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it was REALLY thick and the CD had a lot of interactive funny stuff on it. PLUS a lot of the coconut monkey "I would help you, but i have no hands"
 
I have the very first issue of PC accelerator from back in 1998. I also have a collector's issue of PC Games from 1998 that has the "Greatest Games of All Time" article. It's great.
 
Originally posted by: KarmaPolice
it was REALLY thick and the CD had a lot of interactive funny stuff on it. PLUS a lot of the coconut monkey "I would help you, but i have no hands"
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Coconut monkey! Hahaha... good times back in HS.
 
ah 1996...I remember it well....Am5x86 133 PR75, 32mb EDO, S3 Virge 4mb, 1.2Gb, 15in CRT, Win95a FTW...those were the days
 
Originally posted by: Stumps
ah 1996...I remember it well....Am5x86 133 PR75, 32mb EDO, S3 Virge 4mb, 1.2Gb, 15in CRT, Win95a FTW...those were the days
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I was a king the day I got my Everest 200mxx, and more so the day I got my STB Velocity 128.

With the giants did I walk through the valley of the dead...
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
1996?

My family got a Pentium Pro 200mhz from Gateway that year. That was the shiz!
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the physical dimensions of the chip had me in awe...

as did the wide-mouth cans of Mountain Dew...
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster

the physical dimensions of the chip had me in awe...
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Actually that's just the heatspreader, the processor and L2 cache were no more than a quarter of the apparent surface area.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Stumps
ah 1996...I remember it well....Am5x86 133 PR75, 32mb EDO, S3 Virge 4mb, 1.2Gb, 15in CRT, Win95a FTW...those were the days
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I was a king the day I got my Everest 200mxx, and more so the day I got my STB Velocity 128.

With the giants did I walk through the valley of the dead...
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MMX pentiums were pretty rare in Australia back in 96...even Pentiums were ridiculously overpriced then.....but my little 5x86 was a real beast...it had no ploblems with most games at the time....although swapping my VLB 3D blaster for an S3 Virge was a massive mistake.
 
"I couldn't be more excited about joining the Prey team," said Schutema. "I took one look at the Prey engine and knew immediately that Prey was a force to be reckoned with. I think that Prey was the only project in the industry that could have pulled me away from MechWarrior 3. We're going to take Prey over the top."
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Ouch, failed to follow through on that promise...
 
Was surviving on patched together rigs from 1993 to 1997 (AMD 386 DX-40, IBM 486SL, P60 (w/FDIV!), P90, P133).
1998 : ABIT BX6, P2-333 @ 400, Canopus Pure3D II, 3x Seagate Cheetahs, miro DC30 -> OMGWTFBBQ high-school rig! 😀
 
Originally posted by: Stumps
although swapping my VLB 3D blaster for an S3 Virge was a massive mistake.
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😀

Oh, and forget PCGamer, Malak has the right idea, PC Accelerator was the best mag out there.😉
 
Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Originally posted by: Goosemaster

the physical dimensions of the chip had me in awe...
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Actually that's just the heatspreader, the processor and L2 cache were no more than a quarter of the apparent surface area.
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I didn't know what a heat spreader was back then😀
 
Originally posted by: andylawcc
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Oh, and forget PCGamer, Malak has the right idea, PC Accelerator was the best mag out there.😉
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yes indeed.
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Front cover has Duke Nukem, the guy from Daikatana, and a Klingon all in suits, black sunglasses, and guns. The headline says "Quake II Killers". We all know what happened there.
 
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