Bit of fun for the oldies...

[alienware]

See if you can guess where this string of numbers comes from, and, even better tell me what they were for.

220 5 1

 

[WeskerPG]

2x20 = 40 5+1 = 6

406

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-A19243-406-Socket-370-Motherboard-System-Board-/321056085725

Intel A19243-406

im so good at this game....
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besides if we are going to do a guessing game perhaps narrow it down to what it is

example 3770k it has something inside...

 

[Mark3Max]

Hey Wesker , how are you so sure thats what it is?

 

[WeskerPG]

Hey Wesker , how are you so sure thats what it is?

I'm not sure about it, google didn't found it, who knows wtf is that number, might be a roll Royce serial number for all i know LOL

 

[Excalabur50]

Is this like 25 or 624?

 

[Deejeta]

easy.
manual sound card settings from the mid 90's.
i used the above settings - DMA 1 IRQ 5 I/O 220 for games like Kings Quest.

 

[alienware]

easy.
manual sound card settings from the mid 90's.
i used the above settings - DMA 1 IRQ 5 I/O 220 for games like Kings Quest.

Yep. Back in the day sound cards did not auto detect (before the days of plug and play) so you had to set the card's requests and addresses in DOS

220 was the I/O address for the controller/midi port. 5 was the IRQ (or interrupt request) and 1 was the DMA

 

[Deejeta]

yay for being old.
:beerchug:

 

[alienware]

yay for being old.
:beerchug:

Indeed !

It makes me laugh how people moan that PC gaming is too fiddly now. Christ, back then you had to set everything manually in the menu including the addresses of your hardware :lol: