I don't remember when I heard it, but there was an OS 2 commercial on the radio. I think it was in Russian because the actress called it," O S duh-viette VARP". STILL stuck in my mind THIRTY SEVEN YEARS LATER
I miss Cyrix so much. They might not the fastest, but i am forever grateful for the fact that they (and AMD) madr pcs affordable and not overcharged like intel. Tons of great memories stemmed from me playing my Cyrix rigs. After their sad demise, ive moved to building AMD till today. Never bought intel with my own money.
"Voodoo 1" does not exist, existed nor will exist. There is, there was and there are quite a few "Vodoo Graphics" left on the market. Please stop adding "1" to the first interaction of something. There is no such thing as "Playstation 1". Not even the "Pentium 1". There was the Playstation" and the "Pentium" processor. It's tiring to always have to show the same stupid mistake that many video producers make who clearly don't know what they're talking about.
You can still buy what is still essentially a miniaturized MediaGX system for around 10 bucks. The wyse SX0 series. They make for awesome tiny retro pcs if you bother fiddling with their strange bios, but as far as I know, you can install Windows 98 on them and the integrated graphics while not a powerhouse, are competent. All of this while consuming like... 10 watts?
Few people mention this, but if you had a plain windows 3.1 system you could install OS/2 onto it and OS/2 would import/ use the windows you already had. So you could use the cheaper OS/2 that didn't have an IBM copy of Window licensed into it. This did have a rather large negative, because os/2 had to see the windows on FAT, you were stuck with using OS/2 on FAT as well, so you lost the option to use HPFS. But I think there was a way to backup windows/dos from your FAT computer, then convert the system to OS/2 + HPFS, then put the backed up DOS/windows back on the system but at that point on HPFS.
The first computer i bought with my own money was a cyrix media gx 200. I bought a voodoo2 and a DVD card foe that sucker. Then the board fried and i swaped it for a high end used board with a pentium 200 mmx. Luckily the cards werent damaged in the power surge that fried the board.
Interesting thing, but there were versions of the AWE35 with built in wavetable - U6 can be fitted with a GM capable CS9236. I'm waiting for some parts in the post and am planning to add one to my card.
i had a 486 dx4100 with a 1 meg ISA 8900C trident graphics card and i could play duke3d dark forces and even quake just fine was never jerky perfectly playable .... i could load tomb raider but could not play it it was too jerky that really needed a 2meg pci card and pentium 75 as min
Just found your channel, noticed you havent uploaded in 2 years, i subscribed because i really like the content and hope you decide to upload one day again.
I have my BL3 running at 100MHZ its fast as hell but the asus board im using is isa only, no vlb. If i find a vlb 386 board and run the BL3 cpu on it, it be a weapon.
I have a Dell Optiplex GX1 with this POS ATI card built into the motherboard. Even has the 8MB upgrade module. Chucked in a 550MHz PIII, 384MB of RAM and a PCI FX5500 with modded FX5200 drivers so I can run SS2, and never looked back. Yes, it's a nice authentic experience, but I don't have time for that. I lived through the era, and the FX5500 can drive a 1920x1200 panel in 98SE without breaking a sweat.
Oh look, same motherboard as the one I killed as a teenager (already working on pc hardware for years at the time) because I was tired and when I saw the VGA card not fully in decioded just to push it the rest of the way with the thing still on. Worse idea ever as it killed the board (would have survived had I done that with it off). Worse still the next one was a SLC33 that was the most shitty system ever in terms of compatibility. Its stupid tendency to crash randomly was astonishing, and no that was not a memory or other issue it was a CPU compatibility issue, did many many a test.
Who in the name of BALLS understood ANYTHING about networking on your home PC?!!! My HOME system was how I taught myself about any technology. Naturally, because my company wouldn't allow the use of dialup networking to access my office system, I WASTED tons of time trying to figure out how to get actual WORK done on my home system. That created more security holes in our corporate network than swiss cheese. Then someone at the top got the idea to outsource IT. The company went belly up not long after.
I still have the 3 disc that came with my IBM PC, Let's installing onto my Presario CDS520 which is like your worlds fastest 386 486-SX2-66 64mb ram 2G HDD
If there was only a way to find out how effective the cache is. If only the BIOS had a setting to disable the cache then you could run the benchmarks with cache enabled and again with cache disabled.
I still have the Quake CD that came with the card. All nice packed with its manual and all. The CD itself was a multi-cd type that came with 11 music tracks by Trent Reznor (NiN).
In the beginning, the purpose of a 3D card was to relieve the load on the CPU and thus achieve much smoother frame rates than the CPU could in software rendering mode due to the existing games, which were initially all developed for software rendering. For this reason, it is best to put such a card in a slow Pentium 133 MHz or slower. A Pentium 2 is already faster in software rendering mode. I played the first few levels of Jedi Knight in software rendering mode because my P2 266 MHz was fast enough for that and there were no usable 2D/3D graphics cards for my taste available, when i bought my P2 brand new. Around 2 years later i installed a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI as soon as it was available. A suitable card for your P2 333 MHz would therefore be a Voodoo 3 or even better a Voodoo 4 or 5 but definitely not this Rendition Verite V2200.
Wow this machine is beautiful, and what nice hardware you found, amazing. May I ask you, how(where) did you find it in so clean and new state? The ones I find are all rusty and yellow :-) Great video! Thanks
Funny to run into this video. As the original contributor of the Mobygames article on Rebel Moon (and the person who dumped the pack-ins onto the net), I do feel it's fair that you know that I wrote it nearly 20 years ago in 2006. At the time, the switch to run it in software mode wasn't known... because I was the first and only person to have even written about the game at the time. I had hunted down and purchased a 3D Blaster PCI on eBay in 2005, and previous to my article on MobyGames no information or screenshots of the game even existed on the Internet. So please, don't take it as intent to misinform or spread myths. When the article was written, as far as anyone knew the only way to run it *did* require the 3D Blaster. But I'm very happy now that everyone can enjoy the game!
