Trank wrote:

Went back to see what else i could get my hands on. Im glad i went back, here is a Hercules Stingray 128 Voodoo Rush.

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I believe this card is fairly rare? Not to mention it still has the manual, and driver CD.

The voodoo Rush is more rare than most other mass produced 3DFX cards but isn't popular due to the poor performance of the 2D Chip used. There are two main versions and the one you got is more common better performing version, the much more rare MX versions are noticeably worse outside of 3D. All in all you get worse 2D performance than traditional Voodoo 1 setups and the 3D side is 10% slower.

Yeah i remember hearing about its slow performance.

Allmost finished installing Os2-Warp-4 + BeOS-5 + Win2K on my Compaq Deskpro Pentium-III.
Started by installing Warp without the bootmanager, then installed BeOS with the bootmanager.
During the BeOS installation, I made the apprpriate BeOS and Win2k partitions, formatting only
BeOS and finishing it off by installing the BeOS bootmanager on the MBR.
To install Win2K I choose it, and it reported no OS. When doing this I made the Win2K partition
active, and it was then only a matter of inserting a Win98 bootfloppy and then formatting c:
I know Win2K will remove the bootmanager by creating a new MBR. I will reinstall BeOS and
it's bootmanager one time more. After Windows are installed.

I tried to run the teapot demo in BeOS. This without the drivers for my Diamond Viper V550 installed.
Or any other drivers for that matter. It gave my roughly 160 to 180 FPS. Not bad for BeOS.

Setting up this baby right now.

http://i.imgur.com/bHfSGBc.jpg

Finished off my Compaq PIII tripple boot. As it turned out, BeOS bootmanager does not hide other primaery partitions.
I don't know what it does, it just makes Windows think that HPFS is the same as NTFS and what is placed before is C:
Wich resulted in Win2K thinking that it was installed on the D-Drive. I tried to run Extended Fdisk on the harddrive.
Wich then resulted in write error's. In the end, I replaced the Maxtor 40 gb drive, with an Seagate 16 gb drive.
After that it was a breeze installing every OS on each own Primaery partition.

Had some sparetime left today, so I fixed up an old HP Vectra VE Series 7. Slot-1 440ZX Chipset.
I installed an Celeron 300, 256mb Ram and a 30GB drive. SB16 (ISA + OPL-Chip) and a Rage-3D-Pro-II PCI.
Installed Win98se, drivers, Doom1 and Duke3D on to it, and placed it up for sale on an online trading place.
I simply can not have that many cases, and I have no use for it anyway. And I do not use 440ZX boards.

Testing the SBC which I bought about a month ago but didn't have time to test until today. It's alive!

All the ISA and PCI slots anyone would ever want...

Does drinking this count as a retro activity? 🤣

As a more serious retro activity, I recorded a video showing how I made my own homemade dialup internet server for my 486 rebuild and other vintage computers that lack a network connection. I need to edit it down before posting it on YouTube though, because it's quite long-winded and rambly currently. That, or actually script it out and re-record it in a more professional manner.

torindkflt wrote:

Does drinking this count as a retro activity? 🤣

CrystalPepsi.jpg

It doesn't count unless at the same time you go all Paul Bunyan on a tree with an axe.

Or unless you follow that Crystal Pepsi with a bottle of New Coke.

Must be a Horror to populate them and adress the irq, adress conflicts =)

Crystal Pepsi ? 😳

matze79 wrote:

Must be a Horror to populate them and adress the irq, adress conflicts =)

Unless you populate them all. The PCI slots actually have 4 IRQs assigned to them, and in the BIOS you can fine-tune the IRQ and DMA assigned to each slot individually. That takes about 3 screens in BIOS setup. 😀

My goal for that one is a W98 plus Voodoo2-SLI. I need to fabricate a mouse connector, and a SLI cable from a floppy cable because I can't find my old one.

matze79 wrote:

Crystal Pepsi ? 😳

You could buy them all over the northern part of Germany in the 80's.

stamasd wrote:

torindkflt wrote:

Does drinking this count as a retro activity? 🤣

CrystalPepsi.jpg

It doesn't count unless at the same time you go all Paul Bunyan on a tree with an axe.

Unless you follow that Crystal Pepsi with a bottle of New Coke.

Tasted neighter of them.... We had this:
(these day's, they are named "Albino cola")

matze79 wrote:

Crystal Pepsi ? 😳

brostenen wrote:

You could buy them all over the northern part of Germany in the 80's.

For those outside the US or who are too young and don't know the story...Crystal Pepsi was released here in America back in 1992. It flopped big time. New Coke (Albeit under a different name) lasted longer than Crystal Pepsi, that's how badly it failed. Eventually, a bunch of people started doing "Bring Back Crystal Pepsi" letter-writing and advertising campaigns a few year ago, so Pepsi finally decided to bring it back for a limited time this year. It's a gimmick pretty much, because other than being clear there's nothing special about it. It is LITERALLY just clear Pepsi. No special flavors or anything, it tastes almost exactly like regular Pepsi...I'd say 98% the same. In all honesty, I don't see why it's gotten so much hate, because I quite enjoy it. 🤣

That takes me back to the days when you could find hidden messages on the Pepsi "Cool" cans.

So the last few days I've been considering whether it's worth it to buy a PC-98 system (that's NEC's Japanese PC-9801 and PC-9821 systems, not the Microsoft standard). Some of those systems are quite impressive when it comes to the sound cards included as standard (FM sound + MIDI).

Things that complicate everything:
- Although using i386/i486/i586 processors the architecture is completely different and requires special versions of MS-DOS and Windows, even the later systems that are more of a hybrid between regular PCs and PC-98. Of course they're in Japanese.
- Special video connectors that require a converter to attach to a VGA monitor. VGA monitor also needs to support a 24 kHz signal.
- System-specific keyboards.
- 100 V Japanese mains (but I have a 240/100 V converter for my Japanese Sega Saturn).
- Weight. 10-15 kg for the base case is normal. There's a few all-in-one systems with impressive specs that include a monitor, but those weigh close to 25-30 kg (i.e. the maximum that can be shipped out of Japan by conventional means).
- Finding a working system that includes a functional OS is difficult. Finding one that includes the original disks is more difficult.

Advantages:
- Cheap.
- Exotic.
- Games.

brostenen wrote:

Allmost finished installing Os2-Warp-4 + BeOS-5 + Win2K on my Compaq Deskpro Pentium-III. Started by installing Warp without the […]
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Allmost finished installing Os2-Warp-4 + BeOS-5 + Win2K on my Compaq Deskpro Pentium-III.
Started by installing Warp without the bootmanager, then installed BeOS with the bootmanager.
During the BeOS installation, I made the apprpriate BeOS and Win2k partitions, formatting only
BeOS and finishing it off by installing the BeOS bootmanager on the MBR.
To install Win2K I choose it, and it reported no OS. When doing this I made the Win2K partition
active, and it was then only a matter of inserting a Win98 bootfloppy and then formatting c:
I know Win2K will remove the bootmanager by creating a new MBR. I will reinstall BeOS and
it's bootmanager one time more. After Windows are installed.

I tried to run the teapot demo in BeOS. This without the drivers for my Diamond Viper V550 installed.
Or any other drivers for that matter. It gave my roughly 160 to 180 FPS. Not bad for BeOS.

You don't have to reinstall BeOS afterwards, you can run bootman from a terminal, just boot into the version you installed by pressing [space] as the CD boot menu appears, or at the BeOS install screen press ctrl-alt-shift-T to get a terminal window.

lolo799 wrote:

You don't have to reinstall BeOS afterwards, you can run bootman from a terminal, just boot into the version you installed by pressing [space] as the CD boot menu appears, or at the BeOS install screen press ctrl-alt-shift-T to get a terminal window.

Good to know. Thanks. 😀 I choose extended fdisk instead, in order to be able to hide primaery partitions from each other.

Swapped out my 15+ year old Trust PS/2 Direct Access Keyboard for a somewhat newer and less used Cherry PS/2 RS 6000 M keyboard I got out of a stack of parts some time ago, as more and more of the keys on the Trust keyboard started to need really hard 😵 mashing down to actually register. This also solved a problem with certain key combinations simply not working (not the usual 2KRO problem - numpad keys that couldn't be pressed together 😕 ). This will do 😀 until I buy an actual mechanical keyboard... 😎

The worn-out Trust is going in the trash, although I'll save the cable + PS/2 plug...

For the past 2 days I have started, and am now part through a project of organizing and sorting my collections (I do collect other things apart from vintage PCs and parts). My basement looks like a battlefield now. I just hope I finish before the beginning of next week.

This week I finished recapping my Soltek SL-54U5 (SS7) and KT7A-RAID (Socket A). Some issues I had with USB and CD-ROM transfers appears to be gone, and stability seems to be improved across the board.

I tried to 'upgrade' my socket a to a mobile Barton XP-M 2400+, but it was DOA. 🙁 Sticking with my unlocked XP 2400+.

Cut up a cheap busted case I had to make an open-bench platform. Doesnt save me space as I had hoped, however testing various builds is much easier now.