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Public perception of gaming

Posted on 2013-12-09, 21:19

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Do any of you guys out there have to deal with friends/family looking down their nose at your hobby? There seems to be this perception that gaming is not something you should be doing as an adult. This isn't helped by commercials/movies/other media that portray gamers as overgrown man-children. …

Re: Why wasn't the Amiga popular in North America?

Posted on 2013-11-29, 03:16

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Well, I wouldn't say that's the gospel truth, just my take on things based on my experience at the time. You can make the argument that people value the ability to upgrade, even if they never do it. People like to have options, or at least the illusion of options. You can also make the argument that …

Re: Why wasn't the Amiga popular in North America?

Posted on 2013-11-28, 19:12

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Here is my take on the failure of the Amiga in North America: When I was in highschool, my friends and I had a motley collection of hardware, but we all had PCs, so it was easy for us to share programs with each other. Only one of my friends had an Amiga, and while I would say his out of the box …

Re: MS DOS graphical applications programming

Posted on 2013-11-11, 16:30

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Zen of Graphics Programming by Michael Abrash is (or was) the bible for graphics programming on the PC. It is more oriented towards game programming and simulation type stuff than to programming windowed apps. Perhaps that might be useful for you?

Re: When will laptop batteries get better?

Posted on 2013-11-06, 17:57

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Why is it that laptop batteries have stayed at the same capacity (as in hours per discharge) for the past couple of decades, at least as far as I can see? Typically they seem to last for a maximum of six hours (give or take an hour or two), depending on what you're doing with the laptop, and it …

Re: 486 project

Posted on 2013-11-06, 16:10

You say you want put a board with PCI slots in your riser slot? I don't think you are going to be able to do that, unless the expansion slot is already a PCI slot. If it is ISA or EISA (probably just ISA) then you're limited to ISA cards. Depending on what vintage it is, it might have EISA or even a …

Re: ISA limitations

Posted on 2013-11-03, 18:11

I have been looking and I can't find a motherboard name/model, other than it was made by Acer. BIOS shows up as American Megatrends Peaktron F, if that helps Graphics are Trident TVGA 8900C w/ 1024k RAM Oddly enough, it has a chip that says Music TR9C1710-66PCA, which leads me to believe it might …

Re: Most ridiculous thing I have seen recently

Posted on 2013-10-31, 17:59

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Every time I get the urge to blow a huge wad of cash on a PC, I look at my humble little Raspberry Pi sitting on my desk, which has about the same level of cpu/gpu power as the P II 300 I had wayyyy back and cost 1/100 the price. There is definitely a sweet spot for this stuff, unless NOT having a $ …

Re: Most ridiculous thing I have seen recently

Posted on 2013-10-31, 16:27

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The motherboard, CPU, 4 graphics cards, along with their waterblocks and backplates, would set you back around $6,000 USD. Those SSDs are pretty pricey each, along with the other watercooling parts that add up. I don't have time to look everything up but it's probably close to a fair price. There's …

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