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History lesson of the day: Evolution Of PC Gaming Hardware

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HAZMAN_THE_GREAT
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2015/11/20 03:40:21 (permalink)

 
Good stuff. This video makes me appreciate even more on how far we got in gaming and PC hardware technology. 
 
So tell me guys, what is one thing you learned from this video?  I learned that graphics cards were called 3D accelerators back in the day. Well also that wolfenstein 3D engine did not utilize any PC hardware features to give it that 3D effect.


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    cneuhauser
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    Re: History lesson of the day: Evolution Of PC Gaming Hardware 2015/11/20 22:39:15 (permalink)
    Depending on how old you are, you may or may not remember Voodoo3D cards...

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    Re: History lesson of the day: Evolution Of PC Gaming Hardware 2015/11/20 23:39:09 (permalink)
    cneuhauser
    Depending on how old you are, you may or may not remember Voodoo3D cards...




    I believe that was my first card. I liked that card. I remember the design on the box was pretty awesome too.

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    Re: History lesson of the day: Evolution Of PC Gaming Hardware 2015/11/21 10:50:24 (permalink)
    I thought this video looked familiar...
     
    http://forums.evga.com/Evolution-Of-PC-Gaming-Hardware-m2413199.aspx
     


     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    Re: History lesson of the day: Evolution Of PC Gaming Hardware 2015/11/24 09:34:08 (permalink)
    cneuhauser
    Depending on how old you are, you may or may not remember Voodoo3D cards...


    I remember having an S3 Virge 3D accelerator card in my first PC and was blown away at Mechwarrior. Never had a Voodoo card though :(

     
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    Re: History lesson of the day: Evolution Of PC Gaming Hardware 2015/11/24 09:42:56 (permalink)
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    cneuhauser
    Depending on how old you are, you may or may not remember Voodoo3D cards...


    I remember having an S3 Virge 3D accelerator card in my first PC and was blown away at Mechwarrior. Never had a Voodoo card though :(




     
    I remember back to 1977 with "Personal Computers" (Ohio Scientific)....so.yeah, I remember that stuff.
     
    Had "Pong" machines before that.
     

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    Re: History lesson of the day: Evolution Of PC Gaming Hardware 2015/11/25 14:00:26 (permalink)
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    cneuhauser
    Depending on how old you are, you may or may not remember Voodoo3D cards...


    I remember having an S3 Virge 3D accelerator card in my first PC and was blown away at Mechwarrior. Never had a Voodoo card though :(




     
    I remember back to 1977 with "Personal Computers" (Ohio Scientific)....so.yeah, I remember that stuff.
     
    Had "Pong" machines before that.
     




    HAH, ok, you got me beat, but I remember as a kid seeing mainly monochrome, CGA 4 color was awesome and that new super expensive EGA (force of habit my fingers typed EVGA there haha) 16 colors.... wow those were the days, with my low density 5.25 360k floppies and a 10mb iirc MFM HDD, so yeah I have watched things come a good long way as well.  Funny thing from PC performance in the 90's, most of the shooters you could press + or - to increase/decrease the size of the rendered port of the game, and just added a box around it, hit - if it was too slow and choppy, in ROTT if you took it down to its minimum size it gave you text at the bottom that said "Buy a 486".  Or in the second expansion for Wing COmmander2 there was a card with some pics from WCV3 and a blurb saying "REQUIRES 486 SX25 and 8 megabytes of RAM to INSTALL!  Upgrade today!"  How things have changed.
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