-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, J Sloan wrote: [..]
never got around to replacing it since the onboard intel video works well enough. I can't play the latest 3D FPS, but it has more than enough capability to do the desktop eye candy, and I can play that old favorite, quake 3 arena quite well.
Quake 3 "old favourite"? Move along, grasshopper.
-dnh, himself not qualifying as an old fart, but "old favourites" are Lemmings, Monkey Island, Paradroid90, Civilization II (*), Descent... And if Descent isn't 3d, what is? Oh, and _my_ preferred Video Chip (on which I played all above mentioned games) is a MGA 1064SG w/ 4 MB SGRAM on a Mystique. Rock solid, not even a heatsink, and crisply displaying pixels on my main working machine for about 12 years now, with 2 summers of room-temps over 40 °C (104 °F). *exits stage left, sniggering*
*) and the Linux-ported descendants "Civ - Call to Power" and "Alpha Centauri"
Battle of the gaming oldies eh? :-) howabout Elite, Eye of the Beholder, Anvil all very basic VGA, SVGA.... Run on damn near anything and do very nicely in dosbox in LInux/Doze ..... Chunters off with zimmer frame... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIbePnasN0sSnLmgIRAtPNAKCF2nTV0ZiwjYT8C2CVc9o89XqDjACgq5v3 Jhr9p015wW9IH5y3cHF5e/0= =cbdo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org