VERY RARE!!! Advanced Gravis Ultrasound GUS PnP

Man, talk about a flashback! But yeah, unless it has Apple written on it, old electronic junk is just that ...
 
Never had the GUS, but I had the GUS ACE card, which was really nice for its time (mid 90s). Paired it up with my MediaVision PAS-16.
 
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dvsman said:
Man, talk about a flashback! But yeah, unless it has Apple written on it, old electronic junk is just that ...
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Oh, I wouldn't call it junk. My stance it the exact opposite for old hardware.

I couldn't really care less about Apple stuff.

PC stuff is where it is at. Check out the vogons.org forum.

But prices like that are just insane. Most I would pay for one would be maybe $150 tops. And even then that would be pushing it.

There is a current project for an upgraded reproduction version of that same card that uses a 72-pin SIMM instead of 2x 30-pin SIMMs. The total cost for the beta cards, including parts was around $75 if that.

I have the Compaq version of that card. It has only one RAM slot. I paid a whopping $70 for it.
 
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I remember looking on the side panel of game boxes at Eggheads Software store to see what sound cards new games supported. I went from an Adlib card to a Sounblaster something or other. I remember having envy for the geeks that were real [H] and had Roland GS 32s (IIRC?). Haha man I'm old!
 
Lol, what? Almost a grand and they couldn't clean it off for the pictures?
 
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I still have a GUS MAX with box, floppies, and everything.. it was a 512k card but I ugradeded it to 1mb. The GUS MAX was the card to have for the demoscene back in the day.
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interested in selling that GUS Max?
 
dvsman said:
I remember looking on the side panel of game boxes at Eggheads Software store to see what sound cards new games supported. I went from an Adlib card to a Soundblaster something or other. I remember having envy for the geeks that were real [H] and had Roland GS 32s (IIRC?). Haha man I'm old!
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When I got my new 486 DX-33 in 1992, I was one happy 11 year old, playing Wolfenstein 3D, amongst other games (Wing Commander 1/2 as well). Only had speaker sounds, so Star Control 2 with its MOD music played over speaker was a big deal. I was really jealous of my cousin with his Media Vision Thunder Board that could emulate AdLib and Sound Blaster -- until I got a birthday gift of a MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum 16, later that year. That really made my day back then.
 
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When I got my new 486 DX-33 in 1992, I was one happy 11 year old, playing Wolfenstein 3D, amongst other games (Wing Commander 1/2 as well). Only had speaker sounds, so Star Control 2 with its MOD music played over speaker was a big deal. I was really jealous of my cousin with his Media Vision Thunder Board that could emulate AdLib and Sound Blaster -- until I got a birthday gift of a MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum 16, later that year. That really made my day back then.
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I had a similar experience with Wing Commander 1 and Sound Blaster 8-bit. When I got it, and then installed a Freak'n SPEECH PACK....WOW.

I play around with a lot of vintage computers from an 8086 on up to Pentium 3's, though my sweet spot is the 386 to 486/Pentium 1 era of DOS and early Win3.1/9x games. Anything like a Pentium 3 on up, well...just doesn't seem old enough to be called vintage. Not yet anyways.
 
dvsman said:
I remember looking on the side panel of game boxes at Eggheads Software store to see what sound cards new games supported. I went from an Adlib card to a Sounblaster something or other. I remember having envy for the geeks that were real [H] and had Roland GS 32s (IIRC?). Haha man I'm old!
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Roland MT 32.

The prices they generally go for now are crazy as well.
 
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