What retro things have you done today?

Caporegime
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This arrived yesterday:
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Socket 775, AGP, DDR1 (and a 2.8Ghz Celeron)

Nice looking board, simple, but looks nice in red!

Tried the Ti4600 in it - now getting a display output, unfortunately though it's a screen full of blue blocky corruption - but can "see" the post happening.
That's going to be faulty VRAM by the sounds of it. A Volt-mod may bring it back to life, but it's more than possible it needs new RAM :(
 
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@Armageus - if you like Amiga BTW, that should be an ideal board for Amithlon ;)
Interesting, I'll have a look into that - as hadn't really got a use for this board (other than the fact it was the cheapest working AGP board I could find other than S478 which coolers are getting scarcer for)

Nice looking board, simple, but looks nice in red!
Was £12 including postage - which seemed ideal to have an AGP/DDR1 board that I can use for testing stuff.
 
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Well I think my Midi stack is complete. Managed to pick up a Yamaha MU50 for £60+P&P. Don't really need to add anything else to it now. I actually think for owning retro hardware I'm pretty much done. Got a few machines now which covers a pretty much all games I want to play. Soo going to have a massive purge, being ruthless and keeping stuff I only really want.

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@LewisRaz I popped that P3 550 in the post on tues. Should be with you tomorrow.
 
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Today I bought a "Nvidia GTS 250 256Mb" for £1 from CEX using a trade in voucher

It arrived, as passive card that requires a 6 pin connector... Guess what it is?

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It's a 1GB ASUS GTS 250 e-green. It would be pretty useful card with HDMI, DVI and VGA... if it had the fan that it was meant to come with too!

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Ah well I'm sure I can sort something out.
 
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My Asus P3C-E, 256MB RAMBUS and PIII 733 Slot-1 CPU arrived today, looks lovely condition wise, shame there was no I/O shield, but as a "standard" 2x PS/2, 2x USB, 2x DB9 under 1x Parallel layout I'm sure I've got one somewhere.

PIII straight back onto eBay as I have no need of the CPU.

It arrived, as passive card that requires a 6 pin connector... Guess what it is?

It's a 1GB ASUS GTS 250 e-green. It would be pretty useful card with HDMI, DVI and VGA... if it had the fan that it was meant to come with too!

Ah well I'm sure I can sort something out.

Pretty sure you'd be able to mount a 60, 70 or 80mm fan on there without too much hassle!
 
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Hi guys, it's my first post here :)
I bought this unit for 10£, but unfortunately the graphics card is having artefacts, I don't know exactly what's the culprit. Everything else works fine.

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Played some C&C Red Alert this morning on my P2 machine. I forgot how good the cutscenes are.

Considering adding a good DirectX 7 card to it and upgrading to a P3 800MHz or so so it can run a few more games.
 
Soldato
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Been pretty quiet on the retro lately but did pick these up:


Going to change my sound card setup to adlib - SW60XG - ESS Audiodrive. Should work better than the SBLive dos emulation. Could potentially use the live too I think.

It seems they might have some sort of wavetable too which might be interesting to look at.

Edit - Yep, found it here with samples: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=50552#p536905
 
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