A yearly fleamarket I go to, not an internal card to be seen this year, there's usually at least a modem or NIC kicking around in ISA or PCI flavors. However scored some bits and pieces to help out, and a full system from 1982...

... A Timex Sinclair 1000, BASICly a ZX-81 with the RAM doubled to a whole 2kB.. boxed, but no paperwork, looks very little used, still smells kinda new. Gotta get my 3D Monster Maze on.

Then I guess the actual retro bits in the rest are really just the Slot 1 cooler, which is a help when I've got 2 functioning ones for 5 CPU and an ATI GPU cooler for spare. Nice fat fat fan there, might go on a ridiculous K6-3+ build. Corsair 750W PSU, real heavy that one. 744W available on single 12V rail, that oughta fry something real good. Been a 21st century PSU down since Jan so, noice. USB 2.0 PC Card, VGA2USB, I was thinking that was gonna be a crappy slow usb VGA card, but no it's actual USB VGA capture, which will be interesting to get caps from DOS stuff with no screenshotting. Another USB-IDE adapter, maybe this one will work right since it's a "brand" though Vantec is a'ight but not stellar. Then some "toy" oscilloscope, only 1 MSPS, ~200khz nominal. Mayyyyy be useful for a handful of things... started wondering if I could maybe build a floppy drive alignment rig with it.

Then unpictured, some generic stuff like a DB25 shell, odds and ends of connectors, a couple of 1 whole Farad capacitors, wondering about using for a NVRAM card, and a more retro than most stuff piece, a 70s Scout/Camp knife by Colonial, which should be a nice usable pocket knife.

Couple of recent pickups!

ATI RV670 Pro - GeCube HD3850 (256-bit) 512MB AGP (Boxed) (2008)

ATI R350 - Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis Ultimate Edition 256MB AGP (256-bit) (NOB) (2003)

Creative CT1350A (Sound Blaster 2.0) (049151) (Boxed) ISA (1991) (Early Rev!)

Turtle Beach Multisound Pinnacle ISA (Kurzweil MA-1) w-Kurzweil HOMAC daughterboard (Boxed) (1996)

3DFX Voodoo Banshee - ATrend Helios3D Banshee 16MB AGP (Boxed) (1998)

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Couple of recent pickups!

ATI RV670 Pro - GeCube HD3850 (256-bit) 512MB AGP (Boxed) (2008)

ATI R350 - Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis Ultimate Edition 256MB AGP (256-bit) (NOB) (2003)

Creative CT1350A (Sound Blaster 2.0) (049151) (Boxed) ISA (1991) (Early Rev!)

Turtle Beach Multisound Pinnacle ISA (Kurzweil MA-1) w-Kurzweil HOMAC daughterboard (Boxed) (1996)

3DFX Voodoo Banshee - ATrend Helios3D Banshee 16MB AGP (Boxed) (1998)

Nice collection, especially that Turtle Beach sound card and the Helios3D.

It’s hard to believe that something like this is getting to be retro, but I definitely bought it for a retro project. I ordered this Sound Blaster Audigy Rx (SB1550) from eBay for $30 shipped listed as “untested” (seller’s photo). I didn’t see any physical damage from the closeup pictures, so I decided to roll the dice that the seller didn’t have the time to bother testing the card.

I have a dilemma on my i7-9700k/Z370 retro rocket and Windows 2000. Windows 2000 can’t enumerate all of the PCIE-to-PCI bridges on the motherboard in MPS mode, so Windows 2000 drivers can’t see / interface the Sound Blaster Audigy I put into the board’s lone PCI slot. The X-Fi Titanium I have installed in the system for newer operating systems doesn’t have drivers for Windows 2000. I had to resort to using the motherboard's built-in Realtek ALC1220 codec with Windows 2000, but that is sub-optimal since I got into EAX game support recently. I wanted an audio solution for this machine with full EAX support (either PCIE or USB).

I did some research, and I found out that the Audigy Rx is just an Audigy 4 processor behind a PCIE-to-PCI bridge chip. This should allow me to use Audigy 4 drivers for Windows 2000 with the Rx card as long as Windows 2000 can enumerate the card’s PCIE-to-PCI bridge.

I also like that this card will come with the original box and documentation. I don’t need them, but that stuff is always nice to have.

I received my "new" CGA card a few days ago. I studied the schematics a bit beforehand, and on the card I located the pins that are supposed to carry a composite video signal.
I'll see when I run the tests. I'll use the oscilloscope to verify this, and then I'll connect the signal to a TV.
If it's successful, I'll see if I have a bracket that works for it and already has a hole for the composite video connector. If not, I'll have to drill one.