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Da_Goat
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:26 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

Amro wrote:
Are you a mod at game hippo?
Yes, and a reviewer.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:35 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

Lucky ducky.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 5:37 am     Post subject: Reply with quote

P-MMX 200 mhz, 32 mb ram, win 95, Sound Blaster 16, ATI Rage turbo (2x), 3.2Gig Hd.
proven to be verey reliable, only one reformat in nearly 6 years!!
oh yeah, and a 56kbps modem
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PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2003 9:22 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

I recently degraded (problems with my newer comp , so i returned it)

this is mine , and im keeping it.

1ghz
256 megs of ram
Geforce2 Ultra
2.1 surround sound (10 bucks, lol)

I can play UT2003 at 193 fps. And Unreal 2 at around 40 or 50. It works fine. Im happy Shit-Eating Grin I will stay with it for along time.
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PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2003 9:35 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

Thrall wrote:
I recently degraded (problems with my newer comp , so i returned it)

this is mine , and im keeping it.

1ghz
256 megs of ram
Geforce2 Ultra
2.1 surround sound (10 bucks, lol)

I can play UT2003 at 193 fps. And Unreal 2 at around 40 or 50. It works fine. Im happy Shit-Eating Grin I will stay with it for along time.


UT2k3 at 193 fps? Didnt think it ran at 320x200 resolution Happy
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Thrall
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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2003 11:32 am     Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok mr smart man. It was at 640X480 resolution.
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Unknown_K
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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2003 12:05 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

Thrall wrote:
Ok mr smart man. It was at 640X480 resolution.


If your happy with it, thats all that counts. I prefer 1024x768 for FPS type games, 1280x1024 for RTS. Older games only did 800x600 or 640x480 and they were playable at the time.
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2003 3:47 am     Post subject: Reply with quote

1.1GHz Celeron
128MB RAM
56k Modem
Motorola SURFboard Cable Modem
Intel Integrated Sound & Video (really bad compatibility, upgrading video soon)
Win-XP OEM
20GB hard drive, 7.7GB HP Recovery Partition
Some cheap joystick that doesn't work in Windows or DOS Programs
HP CD-RW


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 12:36 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

I built my computer in January 2002, so it's getting a bit slow, but here are the specs:

Windows 2000 w/SP3
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
512MB PC133 SDRAM
80gig 7200 RPM and a 20gig unknown RPM
TDK 24x burner
a 5 1/4 inch disk drive that still works!
a 3.5 inch disk drive
Hercules Kyro2 video card with 64MB RAM
Sound Blaster 5.1
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Thrall
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 1:03 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

Unknown_K wrote:
Thrall wrote:
Ok mr smart man. It was at 640X480 resolution.


If your happy with it, thats all that counts. I prefer 1024x768 for FPS type games, 1280x1024 for RTS. Older games only did 800x600 or 640x480 and they were playable at the time.


Yeah well I normally play all rts games at 1024x768.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 10:30 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

okay I have an awesome old packard bell..but I can not for the life of me figure out where to check the specs...any advice?
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Unknown_K
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 10:41 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

If your running dos type MSD.exe and it should give you some basic specs like mouse/memory/processor etc
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 1:30 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php <-if you want to know EVERYTHING about your computer, try that.
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Unknown_K
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 1:49 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

Dogbreath wrote:
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php <-if you want to know EVERYTHING about your computer, try that.


I am sure that windows app will work great on a dos machine.

Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 5:10 pm     Post subject: Reply with quote

Haha! No, I assume that he has windows running on it... if not, then try what Unknown_K said.
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