The Ultimate gaming machine... in '98

skankerzero · Nov 2005

For those that don't visit Fazed.net, here's a link to a video from ZDTV back in '98, where Leo and Kate built the ultimte gaming machine.

It's pretty interesting... and funny...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2563581249095877374&q=techtv

"64 megs of video ram is going to be as high as you're ever going to need to go."

Slum · Nov 2005

haha. i stuff like that. I remember that episode

WHOAH! 128 megs of RAM!! But that's so...excessive.

as a side note: I see your Lewisville and raise you a Louisville

Ryno · Nov 2005

I remember calling my ISP support in '99 when I was having some issues, and they asked me about my machine specs. Since I was doing 3d for TV/video and was doing a lot of rendering with big Max scenes, I had 256 megs of ram. When I told the tech support that I had 256 megs, he said, "That's not right." We need to know the amount of MEMORY. I said, "Yeah, that would be 256." We went back and forth for awhile, and I explained that I really did have 256 megs. The tech called his supervisor, and they began geeking out on the whole concept that somebody had that much memory in a machine.

Now, here I sit with a gig, bitching to myself that 2 would be much better.

CheapAlert · Nov 2005

cool, forsaken!

my older p2 233 could outperform that thing though, with 192mb of ram and all

KDR_11k · Nov 2005

Back then I was still counting triangles individually in my models and worried about the ~200 triangles articulated hands take. Oh and I considered a head of 200 triangles "excessive".

Slum · Nov 2005

Back then, I was sporting my 100mhz Pentium, 2.1gb hard drive, and 16mb of RAM on Win95.

KDR_11k · Nov 2005

Not even Total Annihilation would have run well on that.

CheapAlert · Nov 2005

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Not even Total Annihilation would have run well on that.

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Actually just stick in an extra 16mb and it will.

/me had used a P100, 1337mb hd, 32mb RAM, s3 trio64v+ 2mb from 1994-1998

KDR_11k · Nov 2005

Yes but until you do that you're screwed. Never mind the severe slowdown you'll get with even just a hundred units in play.

Mishra · Nov 2005

that computer took them 4500 to build. i could build that now for 45.

wow technology ages FAST man.

Fuse · Nov 2005

"this is an asoooose motherboard" bwhahahaha

i think i had a pentium 166, with 32mb of ram and a 2 gig harddrive

SouL · Nov 2005

This is exactly why I've refused to upgrade my PC.
Sure, I miss out on the last PC games, but so what?
Qauek 2 fo lyfe!!!!!

MoP · Nov 2005

I had to give my PC an extra 8Mb RAM (up to a whole 16Mb!) in 1998, in order to run Warcraft 2. I think it had a 486 DX2/66 at that point. I think it had 1mb of onboard graphics RAM, and a 400mb hard drive.
I found that hard drive recently, and actually laughed. Quite silly to think that something so big, heavy and clunky held 10x less information than a DVD I can write on my laptop.

Striff · Nov 2005

Oh man, Leo is almost skinny in that one!

Dukester · Nov 2005

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Qauek 2 fo lyfe!!!!!

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You da man!

I watched them do that at the time.

*sigh* Kate

monster · Nov 2005

This was my first computer in 98. AMD K6, it worked nice.

My 3rd computer in 99. Pentium 3... much better.

frosty · Nov 2005

I can't recall that far back.

Asthane · Nov 2005

I see your 98 and raise you an 89!

Not in any way anything I had, but I figured I'd post it. My first family comp was a gateway 386 with 4 megs of ram, first personal comp a 486. Nothing special about them...

[edit] Oh, and in 98 I got a 266mhz compaq from Fry's on a trip to Cali for a family reunion... god I hated that thing after a while. Some no-name 2d card and a 3dfx Voodoo 1 expansion card, if I recall.

KDR_11k · Nov 2005

I started on a C64 (as far as computers go, we had a Pong TV game back in the day). If I can find it I'll scan in the ad for a 20MB harddrive for 2999 DEM (1500$) in a magazine.

256000 VGA colors? That's three zeros too many. VGA was 8 bit, 256 colors. And a VGA in a 20MHz 386SX with no harddrive? Looks out of place.

Asthane · Nov 2005

Pong? Pff

Mishra · Nov 2005

"lightening fast 20 mhz!"

oh the innocence lost.

KDR_11k · Nov 2005

Asthane: We had Pac Man later when we got an Atari 2600. Yes, I know that's not real Pac Man but I was a kid so I didn't mind, I'd hardly ever manage to clear a level.

The Ultimate gaming machine... in '98

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