TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

phill · Oct 17, 2019

Mr.Scott said:
Thank You!
Leisure Suit Larry is king.

Surprised you don't have an Amiga @Mr.Scott !!

Darmok N Jalad said:
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Anyone care to guess what this card is? Hint: the SDRAM below is NOT a clue!

I was going to guess something to do with sound... Are those 3.5mm jacks on the card??

biffzinker · Oct 17, 2019

What's this Amiga you speak of? Does it have something to do with a Commodore?

I may of bought an Amiga emulator out of curiosity.
https://www.amigaforever.com/emulator/

phill · Oct 17, 2019

biffzinker said:
What's this Amiga you speak of? Does it have something to do with a Commodore?

I may of bought an Amiga emulator out of curiosity.
https://www.amigaforever.com/emulator/

It was very much so something to do with Commodore

Then I believe it was bought by Escom later on.. It was one of the best pieces of kit for a computer I had ever used and still to this day

So efficient, so easy to use and much much fun

I have 5 of them at home, various models

Amiga A500, A1200 and a CD32

EDIT -

With a picture!!

Athlonite · Oct 17, 2019

biffzinker said:
Which web browser are you using? The DOSBox emulator is running on JavaScript.

MS-DOS Emulation

What is MS-DOS Emulation on the Internet Archive?The Internet Archive's software collections have a number of in-browser emulators to allow limited access to software, by making the software play w...

help.archive.org

This is what the Internet Archive is using.

GitHub - dreamlayers/em-dosbox: An Emscripten port of DOSBox

An Emscripten port of DOSBox. Contribute to dreamlayers/em-dosbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

I use Vivaldi 2.8.1664.44 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

in Windows 10 X64 Pro (1903)
AMD Ryzen R7 2700 @4.1GHz, 16GB DDR4 3200, RX580 8GB, 512GB SSD should be more than enough to run a simple dosbox emulator

Darmok N Jalad said:
My Dad brought me my old desk from when I still lived at home. In one of the drawers was some old software.

Aww you got 95 & plus on CD damn I only have it on 3.5" Floppy disc

erek · Oct 17, 2019

Darmok N Jalad · Oct 17, 2019

phill said:
Surprised you don't have an Amiga @Mr.Scott !!

I was going to guess something to do with sound... Are those 3.5mm jacks on the card??

Yes, one is audio out. The other says “ANT.”

Jstn7477 · Oct 18, 2019

Darmok N Jalad said:
Yes, one is audio out. The other says “ANT.”

That's a Reveal RA300 PC Radio Card. I inherited one from my late great-grandfather and still have it somewhere, though the software disk is long gone. All it does is let you listen to FM radio using an antenna and doesn't require a sound card to use. You may be able to find some freeware to get it working in Windows 95/98.

phill · Oct 18, 2019

Darmok N Jalad said:
Yes, one is audio out. The other says “ANT.”

I wasn't looking very close at the picture but I do see that now

What a great card that would be!!

Darmok N Jalad · Oct 18, 2019

Jstn7477 said:
That's a Reveal RA300 PC Radio Card. I inherited one from my late great-grandfather and still have it somewhere, though the software disk is long gone. All it does is let you listen to FM radio using an antenna and doesn't require a sound card to use. You may be able to find some freeware to get it working in Windows 95/98.

You got it! I was hoping some of my other old hardware was in that desk, like my old ISA 56k modem. There is still an entire PC that I had that don’t know what ever happened to it. Had a Pentium 166 MMX.

The Egg · Oct 18, 2019

Jstn7477 said:
That's a Reveal RA300 PC Radio Card. I inherited one from my late great-grandfather and still have it somewhere, though the software disk is long gone. All it does is let you listen to FM radio using an antenna and doesn't require a sound card to use. You may be able to find some freeware to get it working in Windows 95/98.

Does it let you record audio from the radio? If not, I'd have a hard time seeing the benefit over a regular standalone radio. Still cool though.

I did have a few TV tuner cards which claimed to have a radio feature, but I believe they only worked when using an OTA antenna for your TV signal. I was always using cable TV with the tuner cards, so I never really made use of it.

Darmok N Jalad · Oct 18, 2019

The Egg said:
Does it let you record audio from the radio? If not, I'd have a hard time seeing the benefit over a regular standalone radio. Still cool though.

I did have a few TV tuner cards which claimed to have a radio feature, but I believe they only worked when using an OTA antenna for your TV signal. I was always using cable TV with the tuner cards, so I never really made use of it.

I believe you could, because the line out went to your sound card, so you could record whatever you wanted, provided your PC could handle it. This was an ISA card, so single core PCs for sure.

Mr.Scott · Oct 18, 2019

phill said:
Surprised you don't have an Amiga @Mr.Scott !!

I did.
But that was before I became an enthusiast, so it was dumped for a DX2 66. I regret it still.

phill · Oct 19, 2019

Amiga's forever @Mr.Scott !!

I still say to this day that the Amiga was so much better than a Windows based system (hardware excluded as the Amiga kit was very dated even back then sadly) but for the games and sounds, best ever

Darmok N Jalad · Oct 19, 2019

Ok, so it's not hardware, but I did find the FAQ for a card I forgot I even owned, the STB Velocity 128. It's actually funny to see how far we've come. Remember having to manually assign an IRQ to a graphic's card?

Jism · Oct 19, 2019

God some of these old boards, having a AT and ATX power configuration. I burned my first AT motherboard by not putting the power pins with both black sides in the middle, lol.

erek · Oct 19, 2019

@Mr.Scott

biffzinker · Oct 19, 2019

erek said:
@Mr.Scott

The Thermaltake Orb coolers are the known Athlon core crushers?

erek · Oct 19, 2019

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Darmok N Jalad · Oct 19, 2019

biffzinker said:
The Thermaltake Orb coolers are the known Athlon core crushers?

They did have that twist-to-lock feature, which had the potential to crunch that shiny little die. I had an orb cooler, but it was for a K6-2 500mhz. I gave that system to my mom, and it got clogged with dust and cat hair. Fan never quit, but it was highly ineffective!

biffzinker · Oct 19, 2019

How about this combination, a Pentium 4 with a Geforce FX, and it runs Windows 98.

Apocalypsee · Oct 19, 2019

Thats a bit overkill for Windows 98, I would install XP on that setup. But it's better to be overkill so you can apply AA and AF

Robert B · Oct 19, 2019

New Hardware Found! (this week)

- flea market find of course. The price was extremely low.

Leadtek Geforce 2 MX 400 / Geforce 2 MX SH PRO 5ns Ultra Speed - 32MB AGP

- Not your average GF2 MX

Leadtek WinFast GeForce2 MX SH Pro

havli · Oct 19, 2019

Apocalypsee said:
Thats a bit overkill for Windows 98, I would install XP on that setup. But it's better to be overkill so you can apply AA and AF

I had similar build... but with Core 2 of course, there is no point in using 775 P4

And FX 5900 wasn't that great running with AA+AF at 1600x1200. In the end I used Radeon X850 XT which is much better.

biffzinker · Oct 19, 2019

havli said:
there is no point in using 775 P4 And FX 5900

The Pentium 4 in the video was 2.4 GHz on Socket 478 with the famous Intel 865 chipset. It's easier finding a Pentium 4 than Pentium II/III unless your @Robert B.

Trekkie4 · Oct 20, 2019

Better make that...

biffzinker said:
The Pentium 4 in the video was 2.4 GHz on Socket 478 with the famous Intel 865 chipset. It's easier finding a Pentium 4 than Pentium II/III unless your @Robert B or @Trekkie4 .

IDK why, but most of the recent donation/finds were all related to Slot-1 era, featuring Pentium II (and early Celerons) in particular. S478 not so much, it's been a while since I found a P4 rig!

System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
Processor	Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(

Processor	Core i7-13700
Motherboard	MSI Z790 Gaming Plus WiFi
Cooling	Cooler Master RGB something
Memory	Corsair DDR5-6000 small OC to 6200
Video Card(s)	XFX Speedster SWFT309 AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT CORE Gaming
Storage	970 EVO NVMe M.2 500GB,,WD850N 2TB
Display(s)	Samsung 28” 4K monitor
Case	Phantek Eclipse P400S
Audio Device(s)	EVGA NU Audio
Power Supply	EVGA 850 BQ
Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero
Keyboard	Logitech G G413 Silver
Software	Windows 11 Professional v23H2

System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
Processor	Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(

System Name	Cumquat 2021
Processor	AMD RyZen R7 7800X3D
Motherboard	Asus Strix X670E - E Gaming WIFI
Cooling	Deep Cool LT720 + CM MasterGel Pro TP + Lian Li Uni Fan V2
Memory	32GB GSkill Trident Z5 Neo 6000
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Nitro+ OC RX6800 16GB DDR6 2270Cclk / 2010Mclk
Storage	1x Adata SX8200PRO NVMe 1TB gen3 x4 1X Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Gen 4 x4 1TB, 12TB of HDD Storage
Display(s)	AOC 24G2 IPS 144Hz FreeSync Premium 1920x1080p
Case	Lian Li O11D XL ROG edition
Audio Device(s)	RX6800 via HDMI + Pioneer VSX-531 amp Technics 100W 5.1 Speaker set
Power Supply	EVGA 1000W G5 Gold
Mouse	Logitech G502 Proteus Core Wired
Keyboard	Logitech G915 Wireless
Software	Windows 11 X64 PRO (build 23H2)
Benchmark Scores	it sucks even more less now ;)

System Name	Beaver's Build
Processor	AMD Ryzen 9800X3D
Motherboard	Asus TUF Gaming X670E Plus WiFi
Cooling	Corsair H115i RGB PLATINUM 97 CFM Liquid
Memory	G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo DDR5-6000 CL30 RAM 32GB (2x16GB)
Video Card(s)	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
Storage	WD_BLACK 8TB SN850X NVMe
Display(s)	Alienware AW3225QF 32" 4K 240 Hz OLED
Case	Fractal Design Design Define R6 USB-C
Audio Device(s)	Focusrite 2i4 USB Audio Interface
Power Supply	SuperFlower LEADEX TITANIUM 1600W
Mouse	Razer DeathAdder V2
Keyboard	Corsair K70 RGB Pro
Software	Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	3dmark = https://www.3dmark.com/spy/51229598

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

phill

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biffzinker

phill

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Athlonite

MS-DOS Emulation

GitHub - dreamlayers/em-dosbox: An Emscripten port of DOSBox

erek

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Jstn7477

phill

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Darmok N Jalad

The Egg

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Mr.Scott

phill

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Darmok N Jalad

Jism

erek

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Robert B

Attachments

havli

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Trekkie4

System Name	Budget Box
Processor	Xeon E5-2667v2
Motherboard	ASUS P9X79 Pro
Cooling	Some cheap tower cooler, I dunno
Memory	32GB 1866-DDR3 ECC
Video Card(s)	XFX RX 5600XT
Storage	WD NVME 1GB
Display(s)	ASUS Pro Art 27"
Case	Antec P7 Neo

System Name	Awesomesauce 4.3 \| Laptop (MSI GE72VR 6RF Apache Pro-023)
Processor	Intel Core i7-5820K 4.16GHz 1.28v/3GHz 1.05v uncore \| Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 3.1GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X99-UD5 WiFi LGA2011-v3\| Stock
Cooling	Corsair H100i v2 w/ 2x EK Vardar F4-120ER + various 120/140mm case fans \| Stock
Memory	G.Skill RJ-4 16GB DDR4-2666 CL15 quad channel \| 12GB DDR4-2133
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 1080 Ti Hybrid SC2 11GB @ 2012/5151 boost \| NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB +200/+500 + Intel 530
Storage	Samsung 840 EVO 500GB + Seagate 3TB 7200RPM + others \| Kingston 256GB M.2 SATA + 1TB 7200RPM
Display(s)	Acer G257HU 1440p 60Hz AH-IPS 4ms \| 17.3" 1920*1080 60Hz wide angle TN notebook panel
Case	Fractal Design Define XL R2 \| MSI
Audio Device(s)	Creative Sound Blaster Z \| Realtek with quad stereo speakers and subwoofer
Power Supply	Corsair HX850i Platinum \| 19.5v 180w Delta brick
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64 \| Windows 10 Home x64

Processor	Raptor Lake 13700K
Motherboard	Asus Z690
Memory	32GB DDR4 3600Mhz CAS16
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 4070 Ti
Display(s)	Samsung C32HG70 - 32" 1440p
Case	Silverstone GD-07B
Audio Device(s)	Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 3rd Gen - Sennheiser HD595

System Name	Master
Processor	Pair of Xeon X5675's @ 4.3
Motherboard	SR-2 Classified
Memory	12 GB of Corsair Dominator GT's @ 2000 7-7-7-21
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX680
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 750

Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard	ASUS A520M-K
Cooling	Scythe Kotetsu Mark II
Memory	2 x 16GB SK Hynix CJR OEM DDR4-3200 @ 4000 20-22-20-48
Video Card(s)	Colorful RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB GDDR6
Storage	250GB WD BLACK SN750 M.2 + 4TB WD Red Plus + 4TB WD Purple
Display(s)	AOpen 27HC5R 27" 1080p 165Hz curved VA
Case	AIGO Darkflash C285
Audio Device(s)	Creative SoundBlaster Z + Kurtzweil KS-40A bookshelf / Sennheiser HD555
Power Supply	Great Wall GW-EPS1000DA 1kW
Mouse	Razer Deathadder Essential
Keyboard	Cougar Attack2 Cherry MX Black
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64 22H2

Processor	Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard	Asus Prime X570-P
Cooling	Scythe Ninja 4
Memory	32 GB DDR4 3000 CL14 (Corsair)
Video Card(s)	Gainward RTX 3080 @ 1620 MHz @ 0.7V
Storage	Crucial MX500 500 GB, SanDisk 3.84 TB SSD, Toshiba X300 6 TB
Display(s)	Acer XF270HU, Philips 252B9
Case	Corsair Carbide 300R
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar DX
Power Supply	Corsair RM850i
Mouse	Logitech G604
Keyboard	Cherry Stream 3.0
Software	Windows 10 x64

System Name	Adison "Open Space" 19
Processor	Intel Pentium II, 350MHz
Motherboard	Chaintech 6BTM, Slot 1
Cooling	SECC Cartridge
Memory	1x 64MB, PC100
Video Card(s)	ATI Rage IIc AGP, Diamond Monster 3DII 12MB
Storage	BTC BCD-40XH, Quantum Fireball 3.5 Series, EX6.4 GB
Display(s)	LG StudioWorks 57M
Case	Adison Midi Tower, ATX
Audio Device(s)	Creative SoundBlaster 128
Power Supply	Codegen 300W
Mouse	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
Keyboard	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
Software	Microsoft Windows 98