"VLB or PCI was going to be the smarter choice" - VBL occupied almost the whole length of the computer case, PCI was a "short" slot. There was no surprise on that PCI became more popular :) Probably the old card did not support DirectX. That simple. My card (The 8Mb ATI) not really supports OpenGL …

I wanted especially that 40Mb / 8Mb thing to test stuff in "extreme situation". I would like to see what my Win apps do if the memory runs out or such things happen. Sadly i have just one monitor (LCD! :) ), keyboard and mouse, and not any network stuff, so these old machines (the P133s) are just …

My current PC what i use for programming: Pentium 233MHz MMX 160Mb SDRAM 8Mb ATI RAGE PRO PCI 30Gb HDD + 4GB HDD 3.5" FDD 5.25" FDD LG 52x32x52 CD - RW SONY 52x CD - ROM XWave QS3000A Sound card 33 Kb/sec modem Win98 + crappy Linux needing GCC It is high - end... Or it was at least in it's age :) …

Sorry, now after at least a hour my validatiom mail arrived to my original username. For me this board screws up: it displays post in complete random order sometimes displaying nothing at all: at least the search engine worked and i could find this topic :( As i can remember Stunts was released as …