Here's a snapshot of one of my vintage rigs - a 486DX-33 with 16MB RAM and a Cirrus Logic VESA card. In the audio department it's equipped with a SB Pro and a Roland SCC-1, and it's also got a Thrustmaster game card. Great for old 2D adventure games and early 3D games like Falcon and Chuck Yeager's …

Sure, I'd love to do that, actually I'd like to make some YouTube videos about them, starting with the Indigo. Retro SGI machines are an absolute addiction because they had this mythical status back in the 90's - they cost tens of thousands of dollars, so only studios could afford them, and for a …

This might be a bit unfair since I don't have this setup anymore, but I do still have all the computers shown (and more). Most of them are currently packed up waiting for the day when I can dedicate a room to them. http://www.erimez.com/misc/computers.jpg Not shown: my homemade 486, Pentium, and P- …

IMHO computing is NOT as much fun as it used to be in the 80's and 90's. Back then, things were evolving rapidly and there was always something brand new that you could do with computers - first 2D imaging, then full-motion video, then 3D, then internet, etc. There was always something to look …

I didn't work in games until the early 2000's, but I'd imagine that in the early 90's game artists were also using early versions of Photoshop quite a bit (verions 2.5 and 3.0 most likely), as well as 3D apps like LightWave 3D and 3D Studio for DOS, or perhaps Softimage 3D and PowerAnimator on SGI …

That's my friend Courtney - she's credited at the end of the video and has a profile on voice123.com here. She's quite a person - Mensa member, acts in her spare time, and would probably be happy to do more voiceover work on other YouTube videos, so feel free to contact her.

Just a heads-up that I've posted a new episode of Silicon Classics to my YouTube channel that reviews the Forte VFX1 headgear, a virtual reality gaming helmet from 1995. This episode was literally months in the making and will probably be the last video I post for a while. I hope you have as much …

My family's second computer, bought in June 1995, was a Micron Millennia P-133 with 32MB RAM, a 1.2GB hard drive, Sound Blaster AWE32, and 4x CD-ROM. It came preinstalled with WFW 3.11 and included a free upgrade to Win95 when it was finally released (which was a painful, buggy process!). It was a …

Was your MX 440 64-bit or 128-bit? GPU-Z reports it as 64-bit. It's the low-profile Dell OEM AGP-8X version and looks bare-bones. Model numbers on the front of the card are Nvidia P117, 180-10117-0000-B00, 8902 Ver: 110, and on the rear are stickers labeled CN-0G0169-69702-442-3238 and Rev A03. …

I recently bought an eVGA GeForce 6200 (AGP, 256MB, 64-bit bus) card to replace a GeForce4 MX 440 (AGP, 64MB) that was in a Dell Dimension 4600 system. Both cards are fanless. I was initially worried that the 64-bit bus of the 6200 card might hinder its performance, but so far I'm very pleased. In …