It's not really retro but I bought a small mixer to plug all my PCs (modern and vintage) into it. Works a treat and helps to mitigate noise issues with old sound cards.

Skanque wrote on 2020-04-16, 16:57:

A small but very important update, for me at least.

Finally located and bought a boxed ASUS V6600 32MB SGRAM Geforce 256.

Have a nice day

It's great that 'new old stock' items can still be found. I wonder how many more items are lurking at the back of old warehouses waiting for the owners to retire and a new owner/business to take over? I just hope people realise what some of this stuff is and dont chuck it away just thinking it's old so nobody will want it...

FazzaGBR wrote on 2020-05-05, 20:17:

Skanque wrote on 2020-04-16, 16:57:

A small but very important update, for me at least.

Finally located and bought a boxed ASUS V6600 32MB SGRAM Geforce 256.

Have a nice day

It's great that 'new old stock' items can still be found. I wonder how many more items are lurking at the back of old warehouses waiting for the owners to retire and a new owner/business to take over? I just hope people realise what some of this stuff is and dont chuck it away just thinking it's old so nobody will want it...

Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvM82T3C2Ik

appiah4 wrote on 2020-05-05, 13:58:

This brings my Sound Blaster 16 collection to 9 distinct models. Let's hope I get a CT1740 as the 10th (been looking for one for years...)

That's a pretty good card indeed. I use one in my 486DX40/VLB/ET4000W build with SB/GUS combo. the Line Out of my GUS goes to the Line In of the SB, so no speaker cable switching required... 😀

Paid good money for this set. Maybe too much, but they are sealed.

Brickpad wrote on 2020-05-05, 22:20:

Paid good money for this set. Maybe too much, but they are sealed.

I saw those and it definitely piqued my interest. VERY cool, congrats.

After a total failure with an Asus A7N8X, I'm left with a few idle parts for a socket A system - Barton 3200+, I've got a bunch of DDR400 on hand, a Radeon 9700 Pro, Audigy 2ZS..

I started looking for an alternative motherboard and landed on, well, a complete socket A system! It's got an ECS N2U400-A board, AXP 2500+ and 512MB RAM. I'm strangely excited about this rig - Athlon XP/nForce2 is a real favorite of mine.

Oh among them is the most useless overdrive ever : the DX2 overdrive 😁

Brickpad wrote on 2020-05-05, 22:20:

Paid good money for this set. Maybe too much, but they are sealed.

I saw these as well, was temped but, to much money for something that's probably gonna sit on the shelf. Super cool to have though. Congrats!

If you're going to open them, make an unboxing photo collage (or video). 😀

Deksor wrote on 2020-05-05, 23:43:

Oh among them is the most useless overdrive ever : the DX2 overdrive 😁

What would you say about an Overdrive SX-20 then? 😀

I got my Turtle Beach Monte Carlo 929 (second version, first was Opti 928 based) and I was more than a little amused to find that under the Turtle Beach sticker on the Opti 929 chip, were Reveal RV82C929KT markings. I knew Reveal rebranded Opti chips, but was not expecting to find one such chip on a Turtle Beach branded product .

jheronimus wrote on 2020-05-06, 00:30:

Deksor wrote on 2020-05-05, 23:43:

Oh among them is the most useless overdrive ever : the DX2 overdrive 😁

What would you say about an Overdrive SX-20 then? 😀

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According to http://www.os2museum.com/wp/486-overdrive/

"The lowest end model was an OPD486SX-20, a 40 MHz clock-doubled model."

Talk about brain-dead branding .

I've never actually seen a desktop with a DX2-40, only laptops.

Got this today, 286-6 the one I asked what it could run. Got it local, came preloaded for me with some games and windows 3

286-6mhz
1mb ram

I haven't opened it up yet as I was to excited to play with it.

Boxed AWE32.

Also got this Gigabyte k7 triton400 kt400 based board with an xp1800 tbred b

I think I have that board, with bad caps sadly.

EvieSigma wrote on 2020-05-06, 03:53:

I think I have that board, with bad caps sadly.

The guy i bought it from recapped it, its got all brand new caps

wiretap wrote on 2020-05-06, 03:42:

Boxed AWE32. https://imgur.com/A1XABpH.jpg […]
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Boxed AWE32.

Nice! A CT3990. I have one of those. Not in box though... Found myself a CT3930 new in box last year though. It came with speakers (like yours) and a 4x Creative CDROM drive.

darry wrote on 2020-05-06, 00:43:

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jheronimus wrote on 2020-05-06, 00:30:

Deksor wrote on 2020-05-05, 23:43:

Oh among them is the most useless overdrive ever : the DX2 overdrive 😁

What would you say about an Overdrive SX-20 then? 😀

i-img1200x798-1581262561gctnau31383.jpg

According to http://www.os2museum.com/wp/486-overdrive/

"The lowest end model was an OPD486SX-20, a 40 MHz clock-doubled model."

Talk about brain-dead branding .

Well, the original Overdrives were named after what they were supposed to replace, as I understand it. I.e. the ODP486-SX20 was supposed to replace an SX20. But AFAIK all overdrives were DX/DX2/DX4. But yeah, bad branding. Maybe that's why they changed it along the way .. 🤣

John has written an iteresting article on the subject:
http://www.cpushack.com/UpgradeProcessors.htm … tel486overdrive

Edit: All of which is confirmed in the article from os2museum.com

Today's arrival is a Philips PCA750AF soundcard. Philips had some interesting cards, like an AMD InterWave-based GUS PnP Clone, and this card, which uses a YMF719E-S chip. Got this one for €5 from a Dutch techsite's classifieds section, which I thought was a great price for a legit Yamaha card. Tried it out with Unisound on my latest Socket 7 system, and yeah, sounds like it should under Wolfenstein 3D and Doom! A nice one for the collection.