sf78 wrote on 2020-11-11, 13:53:

Local recycling had interesting stuff (again). A bunch of NOS Socket 4 boards. 😁

Very nice! Wish the recyclers here were more lenient. Here once its given away it has to be destroyed as a policy. I'm pretty sure they'd destroy an Apple 1 if someone handed it in and they knew what it was.

Aublak wrote on 2020-11-11, 16:03:

I found two broken Voodoo5s. I'm going to attempt to fix one of these. The left one is the one in the best shape. It cleaned up very nicely. The right one has some gouges on the pcb that concern me.

I couldn't find their missing slot covers or heatsinks. I assume the Voodoo5s will accept normal north bridge heatsinks. The slot covers will be more difficult to source. Anybody have any spare V5 slot covers?

I wish you well on your endeavor and I hope your able to fix both of them. You can probably make the slot brackets out of blank ones and use a Dremel to cut the openings. I believe you should be able to use north bridge heatsinks you might have to open up the mounting holes to make them fit properly.

sf78 wrote on 2020-11-11, 14:15:

I have one working P60, but I took just 2 boards with socketed AMIKEY-2 chips as I'm pretty sure one of my many spare boards had a faulty chip in it.

Very nice...but why didnt you buy all of them....?

I offered 80€ for this pile and it was accepted. Due to the fact that each floppy drive is worth around 30€ if its working I think this was a good deal. There is also a XT mainboard in it and 2 286 or 386. And I hope some other interesting stuff not visible on the photo.

Ohhh.. Nice on the Socket 4 boards. I am still actively looking for one.

Aublak wrote on 2020-11-11, 16:03:

I found two broken Voodoo5s. I'm going to attempt to fix one of these. The left one is the one in the best shape. It cleaned up very nicely. The right one has some gouges on the pcb that concern me.

I couldn't find their missing slot covers or heatsinks. I assume the Voodoo5s will accept normal north bridge heatsinks. The slot covers will be more difficult to source. Anybody have any spare V5 slot covers?

I have some nice Socket 7 heatsinks on the V5-5500 I bought new from the store.... board is super warped but never gave me any trouble and I am too afraid to redo it to try to reduce the warp in fear that it would break it.

sf78 wrote on 2020-11-11, 13:53:

Local recycling had interesting stuff (again). A bunch of NOS Socket 4 boards. 😁

Nice ones, looking for one of those 😁👍

Got this Pentium 4 motherboard with 2 ISA slots. It should work, but I haven't tested it yet. I wonder if I could play some DOS games with ISA sound card installed?

Turbo -> wrote on 2020-11-12, 01:05:

Got this Pentium 4 motherboard with 2 ISA slots. It should work, but I haven't tested it yet. I wonder if I could play some DOS games with ISA sound card installed?

Well, it has the ICH5 southbridge so the real question is what PCI to ISA bridge chip does it use. If it uses one that supports ISA DMA than you should have full ISA compatibility

Edit: Drawings from the manual have numbers on the chips that don't bring back any info. The manual also doesn't specify.

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-11-12, 01:55:

Turbo -> wrote on 2020-11-12, 01:05:

Got this Pentium 4 motherboard with 2 ISA slots. It should work, but I haven't tested it yet. I wonder if I could play some DOS games with ISA sound card installed?

Well, it has the ICH5 southbridge so the real question is what PCI to ISA bridge chip does it use. If it uses one that supports ISA DMA than you should have full ISA compatibility

Edit: Drawings from the manual have numbers on the chips that don't bring back any info. The manual also doesn't specify.

The picture is a little fuzzy, but it looks like the board has a Winbond W83628F PCI to ISA bridge chip. This site below says it should work with many ISA sound cards:

https://ilovepa.ws/2017/07/29/pentium-4-dos-gaming/

It looks like the board can support P4s with an 800 MHz FSB. Great find!

Predator99 wrote on 2020-11-11, 16:49:

Very nice...but why didnt you buy all of them....?

I'm not really keen on selling them on eBay. I'm sure I'd make a nice profit, but listing, shipping and packing is just too much effort. Locally, I doubt there would be much of a demand, maybe 15e/board and again, too much effort.

Xicor wrote on 2020-11-11, 13:26:

Just got in the mail an interesting little voltage adapter for 486, it came with a AMD DX2-80 @ near 32€. A good bargain if it […]
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Just got in the mail an interesting little voltage adapter for 486, it came with a AMD DX2-80 @ near 32€. A good bargain if it works.

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On this passed days also received some big box games that do have some cool factor to them.

Bobble.jpg

Millenium_racer.jpg

Loadstar.jpg

As a foot note, Loadstar was a epic flop. Curiously I did play the demo back in the day ( a lot), but never seen a copy in the wild, or in stores at the time. As a youngster I was bewildered and marveled by this type of full-motion-movie like games.
Afterword of buying this game found out that Elon Musk was a programmer on the team of Loadstar, it was strange enough to indulge in a "guilty pleasure" of sorts, and worst yet to have associated with "Tesla fanboy" label. LoL

Bubble Bobble original box version is pretty damn rare isn't it?
Nice finds!

Hanamichi wrote on 2020-11-12, 12:08:

Xicor wrote on 2020-11-11, 13:26:

Just got in the mail an interesting little voltage adapter for 486, it came with a AMD DX2-80 @ near 32€. A good bargain if it […]
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Just got in the mail an interesting little voltage adapter for 486, it came with a AMD DX2-80 @ near 32€. A good bargain if it works.

AMD_486_Inter_01.jpg

AMD_486_Inter_02.jpg

On this passed days also received some big box games that do have some cool factor to them.

Bobble.jpg

Millenium_racer.jpg

Loadstar.jpg

As a foot note, Loadstar was a epic flop. Curiously I did play the demo back in the day ( a lot), but never seen a copy in the wild, or in stores at the time. As a youngster I was bewildered and marveled by this type of full-motion-movie like games.
Afterword of buying this game found out that Elon Musk was a programmer on the team of Loadstar, it was strange enough to indulge in a "guilty pleasure" of sorts, and worst yet to have associated with "Tesla fanboy" label. LoL

Bubble Bobble original box version is pretty damn rare isn't it?
Nice finds!

Honestly I don't really know, they appear in low numbers and at high prices (luckily not my case), but probably because it resonates with many gamers and collectors. Also at the time 3d "was all the rage" and may have something to do with the rare factor.

fosterwj03 wrote on 2020-11-12, 03:04:

The picture is a little fuzzy, but it looks like the board has a Winbond W83628F PCI to ISA bridge chip. This site below says it should work with many ISA sound cards:
It looks like the board can support P4s with an 800 MHz FSB. Great find!

Sorry for the bad quality pictures. My 15 year old camera is crap. If I could make it run some DOS games with ISA sound card, I actually want to downgrade the CPU as much as possible, so if it will take 1,4 Ghz or 1,6 Ghz, that would be great. Due to the lack of time, I won't be testing it soon, but when I do, I will post my findings, if they will be somewhat interesting.

EDIT: I've checked the numbers on Winbond chip: W83628F, which shold, due to the link you kindly added, work with ISA sound cards, but not all of them. It will be interesting to see what can it do.

Hanamichi wrote on 2020-11-12, 12:08:

Bubble Bobble original box version is pretty damn rare isn't it?
Nice finds!

Sorry to spoil it, but it's Puzzle Bobble. On a cd and for windows

Have this for a while , it had a bad psu so i used another one and it worked fine as soon as i replaced the ODIN battery

I can not find any info for this machine . It's an ACER AcerPac 430 486DX2/66MHZ with no cache but with an interesting multimedia/soundblaster card .Now i have to find an AT psu that does not need the power button to power down .

That is a really awesome system and I love that CD ROM drive. If you still have the original PSU post some pictures of it and we might be able to help you fix it

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-11-12, 16:16:

That is a really awesome system and I love that CD ROM drive. If you still have the original PSU post some pictures of it and we might be able to help you fix it

I think i threw it away it was not working anymore i have to use another AT psu whos operation resembles the one of ATX psu's i do not know how it's called in English . It had no power button like the classic AT ones .

Going by the case styling it looks like it might have been meant as some kind of multimedia system that would not look out of place below a TV...

Do you have a picture of the back side?

Predator99 wrote on 2020-11-11, 16:49:

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sf78 wrote on 2020-11-11, 14:15:

I have one working P60, but I took just 2 boards with socketed AMIKEY-2 chips as I'm pretty sure one of my many spare boards had a faulty chip in it.

Very nice...but why didnt you buy all of them....?

I offered 80€ for this pile and it was accepted. Due to the fact that each floppy drive is worth around 30€ if its working I think this was a good deal. There is also a XT mainboard in it and 2 286 or 386. And I hope some other interesting stuff not visible on the photo.

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Already arrived. I would say it was worth the money 😀 Everything is looking new and unused. Also many coolers etc for 486+ in original boxes.

Bought today this nice oldskool mainboard, could someone help to identify it?

It has russian 8086 processor clone on it, so it must be from former soviet block countries. But some components seems to be from western block.
On bottom there are some ports with labels, (drukarka, klawiatura, podstawa) is it polish?