PC gaming was hard in the 90s

[Hagan]

I used a Siemens ball mouse many years ago and it was a good mouse. Its tracking was quite remarkable for a ball mouse.

[Donisia]

How quickly our computers have evolved...It is actually quite amazing

[Graal]

I used a Siemens ball mouse many years ago and it was a good mouse. It's tracking was quite remarkable for a ball mouse.

Does anyone remember how horrendous these mice were? You had to take the ball out every few months to clean it up and then it still wasn't a guarantee that it wouldn't randomly jerk around.

I still remembering getting my first optical mouse. I was so excited.

Edit: Ah, I see the article does cover it. Kids today don't know what you had to put up with if you wanted to play the latest Tomb Raider back then.

My first computer only had about a 2GB hard drive. I had to uninstall something every time I wanted to play another game.

[MetalSoup]

How quickly our computers have evolved...It is actually quite amazing

And even back then people were claiming PC gaming was dead.

[Hagan]

Does anyone remember how horrendous these mice were? You had to take the ball out every few months to clean it up and then it still wasn't a guarantee that it wouldn't randomly jerk around.

I still remembering getting my first optical mouse. I was so excited.

Edit: Ah, I see the article does cover it. Kids today don't know what you had to put up with if you wanted to play the latest Tomb Raider back then.

My first computer only had about a 2GB hard drive. I had to uninstall something every time I wanted to play another game.

My first PC (not shared) was my dual core AMD system that I had for a good number of years. My (shared) PC was an AMD Athlon single core @ 1.87GHz, running a Radeon 9600 at the time. The drivers for that card gave me problems on a monthly basis. Had to uninstall the drivers, then the card; then reinstall the card and the drivers. Started off as a once-a-month thing and later became more frequent. It was rather annoying.

[PsyWulf]

Gah,we lanned Warcraft1 using a Parralel Cable using Laplink,them was the good days :P
Copying 300Megs worth of MP3's took the better part of 2 days

At least they mentioned ARJ - the bane of my existence if a stiffy went corrupt. I think it took me 3 days of attempts to get Warcraft copied :P

[Dohc-WP]

in order to play lotsa dos games you had to exit windows and before you play you had to configure the soundcard to work with the game by manually inputting the Irq, range and dma settings in the game config settings.

oh and downloading a 14 mb demo from gamers inn (that was the place to be for all the free games and demos) using a free 30 day internet cd from mweb (which also had demo's on their disc) and netscape navigator took 3 hours on a 33.6 modem.

[PsychoFish]

and...remember when graphics cards were PCI and not PCIe?

Cleaned out an old drawer of odds and ends and saw one of these in the drawer



Took me a while to remember how excited I was to stick this in my Pentium 133

[PsyWulf]

and...remember when graphics cards were PCI and not PCIe?

And ISA before that

[Dohc-WP]

My first PC (not shared) was my dual core AMD system that I had for a good number of years. My (shared) PC was an AMD Athlon single core @ 1.87GHz, running a Radeon 9600 at the time. The drivers for that card gave me problems on a monthly basis. Had to uninstall the drivers, then the card; then reinstall the card and the drivers. Started off as a once-a-month thing and later became more frequent. It was rather annoying.

pfft junior

try having an amd 386 dx 40 with 8 megs ram , sounblaster 16, dual speed cd drive and a 40mb mfm hard drive with dos 6.22 and windows 3.11

starfield simulation was the most amazing screensaver back then