[aklug] Re: CPU/RAM on older hardware

On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Tim Gibney wrote:

> I loved Monkey Island. My dad was rich and could afford a nice 486 dx/2
> 66mhz with a huge 8 megs of ram and a 1 meg video card and a 340 meg hard
> drive for $3400 back in 1993 when the game was out. I worked all summer to
> get an expensive Sound Blaster awe 32 and Monkey Island sounded cd quality
> almost. My friends 8 bit sound blaster and his 386 could only play it with
> crappy EGA graphics.
> Go youtube search Monkey Island as slahdot.org had an article about the game
> being played from the pc speaker to cd-quality audio by 1994. Very
> interesting.

Day of the Tenticles was another great game from that era (& publisher).

> Anyway remember that terminology from those old days and getting excited
> about hearing what an overclocked dx2 at 66 mhz could do vs a dx with 33mhz?
> The days of Computer Shopper.

:-) Ah, Byte, Compute!, and Computer Shopper were my favorites back then.
Remember the whole SX series crap? Math coprocessor?! Who could need
that?!

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Sun Sep 5 08:52:07 2010