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Do you still think GalCiv 1 is fun even with GalCiv II out?

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#700 by Veteran Evil Roy - 10/15/2004 12:21:06 AM

mmmm, will have to do some more research.

glug glug glug

puff puff puff

now....click click click click

pause. why as everyfing gone green.

hic

#701 by Citizen Weyrleader - 10/15/2004 12:21:37 AM

#702 by Citizen NewfyScotian - 10/15/2004 7:02:36 AM

I read somewhere that the AMD chip prices drop this month. Perhaps I will upgrade my noisy furnace at the end of the month.

Its funny, during the days (years?) of Doom, Quake, Quake 2 I always had a computer that was close to the bleeding edge. For the last 4 years I have been with a P3 500.

I was very happy at the time that my machine met the minimum standards for Galciv. I was happier still that it worked fine and was very playable.

#703 by Citizen Aww_Nuts - 10/15/2004 7:16:02 AM

For the record. When I was issued a contract (approximately 7:00 pm CST on 10/14) I was at Busch Stadium (St. Louis) waiting for the start of the Cardinals/Astros playoff game. I would have been quite the easy target.

#704 by Diplomat Peace Phoenix - 10/15/2004 7:50:43 AM

Target Aww Nuts seen. Proceeding to elimination .....

Target eliminated
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#705 by Citizen Termil - 10/15/2004 9:41:57 AM

Link to a test Foundation page Link

Looks good to me.

#706 by Citizen NewfyScotian - 10/15/2004 9:44:33 AM

Aw Nuts ... Just missed saving you. I was on the Diplomats web site.

#707 by Citizen Wicked One - 10/15/2004 12:24:03 PM

Yeah it is nice Newfy that galciv doesn't have really high demands for gameplay, but it doesn't matter to me because our new computer is a Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz, one whole GB of RAM, only for the RAM, and a 160 GB harddrive!

Along with one of the latest Radeon graphics cards availible, Road Runner internet service, twenty inch high color thin screen moniter, two hi-quality speakers with a subwoofer linked all together, it's a very nice computer!

Yes I do know quite a bit about computers for my age, I think there'ye kind of neat.

#708 by Citizen NewfyScotian - 10/15/2004 2:01:56 PM

Thats a nice 'puter! I also have a large monitor. 21 inch tube monitor. Thing weighs in at around 100lbs. ok, it feels like 100 it is probably closer to 50.

I have already figured out what my next computer is going to be. Top of the line AMD with a 6800 GT Nvidea card. Everything else will be similar to yours.

#709 by Citizen Wicked One - 10/15/2004 3:33:50 PM

I have already figured out what my next computer is going to be. Top of the line AMD with a 6800 GT Nvidea card. Everything else will be similar to yours.

That sounds like its going to be a nice computer Newfy, hope you enjoy it whenever you get it!

#710 by Citizen Weyrleader - 10/15/2004 3:36:06 PM

Green with envy. I can't afford that. My latest computer is an upgrade of a 486 mother board to a P4. I need a new video card. I have an ATI Mach64 GX with 4MB of memory!

#711 by Citizen Wicked One - 10/15/2004 3:37:46 PM

I need a new video card. I have an ATI Mach64 GX with 4MB of memory!

WHOA THATS OLD!!!

#712 by Citizen Weyrleader - 10/15/2004 3:38:29 PM

Tell me about it.

#713 by Citizen Aww_Nuts - 10/15/2004 3:40:47 PM

Okay, you wanna talk computers. My first computer was an original Apple (circa 1978) it was model num 0000750. It had 16k Ram (yes that's k not meg). A 32k memory upgrade cost $300 (I am talking 1978 dollars mind you). It used a cassette player for tape storage. You had Basic or my preference 6502 assembler op code. Booya, I am a fossil.

#714 by Citizen Evil Druid - 10/15/2004 3:47:58 PM

I'm trying to talk my business partners into buying us all new computers for home. Strictly for business use of course

I have always had a computer from work at home, but its been about 4 years since we bought new ones. Lot eaiser spending before tax dollars then after.

#715 by Citizen littlewotts - 10/15/2004 3:50:32 PM

Green with envy. I can't afford that. My latest computer is an upgrade of a 486 mother board to a P4. I need a new video card. I have an ATI Mach64 GX with 4MB of memory!

I have an old VooDoo 3500 TV I'll give you. It's a few generations old, but I'll bebeter than what you have. Gonna be tough finding drivers though....

#716 by Citizen Weyrleader - 10/15/2004 3:51:53 PM

Ok, since we are trying for braging rights to be the oldest fossil, my first computer was a DEC Rainbow with 980K of memory (that's what it came with) and a 2MB hard drive, 5 inch floppy disks (two of them). It actually was a dual processor, with a z80 doing the I/O. I still have it and it still works, although it mostly takes up room and collects dust (well, the dust has to somewhere!)

#717 by Citizen Evil Druid - 10/15/2004 3:54:45 PM

and a 2MB hard drive

2 MB hardrive. You'd never need that much room.

#718 by Citizen Weyrleader - 10/15/2004 4:45:06 PM

2 MB hardrive. You'd never need that much room.

Actually, I mistyped. It was a 20 MB hard drive. It cost 2K just for the drive. The total system in 1985 dollars was about $10K. I wish I had that much now!

#719 by Citizen Evil Druid - 10/15/2004 5:00:21 PM

I remember when I got my 286 with 40 MB hard drive and everyone was going, like wow, you'l never be able to fill that up. It cost only $4K for the whole system.

#720 by Citizen Termil - 10/15/2004 5:15:37 PM

Someone I can relate to

My first PC was an Apple IIe with TWO external hard drives that took 5 1/4" floppys. I don't think there was an internal hard drive. Games came on multiple floppys you had to change everytime you went into a new dungeon or whatever. Ahh yes...for the good old days of Questron

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#721 by Diplomat Technician - 10/15/2004 5:18:23 PM

I had something in college I can not remember much of it I think the thing was made by Timex.

My first real computer had a 8080 micro 540K of RAM and twin 5 1/4 inch disks.

#722 by Citizen Wicked One - 10/15/2004 5:46:40 PM

My goodness you guys you did have old PC's! I stand amazed at the seemingly futuristic computers(at the time) that cost everyone what a car would cost, that only have like one one-thousendth the power of what computers have today at only a fraction of the cost of what they used to. The oldest computer that I remember our family had was a Packard Bell Windows 95, with a 10 MB hardrive, and it cost three times what this computer cost. Man how technology has grown!

#723 by Citizen LORD EVIL STEVE - 10/15/2004 6:43:01 PM

DA FIRST COMPUTER I IZ HAVING WAZ DA BBC MICRO (DA FIRST RISC CHIP I TINK). AND IT WAS ELITE DAT SET ME ON DA ROCKY ROAD TO GAME SLAVERY. DEN I AD DA COMMODORE 64, DEN DA 286, DEN DA 486 SX33, DEN DA P1 120, DEN DA P2 433 CELERON, AND NOW DA P3 1100. I IZ STILL TRYIN' TO CATCH UP!

#724 by Citizen Aww_Nuts - 10/15/2004 6:46:27 PM

In the early days of Apple computing there was almost no software available. The hottest games were distributed in magazine form. A person then had to type in the entire game program (and debug same) to play. I kid you not. You usually made 2 or 3 tape copies (on cassette)because tape transfer was iffy at best. The first RPG titles available (besides the original dungeon game) was "Beneath Apple Manor", "Ultima" and then "Wizardry". Ultima was good but for its time "Wizardry" was a tour de force. It made my college gaming group all but give up pencil and paper quests. Nothing like the drinks, the "listening" to the Doobie Brothers and playing games.

One other little curio about the original Apples. The RESET button was directly above the RETURN button. The RESET button did a full power on restart (later with advent of floppies, a reboot). Think of the number of times you hit the ENTER or RETURN key. The chances of losing everything in memory was just a keystroke away each time.

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