I got temporarily addicted to Descent - I liked memorising the mazes, the thumping soundtrack, destroying rogue AIs, and that the disorienting navigation in 3D space made me throw up. It played well on cr*ppy computers:
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is that what his web site runs on lol, tho only thing old i need is some 72pin so dimms 64mb each.
Ah, the old 48k, with itscrubber keys that would heat up so much the stuck on metal part of the keyboard would become unstuck..and the high pitched bleats from a cassette player loading hungry horace goes skiing. There's a chunk of early adolescence that couldn't have been less meaningful than a lot of the other crap that was happening..
Lenovo ThinkPad ..is the way to go in laptops . I purchased one about 5 years ago . Hated the screen ..the lousy 1366x780 dull matt one for corporate penpushers. Discovered that one could replace it with a FHD shiny screen . About the easiest bit of laptop upgrade I ever did, ..less than an hour and I think 80 euro.
Had loads of problems with some top end Lenovo laptops. Specifically when used with Lenovo USB-C docks. Had to completely wipe and re-install using a special download of the installer. Even then kept having issues.
IMHO Lenovo's new laptops are awful compared to the old: T440p is the way to go - their older keyboards are awesome and you can upgrade the screen to FHD... also the CPU to an i7.
I've got one on the Maxi 64, but you can't have it; I might have some kicking around somewhere in boxes - turns up on ebay if you keep looking.
i still have the first computer i built and it still works just the motherboard had to be changed as the abit nf7s kept melting the chip set controller on 2 of them lol.
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had a ati 64mb gfk card 128mb of ram and a maxi isis sound card running win98se.
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it was well over 200 quid and one of the first sound cards with jacks in and out at the time around 2002 i think and still got it in the loft somewhere but wont work with win xp
From the USA , there might be some in the UK somewhere on ebay:i need 4 64mb for a total of 256mb for the s5000 sampler, just think if you had that much in 1998 and had to fill it up with samples on 1.44mb floppy discs
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Mine is a T 450.. and that is the one I upgraded the screen on. I also swopped out the HDD for an SSD. The internal construction is about the neatest I have seen on a consumer electronics product. The only thing comparable was the original IBM PS2/ 50., for precision plastics moulding.
Very nice! Lenovo retained IBM's excellent build quality, for a time. If yours doesn't contain an i7, you could pull one out of a "Parts only" unit. There are so many older Lenovo laptops out there, that there will spare parts for many years, and inexpensive new batteries - not so for Sony, Acer, Asus etc. which I abandoned, after contributing to e-waste for years... If needed, there are brand new covers available fom China. Where possible, IPS screens provide wider viewing angles and greater gamut of colours, so it's best to pick the right one to upgrade, because supply of IPS availability for various models varies - I chose the T440p specifically because IPS FHD panels were and are available for it: remote Canon camera control on location, I needed to see all the colours, or as many as possible. I probably would have opted for a larger screen (T450), if I could have sourced an IPS FHD screen for it at the time, but my T440p works great and is built like a tank (great chassis!).
Industrial levels of bribery here we come. In a perverse way this tory government probably couldn't believe its luck when opportunities like covid and war came along as ways to justify expense, Bury dodgy dealing..
