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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 31281 of 52354, by dan86

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I always wanted one

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Now to think of something sensible to do with it...

Quake3, what else?

Good question. Q3A was the only SMP-capable game from this era, and I'm no Q3A fan (too slow for it, even back in 1999, now far, far too slow), plus two Celerons are pretty underpowered for it anyway. Maybe dig up a copy of BeOS and watch the teapot slow down or speed up as I disable/enable CPUs on the fly.

There were a few other SMP games. Falcon 4 comes to mind.

Reply 31283 of 52354, by Horun

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Nice ! How much did the ST05X cost you ? Somewhere in my storage I have a few real 8bit IDE and SCSI HD cards but never found a working ST05x yet. You should save the BIOS files and upload them here if possible, last ST05x I saw was missing the BIOS chip so was useless since no BIOS files existed at the time....

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Reply 31284 of 52354, by keropi

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Robin4 can you scan or take good photos of the juko ide controller's manual?
I have a lose one but never got it working and I suspect it's the jumper settings...
Thanks!

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Reply 31285 of 52354, by PTherapist

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Decided to go ahead and get one of these for my ZX81:

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Also going to get one of these to go with it:

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Or I suppose I could hot glue the thing, but Blu Tack is much easier to clean off at a future date.

Reply 31286 of 52354, by bjwil1991

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Is that for holding the RAM cartridge in place?

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Reply 31289 of 52354, by bjwil1991

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Reply 31291 of 52354, by bjwil1991

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Eh, close enough. It's a retro turntable, correct? My dad had a Kenwood turntable and has an Ion USB turntable for digitizing records for iTunes.

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Reply 31293 of 52354, by imi

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mhhh dual GPUs 😎

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dual Trio64V2/DX and dual Savage LT 😀

Reply 31294 of 52354, by xjas

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^^ it's a shame S3 Metal Crossfire was never a thing or that would make a pretty neat card for Unreal. BTW this reminds me I have to go check my PO box... 😉

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Reply 31295 of 52354, by H3nrik V!

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imi wrote:

mhhh dual GPUs 😎

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dual Trio64V2/DX and dual Savage LT 😀

Is that one GPU per display output? Showing as two separate cards?

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Reply 31296 of 52354, by imi

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It should be one GPU per output yes, but I wonder that myself, if they'll just work in DOS or need special drivers... the Trios are labeled master/slave at the back, haven't found a manual yet.

Reply 31297 of 52354, by SpectriaForce

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henryVK wrote:

Got a new vintage camera; it's my late grandpa's Edixa Standard.

Nothing rare or mindblowing, but a neat little entry-level SLR from the 50s. It comes with an intact leather case, a big leather box for all the extra stuff and even the interachangeable waist-level viewfinder -- which is nice if, like me, you wear glasses and have trouble properly seeing through a prism viewfinder. Everything was neatly wrapped and labled by my grandpa too.

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Nice. Do you still use analog camera's and if so why?

Reply 31298 of 52354, by SpectriaForce

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Very hard to find items:

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Can you use one of these with a CF card (and adapter) or are they only compatible with specific types of IDE HDD's?

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Skanque wrote:
Creative 3D Blaster Geforce 2 MX200 PCI https://i.ibb.co/V3NYtqd/IMG-8490.jpg https://i.ibb.co/Zhmn18z/IMG-8489.jpg […]
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Nice. How would this card perform in a PMMX 200 or so? It would be interesting to benchmark it.