There is a special place in my heart for IBM 60's and 80's. If you need help taming the beast, let me know.

X1950 XT 256MB

GTX 260 216 (65nm)

Voodoo3 1000 and V3 2000 box which will be a nice match for one of mine V3 2000 AGP.

Ah, the early-mid 2000s where futuristic 3D females were decorated on many graphics cards

Bancho wrote:

This showed up this morning and will be going into my 200mmx machine. […]
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This showed up this morning and will be going into my 200mmx machine.

Terratec EWS64s card with an unknown size simm module. Came with manuals but unfortunately no Driver CD. Does anyone have this they could upload or know where I can get it?

That's a nice one. Congrats. 😀
Been lurking on them Terratec cards my self, yet I can not decide if they are worth what people charge.

oeuvre wrote:

Ah, the early-mid 2000s where futuristic 3D females were decorated on many graphics cards

Yup... They were all over the place. Hated that type of art to my guts.
I found it, and still find it, a sad way of selling stuff to young people.
Well... Taste difers and I know other people here just love it.
To me, it is just an utter distasteful way of using sex to sell stuff.

brostenen wrote:

Yup... They were all over the place. Hated that type of art to my guts. I found it, and still find it, a sad way of selling stuf […]
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oeuvre wrote:

Ah, the early-mid 2000s where futuristic 3D females were decorated on many graphics cards

Yup... They were all over the place. Hated that type of art to my guts.
I found it, and still find it, a sad way of selling stuff to young people.
Well... Taste difers and I know other people here just love it.
To me, it is just an utter distasteful way of using sex to sell stuff.

Personally I liked the mid-90s boxart more. And I also never particularly liked the way many females were portrayed in video games (and in certain videos like the NV GFFX one with that elfish looking flirtation and most games aren't about breasts and hips but more about shooting moving stuff and flying decals and stuff anyway). But imo it's more the oversexed stuff that is supposed to impress me and distract that actually bothers me. If I wanted to go look at pretty women I'd just get out the front door...I mean...

It's truly distastefully to the max, but it's a brief part of computer history so one kind has to respect it for what it is. It sort of like the box art on 3dfx cards.
I still don't like it.

Jade Falcon wrote:

It's truly distastefully to the max, but it's a brief part of computer history so one kind has to respect it for what it is. It sort of like the box art on 3dfx cards.
I still don't like it.

^Agreed.

I did kinda like the box art of the Voodoo cards, they seemed pretty voodoo to me 😜

After deciding it wasn't worth faffing around with converters etc anymore, I decided to just buy a 1600x1200 monitor. I picked up an HP LP2065 which I hopefully am collecting tomorrow.

The great thing about it is it should hopefully be an IPS monitor which supports all DOS resolutions as well.

The reason I say should is there were some of the same model that released with a MVA panel and there's no obvious way to tell without seeing it in person.

Fingers crossed!

Tetrium wrote:

If I wanted to go look at pretty women I'd just get out the front door...I mean...

Right on bro'.... Right on!! The best part now, is that within 3 month's, they start wearing summer clothes. 😜
As we say on Denmark. Get "hungry" in the city, "eat" at home.

But most people that would buy into sex marketing for computer parts would likely not be able to find a girl 🤣

What about those who don't like girls?

luckybob wrote:

What about those who don't like girls?

Well theres that, but I don't know where to start there. I do know that going both ways doubles your odds.

Jade Falcon wrote:

luckybob wrote:

What about those who don't like girls?

Well theres that, but I don't know where to start there. I do know that going both ways doubles your odds.

Zero X Zero is still zero 😢

ODwilly wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

luckybob wrote:

What about those who don't like girls?

Well theres that, but I don't know where to start there. I do know that going both ways doubles your odds.

Zero X Zero is still zero 😢

I believe your over thinking my post. But I get what your saying.

The scantily clad women on hardware boxes is neither old nor new.. Sapphire used to do this up until very recently. I had this Radeon 7770, and when the box arrived home my SO kind of gave me an eye.

It's really tasteless, I kind of feel ashamed of being part of some demographics that are judged to be susceptible to this kind of marketing..

luckybob wrote:

What about those who don't like girls?

They can go get a 3DFX card 😁

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After deciding it wasn't worth faffing around with converters etc anymore, I decided to just buy a 1600x1200 monitor. I picked u […]
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After deciding it wasn't worth faffing around with converters etc anymore, I decided to just buy a 1600x1200 monitor. I picked up an HP LP2065 which I hopefully am collecting tomorrow.

The great thing about it is it should hopefully be an IPS monitor which supports all DOS resolutions as well.

The reason I say should is there were some of the same model that released with a MVA panel and there's no obvious way to tell without seeing it in person.

Fingers crossed!

I have that monitor (IPS), but I use it only for Arcade emulation - MAME and such, on native 1600x1200. As it has 4:3 and Pivot for vertical shooters 😉 I did try it for DOS usage but didn't like the picture quality. Picture quality is much better with my current DOS monitor LG MA228VA.

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sketchus wrote:

After deciding it wasn't worth faffing around with converters etc anymore, I decided to just buy a 1600x1200 monitor. I picked u […]
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After deciding it wasn't worth faffing around with converters etc anymore, I decided to just buy a 1600x1200 monitor. I picked up an HP LP2065 which I hopefully am collecting tomorrow.

The great thing about it is it should hopefully be an IPS monitor which supports all DOS resolutions as well.

The reason I say should is there were some of the same model that released with a MVA panel and there's no obvious way to tell without seeing it in person.

Fingers crossed!

I have that monitor (IPS), but I use it only for Arcade emulation - MAME and such, on native 1600x1200. As it has 4:3 and Pivot for vertical shooters 😉 I did try it for DOS usage but didn't like the picture quality. Picture quality is much better with my current DOS monitor LG MA228VA.

Ah yes, I don't expect much from it from DOS , but I wanted a monitor that would just do everything I wanted, since I play Quake 2, Unreal etc. I would like to get a better DOS monitor down the line, but something that is 4:3 and has a decent panel will do for now.

Also, you have any pictures of the LG? I had a google of the model number, but nothing popped up.

Sorry, wrong model. I typed from memory. It's this one LG M228WA:
https://www.amazon.de/LG-M228WA-Widescreen-La … g/dp/B000S0UNYK