Death Inc

 from 1998

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTGMG2qUMjU


 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

how far have we come

I think in 1998 my family had just upgraded their computer from a 486 25Mhz to a pentium 2 266MHz. I asked the shop to get a 3dfx card and they put in an S3 Virge :(
I remember reading PC Powerplay and drooling over all the cool hardware I couldn't afford and the cool games that wouldn't work without a 3d accelerator.

Back then all the cool kids had a Celeron 300A and overclocked it to 450MHz on a 440BX motherboard. Or if you were really cool you'd get an Abit BP6 and run dual Celerons (although you'd have to run win NT to use multi processors, which wasn't good for gaming).

I built win98 box a few years ago. originally it had a p2-350 in it, and two Voodoo 2's in SLI. I've since upgraded it to a Celeron Tualatin 1.4GHz on a slocket adapter and a Voodoo 5 5500.

i remember going from a Pentium 1 with i think a nvidia tnt2 maybe... something along those lines and then getting a bump just after hitting high school to a Athlon XP1800+ witch ended up getting a GeForce 4 in it. was a great upgrade and i remember playing hours of Starwars Jedi outcast on that thing.

i still have the "Gaming" PC i managed to spec up in school, Athlon XP 3200+ with 2GB DDR1 Ram (i think) with an A-Bit NF7s motherboard. it was an awesome bit of kit and still works. i did get a gforce 6800 (AGP) in there as well but one of the caps broke off so it ended up with a 7600GS or something in it.

Oh... my... god... is that a young Leo Laporte!?! Scary...

Sounds similar to mine back in school, Except i had a geforce4 MX440 and before that was a Voodoo 3 lol

yeah i remember having a Intel 286 (80286 a chip-set introduced in 1982 and used till about 1991ish) with 8mb of ram, no video card (they did not exist back then), with *hold your dick* i think a 32mb HDD AND a 4x cd rom drive. i mean WOW, we had something like a 9 inch colour monitor (this was amazing in a time when most people still had 2 tone ((yellow and black)) monitors). i remember buying demos of games that only came on one floppy disc for about $5 a pop. the first 2-3 levels of wolfenstein 3d OMG WOW.  i remember my friend had a tape drive, OMG, he could put ALL OF robocop on one tape, or all of police quest, WOW. i had a copy of phantasmagoria, on 8 CDs, banned in Australia after 5 days. The 7th guest on something like 11 cds, that was a fucking puzzle game (seriously google those puzzles, FUCKING SERIOUSLY) those who played it know that it made Myst or Return to Zork look like a kids game. Yeah that clip makes me remember when games really changed

Video cards did exist, if you were playing wolfenstein you would have had a VGA video card, even if it was integrated into the motherboard. Before that the best was 16 color EGA. The original IBM PC in 1981 shipped with either a monochrome video card, or a 4 color CGA card.

3D accelerator cards didnt exist until the mid 90's if thats what you mean, with the Nvidia NV1, although they didnt become popular until the 3dfx Voodoo.

8mb RAM and 4x cdrom is pretty impressive and atypical for a 286, it must have been upgraded a couple of times.

mate my rig was upgraded, a few times, when gettting 8mb of ram cost a few hundred, it must have been onboard vid card then. mind you i was 7 when we had this rig

Started out with an Atari ST, then C64 and then an Amiga 500 before moving to PCs in 1991 with a 486SX-33 fitted out with a Realtek VGA card, 4MB RAM, 210MB HDD and Gravis Ultrasound soundcard. The GUS was the first soundcard for home PCs to feature  44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo audio. Had a 14" SVGA monitor

Upgraded in around 1995 to a Pentium Pro-200 with 1GB SCSI HDD and CD-ROM burner. Then added a Voodoo 3dfx and 17" SVGA monitor in 1997. Was the most powerful machine at most LANs I went to even with the Pentium 2s until I moved overseas for work in 1999. The SCSI HDD meant that it loaded games quicker than anyone else. Ran that rig until 2002 when I got a laptop. My parents still used it for email until around 2006.