I found an old box at my parent's place and found my prize possession of the 90s
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imgur.comFuture Shop! How many commission salesmen did you have to fight off while browsing?
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Right? You didn't even get a chance to read the label before someone ran over to "help" you.
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The minute you realized Best Buy had the same stuff for the same prices but no commission sales staff, Future Shop was doomed, and good riddance.
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Nobody pressed F
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Respect went unpaid.
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Damn - that's the holy grail. I held onto my original UltraSound and built a system around it not long ago - all because of it.
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I just threw it on ebay to upgrade my current setup. Dang people really do love this thing!
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I honestly think it's more of a look and feels thing than a real performance difference. It needs a TSR to emulate Sound Blaster and OPL so a 486 system has additional overhead with this card vs just using a Sound Blaster card.
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Mind sharing the auction? I’m, just curious...
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the pride of Canada in PCB form.
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Very nice! I love the packaging.
BTW, I don't know if this is a good idea or not, but I'm still using a Sound Blaster Live! (CT4760) in my current, relatively modern PC. Wikipedia tells me this was released in 1998-99. Works fine. Thank god for PCI. :-)
edit: just noticed it actually says 1999 on it haha.
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That's a beautiful thing. I've never seen or wondered about what GUS packaging looked like, but now that I have, it turns out it was really classy.
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It really is. I displayed that box in my room for YEARS
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generic MIDI fart sounds here we come!
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Heck, yes!
I threw my 486/66 and my GUS and GUS Max away years ago. I regret that choice. :(
Glad you found yours.
PS: S-B-O-S installed!
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Awesome.
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Top shelf.
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Very nice.
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Very cool! My GUS is a modern reproduction. As an advantage, it has 16 MB worth of sample RAM.
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Someone reproduced the GUS?
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Yeah, someone over at the Vogons forum. I am not sure what the project was called, though.
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ArGus maybe?
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Yeah, that's it!
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6 disks for a sound card!? Nuts
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Wow r/knolling would love to see some of these photos.
Also, Goddamnit! I hope you're already planning your new battlestation for this beautiful card. You should find a case with good dust filters, that thing looks untouched.
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Find someone that can solder and fill up all that empty ram space.
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Nice! I still own my very own GUS MAX and the new ARGUS prototype!
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Yikes, is that squeezing sound and disk traffic through the ISA bus?
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awesome! I feel everyone has that one special purchase. Maybe it was your first big upgrade or a christmas gift. Mine was an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card, saved up everything I could as a kid! came with a copy of Half-Life 2 and an air cooled gaming mouse! I held onto that box and card for YEARS... Then lost it during a move (someone prob. recycled it). Oh well, Found another one for $5 last month :)
Which one? can I see what it looks like ?
oh god, I wont have any pictures. It was a typical generic brand from ~2003 or 2004. Futureshop just had it as a bonus item
I had a gamepad like this around that time. The fans eventually broke but it did surprisingly, if pointlessly work.
I'm surprised it didn't catch on, why doesn't my keyboard blow air at my face?
It was this thing:
https://www.amazon.com/Nyko-80610-AirFlo-Game-Controller/dp/B0000TNJWM
Edit: Looks like AirFlo was still making something similar for consoles at least up until a few years ago lol.
Graphics cards hold a special place in my heart. <3
My first was a 8800 GT, then a 560 Ti, then a 970, and now a 1080 Ti. 8)
Voodoo2. Quake 2 was a dream on that thing.
I remember my first video card would only do VGA at first. I got a free upgrade to an SVGA monitor when I bought my 286, and I wanted to take advantage of the higher resolutions, so I had to order some DRAM chips to plug them into the board. This was right around 1990. I believe it was a Trident.
Tridents were one of the few with upgradeable ram. And “VRAM” was expensive...
Mine was a Radeon X600 Pro 256mb. I wanted it so bad because it had s-video output so I could use my flatscreen crt tv as a second monitor. Outputting 480p to a tv screen the text was impossible to read but I was proud of myself nonetheless.
Look at Mr Money here. I dreamt about Radeon 9700 Pro, wanted a more reasonable 9500 Pro but all I got was GeForce MX 200 with SDR memory...
Ooff
Are you me? I got a Radeon 9800 on Christmas specifically for Half Life 2. It's probably my favorite gaming moment ever, playing a game that seemed so advanced and actually owning the hardware to do it.
It gave access to CS source as well, that was HUGE! being able to see how reflective the tile floors were! only moment i've have akin to that was loading pokemon blue for the first time.