Time for an update, good month so far. Brace yourself, it's a big one! Going to go after diodenmann's 486 motherboard and give my 5x86 another go seeing how my Batman was defective but my bad luck seems to be over for now, on the subject of that, I never did return the Batman, but the seller got onto me to ask if it was OK and said that I could so he certainly seems genuine and I believe it was a mistake - so AmoRetro is a good guy. Also looking at some SIMM RAM, a TSeng ET4000 and ET6000 before the year is out. The ET6000's are overpriced though so I might not bother with those, Virge's and Trio's are fast enough.
In the meantime, Drum machine;
Casio RZ-1, it's broken apparently but seems to be a common issue. I could have had a working RX-11 cheaper but Yamaha's early digital stuff is a bit lacking... Still both better than the analog solutions I guess.
More CPUs;
486's, couple I don't have, might sell some so let me know if you have your eye on one. For the time being I'll deffinitely be keeping most if not all the UMCs - made it my mission to own all models - the Ti 100MHz and likely the ST 40MHz chips. The 66MHz ones I have a load of, so those will almost certainly be sold at some point... I should get back to that romanian dude.
One more CPU;
Beefing up my 386... Can't find a DRx and I could get that performance from a 486 anyway, but I figured that I would drop this 486DLC-40 in to replace my DLC-33, the speed is set by a single jumper in that machine so I'll run it to a switch on the back of the case so I can underclock back to 33MHz if needed as I assume this will run fine at that speed essentially being the same CPU rated for higher speeds. My FPU (IIT 4C87DLC) is rated for 40MHz so no issues there. This machine (seen in detail elsewhere in thread, or
YouTube) is what I want the SIMM RAM and ET4000 for. It used the dual ET4000 from
Hooker (486) but that would mean buying parts for that machine, which I have never done with money, so I put it back and will buy one for this 386 instead. My goal is to run Doom and Dark Forces at a playable speed. Apparenly Dark runs on a 386DX anyway, but I only have 8MB of RAM right now, planned upgrade is 16MB - can't see anything needing more on this machine, board supports 128MB apparently. Might glue a heatsink to that CPU because the 33 I have at the moment runs very hot.
Lastly, Keen (Just one, I didn't buy all four copies);
Never owned a boxed copy of a Keen game, figured it was time I did... Cost more than I'd have liked but if you want one the bloke has two left. Have a feeling I might never open this.
None of this stuff is here yet, so no doubt I'll come back with the resulting... err... results from whatever it ends up doing at a later time.