cyclone3d wrote:

An S3-928 based ISA VGA card for my 386DX-40 build. Paid a bit more than I would have liked, but it is boxed and is a 2MB card

Are you sure that is a 2MB card?

I could be wrong but it looks more like a 4MB card. Typically those type of SOJ's are 512k rather than 256k 20 pin DIL's. The fact that you have 8 on there seems to suggest that this card may have more memory that 2MB and could possible handle the higher rez!

I don't think you can really judge the memory chips without looking up the part numbers. I'm putting my money on 2MB.

The problem with the S3 928 is that it supports both VRAM and DRAM, so you can't even be sure which type of memory it uses until you look it up. Given the 220MHz RAMDAC, I would say it's almost certainly VRAM.

Ozzuneoj wrote:

Also, a Klamath 300Mhz should allow for easy underclocking too, right?

Yup. First time I started it up it showed "133MHz Pentium MMX" and I had to manually set the multiplier.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Sadly, even though the RAMDAC is 220MHz, it is only capable of producing 256 colours. Look up the BrookTree 467 datasheet.

Very strange... and at the end of the datasheet it says that for true color it is possible to use 1-4 of them.

I'm not sure it will really matter if it only supports 256 color as most games from the 386 period used a max of 256 colors.

Not old, but retro-related: a package from China. First use case will be dumping/checking the BIOS of my Tulip 286.

cyclone3d wrote:

This lot of 5 ISA sound cards - I was the only bidder.

Nice score! Lots can be good for bargains because people like myself are too lazy to investigate in detail.

That Audio Drive looks like a decent implementation too - full height is always nice for big DB's.

Horrifying childhood memories of dead-end un-upgradable and slow hardware are probably what made me pick this up - an AGPless Socket370 board! Intel D815EGEW.
What came as a surprise to me the chipset is i815 and not i810 like I expected. Integrated Analog Devices AD1885 sound. Came with a 1200MHz Tualeron.

More stuff from the hoarder.

ATI Fire GL3. same card as GL2, just with doubled memory size (128MB), dual screen and anti-aliasing support. Did bios update from 1.06 to 1.22 and found out that it decreased AGP mode to 2x and Quake 3 cannot be run since then. So don't do same mistake as me. Looks like this bug was fixed only at GL2 and GL4 cards.... 😠

Well, you know, what they say: if it ain't broke, don't fix it 🙁

Can you downgrade the BIOS back to the older version?

This nVidia RIVA TNT2 Pro 16MB AGP Universal card came in yesterday (was too busy to post about it then so I'm posting about it today), it was packed inside a grey bag padded with a piece of newspaper so I wasn't sure how well it worked, so I put it in one of my machines, ran Video Memory Stress Test on it, and it works.

This is mainly a spare card for my 95OSR2 Slotket build just in case I run into a problem with the ATI Rage Pro GPU.

FINALLY! A LaCie 22BLUE IV 22" CRT.

A heavy son of a b!tch but I sourced it locally so thankfully no shipping. This thing has never been used - just put into storage as the owner had two of these for graphic editing and wanted one as a backup.

Display Type CRT monitor / CRT
CRT Type DIAMONDTRON NF - aperture grille
Native Resolution 2048 x 1536 at 86 Hz
Width 19.5 in
Depth 18.6 in
Height 19.4 in
Weight 67.24 lbs
Viewable Size 20.0"
Pixel Pitch 0.24 mm
Screen Coating G-WARAS coating
Horizontal Refresh Rate 140 kHz
Vertical Refresh Rate 160 Hz
ManufacturerLaCie Ltd.

Nice, Artex. Running a 22" CRT, myself. It also tops out at 2048x1536 (@ 68Hz, though), but I have never run anything to drive it all the way to that resolution.

but I sourced it locally so thankfully no shipping

Thank goodness...

Oh damn! I have its little brother, the 19" inch one, and it already is a massive and glorious monitor. The guy that gave it to me was working on a graphic design office and had a 22" inch one as well, but I foolishly didn't pick it up at the time.
Please tell us more, it must be a fascinating monitor!

Munx wrote:

Horrifying childhood memories of dead-end un-upgradable and slow hardware

810 yep. My PC back then even said "AGP" on it, so I thought I was all set for a GF2 in the future.

F2bnp wrote:

Oh damn! I have its little brother, the 19" inch one, and it already is a massive and glorious monitor. The guy that gave it to me was working on a graphic design office and had a 22" inch one as well, but I foolishly didn't pick it up at the time.
Please tell us more, it must be a fascinating monitor!

Hey there Fabian! Long time no 'see'! Hope all is well! Just got this monster so I have some playing around to do! I'll report back but I'm impressed so far! This thing needs its own desk - so massive.

Artex wrote:

F2bnp wrote:

Oh damn! I have its little brother, the 19" inch one, and it already is a massive and glorious monitor. The guy that gave it to me was working on a graphic design office and had a 22" inch one as well, but I foolishly didn't pick it up at the time.
Please tell us more, it must be a fascinating monitor!

Hey there Fabian! Long time no 'see'! Hope all is well! Just got this monster so I have some playing around to do! I'll report back but I'm impressed so far! This thing needs its own desk - so massive.

I have an HP p1230 and it is very similar to your Lacie. It's a rebadged Mitsubishi DiamondPro 2070SB:

https://support.hp.com/ro-en/document/c00042411

2048x1536@85Hz is really something to behold. I've been babying this thing for years because it would be so outrageously expensive to replace now. When I bought it back in ~2007 it was refurbished but was less than two years old and only cost me $150 shipped. Had I known how valuable and rare these types of high end CRTs would end up, I'd have bought more. 😁

Okay, here's a weird one. I got some really nice lots of parts recently and was just going through some of the miscellaneous stuff that came in the boxes. I saw this card and was trying to figure out where I'd seen it before and where I'd read that model number. Its a Gigabyte GA-107:

Then, when I saw that connector at the top, it hit me... it was this discussion over at VCF I'd read a while back.

What a crazy-weird card. Probably not too many systems that have 5v PCI slots and no onboard floppy controller, but in the odd case where the floppy might be dead, this could be handy.