Do you remember when

[NugentS]

XP was reasonably new
Graphics cards were probably PCIe 1x or AGP

Well I have an old Dell running XP that I am using to run some old and well loved games - and my memory just ain't that good - I can't remember what was in then

What sort of graphics cards were good then. The dell came with an ATI of some description - but I am looking for something that used to be fairly high end at the time but with XP drivers

Any ideas?

Sean

 

[AlienALX]

I remember when GPUs were ISA, and colour was a luxury !

 

[Dark NighT]

I remember when GPUs were ISA, and colour was a luxury !

I remember it taking 10 minutes to load a simple game through a tape!

As for the video card, i would probably smack a geforce 2 in there, sounds about right for the era, or at a stretch just chuck a geforce 4 ti 4200 in.

 

[AlienALX]

I remember it taking 10 minutes to load a simple game through a tape!

haha yeah man ! Don't know if you've ever heard this, but listen carefully it should bring back some happy memories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bzxzij-9fQ

I only just realised that it's called the data flow mix

 

[mb67]

I remember when (1982, while I was still in high school) I signed up for a weekend FORTRAN programming course at the local university, and they let us keep the programs we wrote on 8" floppy diskettes.

 

[Vipermk2]

Ahh the days of copying a program from a PC mag to input on my ZX Spectrum for it not to work. It took me a week to program and another 4 days to go through each line of code to find the errors normally correcting syntax.

 

[AlienALX]

Ahh the days of copying a program from a PC mag to input on my ZX Spectrum for it not to work. It took me a week to program and another 4 days to go through each line of code to find the errors normally correcting syntax.

Yup, old skool typos

How do you think I felt? I never had the return sound feed wired up from my speccy, so I could spend a whole day inputting code only for the speccy to freeze after about ten hours lol. If I wanted to play a game from code I could only play it once for every set of coding.

Amazing the patience I had back then. I guess because there was no internet and TV was only good at weekends !

 

[Tolemac]

Ahh the days of copying a program from a PC mag to input on my ZX Spectrum for it not to work. It took me a week to program and another 4 days to go through each line of code to find the errors normally correcting syntax.

Lol done it on a ZX81

 

[fadingfool]

XP was reasonably new
Graphics cards were probably PCIe 1x or AGP

Well I have an old Dell running XP that I am using to run some old and well loved games - and my memory just ain't that good - I can't remember what was in then

What sort of graphics cards were good then. The dell came with an ATI of some description - but I am looking for something that used to be fairly high end at the time but with XP drivers

Any ideas?

Sean

I had an ATI 9600 AGP 128MB which seemed pretty good for my 1400x1050 gaming laptop. So for high end either an ATI 9700/9800 XT or from nvidia the Geforce 5950 Ultra.

 

[NugentS]

I found an Asus EN7300GT passive card that seems to do the job. Its got DVI - which the previous dual card didn't have - so it works with my KVM Switch. Seems to do the job respectably and doesn't require extra power

 

[Davva2004]

Ah yes I remember playing Incoming or Descent with my ATI Rage 128 Pro at 1024x768 on an old CRT monitor.

 

[AlienALX]

Yeah Incoming was awesome. Graphics were superb !

 

[Davva2004]

My scores were awesome, the ships all spawned at the same point in the skybox so once you figured that out it was just a case of holding the fire button for epic scorez lol