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Re: Old fart topic: What was your hardware specs in 1992?

Posted on 2013-05-22, 16:45

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

386DX/40, 40mhz IIt FPU, Tseng ET4000 video card, forget the HD size, 16MB RAM (expensive). It was a home built machine, got the parts from an Asian importer in California a friend of mine dealt with (he sold PCs on the side back then and got a healthy discount). From what I recall it was cheap to …

Re: First post - Dual PProOverdrive on PR440FX

Posted on 2013-05-20, 23:16

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

PR440FX can do 1GB (4x256MB) that is what I have in mine along with dual 333 overdrives I got new in the box 15 years ago. makes a nice Win2k system. Prices for 440fx boards on ebay are way too high, got mine from Compgeeks.com way before they changed their name to geeks.com.

Re: Voodoo 2 Question

Posted on 2013-05-20, 02:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some days I wish I was a hoarder from 2000-2010 and not just a collector, so much stuff has gone up in price since those days. Didn't you need both V2s to have the same RAM for SLI (or did they just default to 8MB on each card)? My SLI uses matching diamond 12MB cards but I think my only V2 spare is …

Re: Early Direct3D vs. early OpenGL vs. Glide

Posted on 2013-05-20, 01:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Early direct3d was great because you didn't have to setup each game for your soundcard. OpenGL only did video and not audio I think (made a difference when 3d audio came out).

Re: ABit BP6

Posted on 2013-05-20, 01:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am going to run Win2k or NT4 on mine but it will see limited use (same with most of my collection). Lately I have been getting into a retro dual processor kick and figured I would add a BP6 to the collection. Sooner or later these boards will be hard to find working or not.

Re: What is it with retro computing?

Posted on 2013-05-20, 01:45

in Milliways

in Milliways

For me it is reliving some of my past (DOS gaming and my C64), checking out some things I liked but could not afford at the time (vintage analog video capture and editing high end systems), and trying some new things (Amiga, Mac, Apple II, Atari 800, etc). Some hardware I could never afford to play …

Re: Best Video Card for DirectX 7 and 8

Posted on 2013-05-18, 15:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The G400 max was nice for the bump mapping in some games and decent picture. Just nice to use something other then Nvidia/3dfx once in a while.

Re: Best Video Card for DirectX 7 and 8

Posted on 2013-05-17, 23:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nobody likes the Matrox G400 max for Directx 6?

Re: ABit BP6

Posted on 2013-05-17, 19:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ordered 2 x 500 Celerons, should be fun testing it out next week.

Re: ABit BP6

Posted on 2013-05-17, 18:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Athlon MPs are nice, I have a dual 2200+ setup and since it uses cheap DDR ECC REG RAM you can get 4GB for $10 shipped on ebay. Recently snagged a BP6 because I never had a dual Celeron before, looking for some CPUs to go with it.

Re: Whats with the shipping costs from USA???

Posted on 2013-05-11, 11:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

sliderider must be well off and never been sick. I have seen many people act like him until they have a problem they cannot deal with on their own and then they beg for a handout.

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

Posted on 2013-05-09, 15:17

in Milliways

in Milliways

The original Playstation was what got me to buy a console again (last one was a Atari 2600). The amount of quality games was crazy, but it couldn't touch PC games. Its not all about graphics but fun games.

Re: Whats with the shipping costs from USA???

Posted on 2013-05-08, 17:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

The UK postal service doesn't have to turn a profit, nor pay special pension plans like in the US. To be honest Republicans here want to destroy the USPS so they can sell the most profitable parts to friends and ditch the rest. There will be small cities all around the middle US that will not get …

Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris

Posted on 2013-05-08, 14:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fastest 286 I have is a 16 or 20 (could be a 20 running at 16 because of board limitations).

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

Posted on 2013-05-08, 13:29

in Milliways

in Milliways

People purchased PCs in the 80's because they were using them for work at home. Not many people were willing to spend $1000+ for a DOS gaming machine, but they would play some games when work was done for the day.

Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris

Posted on 2013-05-08, 13:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is it faster then a 386sx/16?

Re: Whats with the shipping costs from USA???

Posted on 2013-05-08, 12:32

in Milliways

in Milliways

Shipping from China to the US is pretty fast as well. It has to be government subsidized along with the fact that there is a tsunami of stuff coming here from China every day.

Re: Whats with the shipping costs from USA???

Posted on 2013-05-07, 18:50

in Milliways

in Milliways

Years ago you could surface ship stuff from the US to Canada or Mexico, now it is all done by air and that is pricey (so is the cost of fuel). I think USPS is making money on packages, its mail delivery that they lose money on.

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

Posted on 2013-05-07, 14:02

in Milliways

in Milliways

The mac was a big player in video editing (one area I collect) early on after the Mac II line with Nubus came out. Sure it was expensive for a home computer but cheap as hell compared to what was the norm at the time (the original video editing systems were $100K+ and a pain to use). The Amiga was …

Re: Ouya console scores 3950 in 3D Mark

Posted on 2013-05-07, 11:55

in Milliways

in Milliways

Would it be good for an Amiga emu setup?

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