PC gaming was hard in the 90s

Ah those were the days.

Still remember trying to play counterstike 1.6 online via 56k modem. IN some cases it was smooth, but had major lag spikes every 5 - 8seconds
 
Never actually had internet back then, so got my patches off the PC Format or New Age Gaming discs.

Networking was a pain sometimes, with coaxial cables, but it was great fun once you got it working! There was always one guy that couldn't get onto the network..
 
I still have a very old counterstrike game that i played on our old PC... was amazing, and playing with the mouse after it broke was the best, taking it apart used to be so much fun...
 
Ah, the memories...

I remember taking our family PC to a friend that had internet. I would go and visit the whole weekend and download at least 5 songs the whole weekend!

Also...hehehe...he said stiffy...
 
I would literally walk a couple of km's to a friends house for a LAN (with a CRT monitor, no less!)

And the coolest guy in the room was the guy just installing his 20GB Seagate Barracuda drive - I remember thinking there's no way he would be able to fill it up :p
 
I used a Siemens ball mouse many years ago and it was a good mouse. Its tracking was quite remarkable for a ball mouse.
 
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Hagan said:
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.
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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.
 
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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.
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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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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

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Took me a while to remember how excited I was to stick this in my Pentium 133
 
Hagan said:
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.
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pfft junior "whistling:

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 :p
 
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