ZVG card skyrockets to $661 on Ebay

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Those ZVG Zektor Vector Generator cards have been going up in price like crazy the last year or more. $661 yesterday on Ebay!

I bet that less than 10% of the people who have bought a ZVG card over the years have ever been able to get them working properly. They are just sitting in boxes in a closet.

Who the heck wants to track down and old DOS PC, old Sound Card, and then you have major issues with Drivers in DOS and just a horribly un-user-friendly experience in DOS Vector Mame.

I sure hope the Vector FPGA cards are released eventually to replace the ZVG and Vector Mame.
 
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Those ZVG Zektor Vector Generator cards have been going up in price like crazy the last year or more. $661 yesterday on Ebay!

I bet that less than 10% of the people who have bought a ZVG card over the years have ever been able to get them working properly. They are just sitting in boxes in a closet.

Who the heck wants to track down and old DOS PC, old Sound Card, and then you have major issues with Drivers in DOS and just a horribly un-user-friendly experience in DOS Vector Mame.

I sure hope the Vector FPGA cards are released eventually to replace the ZVG and Vector Mame.

If that's what someone wants to use, more power to them.

What was the point of bringing this up?
 
I saw that price, wow!

I was going to bring it up also, as it makes the hoarders reconsider their kit

That one had no vector cable either and fetched a record price
 
I'm not so sure. I have 2 that I purchased for projects over the last 2 years, and they were both in the $500 price range. Not that far off....and by the time you add in the ebay fees, it is in the same price range. I just need to find so repro art so I can get started on the builds.

Brian
 
I had bought from the last official run, but eventually sold mine when the cpo and marquee project dragged out for years.
 
Just for preservation, one sold on eBay this weekend or $517.89. I was out bid on it.

Thanks
Brian
 
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Who the heck wants to track down and old DOS PC, old Sound Card, and then you have major issues with Drivers in DOS and just a horribly un-user-friendly experience in DOS Vector Mame.

How old are you spring chicken?

I always thought/felt that DOS was friendly and windows wasn't. (Until maybe windows 95? But more so because the world changed and DOS took a backseat.)
 
Windows has never worked right. Not ever.

And now bit defender and not be disabled and has right to delete any file it wants and does not even tell you. Except that it deleted a file.

Once steam gets better on linux, im moving back. And will vm windows for cad work and pshop. But hell I still like pshop 5.5 over ce
 
i'm sure you can thank half of those who appreciate vectors and DOS6.1 here on KLOV ;)

Fixed it for ya ... :001_stongue:

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I've helped bring up a half dozen of these. The hardest part of this project is finding a PC that can drive a Soundblaster in DOS. They were plentiful 10 years ago. They will be extinct soon.
 
who would thought that one day a 486 would be worth something? ahahahah

DOS 6.2 was the bomb.
 
I come across old pcs all the time.

Pm me what your looking for.

Cheap prices and I ship flatrate

From hdds to processors. Morher boards.. Ill ship a whome comp minus the case... Unless u want that too and on your dime


Pm me with a list and ph# ill txt with pics if I find something
 
I'm not really looking at the moment, but I should probably post this for posterity.

Intel made a change in the Southbridge chip circa 2004 which breaks the Soundblaster emulation (and thus DOS MAME) for Soundblaster PCI cards.

The gritty details are here: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=24769

So a P4 manufactured before something like April 2004 is the sweet spot for this project. It should also have legacy IO ports on the mobo:

IDE
2 PS/2 ports
parallel port
 
Curious if it could be run through a Virtual Machine... I believe they have sound support...

Brian
 
Yep, they changed something to steal and not let go all the IRQ settings the soundblaster can use.

I'm not really looking at the moment, but I should probably post this for posterity.

Intel made a change in the Southbridge chip circa 2004 which breaks the Soundblaster emulation (and thus DOS MAME) for Soundblaster PCI cards.

The gritty details are here: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=24769

So a P4 manufactured before something like April 2004 is the sweet spot for this project. It should also have legacy IO ports on the mobo:

IDE
2 PS/2 ports
parallel port
 
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