What retro things have you done today?

!bluetonic! · 26 May 2021 at 18:52

@cee-S-dee Great build. Thanks for sharing.

It's retro stock rotation for me this weekend with the family being away. I will probably bring out the 386 SX 16 MHz and the Sega Dreamcast.

Ninco! · 28 May 2021 at 20:19

Guest2 said:
I noticed this is Warzone / Modern Warfare. A top price machine. What is this glorious monitor??

Seems odd to go with a system build like that

I had that monitor back in 1997, it was a Dell branded 17" screen.

Its a Dell D1028L (had to google). Wish I still had it - Sold it with the PC around 2000 when I got an Athlon. It was a really good screen and PC.

GR63 · 29 May 2021 at 18:57

cee-S-dee said:
Added a SB Live! to the machine today. This thing is pretty much full now. To make space for the live, I removed the bracket from the Matrox M3D and placed it in the PCI slot shared with the ISA Slot. Installed the Live! using the Audigy 2 Drivers, but not installing any of the SB16 Legacy stuff as the Awe32 covers that. The Live is to handle purely the Win98 Sound duties. I'm really pleased with how this machine has turned out, and its pretty loaded in regards to sound now (Live, AWE32 (Korg DB), TB Malibu, MQ Midi Card with DBX2, and all the external modules attached to the MQ Card).

I recognise the case on the left... is the button cream and cyan-kinda? I had one BITD!! Love the old beige cases for retro builds.

cee-S-dee · 29 May 2021 at 23:05

JudgeDeath said:
I recognise the case on the left... is the button cream and cyan-kinda? I had one BITD!! Love the old beige cases for retro builds.

This one has Purple buttons, but a lot of people comment they had this case with Cyan coloured buttons. It was also a popular design in the Amiga scene.

This is mine (Optical drive changed since!)

LewisRaz · 30 May 2021 at 10:23

Nice boot sale pickups today.

The Tiny laptop owes me £5 but even if it is as faulty as it looks should get my money back on ebay. Could even work if I can find a charger.

Tested the speakers and they work great.

Armageus · 30 May 2021 at 10:25

Picked up a Gainward Ti4600 at the bootsale this morning

LewisRaz · 30 May 2021 at 10:42

Now thats a really good find! I have not seen any parts for quite a while. Hardly even see games anymore

Guest2 · 30 May 2021 at 11:27

Armageus said:
Picked up a Gainward Ti4600 at the bootsale this morning

Nice, how much? Imagine not a lot if its a carboot purchase. Hopefully it works

Armageus · 30 May 2021 at 11:31

Guest2 said:
Nice, how much? Imagine not a lot if its a carboot purchase. Hopefully it works

£3 - has a little corrosion so not hoping for much, but will get round to testing it later and posting pictures

Was a couple of 6600gt as well and a load of sdram/DDR but thought the 4600 was worth a punt

Armageus · 30 May 2021 at 14:26

Armageus said:
£3 - has a little corrosion so not hoping for much, but will get round to testing it later and posting pictures

Was a couple of 6600gt as well and a load of sdram/DDR but thought the 4600 was worth a punt

No Bueno unfortunately

Fan spins and core gets hot but nothing else.

Not sure if it's working just not displaying anything (as most of the corrosion is by the DVI ports), as the monitor "knows" when the DVI is connected/disconnected.

Did give the PCB a good scrub with water/washing up liquid using a toothbrush (and lots of grime came off), then rinsed with some alcohol, but no difference

Guest2 · 30 May 2021 at 14:38

Armageus said:
No Bueno unfortunately

Fan spins and core gets hot but nothing else.

Not sure if it's working just not displaying anything (as most of the corrosion is by the DVI ports), as the monitor "knows" when the DVI is connected/disconnected.

Did give the PCB a good scrub with water/washing up liquid using a toothbrush (and lots of grime came off), then rinsed with some alcohol, but no difference

Are well, worth a shot for £3.
Could be one of them guys and stick it on eBay as used but then say “working when pulled from machine but now no way of testing it. Selling as untested” :rolleyes:

I avoid any such items as it means in no such works “knackered”

cee-S-dee · 30 May 2021 at 14:45

Armageus said:
No Bueno unfortunately

Fan spins and core gets hot but nothing else.

Not sure if it's working just not displaying anything (as most of the corrosion is by the DVI ports), as the monitor "knows" when the DVI is connected/disconnected.

Did give the PCB a good scrub with water/washing up liquid using a toothbrush (and lots of grime came off), then rinsed with some alcohol, but no difference

Do you have a pci card to hand you could put in the machine to determine if the card is detected in windows?

Guest2 · 30 May 2021 at 15:03

cee-S-dee said:
Do you have a pci card to hand you could put in the machine to determine if the card is detected in windows?

Isnt the Ti4600 an AGP card?

LewisRaz · 30 May 2021 at 15:09

Guest2 said:
Isnt the Ti4600 an AGP card?

yes but if you put a PCI card in as well and connect the monitor to that you can see if windows is detecting the AGP card

Guest2 · 30 May 2021 at 15:14

LewisRaz said:
yes but if you put a PCI card in as well and connect the monitor to that you can see if windows is detecting the AGP card

Are right. See what you mean

Yeh, good idea batman

cee-S-dee · 30 May 2021 at 18:08

@LewisRaz Sorry dude, never got chance to get the P3 in the post last week. Work was crazy (Had a big network cable job to do :mad:

)

I'll get it out to you this week.

LewisRaz · 30 May 2021 at 18:42

cee-S-dee said:
@LewisRaz Sorry dude, never got chance to get the P3 in the post last week. Work was crazy (Had a big network cable job to do )

I'll get it out to you this week.

No trouble mate! I had a fairly hectic week but next week.. Wife and kids are going on hols and I am off work and home alone

Plenty of retro gaming and clearing of unfinished bits to do.

Also while looking for a charger for that laptop I stumbled on my old gtx 1080. Now it is broken (smoke came from it...) but that doesnt seem to deter them going for £100+ on ebay. Not exactly retro related but the knowledge I have learned from the retro stuff might help me to fix it which would be amazing.

GR63 · 30 May 2021 at 20:22

cee-S-dee said:
This one has Purple buttons, but a lot of people comment they had this case with Cyan coloured buttons. It was also a popular design in the Amiga scene.

This is mine (Optical drive changed since!)

I thought it was poss Amiga where I had seen the cyan one.. Looks lovely with the button colour there.. rare find or are there more somewhere? ;-)

Armageus · 30 May 2021 at 20:25

JudgeDeath said:
I thought it was poss Amiga where I had seen the cyan one.. Looks lovely with the button colour there.. rare find or are there more somewhere?

Yep was sold by Power Computing as the "power tower"

GR63 · 30 May 2021 at 20:29

Armageus said:
Yep was sold by Power Computing as the "power tower"

Used to visit their shop in Bedford. Nice family run business. Friendly family too. Always willing to stop and have a chat about Amigas. Miss those days