basic troubleshooting that will work in basically every build. I never did a benchmarks but runs DOS games fine, except I believe it lacks VESA 2

I also have one with a daughterboard for extra RAM, 4 MB total

VESA 1.2, according to Gona.

"Can it run Terminator Future Shock/SkyNET in 640x480 resolution?" without any tinkering of any kind is my primary test for DOS compatibility. If it can't, it's not a card I use for DOS purposes. In the case of the Trident ProVidia 9685 (which is another card I like the name, so I keep typing it out, heh), it's a resounding "YES."

sirotkaslo wrote on 2022-07-25, 05:53:

Finally got the MSI BX Master again, had this back in 2000 running the celeron 633@950 and the Abit BH-6, both nice bx motherboards. MSI is in bad need for new caps, most seem bulged.

What's the difference between a BH6 and a BX6R2? It looks like 1 RAM slot?

Picked up a new in the box LS-120 Drive w/a box of new disks, a Radeon 7000 32MB DDR, and the Quake3t0theMax Grand Prize has arrived (Voodoo3 3000)! I'm confident any machine I can install this card into will be unstoppable!

Thank you, Necrodude!