For Sale: Vortex GoldenGate 386 with Monitor Master

[keropi]

Hiya! :-)

I have for sale a GoldenGate 386sx card with it's optional (but ultra-usefull) Monitor Master. Comes with suitable vga cables , original driver-disks, and 4MB installed. Fully tested and working.
Shipping worldwide and paypal possible.
PM me with an offer if you are interested.

[bigmac]

check Pmail please.

[jj]

Is this a zoror II or III card.  Will this work with Z4 busboard on a A1200.

EDIT sorry should have checked, need isa slots

[McVenco]

Just curious: what do these Golden Gate cards (386 and 486) usually go for (Ebay or elsewhere)? I know someone else who's selling one of these cards and I was wondering if the price he asks is not too high...

[countzero]

around 100$-200$ I guess ? A top 486 would be probably 300$. They don't appear at ebay very often so there really isn't any anchor point.

[keropi]

I have also seen the more rare (it appears) monitor master to go for almost 100$ !
it is usefull though...

[Terse]

The last two golden gate 486 boards went for around US$500 each.

No idea about the 386 boards.

[keropi]

500$ is way too much... I have a 486slc2 , you cannot play DOOM on it with a decent framerate, even if u use a CL5428 ISA VGA ...
with the 386sx board +ISA VGA +ISA sound you can play classic DOS games with ease  :-D

[McVenco]

The last two golden gate 486 boards went for around US$500 each.

Hot damn.... That's some 350 euros :-o

Hmm, must do some more negotiating then.. Perhaps he'll even give it to me for free (or in exchange for a few bottles of good beer) :lol:

[Krusher]

McVenco wrote:
... (or in exchange for a few bottles of good beer) :lol:

You are more likely to get a chance if he gets to drink the beer first  :lol:

[cv643d]

This card wont work in Elbox 7-slot Z3 busboard for A4000. I know, had the same card and above Z-slot.

But works perfect in A400D.

[keropi]

correct, it needs the original busboards , rbm zIII busboard does not work too.

as for the price, I am looking to sell them for the same proce I got them both: 150eur

[Terse]

keropi wrote:
500$ is way too much... I have a 486slc2 , you cannot play DOOM on it with a decent framerate, even if u use a CL5428 ISA VGA ...
with the 386sx board +ISA VGA +ISA sound you can play classic DOS games with ease  :-D

I have this exact same setup including putting the Cyrix upgrade chip on there.  I have an A2000 so I had to shell out another 100 on eBay for a proper HD disk drive to read 1.44 meg disks with...

I think the bottleneck is the ISA video card - isn't there an ISA ET 4000 that's faster?  I looked around but could find no information.

Also - isn't there a clock tripled Cyrix 486sl part?  Am I dreaming this? Or is it just really rare?

[keropi]

ISA bus is indeed a bottleneck on GG and all emu cards...
but with vga there should not be a problem...
I only had bottleneck when midi was playing through a DB50XG daughterboard connected on SB16...

I use my GG with a CL-5422 1MB VGA and a simple SoundBlaster 2.0 ... this is a highly compatible setup for the old DOS games I play...

[bloodline]

If it has an FPU you should be able to get AROS to boot on it...