Your recent acquisitions, or what retro have you bought lately?

Hmm, they were when they first posted. I looked at them. Killing moon thing was the last one

 

sorry, not sure what happened, re-uploaded the images.

Im also looking at quite few Whitebox games to add to my collection, one might argue they are not the originals but its definitely easier to find old games in White box for lot less.

 

Awesome! Jealous as these were on my list of games to collect but I never got around to them. I did however pick up the first game in the Tex Murphy series Mean Streets.

Speaking of Tex Murphy, I just found out someone is doing a fan remake of Under A Killing Moon and it looks pretty good. If you check his channel you'll find videos of his previous updates.

 

Awesome, I had totally forgotten about the Tex Murphy series.

Just as an aside, until 18/01/25 i.e. this weekend, you can buy the entire series at GOG for $9.16 i.e. 75-85% off (besides the newer one from 2014, which is also on special but $7.59 by itself).

 

wow that's cool ! looks really good vs original ! I think the hardest part will be blending in the low res videos but curious to see where it goes ! Thanks for sharing.

 

Picked up this lovely Socket 7 motherboard with a K6-200 and bit of RAM.



pretty decent motherboard with wide CPU support - https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/fic-pa-2005

 

Nice, has USB too! was that common for socket 7 boards?

 

Nice!

Will you keep and AMD in it or add in an Intel processor?

 

apparently the USB doesnt work on these motherboards? I read it somewhere on vogons but I will try. Would be nice to have Win98 running on this with USB.

I looked into what CPUs I can put in it but seeing its not a super socket 7, I would need to play around with voltages. So I think I'll just stick with the K6 200Mhz for now. I have another PC with Pentium 233 MMX already but wanted a K6 for nostalgia as my friend had one growing up.

 

Errr.. Accidentally bought a Radeon X850XT Platinum Edition AGP. Sent an offer I considered to be pretty low and it got accepted :/

 

Oh man thats awesome! Been looking for one for a while! If you dont mind me asking, how much was it?

 

How? Is what who was it, how much was it, or how is it?

eBay, $2xx, don't know yet, haven't gotten it.

 

Sorry, edited. Was typing on phone in excitement

thats pretty decent price, nice work!!!

 

as I recently acquired a pimped up Amiga 500 and also an Amiga 1200 I thought I'll spring for a nice modern high quality power supply so this just arrived :

 

you motivated me to get one of these: X800 XT Platinum AGP





I used to have one in the old days as well as 6800 Ultra, shame I sold them but managed to get this one for decent price. Not sure what CPU combination I will use with this. Would be nice to find Atlhon 64 FX for this.

 

Yeah nice. How much did you pay?

Good pickup to get one with a Silencer

I grabbed a Zalman VF900-Cu from shirl and that's half installed as of last night.

I actually have a 939 CPU you might want, it cost me a pretty penny because I just hadn't seen one for sale, and haven't since.

Opteron 185, with box. It's an FX60 without the unlocked multiplier. Basically the second best CPU for that platform.

 

Grabbed an iconic blue parallel port zip drive a couple of days ago for $20. With power supply, parallel cable and a zip disk included.

A bit grubby, not unexpected for 30 year old tech, but still works perfectly.

 

it was just over $250 with postage and import fees (from UK).

Opteron 185 is awesome !

btw I also managed to pick up couple 9600XT AGP cards:

 

Nice. Here's my before and after/tonight's progress.

 

Zalman coolers were the shit. Had them on my 9700/Athlon 64 combo.