Matrox Interview

[mj12]

I haven't seen anyone post anything about the interview with Dan Wood (Matrox Director of Technical Marketing) in the new issue of Maximum PC. Great magazine with an interesting interview! He answers question about the G200 OpenGL fiasco, next gen cards, etc. I'm not sure if it has hit the newstands yet, but it has PIII vs Athlon on the cover.

[SCompRacer]

I made reference of it in response to a to a basher post here, but I can't remember which one.

Had to do with frame rates and quality as quoted from page 55, the BIG print under the picture. It's also in little print on page 50, but easier to see on page 55.

I also wish I had my old Commodore 64. Now thats reaching back.

[Jorden]

Scompy, I still have mine, all rigged up at the attic, playable when you flip the switch The only thing crashing lately is my Action Replay Mk4

Jorden.

[SCompRacer]

Jorden, cool! I never considered saving it at the time I got rid of it many, many years ago. I replaced it with a Radio Shack TRS 80 (think thats the right model #), along with a cassette recorder for tape backups.

An article by Alex St. John, AKA "The Saint" in MaximumPC brought back memories about the Commodore. Had some startup screen shots around here somewhere, to replace the boring Windows start up logo.

I also should have kept my Apple McIntosh, with the 1 Meg Dove upgrade, for a whopping total of 2Meg! That kit even came with the tool to up the power supply voltage after the upgrade.

And that completes the tour of memory lane....

[Mark F]

Do an APPLE II+ and COLICOVISION hold and water here?

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a CD

[MrBlue]

I still have my C64, but the color chip is all screwy, and the text is random colors. Kinda wierd looking, but makes stuff unusable.

-MrBlue

[Guyver]

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A (The grey/beige model, not black and silver - until I spray painted it ) 16KB RAM, Speech Synthesizer, Cassette recorder, Super Extended Basic, No printer, 19" Television for a monitor - whew hoo - that was the upgrade from the 9" b&w. Handcrafted joysticks to replace the crapola ones from TI.. With the extra wired switches that went to the 2nd joystick.

This allowed Parsec to fire continuously without overheating the ship. Only it would leave the lines (for the laser blasts) on the screen. IF you crashed into them, you blew up... If you shot over the top without overheat protection turned on, it would erase the old laser blast.

Ahh... The memories...

[Jorden]

what is it with all our memories all over these fori??

Seems we do need our old stuff once in a while ... lol... just to see how GOOD it was...

Jorden

[KvHagedorn]

Wow, Guyver. I had a TI99 too. The black and silver model. Just got to use it a little bit though, before it went to my father's office. Had hours of fun playing some D&D type game and making little graphics with tunes to go along (of course, all programmed into the thing in BASIC.) 13"TV was my first color monitor.

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Kind Regards,

KvH

[LAMFDTK]

Tunnels of Doom ?