"Retro" Collection

[Artex]

Sup fellas.  Not sure if anyone checks back to this board, but I thought I'd share my collection of PCs/components from around the time-frame when we were active Cyberquest gamers!

Let the nostalgia begin...

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[Locust]

Holy shit does that bring back some memories! Having worked in PC retail pretty much that whole time from '96-'00 (Milwaukee PC, Best Buy [fuck that place]), I've seen pretty much all of those parts and had them in my hands at one point or another.

It's a damn shame I wasn't as much of a data hoarder then as I am now: I would have a complete archive of all old software and files and emails and all that shit. I really wish I had kept my old Pentium 120; that thing was a beast of untold proportions with it's few megabytes of RAM and Orchid Righteous 3D accelerator card next to the Diamond Stealth for 2D acceleration. I was one of the only kids on my block with a system that could play high (today: crap) quality video under Windows (3.11 for Workgroups) in full screen (800x600, because 1024x768 interlaced was too hard to see on my 14" CRT  )

[Artex]

Holy shit does that bring back some memories! Having worked in PC retail pretty much that whole time from '96-'00 (Milwaukee PC, Best Buy [fuck that place]), I've seen pretty much all of those parts and had them in my hands at one point or another.

It's a damn shame I wasn't as much of a data hoarder then as I am now: I would have a complete archive of all old software and files and emails and all that shit. I really wish I had kept my old Pentium 120; that thing was a beast of untold proportions with it's few megabytes of RAM and Orchid Righteous 3D accelerator card next to the Diamond Stealth for 2D acceleration. I was one of the only kids on my block with a system that could play high (today: crap) quality video under Windows (3.11 for Workgroups) in full screen (800x600, because 1024x768 interlaced was too hard to see on my 14" CRT  )

For sure!  I've been collecting this stuff for a few years now - fun building these retro machines!  I remember playing that Terminator game at your house - you on your P120/Orchid Righteous 3d/Roland SoundCanvas and me on my P75+overdrive/Orchid Righteous 3d/Ensoniq SoundScape.  You used to put the Terminator 2 soundtrack on full blast and loop the "Escape Theme" over and over while we played multiplayer.  Driving those jeeps around was so damn fun!