Yeah, I've pretty much been running the Rage 128 Pro from the DA in the QS at 1600x1200 for the past couple of years because the GeForce4 MX has the wrong connector. Somehow I wound up with more than one of the rage cards, I'm glad I didn't need to Flash it. Sending a Mac VidCard over to the Dark Side seems particularly evil . . . but somehow I managed not to do it anyway. < evil >
The Voodoo3 is working out quite nicely. When Corel Draw was introduced, it trumped Illustrator's feature set just before the release of Windows 3.0. I built a 386SX/CoPro system to run it in between so I didn't have to deal with Windows 286. I had to make do with standard VGA after having been working in Illustrator on a B&W TPD for years, it was painful, but at least it was in color.
Building the best clone I could afford to run an unreleased OS from new parts at the time was fun. Spending time with the rugger converting a 386 Clone to an AMD Socket 7(?) rig for Debian & '98 was great fun! A better VidCard and 17" Sony Trinitron was far better than that first VGA run at a Windows Box. Getting Debian to work with my SCSI Card to run the scanner wasn't, so I gave up on that project.
Finding parts in the cardboard boxen from curbed Windows Boxen was even more fun in the first thread. I couldn't bring myself to use the Dell Dimension P2/95 at the time, that was out of the question. Zero cost was the goal and led to what I thought was a great thread and more fun than ever. When I had a chance to snag this Dimension P3 with '98 COA on the door I got over the Dell Box thing in a hurry.
I jumped at the chance to pay $5 for it, but neither of us had change for the extra Twenty I'd brought along, so he was going to give it to me for free along with the $40 worth of Mac swag. I realized I might have the five in my money clip, but came up a dollar short. I'd already spent real money (maybe $25) on a couple of eBay snags for a legit Win98 install at that point anyway. We transferred the $4 worth of "lunch money" with a laugh and I felt better than I would have if the project had stayed "Zero Cost."
Win, win for Win98! ;D
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The Voodoo3 is working out quite nicely. When Corel Draw was introduced, it trumped Illustrator's feature set just before the release of Windows 3.0. I built a 386SX/CoPro system to run it in between so I didn't have to deal with Windows 286. I had to make do with standard VGA after having been working in Illustrator on a B&W TPD for years, it was painful, but at least it was in color.
Building the best clone I could afford to run an unreleased OS from new parts at the time was fun. Spending time with the rugger converting a 386 Clone to an AMD Socket 7(?) rig for Debian & '98 was great fun! A better VidCard and 17" Sony Trinitron was far better than that first VGA run at a Windows Box. Getting Debian to work with my SCSI Card to run the scanner wasn't, so I gave up on that project.
Finding parts in the cardboard boxen from curbed Windows Boxen was even more fun in the first thread. I couldn't bring myself to use the Dell Dimension P2/95 at the time, that was out of the question. Zero cost was the goal and led to what I thought was a great thread and more fun than ever. When I had a chance to snag this Dimension P3 with '98 COA on the door I got over the Dell Box thing in a hurry.
I jumped at the chance to pay $5 for it, but neither of us had change for the extra Twenty I'd brought along, so he was going to give it to me for free along with the $40 worth of Mac swag. I realized I might have the five in my money clip, but came up a dollar short. I'd already spent real money (maybe $25) on a couple of eBay snags for a legit Win98 install at that point anyway. We transferred the $4 worth of "lunch money" with a laugh and I felt better than I would have if the project had stayed "Zero Cost."
Win, win for Win98! ;D
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