90s Nostalgia Thread

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I had the 300a precursor, a 266 with no cache that would do 448 MHz no problem. I was rocking Total Annihilation and other fun games like duke nukem 3d, shadow warrior, hexen, etc. Played these on NT 4.0 with the direct x hack. Man, I thought I was the shit to be doing that. Never had the 6 MB canopus pure3d, but I did have the the original monster 3d with a diamond aureal 3d sound card and later moved to the Nvidia TNT series cards.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I think you meant celery. At least that's what we called them haha.

You're right. It's celery

 

[BurnItDwn]

The Pure3D was awesome, I ran with that card for way too long, was on a very very strict budget back then due to only working part time and being a student...
I upgraded from Voodoo to S3 Viper 2. It was good in some games and garbage in others. Kept that until I found a cheap used Geforce DDR, but by then it was after the end of the 90s.

Ooohhhh ... found the Review
https://www.anandtech.com/show/410

And here was Anand's christmas present for us back in 99.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/429

I had lots of awful hardware back in the day. Upgraded from a 486 DX33 to a Cyrix P200 plus, then, to a K6 233, and then, finally to the 300a .....
Eventually stuck the 533 "celermine" on the same bh6 and ran that at almost 900mhz until the mobo eventually reported a bios checksum error after 10ish years of abuse.

 

[kage69]

I had the 300a precursor, a 266 with no cache that would do 448 MHz no problem. I was rocking Total Annihilation and other fun games like duke nukem 3d, shadow warrior, hexen, etc. Played these on NT 4.0 with the direct x hack. Man, I thought I was the shit to be doing that. Never had the 6 MB canopus pure3d, but I did have the the original monster 3d with a diamond aureal 3d sound card and later moved to the Nvidia TNT series cards.

Now there's a title I miss. Such an underestimated game.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Now there's a title I miss. Such an underestimated game.

Total A was the BEST game, and still is one of the best games. It was great in it's vanilla form, it was great with Core Contingency, and it was great with various mods.

TA Kingdoms was a huge disappointment on the other hand...

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Ah, the 90s - not nearly as good as the 80s but looking back, it was better than I remember. I guess that’s what hindsight gives you.

IMO, PC gaming really hit its stride in the early 90s and that golden age lasted into the mid 00s. I still remember eagerly anticipating the release of Tie Fighter in 1994 and then paying an absurd price to bet it early from Babbages. I believe that is still the most I ever paid for a video game and that isn’t even factoring inflation. It was worth every penny though and I still have the original box and floppies on my bookshelf.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Total A was the BEST game, and still is one of the best games. It was great in it's vanilla form, it was great with Core Contingency, and it was great with various mods.

TA Kingdoms was a huge disappointment on the other hand...

Agreed.

TA was my first real computer game... Overall well designed - and still pretty original. I think they would honestly do fine remaking the series....

My 2nd game after TA was C&C: Red Alert.

 

[snoopy7548]

Ah, the 90s - not nearly as good as the 80s but looking back, it was better than I remember. I guess that’s what hindsight gives you.

IMO, PC gaming really hit its stride in the early 90s and that golden age lasted into the mid 00s. I still remember eagerly anticipating the release of Tie Fighter in 1994 and then paying an absurd price to bet it early from Babbages. I believe that is still the most I ever paid for a video game and that isn’t even factoring inflation. It was worth every penny though and I still have the original box and floppies on my bookshelf.

I'm certainly biased towards the '90s since that's when I grew up (born in mid-80s), so all of my good childhood memories are from that era.

PC gaming was hands-down the best in the '90s. I remember when my friend's brother showed us the warez chatrooms on AOL, but I think that was more late-90s.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Anyone remember Pogs?

 

[kage69]

Total A was the BEST game, and still is one of the best games. It was great in it's vanilla form, it was great with Core Contingency, and it was great with various mods.

TA Kingdoms was a huge disappointment on the other hand...

Couldn't agree more.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I still have Total Annihilation installed. Been a couple years since it was played. I have 3rd-party maps and units that enhance it muchly.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Babylon 5.

Rendered with Amiga (At start).
https://www.geek.com/games/cgi-first-introduced-to-tv-in-babylon-5-by-mit-presentor-771051/

 

[William Gaatjes]

And the Nintendo 64. N64.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I still have Total Annihilation installed. Been a couple years since it was played. I have 3rd-party maps and units that enhance it muchly.

...do you never format your computer? I would question if that could even run on XP... That was like Windows 95 days.

 

[Chaotic42]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=750955301775542

 

[BurnItDwn]

...do you never format your computer? I would question if that could even run on XP... That was like Windows 95 days.

GOG I believe re-released it, and Steam Re-released it as well IIRC. The original version ran ok on Win XP but was prone to crashing. Me brother plays with it on Windows 7 and claims it's stable. Not sure about 8 or 10. Whatever happened to windows 9?

 

[FeuerFrei]

...do you never format your computer? I would question if that could even run on XP... That was like Windows 95 days.

No I just reinstalled it after upgrading to Windows 7 in 2014. I think it's version 3.1c. Can't check right now.
I suppose it's possible I downloaded it from GoG - though I have game discs still.

 

[highland145]

Playing Duke, peer to peer over the modem, really sucked for the guy not hosting. I had the fastest computer, 300mhz, so I surely needed to be the host.

 

[Ns1]

abit bh6 + celly 300a + Half Life or Quake ... mmmmmmm

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me? I had a failed 366 celly that I wanted to go to 550 but it was only go to ~458. Also: overclocking with a lead pencil

 

[Starbuck1975]

80s was the better decade but I have fond memories of installing my first Soundblaster audio card to play Dune 2 and Tie Fighter. Some of the best PC games came out in the 90s.

 

[Carson Dyle]

 

[highland145]

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[vi edit]

Oh god. Writing my own boot disks for a packard bell 486dx with 4MB of RAM to correct irq conflicts and maximize memory. The memories that just triggered.

 

[BurnItDwn]

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me? I had a failed 366 celly that I wanted to go to 550 but it was only go to ~458. Also: overclocking with a lead pencil

Holy crap I remember the pencil trick, used to change the multipliers on the durons and tbirds since pretty much any 700mhz duron or tbird could push past 1ghz on stock cooling

Sorry your celery wasnt so good man. Hopefully the decades that have past since then have lessened the blow!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh man I forgot about Packard Bell. I used to always call it Packard Hell. lol.