Hellboy :
Who remembers having cache ram chips on the motherboard, oh those were the days ....... Also ATI video cards with memory slots on them...
Those were the days. You could make a cool cooler from a Chunk of cooper adn aluminum. OCing was a blast.
Lemme take a trip on memory lane and necro this post:
■ There were 2D cards and 3D Cards.
■ Network cards were expensive , and a 10 Mbits Hub was the best.
■ If you were short on money you could always make a backbone or token-ring network the coaxial cable.
■ Network could be done by a RS232 or parallel port. Ussually was.
■ Plug and Play was called Plug and Pray. Because if it didn't worked, you were facked.
■ Creative made terrific Soundcards, witch btw, were quite a luxury. I had a AWE 32 with programable memory banks that was great !!
■ To rip to MP3, you had to pass to wav and then compress to MP3. And it took loads of time. And loads of space.
■ AMD was a overclockers brand.
■ Seagate made great HDDs.
■ Conflicting IRQs was a pain in the ass.
■ Microsoft called Windows 95 that name, because you needed to reinstall it 95 time to get it work right.
■ Internet ? Science Fiction.
■ 2M was a great software to expand you floppy to 2MB. When you were hardcore and 1.44Mb wasn't enough.
■ You were hardcore when you bought low density Floppys, drill them a second hole and used 2M. From 720Kb to 2Mb.
■ PcTools was a hacker toolbox. And a calculator to pass it from hexadecimal.
■ Apple made computers.
■ Cyrix and texas Instruments also made CPUs.
■ Himem.sys and Emm386.exe where your friends Vs Base memory (640Kb)
■ The first Cd-Rom i had, honored the eject button. A 1x Matsushita that had a spring for the eject. Ejecting with a electric motor was a luxury.
■ Turbo button was everything but that.
■ CPU had pins. the PSUs were hardwired to the On/Off button.
■ You felt tanned after playing Golden Axe, Prince, Rick Dangerous for hours in front of a CGA/EGA16 screen
■ Playing at 640x480 was hardcore.
■ Matrox made gaming cards.
■ SLI worked like a charm. Hail the Voodoo's !!!
■ You could wake your entire building by printing in a 7-pin printer for 2 minutes.
■ Joysticks were great. Gamepads were for consoles.
■ Skate or Die, or Ski or Die were games to have. Winter Challenge or Summer Games were to break keyboards.
■ If you pirated any game, you will need to make copies of their manuals. Freaking Budokan i never got the manual !!!
■ You could fit 4 people playing in the same keyboard with Ironman !! Those were the days.
■ Everybody clapped when they came with the deltree.exe command in MS-DOS 6.22.
■ Everybody got pissed there was no undeltree.exe.
■ I broke 2 Joysticks with X-wing and Tie Fighter. Never finished the latter though. Never bought another Joystick.
■ Viruses were rampart. In those days, Norton and Mcaffe were the AV software.
■ The first time i tried Panda Anti-virus, it was already crap.
■ EA made games.
■ Microsoft budled a Anti-virus with the OS (CPAV)
■ Never released updates.
■ I has a portuguese had to print and then with a pen add á,é,ó,ã,ç and others. No portuguese Keyboard support. Or printer support by that matter.
I think it is enough for now. Anybody care to join me in memory lane ?
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