These sort of listings make me laugh: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/155050070630 $1200 BIN for a Sidewinder wheel. "NOS!!!" Looks well used to me....
No super retro, but did some maintenance on my Acer TravelMate 7730 laptop. It's a late 2008 desktop replacement with some reasonable specs:...
This popped up on eBay, a 386/486 EISA motherboard for $35: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/225027155803 Rarely see EISA boards, so piqued my...
I did notice they hadn't been cleared but I just formatted them for testing. It'd be good to see what they were used for!
$15pp for three untested PCI cards: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/334393930728 Two uninteresting Ensoniq cards, but the third looks to be a ESS...
I bought two of these, they turned up today. Drive 1 reports 2000 days powered on and 330gb written. Drive 2 reports 80 days powered on and 1tb...
No worries. :) I've got the same SSD in a PowerMac G5 with a very fussy SATA1 controller and it works perfectly. That one had very low TBW, I...
Intel 320 40GB SSDs for $14.90 posted: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/304432953744 Comes down to $11.92 posted if you have eBay plus, also cheaper if...
€69pp for two wavetable modules is a great deal from Serda Shop: https://www.serdashop.com/S2-E-Wave-Green-Bundle Has the Dreamblaster S2 and ESS...
I was watching Adrian's Digital Basement on YouTube and a Reset OPL2/3 utility was mentioned: https://github.com/stargo/resetopl Could save...
It was stored quite well indoors, but would have been more or less at ambient temperature which wouldn't have helped. Time catches up to...
The Power Mac 7300 I recently dug out of storage to get going again has fought me every step of the way....
I'd say ~$50 posted is pretty good for an ISA wavetable soundcard. :) I really like how the Compaq Business Wavetable sounds and setting it up...
Dell D600 Pentium M laptop for $59pp, this should have a Radeon Mobility 9000 32MB so could be a bit of fun:...
Did some maintenance to my Socket 7 PC today (from page 1 of this thread!). [ATTACH] It's a Pentium 200 MMX on a Asus SP97-V motherboard, 64MB...
My A500 Mini turned up yesterday, hopefully will get a chance to fire it up today. I completely missed the Amiga's when new - had DOS PCs and...
That card has done the rounds. :D I think shane41 got it for me in one of his big overseas freight forwarding orders years ago.
L4D retro?! Good god, how did that happen. :Paranoid: Loved this game. Not a huge FPS fan, but it was such an easy one to get into and it really...
Not sure on the CPUs, they look like Apple parts though. I can't remember why I'd have four. :confused: Did I sent you a Sonnet G4 accelerator...
I dug out a few things from storage over the weekend, they've been tucked away since about 2011 or so: [ATTACH] The box is full of parts for the...