Recent content by kohl

Please... retail WoW is a dumpster fire. The lore is a total joke; its actually worse its insulting to the players who are still slogging through. You know it, I know it and I think even though they won't say it, the WoW devs know it. Player numbers have been on a steady downturn. Streamers...

Haha yeah I remember that time well. You used to go to a mall or computer store and it was mostly Mom & Pop ISPs all over the place... like some guy running a rack of modems with a few hundred customers. The first ISP I signed up for was while living off campus at college. The guy included a...

Just curious; what did you use your Pentium Pro for? I remember when the CPU was released, it seemed like a very niche market. I seem to recall the main use case was if you ran NT or other 32bit OS, as performance in DOS games and such was lackluster compared to a Pentium. I vividly remember...

I actually still have one of the Amptron cache modules. I had it stashed away in some memorabilia; I think I was going to maybe make it into a keychain at one point.

Haha yeah I am glad someone else remembers them. I tried building a system with one of their motherboards using a Cyrix PR166 CPU and could never get it to be stable. I ended up just going to one of our local computer shows (remember those???) and buying a name brand motherboard and Intel P200.

Does anyone remember these motherboards from back in the day? A friend and I were talking about hardware we dealt with decades ago. We both worked from this 'hole in the wall' distributer and the only thing he would stock would be Amptron boards, usually paired with those awful Cyrix...

Too many to list, but our first family computer was an Apple IIc with color monitor. Played countless hours of The Bard's Tale and Ultima IV on that thing. Never had an Amiga or Commodore :( First PC was a generic beige box 8086 running what had to be original DOS. It booted up to a text menu...

My top 10 oldies: The Bard's Tale Ultima IV Might and Magic III: Isles of Tera Ultima VII: The Black Gate Castlevania Super Mario Bros 3 Wing Commander Hero's Quest, later renamed Quest for Glory I Secret of Monkey Island 2 Need for Speed 2 SE, played on a 3dfx card of course!!

Power to you man. I always felt Classic had such awesome and epic dungeons but the raids were so packed with trash it was crazy. I never did Naxx or AQ40 but I heard the prep for Naxx was legendarily painful. TBC had the better raids, IMHO. Kharazan, to this day, is one of the best small...

Have to re-necro this thread. I am sorry to say I never realized until today that Billy had passed away. I remember VE fondly and visited the site regularly. I have great respect for him and other 'first gen' gaming sites because people like Billy did what they did out of love. Yes, some of...

This isn't arguing about who likes what kind of food; something that is clearly subjective. I am telling you, flat out, that the 3900X didn't show up anywhere, in any meaningful quantity on any major retailer site. I am happy for people to jump in and tell me when/where they ordered one but...

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Why are you splitting hairs? This isn't me slamming AMD; I want a 3900X, I can wait a few days or whatever longer. I am just saying, it was clearly not a 7/7 launch because there was essentially no availability in any meaningful quantity. Like I said, go to Amazon and search for "ryzen 9...

Dude, you can't even search for the 3900X on Amazon. The only way I could find it was direct links from tech sites. To my knowledge it was never in stock. I watched Newegg on Sunday morning and same thing, it was never available. That is pretty much the definition of a paper launch. "They...

Agree. I won't be seeing any future MCU movies, at least not in the theaters. I consider Infinity War to be where the MCU ends. Thanos won.