clueless1 wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Personally, I prefer CL cards in MS-Dos 6.22. They give (to me) a more pleasant image.

I noticed that too. My two DOS computers share the same monitor via KVM switch. The DX2-66 has a CL-GD5428 VLB and the POD200 has a TNT2 M64 PCI. If I load the same game on both and switch back and forth, the CL is brighter with warmer, richer colors.

Yup.... The right CL card is by far the most awesomme Dos card in my book. Things look better and some CL cards are 100℅ compatible. Going for Win9x is a different ballgame though.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Are working 8800GTX THAT hard to find? I got my XFX 8800GTX off ebay for 25 bucks late last year. I also got a 9800GX2 for 25 but i broke it trying to remove the IO shield (Which required disassembling that retarded box cooler they put on the damn thing). I probably just messed up a capacitor. I need to get around to fixing that 🤣. My 8800GTX sometimes boots to a bunch of red lines but pulling the card and reinserting it always fix's it. I ran it as my HTPC's GPU for about 6 months i think. Played Just Cause 2 quite well.

Yeah, a working 8800GTX is very hard to find. They didn't sell that well in Romania (the GTS and GT versions however sold a lot) and the ones I do come across are either defective or have been re-flowed and overheat then artifact. I did find lots on ebay, but since these are hot cards they don't usually last very long. Heat, coupled with mediocre cooling and crappy RoHS lead-free solder used to make these cards makes it hard for me to trust a seller that claims the card is working perfectly. That and the 20-50$ shipping makes ebay a no-go for me.

It'll be interesting to see, when I finally dig it out in a year or two, if my 8600GTS has survived being parked for several years.

brostenen wrote:

clueless1 wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Personally, I prefer CL cards in MS-Dos 6.22. They give (to me) a more pleasant image.

I noticed that too. My two DOS computers share the same monitor via KVM switch. The DX2-66 has a CL-GD5428 VLB and the POD200 has a TNT2 M64 PCI. If I load the same game on both and switch back and forth, the CL is brighter with warmer, richer colors.

Yup.... The right CL card is by far the most awesomme Dos card in my book. Things look better and some CL cards are 100℅ compatible. Going for Win9x is a different ballgame though.

...and I thought Tseng Labs ET4000 is the best DOS video card. Never thought Cirrus Logic has better image quality.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

...and I thought Tseng Labs ET4000 is the best DOS video card. Never thought Cirrus Logic has better image quality.

I've done testing before, the Cirrus Logic cards are the slowest piece of turd crap I've ever seen in dos. I don't care how good they look or don't look, they're just insanely slow. And in general Cirrus-Logic cards are pretty much considered the "bottom of the barrel" junk cards. I've thrown away many working CL ISA cards in the past when I was younger because of how crappy they are.

kithylin wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

...and I thought Tseng Labs ET4000 is the best DOS video card. Never thought Cirrus Logic has better image quality.

I've done testing before, the Cirrus Logic cards are the slowest piece of turd crap I've ever seen in dos. I don't care how good they look or don't look, they're just insanely slow. And in general Cirrus-Logic cards are pretty much considered the "bottom of the barrel" junk cards. I've thrown away many working CL ISA cards in the past when I was younger because of how crappy they are.

Haven't you seen Phil's recent 486 videos? He benches a bunch of VLB and ISA cards and the CL VLB cards do quite well. Or are you just talking about ISA CL cards?

Promise EIDE4030Plus VLB

Diamond Viper VLB

Four sound cards

Stuff I picked up from the post office yesterday:

No retro, but will be used for retro projects 😀

Last months luck about professional vgas so I made photo together.

Spea Fire ISA
IBM GXT6500 PCI 64b
IBM GXT4500 PCI 64b
HP Visualize FX5 PCI 64b
HP Visualize FX10 PCI 64b
HP Visualize FX5 AGP
2x MATROX Parhelia 256MB PCI 64b

Actually trying get back to work Spea but seriosly - its playing with me. Problem find working setup, no drivers, almost no informations so will see. Card looks ok, cpus heating.
Any informations are welcome.

CkRtech wrote:

Promise EIDE4030Plus VLB

I own the original box and (I think) software for it (somewhere). If you really need it let me know, I might could drag the box down out of the attic and scan in the original manual for you.

Holy Snapple, kithylin. PM on the way...

kithylin wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

...and I thought Tseng Labs ET4000 is the best DOS video card. Never thought Cirrus Logic has better image quality.

I've done testing before, the Cirrus Logic cards are the slowest piece of turd crap I've ever seen in dos. I don't care how good they look or don't look, they're just insanely slow. And in general Cirrus-Logic cards are pretty much considered the "bottom of the barrel" junk cards. I've thrown away many working CL ISA cards in the past when I was younger because of how crappy they are.

No. The CL 5242 ISA is just trailing the ET4000AX with the WDC Paradise in the lead. That coupled with the fact that CL cards don't display those annoying vertical lines on LCD monitors makes them very desirable cards for some of us. I've got the benchmarks to prove it.

I am talking of course about this thing:

The PCI variants are also great. All the compatibility of the S3 trio with better output quality.

^^ I got a CL 5446 this week and on a 486 it's right up there with the Trio 64V+ and ET6000.

Got a Matrox m3D 😁

mwdmeyer wrote:

Got a Matrox m3D :D […]
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Got a Matrox m3D 😁

😎

Oh hi 😁

Nice packaging btw. Thanks 😁

Jealous, mwdmeyer!

It seems to be my old card. By the looks it's on a trip around the globe.

CkRtech wrote:

Jealous, mwdmeyer!

Don't be. There are more out there. 😀

Went back to the guy I visited last week for this. I was all set to leave it for someone else to deal with; I need another old Mac like I need a hole in my head, but... damnit, it's an SE/30. A.k.a. the best compact 68k Mac evar made. Arguably. When the hell am I ever going to get another shot at one of these? Never.

It's a resto project, but that's fine. I haven't tried to power it up yet. It's complete, and looks to be in decent shape, although I'm expecting every cap inside the thing to have popped and all the spinning media to have long seized up. I think I have enough spares to get it going. Grabbed a second mouse & another ADB keyboard with it too. The dude had a bunch of them, so why not? He also had some VERY tidy looking iMac G3s, but I already had one of those and literally didn't have anything for it to do. 😜

And yeah the Apple II 5.25" floppy doesn't go with it, but it looks cool sitting there. It was gonna end up in the bin otherwise. There's a disk in it but it's jammed in so I haven't figured out what it is yet.

(I already had the G4 Cube as previously mentioned. It's also in the shot because it looks cool.)

I also nabbed this surprisingly well regarded component->VGA upscaler at a thrift shop for cheap. Because I'm a dope I got it in my head that it handles composite video; it does not. I don't own component cables for any of my consoles. Oh well, eventually.

Picked some 8bit goodies

i/o controller

some kind of video card or as internets says "monitor output card" with serial,few of mine mobos didn't posts with it

it have AMD N80C188 and also Zilog Z85C3008VSC