IVE GOT A PENTIUM 5!11 NEENER NEENER NEENEEEEEEER!1 Uhm...... This is the machine I used alot last year after my K6 266 died on May 5, 2003 (uhoh, gettin close to a 1 year anniversary, hope Cinco de Mayo don't destroy my current nice k7 tbird) Pentium 5 100MHz 32mb RAM s3 Trio64v+ 2mb (REALLY common card) 3dfx Voodoo2 12mb (Reference board) 1337MB drive (seriously, and unintentionally) SoundBlaster Awe64 512kb Runs Doomsday at 20fps.....really whoppin', everything but models on. What's y'alls? I mean still lives as in connected and all and working today <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> My 486's (one dx4 120mhz, one dx2 66mhz) have power problems, at the moment, I mean you have to restart them 6 times to get windows to boot <!-- s:o --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_surprised.gif" alt=":o" title="Surprised" /><!-- s:o -->

LOL I still have my old workstation I built in 1997, it's been top technology back then - I built myself a new workstation in 2000 (which is now discarded as I built myself an even newer one some months back), but I still have this old machine, mostly to play DOS games (it also has hardware video capturing capabilities which I used e.g. for Scattered Evil trailer). Intel Pentium MMX 166 MHz downclocked to 133 MHz (and if I push the turbo switch, it's connected to a jumper in an highly unconventional way and it downclocks the machine further to 150 MHz with a 60 instead of 66 MHz FSB, I did that to let it run even cooler in hot summers because this computer case which is a midi tower is completely cramped up, there is not enough space anywhere to put your fist in). ASUS TX97 mobo 256 MB PC66 SDRAM Matrox Mystique 220 PCI 4 MB incl. Rainbow Runner Video Studio Orchid Righteous 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics chip 4 MB 3com PCI NIC Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 VE Symbios Ultra SCSI controller Plextor IDE CD-RW 1x 2.5 gigs Quantum Fireball IDE HDD in a removable rack (mercilessly formatted as a single 2 GB FAT partition) 2x 2.1 gigs IBM DCAS SCSI HDDs in removable racks (only one of them can be run at one time, but it can be run parallelly to the IDE HDD, in which case the machine boots from SCSI and boots into Windows or Linux - if I switch off the SCSI rack by turning a key, then the system boots from IDE, straight into DOS 6.2) And yes this machine is fully working, I'm using it quite regularly up to this day. I took computer building to a perfection with this one, it's got a lot of little extras built in (some of which I listed above, add some extra coolers in unconventional setups etc). <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) --> LOL I just remembered a funny story from late '98/early '99 when in the ASUS support newsgroups all those peeps who built their shiny new PII-400 machines came asking for advice and detailing their probs and my old P5-166 didn't have the same probs... They were using IDE of course and only 64 megs RAM and stuff (at that time, my IDE HDD was in the case and not yet in a rack OTOH I had a SCSI CD-R in the place of that rack, along with a simple IDE CD-ROM drive). Like they were telling stories how they started to burn a CD and got a buffer underrrun even though they didn't even thouch the machine while the CD was being written. And I laughed and told them how I just tried it on my little old machine that I started burning a CD, then opened my mail client to browse the newsgroups, then started up a 3D shooter, played it for a time, came back and looked at the CD writer app and it was still running fine, steady data stream thanks SCSI. <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P -->

My oldest computer is a 1985-1990 Apple MAC Classic, but I don't remember the specs right now. But for the oldest PC, I have a 386 that runs at 25MHz on Windows 3.1. It even has its own drive for floppy disks back when they really were floppy. <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: --> The computer is fine, but the monitor died and eventually we did some surgery and put the hard drive into the Pentium I Windows 95, operating at 75MHz (It can hold about 1400MB altogether)...

[quote="The 4th Class":16l3xzs8]It even has its own drive for floppy disks back when they really were floppy. <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: --> The computer is fine, but the monitor died and eventually we did some surgery and put the hard drive into the Pentium I Windows 95, operating at 75MHz (It can hold about 1400MB altogether)... Yeah, my floppy drive broke :O, I had all Sierra games from 1992 and before as a big huge 5 1/2 floppy collection. I also have my basic crap on those disks as well, including the now rare Oilswell for DOS.. :O I've had a 386 16MHz (by Leading Edge) w/ VGA back then as well, but it's not working now because I've later migrated the parts over to the newer 486 case, so it was an upgrade. It ran wing commander and Xwing *sniff*

LOL my 386 even had support for CGA and EGA, and could work on 8MHz so you could use some VERY old processors and games. <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->

All computers pretty much have EGA and CGA support you know <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P --> I remember back in the day when VGA was called MCGA... I also remember playing Stunts all day on that 386 <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

True, but nowadays that's not a proud thing to be impressed about. "Come one come all. Get your new Windows XP 4.5 GHz, with two separate 80GB drives, with unlimited internet warranty and also comes with CGA and EGA support. <!-- s:roll: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt=":roll:" title="Rolling Eyes" /><!-- s:roll: --> <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: --> EDIT: Those specs were randomly called out of nowhere. <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->

Mine is a piece for a museum, it's and IBM PS/1, 32MHZ, 8 MB-RAM, 12MB-HD, it only has a floppy 3 1/2, and it barely runs Doom <!-- s:cry: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt=":cry:" title="Crying or Very sad" /><!-- s:cry: --> , I found it on the net as a museum piece, and I feel proud of it! <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P -->

4th Class - Heh the "128-bit Video adapter" advertising gag is still going around with modern computers these days.... everyone really don't know the videocard they're getting, until they have it and play around with it - this is often the evile Intel 82815 onboard video chipset, usually with 4mb of video memory. I've tested this and it ran slow in my Cheaphack engine <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( --> It has multitexture though. I mean, why does this p4 2.5ghz I've used run 20fps on Cheaphack, at 640x480x16 in default settings? My dead k6 laptop can outperform that, with a Trident Cyberblade3d i7 8mb. If you are, say like, getting a computer at Sams club, and it's on display, on and all ready and activated, ask around if they can let you run dxdiag to find out what videocard it has....or even soundcard <!-- s:o --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_surprised.gif" alt=":o" title="Surprised" /><!-- s:o -->. Find out what they don't tell you! And in the end, if you still don't know the video card, then get the hell away from them! Firebrand - Odd, I first played Doom on my 386 - In a reduced window size with low detail, of course (4 sound channel mixing). Also i've only had a regular ol mono Sound Blaster. Probably the lack of stereo mixing made Doom rather playable on the 386. I remember the software bundled with that card still! Mmmmmmm....mocking parrot, crappy microphone, VOCKIT, and of course Dr. Sbaitso. Big difference between us here, is that I got it in 1992! I did have an IBM PS/2 50MHz a bit later, and used it for playing MP3s (with Winplay) as it had a decent SB16 later on. It ran doom great <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> came with a nice-arse 17" monitor so my first impression was well. It even came with "sound enhanced" Minesweeper, and an early implementation for desktop themes for win3.1 by letting you choose "desktop sets"... came with OFfice as well, and if i can remember, it had multiple desktop ability and alot of unneccesary tools, such as an Icon maker (it could do 256-col icons too!) Meeeeeeemorrrrrrries Both of you: I don't buy computers anymore, I build them myself now. Cheaper! Forgot to mention that I never format harddrives or reinstall windows <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) --> (unless it's Windows ME or XP, I remove them and put 98se back on, except the case of ME on my tbird, as it contains the realtek network drivers for my card, and my (micro!)floppy drive don't work)

A P200 MMX with Win95, 32 meg ram, 2 gig hard drive and a PCI graphics card that wasn't accelerated. Could handle all games up to and including Quake 2 without trouble.