PC gaming was hard in the 90s

PsychoFish said:
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
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if you had a pci graphics card u where rich

Vesa was for all the middle class folk who could afford pci cards to game

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Dohc-WP said:
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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You had a soundblaster? Lucky bastard. I had to split the wires on my 286's internal speaker and attach to a 3.5mm jack which I plugged into my music center's aux input. It was magical.
 
And trying to LAN a game where everybody was on different versions, so someone always had to uninstall or re-install depending on whether you had the patches available or not.
 
PsychoFish said:
Hmmmm...Doom multiplayer over a IPX/SPX network the joys of days gone by
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LOL we used to get our computer science teacher to let us play Doom in our Friday class. At least when someone hadn't stolen all the boot disks and mouse balls.
 
Lol.. it's funny how all these old hardware made us so happy back in the day.
Also remember getting my first gaming gfx card, it was a TNT2 16mb. Upgraded from a PCI 2mb card.

Games were awesome on my 300mhz Pentium2. with 32mb of ram
 
blaaislaai said:
Lol.. it's funny how all these old hardware made us so happy back in the day.
Also remember getting my first gaming gfx card, it was a TNT2 16mb. Upgraded from a PCI 2mb card.

Games were awesome on my 300mhz Pentium2. with 32mb of ram
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Screw my first gfx card, I remember "upgrading" and getting a SOUND CARD!!! That let me play Age of Empires 1 and Dark Reign! WINNING!!!
 
I also remember that I couldn't play Quake 3 with only 32 Mb of RAM we had in the family PC then, and it was the very first time I bought PC hardware with my own money. Bought 32 Mb of RAM. My father didn't want me to put it into the PC myself, said I didn't know what I was doing. So that night I actually got up when everyone was asleep to put the RAM in the PC and play some Quake 3
 
Cnc red alert lan was awesome. Also half life :p
Man oh man I remember the hassle it was when I first got the net. Had to get the black box from mwed when that first was around:p
And that bloody noise.

I still remember those days but I was more of a sega megadrive man and nes, only got my pc in 1998 but had a friend whos dad was the manager of microsoft sa so he had a lan setup in his mansion lol. We jamed cnc red alert all the time.
 
DieGrootHammer said:
I also remember that I couldn't play Quake 3 with only 32 Mb of RAM we had in the family PC then, and it was the very first time I bought PC hardware with my own money. Bought 32 Mb of RAM. My father didn't want me to put it into the PC myself, said I didn't know what I was doing. So that night I actually got up when everyone was asleep to put the RAM in the PC and play some Quake 3
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My mom didn't want me to install a new hard drive into our PC. She had a IT place do it with labour costs and everything.

Meanwhile at the LANS we were swapping HDD's like there was no tomorrow "whistling:
 
My first PC had a 500mhz CPU and something like 32 or 64mb ram. HDD wise, all I remember was my first big upgrade was a 4GB HDD. WOW I felt like I could fit all kindz of data on that baby and it would never run out. Now DVD disks have more space on them lol.
This also makes me think when CD RW came out. Can't believe that me and my dad paid R1000 to get us a 32x CD Writer. Now you can get 56x DVD writers for R250 :(
 
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