"state something completely random time!"

[MrMatthews]

Your threads generally seem to go pretty well, so keep it up.

[Crystalpepsifan]

No one on a video game forum wants to talk about video games. Just bicker about other members. Go on about dumbass conspiracies )(planes being CGI is one of the stupidest things I ever read but not as dumb as holograms) and the one time people do talk video games is SNES vs Genesis specs like someone insecure trying to prove how much greater something is that isn't. That's why I make possibly too many topics. An attempt at video game discussion but it still devolves into trash. Is everyone here just miserable with misery loves company and it's a dumping ground?

Miserable? Bro, I'm livin' the life. Working 50-70 hours a week, haven't had a vacation in 5 years, does that sound miserable to you? Because it's pretty fucking sweet.

Speaking of video games, I've been on a jag of playing call of duty games lately. Run through Modern Warfare 1 and 3, Advanced Warfare, and Black Ops 1, just started Black Ops 2.

[profholt82]

I'm on vacation right now in Florida. Surfing all day with my kids, eating lots of great seafood and sampling local beers in the evenings. I brought my gameboy and a few games along, but I kind of wish I had an actual console for the evenings when the girls have all gone to bed. I'm kind of a night owl, and I've looped Operation C a few times already, so it's lost its charm. And I apparently suck at Battletoads, so I end up more frustrated than anything with that one.

[bultje112]

Anyone like the "exotic" chocolote bars? Like with the bacon bits or potato chip pieces in?

I love the ones with caramel and seasalt in them. it's the best because it feels like eeting chocolate and potato chips at the same time. the perfect combo.

[Mega Drive Bowlsey]

Urgh... Jesus, guys! Crisps are savoury and chocolate is sweet, and never the twain shall meet.

Oh and cheer up, Segata. I like your threads and I do talk about games, it's just that there's been so much bloody drama around here lately that it's easy to forget that it's a Sega forum. More like the pilot episode for a soap opera. All we need is an abortion, a murder and maybe a couple of rapes on the forum, and we could produce our own hit drama series.

[bultje112]

Urgh... Jesus, guys! Crisps are savoury and chocolate is sweet, and never the twain shall meet.

Oh and cheer up, Segata. I like your threads and I do talk about games, it's just that there's been so much bloody drama around here lately that it's easy to forget that it's a Sega forum. More like the pilot episode for a soap opera. All we need is an abortion, a murder and maybe a couple of rapes on the forum, and we could produce our own hit drama series.

best chocolate bar around. it's also fair trade. my girlfriend due to her languqage skills knows many foreigners with who she went to school with, always ask for these chocolate bars and "stroopwafels" when she visits them.

[profholt82]

So, last night around 2am I was half asleep when the condo started rumbling and we could hear what sounded like a long, sustained explosion, very loud. I had heard that there would be a private launch at Cape Canaveral (our condo is on the beach about 7-8 miles south of the space station) sometime over the weekend, but there was no official launch time disclosed to the public because it was private. Well, it went off late last night, and it was awesome. It was like a bright fireball with a long tail soaring through the sky. Apparently it was a rocket owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

[profholt82]

This is a pic of it in the sky. Although in person, the colors were a bit different, more white and blue mixed with the orange and yellow, very vivid in the night sky. I didn't even try taking a pic with my phone, because night pics look terrible on my screen.

[bultje112]

wonder where it's flying towards, since the earth is flat and we live in a dome.

[The Jackal]

Hey Vamp, what sound setup you use for your '98 PC, if you don't mind me asking?

[NeoVamp]

Hey Vamp, what sound setup you use for your '98 PC, if you don't mind me asking?

KT7A MOBO
512Mb Ram
1GHZ AMD cpu (original heatsink)
Matrox Millenium MGA-G400 32MB AGP Video Card Classic Vintage VGA G4+MILA/32/OE5
2 STB 3DFX Voodoo2 1000 12MB 100MHz in SLI
All fans replaced with Noctua fans (and drilled 2 holes in the side with fans because the fucker was getting too hot)
special heatsink for the northbridge chip instead of the tiny noisy fan that was on there.
Diamond Monster Sound MX300 Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830+Aureal SPDIF aka Diamond MX25

And I put a 160gb IDE hdd in there and partitioned it to what? 135gb? something about Win98 not seeing more than 138gb per HDD. (multiple partitions do not work)

Win98SE English version + SP1/2 and Fan SP3 or something.

[Eep386]

One of my old favorite DOS games. Damn do I love Dan Froelich's AdLib music deeply.


Retro rig 1: IBM PC 300GL
Intel Pentium 90MHz (with FDIV bug)
32MB SDRAM
256KB cache in COAST slot
2MB Cirrus GD5446 VGA onboard
Unusually quiet-spindle Maxtor 6.4GB hard drive running on Maxtor/Promise SATA-150 controller card (using IDE interface)
Diamond-branded OPTi 82C929 sound card with genuine Yamaha YMF262 OPL3
Windows 98se
Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5 (genuine copy)

Retro rig 2 (in progress): Whitebox 486 PC
-hardware in state of flux-
Cyrix 486DX2-66MHz
16MB FPM RAM
256KB async cache onboard
1MB Oak OTI087 ISA VGA video card (it's a fair bit faster than you might think)
Quantum Fireball TM 3.8GB IDE hard drive
Avance Logic ALS100 ISA sound card with illegal clone YMF262 (sounds exactly the same as a real one far as I can tell)
Windows 95 OSR2, IBM PC DOS 6.3

Retro rig 3 (on hiatus, pending a floppy cable): IBM PS/2 Model 56SLC
IBM 486SLC2-40MHz
16MB parity FPM RAM
Onboard 256KB IBM VGA
Awful old worn out 1GB SCSI drive on its last legs
Windows 95 OSR2

[The Jackal]

KT7A MOBO
512Mb Ram
1GHZ AMD cpu (original heatsink)
Matrox Millenium MGA-G400 32MB AGP Video Card Classic Vintage VGA G4+MILA/32/OE5
2 STB 3DFX Voodoo2 1000 12MB 100MHz in SLI
All fans replaced with Noctua fans (and drilled 2 holes in the side with fans because the fucker was getting too hot)
special heatsink for the northbridge chip instead of the tiny noisy fan that was on there.
Diamond Monster Sound MX300 Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830+Aureal SPDIF aka Diamond MX25

And I put a 160gb IDE hdd in there and partitioned it to what? 135gb? something about Win98 not seeing more than 138gb per HDD. (multiple partitions do not work)

Win98SE English version + SP1/2 and Fan SP3 or something.

Thanks man. I'm slowly building up a retro PC up now (well kinda - just have a AT101W keyboard -_-), but I'm undecided what kind of build I want. I'm thinking a 486, but IDK. Need to research more.

@Eep: Nice as well.

[Raijin Z]

I should get a larger HDD for my 486 when I can. 1GB seems like a lot, when in fact, it is not.

[NeoVamp]

I have a 233mhz + voodoo1 for MSDOS stuff and a 1ghz + voodoo2 for Win98 stuff.
and all I can think about now is building a 386dx and fill it with ye olde adventures like Indy3 and Loom!