Fun fact: The support number was not toll free and rang a company contracted for support in Greeley CO. One of the two techs was in a wheelchair, the other was a bit of a weirdo.
ADDR: 220, IRQ: 7, DMA: 5. 25+ years or whatever. So much useful knowledge forgotten along the way, and this is still embedded in my brain, just like IDDQD, IDKFA.
Even better was needing to move it to a different slot because the particular IRQ or memory range it wanted wouldn't work with the current slot. Usually had to be a slot near the middle. Still saw that crap with PCI cards into the Pentium 3 days.
I had a friend that made a multiplayer map of the school. We actually were allowed to play it in the library during lunch. The teachers and staff were sort of okay with it until the Columbine shooting happened.
I made a Doom map of my school in highscool a year after Columbine. I remember going into the office and asking for the school blueprints "for a school project" and they gave them to me, which I still can't believe. They didn't even ask for details.
One of my favorite install processes was for Command and Conquer 2 (I think) with the screen showing files (fake sci-fi type names and images) being copied, going faster and faster until the screen suddenly goes black and the green letters with the AI voice go "Welcome back, Commander"
My understanding is that there were scares about radiation early on, but what they did put out was insignificant. Studies were inconclusive, but they apparently didn't throw out more than a normal ceiling light, or standing outside for that matter. Remember, This era had commercials about microwaves giving people 3 eyes & crap because people didn't understand how the technology worked. So I bet this was the manufacturer leaning into the fear-mongering for their benefit.
I remember staying up the night the shareware was released and starting to download it. Even that would’ve taken a couple hours. I woke the next morning seeing that it was complete but had to go to school. I stood outside in the snow for 20 minutes thinking only about getting home that night so I could play it. A few moments later my mother yelled out the door that school was canceled due to the weather. It was one of the happiest days of my life.
Sticking your finger in the speaker hole was something we all did independently of each other, and no one knew why. What the hell was the manufacturer's purpose for that hole anyway?!
Turbo "off" slowed the computer down for compatibility with old games which used the CPU speed for timing (and would therefore be unplayable on faster hardware).
Simplicity seems like a silly descriptor to this video even though I totally get what you mean. I keep going back to old games (Heroes 3 my latest fix)
From the article you linked yourself: "They had to replace the test's original CPU and display, so it's really only a shell". On a related note, a Ford model T will do 300 km/h if you replace it with a ferrari
Maultasche
drinkthederpentine
Man these were the days. There was something magical about going from cmdline to 3d environment that felt the like future happening before your eyes
kotesdef
Well it pretty much was! We’re just in the future now. It just doesn’t feel so magical.
B166ERMaximus
I have Doom floppies… but Doom is handwritten. Arrr!
Eiladar
Mscdex. The thing I most commonly disabled to save system memory.
swatz
bro.. .i think i had those speakers!
nojustsayitdont
low radiation
DarkM0untain
Fun fact: The support number was not toll free and rang a company contracted for support in Greeley CO. One of the two techs was in a wheelchair, the other was a bit of a weirdo.
pr3viso
Pure dos, what a trip
shawnemack
That’s the way an enter key should sound
HardyandRamanujan
Make sure you get that Soundblaster configured first!
emu314159127001
What was the deal with installing the DOS drivers? Used to have so much trouble
IlDepo
On which IRQ is that? 3? Not good man, i already have my COM2 on IRQ 3. Switch the jumpers to set it on IRQ 7.
TheDaharMaster
lol I used to work for Creative Labs
1245restatemyassumptions
ADDR: 220, IRQ: 7, DMA: 5. 25+ years or whatever. So much useful knowledge forgotten along the way, and this is still embedded in my brain, just like IDDQD, IDKFA.
HardyandRamanujan
All these memories will be lost in time. Like tears, in rain
dashers
Which might mean you need to tit about with your config.sys and autoexec.bat. Gotta balance our your IRQs.
anteyeclimbaxe
Even better was needing to move it to a different slot because the particular IRQ or memory range it wanted wouldn't work with the current slot. Usually had to be a slot near the middle. Still saw that crap with PCI cards into the Pentium 3 days.
SirWhiskersThe3rd
I do not miss that.
dashers
Win 95 keyboard? What is this new fangled stuff!
CalvinMcFly
That keyboard sounds delicious
dashers
It's got a Windows button on it. Unfortunately that's already a membrane keyboard.
PleaseNotTheFace
I used to have to disable our CD-ROM drive in order to free up enough memory to play Doom.
dashers
Enhanced version is on Steam for like three quid. Easy multiplayer over the Internet. No fannying around with IPX or null modem connections.
Tarmaccian
Doom and Doom II (and a bundle of related material) for $10 on GOG, which is a much better store IMHO: https://www.gog.com/en/game/doom_doom_ii
KainLamond
And now it's time for bed... Guess I'll play tomorrow...
svga
DutchCraft2050
I spend hours on making my own maps with Doomed.exe...it was sooo cool!
J3lek
I had a friend that made a multiplayer map of the school. We actually were allowed to play it in the library during lunch. The teachers and staff were sort of okay with it until the Columbine shooting happened.
mattbl
I made a Doom map of my school in highscool a year after Columbine. I remember going into the office and asking for the school blueprints "for a school project" and they gave them to me, which I still can't believe. They didn't even ask for details.
Sypurist
A simpler time.
Greenyoughurtguy
I am old enough to have run games in DOS and yes my knees hurt.
woozle
nice
StopTheWorldIWannaGetOff
One of my favorite install processes was for Command and Conquer 2 (I think) with the screen showing files (fake sci-fi type names and images) being copied, going faster and faster until the screen suddenly goes black and the green letters with the AI voice go "Welcome back, Commander"
SunAnvil
mizmoose
I still have games on 5 1/4" disks. My last drive to read them died a few years ago, though.
Hammerwell
There are copy services out there. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=51%2F4+floppy+copy+service&kao=-1&kap=-1&kaq=-1&kau=-1&kp=-2&kpsb=-1&kbg=-1&ia=web
J3lek
Did they actually market CRT monitors as "low radiation"?
Drives11
My understanding is that there were scares about radiation early on, but what they did put out was insignificant. Studies were inconclusive, but they apparently didn't throw out more than a normal ceiling light, or standing outside for that matter. Remember, This era had commercials about microwaves giving people 3 eyes & crap because people didn't understand how the technology worked. So I bet this was the manufacturer leaning into the fear-mongering for their benefit.
DarthFutuza
Well the "high radiation" ones weren't exactly popular...
Peekari
To think, that was a selling point
ChloeRed
Yes, it was very common in the later days of VGA and the bulk of the SVGA era as branding. It would mostly disappear to energy star banding
FunkeymonkeyTTR
is this why the saying "don't sit too close to the screen" became popular
greenytali
Ohh ver.099 I remember the "official" version of doom by unanimous declaration of myself and friends was very 1.666
SeriousYouCantBeShirley
IDKFA
mrdruids
iddqd
JohnBluehill
idspispopd
dogmatix
IPSPISPOPD
SeriousYouCantBeShirley
idbehold + something (?)
IAmTheSlothKing
I remember staying up the night the shareware was released and starting to download it. Even that would’ve taken a couple hours. I woke the next morning seeing that it was complete but had to go to school. I stood outside in the snow for 20 minutes thinking only about getting home that night so I could play it. A few moments later my mother yelled out the door that school was canceled due to the weather. It was one of the happiest days of my life.
Peekari
ElbowDeepInAJedi
Those speakers could hear an incoming phonecall 5 minutes before it happened. *bbzzzzt clickety clickety click*
jayhaJapeLord
And all the am radio stations at once
WarmLiquidGooPhase
Even just an sms was a major event
Emswe
Sticking your finger in the speaker hole was something we all did independently of each other, and no one knew why. What the hell was the manufacturer's purpose for that hole anyway?!
Hammerwell
The bass. Or the imagination of it.
sosume
Didn't push the Turbo button. Rookie.
tokerator
😆
beatschubser
Because the Turbo button makes the PC slower.
HypoMix
Did it? What was it for? I just liked the satisfying click noise.
DianNaoChong
It slowed the processor by half for games that could only run as fast as the processor and needed half the speed
mmontour
Turbo "off" slowed the computer down for compatibility with old games which used the CPU speed for timing (and would therefore be unplayable on faster hardware).
jon5465
This took me back... Playing this / Duke Nukem. I miss the simplicity.
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
I do as well sometimes
crimpitdown9001
Rise of the Triad, killing nazis with LUDICROUS GIBBS!
getTeaDrinkTeaFly
Shake it baby
crimpitdown9001
Hmm... no time to play with myself
Vergenbuurg
PriestofThor
YES!!!
SlightlyRelatedToThePost
Old school Wolfenstein. Good stuff.
Grambot
Simplicity seems like a silly descriptor to this video even though I totally get what you mean. I keep going back to old games (Heroes 3 my latest fix)
HandoB4Javert
EpochEclipse
My first thought was, "They're playing Doom on some sort of digital pregnancy test?!?"
I still don't know what that is.
HandoB4Javert
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33957256/this-programmer-figured-out-how-to-play-doom-on-a-pregnancy-test/
AyrA
That's exactly it, although this is fake. It's not running on the device, it's running on a computer and image data is just fed to the screen.
HandoB4Javert
https://www.cnet.com/culture/programmer-makes-original-doom-playable-on-pregnancy-test/
AyrA
From the article you linked yourself: "They had to replace the test's original CPU and display, so it's really only a shell". On a related note, a Ford model T will do 300 km/h if you replace it with a ferrari
HandoB4Javert
Think the wood might have issues with that speed.