Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:10 pm
With whopping 23 character display, you had to be less than verbose.Originally posted by C. Murgatroyd
Yes, it was a Vic-20! With my blazing fast 300 baud modem.. man that thing flew...
I paid $300 for the CPU/keyboard. $400 for a 15 CPS dot-matrix printer. $75 for a cassette storage device. $300 for a 160k single-sided diskette drive. I thought I was living large, though.
I thought I was really uptown when I bought a 12-inch NEC color monitor for $400. That meant I didn't have to use my 13" Sony TV as a monitor anymore.
Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:41 pm
TI 99-4A and a cassete loaded version of "Hunt the Wumpus".
Sun Feb 29, 2004 12:19 am
I feel certain parts of hardware are advancing faster than others and the same for software.
Didn't people think that when year 2000 came along software was to be at the point it could understand us out of the box? Well we got drgaon naturally speaking and you still have to train it for 5 hours before you can actually useit, and even then it's takes a mega system for it to keep up with how fast you can talk. ANd you know some small unknown software firm make the perferct speech recignition program but then when a bigger company saw it they decided to buy it and rerelease the same engine downgraded.
I also do beleave they DO hold back hardware so in case they can't figure out some new marketing gimmik <cough hyperthreading cough>.
As far as the video card market goes, I think the next generation video card will be obsolete in less than 2 years from whem they come out. Video card makers don't have a set release cycle because they are constantly trying to outpace each other so they can claim to have the latest and greatest video card available.
Didn't people think that when year 2000 came along software was to be at the point it could understand us out of the box? Well we got drgaon naturally speaking and you still have to train it for 5 hours before you can actually useit, and even then it's takes a mega system for it to keep up with how fast you can talk. ANd you know some small unknown software firm make the perferct speech recignition program but then when a bigger company saw it they decided to buy it and rerelease the same engine downgraded.
I also do beleave they DO hold back hardware so in case they can't figure out some new marketing gimmik <cough hyperthreading cough>.
As far as the video card market goes, I think the next generation video card will be obsolete in less than 2 years from whem they come out. Video card makers don't have a set release cycle because they are constantly trying to outpace each other so they can claim to have the latest and greatest video card available.
Sun Feb 29, 2004 1:18 am
Originally posted by Xenius
It will be released tomorrow.
Wait: Make that 3 months from tomorrow.
Wait!: Our code got stolen, make that 9 months from the previous date.
Wait!!: HL 2 was just a good old joke on you, the player base. It's never really coming out. Haha suckers!
lol...at the pace it is at now, it won't be out until unreal 3
Sun Feb 29, 2004 1:23 am
Originally posted by Jeffro
lol...at the pace it is at now, it won't be out until unreal 3
you have Nvidia to thank for the delays
if those cards didn't need a special codepath to run the damn game without it being like a slideshow, Valve would have finished it on time and it would have been released before the sourcecode leak
Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:29 pm
In some ways that article may be true, in other ways it isn't.
A GeForce 4 ti4600, now two years old, is still plenty power full enough to run todays games at 1024x768. Why? Because all the next-gen DX9 games arn't out yet!
A GeForce 4 ti4600, now two years old, is still plenty power full enough to run todays games at 1024x768. Why? Because all the next-gen DX9 games arn't out yet!
Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:06 pm
Originally posted by hightimber
With whopping 23 character display, you had to be less than verbose.
I paid $300 for the CPU/keyboard. $400 for a 15 CPS dot-matrix printer. $75 for a cassette storage device. $300 for a 160k single-sided diskette drive. I thought I was living large, though.
I thought I was really uptown when I bought a 12-inch NEC color monitor for $400. That meant I didn't have to use my 13" Sony TV as a monitor anymore.
If you're interested in a VIC-20 emulator:
http://www.viceteam.org/
It can also emulate C-64, C-128, Commodore PET, and other things