Diamond Viper VLB: $550 Windows 3.1 Accelerator Card

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Windows 3.1 running at 1280x1024 back in 1993? 24-bit True Color mode, too? Entirely possible with the 2MB Viper VLB video card! Let's see what it can do with the LGR Woodgrain PC, including Windows and DOS games, various software, and benchmarks.
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@jonathaningram8157
@jonathaningram8157 4 жыл бұрын
Always letting us hear the sound of the computer booting is why I love LGR so much : He knows what we like.
@truckerallikatuk
@truckerallikatuk 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, were you the kind who could tell he had the 3.5" as A and the 5.25" as B just from the boot sounds?
@Fastbikkel
@Fastbikkel 4 жыл бұрын
@@truckerallikatuk LOL i was able to tell the type of error by the beep alone.
@Quickened1
@Quickened1 4 жыл бұрын
@@truckerallikatuk ...who couldn't tell the difference between those two???
@garyreardon11
@garyreardon11 4 жыл бұрын
Such a satisfying sound.
@kissingfrogs
@kissingfrogs 4 жыл бұрын
cant argue with that
@RequestedTutotials
@RequestedTutotials 4 жыл бұрын
[Floppy drive makes floppy noises] [Beep!] 10/10 subtitle job
@TronicJohn
@TronicJohn 4 жыл бұрын
as usual
@inny74
@inny74 4 жыл бұрын
[computer whirs to life] [memory check buzzing] [floppy drive makes floppy noises] [beep!] 10/10.
@sburk.87
@sburk.87 4 жыл бұрын
Classic :)
@onthemoverealestatephotogr9655
@onthemoverealestatephotogr9655 4 жыл бұрын
“Screwing around with random parts and playing Duke 3D”. That sounds like the life to me.
@lyonadimral
@lyonadimral 4 жыл бұрын
Because it is. :)
@aidancommenting
@aidancommenting 4 жыл бұрын
It's definitely LGR's life 😃
@absolutely1337
@absolutely1337 4 жыл бұрын
adjusted for inflation post corona virus, $84,642.
@frosty024
@frosty024 4 жыл бұрын
This really makes me want to see an LGR video all about DOS graphics acceleration!
@cthulutech4697
@cthulutech4697 4 жыл бұрын
That would be great. He did mention it for the future.
@Acre00
@Acre00 4 жыл бұрын
I'd watch the shit outta that
@NightRidersUrbex
@NightRidersUrbex 3 жыл бұрын
Behold the mighty Matrox Millennium! At least when not playing Commander Keen 4-6 ;-). SVGA Performance in DOS ist absolutely OUTSTANDING - I got one in 1996 and it will live on forever in my retro machine. Still playing the accelerated version of Nascar Racing to this day :-)!
@WR3ND
@WR3ND 3 жыл бұрын
+1 Seeing my S3 Vision 864 VLB 2MB card on the roster would be cool too. I don't have my ~'94 computer working yet... still. 😓
@RickyDeContardi
@RickyDeContardi Жыл бұрын
I would love to see reviews of - tseng labs ET6000 - Number9 Imagine 128
@Rudofaux
@Rudofaux 4 жыл бұрын
6:07 "Maybe I don't want to be the bad guy anymore."
@cromulence
@cromulence 4 жыл бұрын
[explosions, AdLib Music]
@user-vn7ce5ig1z
@user-vn7ce5ig1z 4 жыл бұрын
"Cards practicing Klondike social-distancing" - That earned a like. 👍
@PJL3791
@PJL3791 4 жыл бұрын
Yet at the same time will make this video and countless others sound strangely weird in 2-3 years' time. Such is the impact of 'The Event' right now.
@LGR
@LGR 4 жыл бұрын
@@PJL3791 I'd love it if that quote becomes incredibly outdated sooner rather than later. What an achievement it will be when we can put this all behind us one day, with enough hard work and responsible/appropriate action taken over the coming months!
@PJL3791
@PJL3791 4 жыл бұрын
@@LGR Indeed, but in the meantime, it feels like even going outside is a bit like going to the area around Chernobyl soon after the meltdown. This is without a doubt going to be the defining event of our lives, at least for those in the western world, if only because it has had a bigger impact on our everyday lives than anything else I can remember.
@gravijta936
@gravijta936 4 жыл бұрын
@@PJL3791 We just watched a video about a graphics card from 1993... None of us ever go outside anyway. B-)
@booboo699254
@booboo699254 4 жыл бұрын
Indeed! I wonder if this saying will age well?
@devilmaylol
@devilmaylol 4 жыл бұрын
$549 for a higher-res cool crab? _Worth it._
@Tyrian3k
@Tyrian3k 4 жыл бұрын
You'd think that he'd be excited to have an *oak* chip in his *woodgrain* 486. ;)
@nickwallette6201
@nickwallette6201 4 жыл бұрын
Nobody was or is or ever will be excited to have an Oak chip. Not even in a woodgrain 486.
@kovyvuri
@kovyvuri 4 жыл бұрын
@@nickwallette6201 You hear that? That's the sound of the pun going over your head. Terrible(great) pun, btw.
@nickwallette6201
@nickwallette6201 4 жыл бұрын
Pun acknowledged, but the fact remains. :-)
@nickwallette6201
@nickwallette6201 4 жыл бұрын
Again, I acknowledge the pun. Moving on....
@MrEdrftgyuji
@MrEdrftgyuji 4 жыл бұрын
Almost as exciting as having a Teac CD ROM
@jblyon2
@jblyon2 4 жыл бұрын
I recently saved a poster from an old office we were clearing out "3.1 Is Here. Your Computer Just Got Easier To Use."
@NightpireVideos
@NightpireVideos 4 жыл бұрын
Shoutouts to the guy that wrote [jazztastic jazz music] into the intro sequence subtitles
@LGR
@LGR 4 жыл бұрын
Shoutout appreciated 👍
@KevinRay_man
@KevinRay_man 4 жыл бұрын
Maaaan the only thing that gets me smiling these days is seeing that notification from Clint that some new LGR awaits.
@dreamworldtony
@dreamworldtony 4 жыл бұрын
5:27 "and without a proper benchmark, I can't declare precisely anything precise with precision" LOOOL
@joshuasharrock466
@joshuasharrock466 4 жыл бұрын
THAT'S MY CARD! I remember being like 14 and my dad taking me to Microcenter to buy this. Didn't know what it was for back then but it was a viper made out of diamond :-)
@jpsilvashy
@jpsilvashy 4 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing these at CompUSA wanting one soo bad.
@joshuasharrock466
@joshuasharrock466 4 жыл бұрын
@@jpsilvashy I'm sure we got it a year after it came out on discount. The first game I played though on it was rise of the robots. VESA what's that who cares? This is 1994
@SanzarBellow-tc1zk
@SanzarBellow-tc1zk 4 жыл бұрын
Oddly satisfying at two minutes into the video, he pulls out three VLB cards....and I have two of these models myself. Now I want to see more vids on this topic. More vids please!
@alliejr
@alliejr 4 жыл бұрын
Sames, except I was pushing 30.
@user-pq6mr6op3p
@user-pq6mr6op3p Жыл бұрын
Your poor dad was a idiot.
@Dawwwg
@Dawwwg 4 жыл бұрын
That Workstation vibe with Windows 3.1 is phreaking awesome, and now I'm sentimental about my old UltraSPARC with 21" Sun/Sony Trinitron monitor that did crispy flat 1600x1200 at 75Hz.
@GeorgGreat_GameReviews
@GeorgGreat_GameReviews 4 жыл бұрын
Have been following this channel for years, just wanted to say thank you for your content - I've never been using computers in the 90s (and haven't been AROUND in 1980s), but I've read about them as a kid, so seeing them come to life through your videos sort of makes me feel like that "faraway land" of PC games from my childhood came to life. Hope it makes sense to anybody else ^_^ Anyway - thank you!
@danieldaniels7571
@danieldaniels7571 4 жыл бұрын
GeorgGreat makes sense to me, although I’m older. It lets me experience computer things that were simply out of my budget as a young adult at the time. In the early ‘90s I was still using a C-64, and when I got my first Windows 3.1 PC in 1994, it was a 286 that was already painfully old. I actually had to downgrade it’s EGA graphics because the main thing I used a computer for was title generation on VHS audio tapes.
@LeeDonel
@LeeDonel 4 жыл бұрын
Same. PC like that was WAY out of most people's budget.
@gtheskater
@gtheskater 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, couldn't have said it better myself
@joshuathompson3258
@joshuathompson3258 4 жыл бұрын
Clint, after using your back catalog to distract me from basically the world for the last couple of weeks, the "social distancing Klondike" joke caused an actual snort. Thanks for keeping on, I'm likely not the only viewer appreciating your work for this reason.
@akiamano6950
@akiamano6950 4 жыл бұрын
I just love the cute little Y2K bug sitting on the speaker =w=
@JohnSmith-xq1pz
@JohnSmith-xq1pz 4 жыл бұрын
I know right. I'd love to get one.
@Trumplican
@Trumplican 4 жыл бұрын
3:08 those sounds bring back my childhood. I love it.
@troytakesphotos
@troytakesphotos 4 жыл бұрын
If you asked me to come up with a 1990's logo for a "Power 9000" microchip... that's EXACTLY what I visualized in my head. Also: Interface shrinkage.
@mattb154
@mattb154 4 жыл бұрын
Everybody sleeping on the Oak Technologies logo's aesthetic
@DanPellegrino486
@DanPellegrino486 4 жыл бұрын
It's not small, Windows is just cold.
@WorkshopGreg
@WorkshopGreg 4 жыл бұрын
I remember selling a few of these to customers running AutoCAD. It was a game changer for drafters as they were able to work with much larger drawings than possible at an ok price point.
@PressThatButton
@PressThatButton 4 жыл бұрын
I love every single time I receive a notification that another video is up from Clint (LGR)! Keep up the amazing work.
@dwaynezilla
@dwaynezilla 4 жыл бұрын
Love the quality of this video (like your others). Little things like the sweeping depth of field effect, highlighting the little chips you're talking about. Very nice, haha. And the captures of the video out is also top-notch, as is the narration. Keep up the great work!!
@LGR
@LGR 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It's my art at this point, years of practice and always trying to improve :)
@dwaynezilla
@dwaynezilla 4 жыл бұрын
@@LGR I've watched all your videos at this point, and I see the trend. Just wanted you to know that it's noticed and appreciated -- I mean I would do the same, and I really appreciate it, haha
@volactic8495
@volactic8495 4 жыл бұрын
"not to mention resolutions up to 1280x1024 at 74 hertz" exactly what my monitor was running at when i was watching this... maybe i need to upgrade if that was good in 1993
@jannevaatainen
@jannevaatainen 4 жыл бұрын
That was truly incredible in 1993. Still good in 2005. Buy then again, 2005 is 15 years ago...
@Wockes
@Wockes 4 жыл бұрын
Even more incredible was that John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor back in 1995
@mariusberger3297
@mariusberger3297 4 жыл бұрын
CRTs are cool, keep it
@ryanmalin
@ryanmalin 4 жыл бұрын
you're running a 74hz crt?
@Wockes
@Wockes 4 жыл бұрын
@@ryanmalin I used to run my old CRT at 74hz. The CRT itself went up to 100 but my graphics card only supported up to 74hz on high resolutions
@Sharklops
@Sharklops 4 жыл бұрын
a few decades too late I finally found out from XKCD that hitting F in SkiFree will speed you up faster than the monster
@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464
@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464 4 жыл бұрын
After all this time he could outrun the yeti, my boi
@thrdeye7304
@thrdeye7304 4 жыл бұрын
Goddammit. At least this proves there really is a relevant XKCD for everything.
@retropuffer2986
@retropuffer2986 4 жыл бұрын
"Some of the cards will appear in the future on LGR" That would be awesome!
@CompGuy66
@CompGuy66 4 жыл бұрын
Retro Puffer Hopefully prices don’t become even more insane.
@CaptainDangeax
@CaptainDangeax 4 жыл бұрын
During my 486 time, my first video card was a Realtek with an ISA16 interface, slow slugish and 256 colors, then a Western Digital VLB, then a S3-864 which was really fast under Dos and under Windows 3.1. I then switched to a Pentium with a Matrox Mystique, another league indeed.
@psygnale
@psygnale 4 жыл бұрын
I love how this show so effectively reminds me how old I am. Think maybe you could find a card with the old Mitsubishi 3D Pro 2Mp chipset?
@newtom80
@newtom80 4 жыл бұрын
Effectively but in a soothing way. 😀
@njpaiva
@njpaiva 4 жыл бұрын
You consistently manage to take things that I’m certain won’t interest me, and make them incredibly interesting. Some of the highest quality content on KZbin (at least to me). Thank you for all your hard work!
@LGR
@LGR 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@Quickened1
@Quickened1 4 жыл бұрын
Man, I just dig your flashbacks! What amazes me is that these 27 year old devices just keep on ticking, that, and the fact that you can breeze around these old programs like they were made yesterday... Great stuff man, you bring back a lot of memories! 👍👍
@tergish1
@tergish1 4 жыл бұрын
It's wild how few pins those old processors have
@CommodoreGreg
@CommodoreGreg 4 жыл бұрын
lol. Go look at an Intel 4004.
@mikester1290
@mikester1290 4 жыл бұрын
Its even wilder that you can pull out an AMD unit and replace it with an Intel unit.
@IDPhotoMan
@IDPhotoMan 4 жыл бұрын
Had this card on one of our Autocad workstations back then, it was pretty damn good. Don't think i ever tried to play a game on it.
@richardb4313
@richardb4313 4 жыл бұрын
Yup same. For Autocad it was highly desirable.
@johnb5982
@johnb5982 4 жыл бұрын
This channel is oddly addicting. Haven't seen or messed with a lot of this stuff in two decades, brings it all back. Find some time to do a C64 Maniac Mansion retrospective! That was one of my favorite games and it took forever to figure out. The command driven UI and dozens of different possible solutions was awesome. Green Tentacle!
@FallenDivaLabRat
@FallenDivaLabRat 4 жыл бұрын
For entertainment during self-isolation I think I’m going to rewatch a bunch of LGR videos and take a shot after every Duke Nukem reference
@sbgtf79
@sbgtf79 4 жыл бұрын
RIP
@LGR
@LGR 4 жыл бұрын
Don't die.
@benn454
@benn454 4 жыл бұрын
My condolences to your liver.
@philtkaswahl2124
@philtkaswahl2124 4 жыл бұрын
That start-up beeping and buzzing on these old 90s PCs are just so nostalgic.
@nahpets2345
@nahpets2345 4 жыл бұрын
1993: Diamond Viper 1998: Voodoo 3DFX 2020: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080Ti
@keithbrown7685
@keithbrown7685 4 жыл бұрын
That last one is definitely the most sexy.
@UltimateAlgorithm
@UltimateAlgorithm 4 жыл бұрын
If you consider inflation, they're around the same price.
@DominicGo
@DominicGo 4 жыл бұрын
It’s 2020 and we still have scaling problems in windows
@AHumanMale
@AHumanMale 4 жыл бұрын
Why does the ZD WinBench include a picture of the Raleigh traffic sign? Fun fact: As it happens I worked for ZD Publishing in NYC back in the 90s and ZD Benchmark Operation, or ZD BOp as it was called internally in those days, was based not far from you in Research Triangle. I made many trips down there for various testing projects back in the day. Good times.
@NallTWK
@NallTWK 4 жыл бұрын
My appreciation goes out to you for continuing to provide entertaining videos during these hardships.
@thetaleteller4692
@thetaleteller4692 4 жыл бұрын
Well, THAT SimCity monster knew well how to save the environment, and punish stupid humans!
@EvilDarkCow
@EvilDarkCow 4 жыл бұрын
I'm a simple man. I see a new LGR video, I watch it. And suddenly it's some absurd time of night.
@aner_bda
@aner_bda 4 жыл бұрын
That benchmark program looks like a straight-up virus from the late 90s, early 2000s.
@fen4554
@fen4554 4 жыл бұрын
Please don't ever stop filming the post... That little sequence of noises makes my heart flutter.
@tiredoftheliesalready
@tiredoftheliesalready 4 жыл бұрын
This channel takes me back to happier times when I was younger. From the early 80s on, I've played with the older computers (C64, x86, old Apple, Wang, etc), and always loved in my adult years the older technology. Thanks much, this helps remind me of time gone by when my parents were still here.
@Evgenii_Fedorovskii
@Evgenii_Fedorovskii 4 жыл бұрын
Video from LGR to Friday - a real gift !!! Yes, 1280x1024 for Windows 3.1 - really something incredible! After all, such a screen resolution has become common only around Windows XP ... We will look forward to a powerful 2D card to 486 WoodGrain !!! =) Thank you for the video!!!
@teh_supar_hackr
@teh_supar_hackr 4 жыл бұрын
I crapped myself when I saw Windows 3.11 in such a high res on it's original hardware.
@danieldaniels7571
@danieldaniels7571 4 жыл бұрын
teh_supar_hackr 0010101 hope you have toilet paper
@teh_supar_hackr
@teh_supar_hackr 4 жыл бұрын
@@danieldaniels7571 I do, printed from my dot matrix printer!
@SPNKr16
@SPNKr16 4 жыл бұрын
@@teh_supar_hackr You old dog.
@ugzz
@ugzz 4 жыл бұрын
This was Amazing! Now i just need a video where you Do find a card that helps with all that Dos Gaming Goodness!
@Frackit-pe6uh
@Frackit-pe6uh 4 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to say love all your video's, seen them all, big fan. Into all genre's of modern gaming but still a big retro gamer and all things PC old and new so your vids really hit the spot. Can't wait for this years thrifting, please tell me that you are doing a new series, anyway keep up the great work, always watching for the next one.
@danieldaniels7571
@danieldaniels7571 4 жыл бұрын
I can’t wait for thrift stores to be open again
@3therspark63
@3therspark63 4 жыл бұрын
Last time i was this early i had to ran Doom in low detail
@bbrown9763
@bbrown9763 4 жыл бұрын
Wow. Just happened across this video. I was 13 and just starting to play with computers when this card came out. It was fun seeing you play games I used to play all the time when I was a kid. From day to day, it doesn't really seem like much has changed, but looking back at this- it really has.
@nelsoncabrera6464
@nelsoncabrera6464 4 жыл бұрын
Clint, you're keeping my teen years alive... thank you. Seeing the names of those various accelerators brought a surge of early 90s nostalgia. I remember the day a neighbor gave me her late husband's 486, it was as if Christmas had come early (or at all) :) We were really poor, that 486 machine replaced a C64c that I was still using in 1992. Funnily I have more nostalgia for the c64 than for the 486.
@thiagocamargoalima
@thiagocamargoalima 4 жыл бұрын
3:12 that floppy symphony is truly nostalgic! Thank you for keeping that!!
@TheFlyingMage
@TheFlyingMage 4 жыл бұрын
Those old PC loading sounds are so cute. Now they don't even hum, let alone beep.
@DaveMcAnulty
@DaveMcAnulty 4 жыл бұрын
Love to see you get your hands on a Diamond Stealth 32, it used the Tseng Labs ET4000 chipset. I remember "dir" listing visibly faster!
@Rockboygg
@Rockboygg 4 жыл бұрын
Ahhh. Those post sounds and beeps. The sound of the floppy drive checking for a disk. Good memories...
@skagerstrom
@skagerstrom 4 жыл бұрын
Orchid Farenheit.. Diamond Viper.. Loved the naming of stuff back then . Still in love with the Diamond Viper V770 - best product name ever. Matrox Millenium is up there too!
@MidnightFireHuntress
@MidnightFireHuntress 4 жыл бұрын
I LOVE your videos, I'm a huge fan of old tech and your videos are amazing, so relaxing and fun to watch, thank you for the countless hours of entertainment and helping me relax
@Popk1ller
@Popk1ller 4 жыл бұрын
The Moment when you realise that that ist NOT a heatsink, just a whole lot of memory Chips 😅
@otakujhp
@otakujhp 4 жыл бұрын
Weren't the ATI cards of the era absolute beasts for 2D games? I seem to recall magazines raving about them at the time.
@amirpourghoureiyan1637
@amirpourghoureiyan1637 4 жыл бұрын
Hopefully he shows it off in a video soon
@Darth001
@Darth001 4 жыл бұрын
it's your voice that keeps me coming back, that and the fact i learn something new every time i watch your videos, don't retire anytime soon buddy
@Qhj
@Qhj 4 жыл бұрын
6:08 "YOU WILL HAVE RENEWABLE ENERGY WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT"
@formerpodcaster9292
@formerpodcaster9292 4 жыл бұрын
i would give my life to protect cool crab. i love him
@TheRaker1000
@TheRaker1000 4 жыл бұрын
you need to add this to the woodgrain playlist, i had to stumble on it looking through your list.
@theblacksheephorrorshow2673
@theblacksheephorrorshow2673 4 жыл бұрын
90s graphics cards, ahhh memories!
@welfarestates8465
@welfarestates8465 4 жыл бұрын
My first nVidia card was a Diamond Viper 550, it used the Riva TnT chip, and had actual Hardware Transform & Lighting! Ohh man was I excited to install that thing. Thanks for the amazing video!
@sirtanon1
@sirtanon1 4 жыл бұрын
I remember looking at numerous video cards back in the day when I built my first 486-66 beast. I considered this card, but ended going with an Orchid Fahrenheit VLB card.. awesome card. This video brings me back, man..
@menofmayhemmm
@menofmayhemmm 4 жыл бұрын
Microsoft: "what's UI scaling?" since 1990
@nickwallette6201
@nickwallette6201 4 жыл бұрын
They’re not the only ones. Every website I go to these days is all like.. Not using a 4K monitor with the browser maximized? T H E N H A V E S O M E B I G O L ‘ F O N T S ! ! !
@Vvardenfell_Outlander
@Vvardenfell_Outlander 4 жыл бұрын
Clint. As always thanks for the content, but especially these days. Your videos are so cozy and they take my mind off of the world and bring me back to a simpler time when my love for computers was just blossoming. I hope you and yours are well. Stay healthy and thank you.
@arvizturotukorfurogep6235
@arvizturotukorfurogep6235 4 жыл бұрын
Oooh, now I remember! So this is the thing I used to read about in the "Windows 3.1 for Dummies" book! It was described sparsely, and I kept wondering what the heck is a "graphical accelerator card" and "vesa local bus card", It made me think those are different things outside the video card. I kept asking around in shops but no one knew what I was talking about (this was in the early 2000s and I was given a Windows 95 PC and didn't know anything :D )
@arvizturotukorfurogep6235
@arvizturotukorfurogep6235 4 жыл бұрын
To be fair, neither were shopkeepers very well versed in IT, for example the book store's whole IT section consisted just a shelf full of freshly printed (!?) DOS and Windows 3.1 Dummies books, yet barely anyone had PCs with those here in 1993, let alone 2003.
@popmon6446
@popmon6446 4 жыл бұрын
One of my products back in the day. A primary goal of these products was high scores on the Windows performance tests which were a prime factor in winning awards and OEM deals for the big box PC builders of the day. Speed, resolution, color in windows + awards = serious $$$$$, back in the day. The Viper did very well.
@lastcosmonaut
@lastcosmonaut 4 жыл бұрын
Man, you startled me at 6:46 - my body was reacting to a blue screen at first, then to notice it is just a configuration screen 😄
@Lneti_VT
@Lneti_VT 4 жыл бұрын
I swear, hearing that floppy check and BEEP, the best part of starting up a pre 2000s computer build.
@DesertRainReads
@DesertRainReads 4 жыл бұрын
I thoroughly enjoy your channel, very informative and nostalgic at the same time. You always do an awesome job of giving us an overview of how older technology worked and evolved into today's technology, we take things like graphics cards, RAM, CPU, etc. for granted. Back then they were not readily accessible or affordable. You were stuck with what you had. It's always cool to see these things in action, keep it up.
@Leeki85
@Leeki85 4 жыл бұрын
Windows 3.x is surprisingly prepared for hi-color or even 24-bit color modes. It internally works with 24-bit color and on drivers with less color uses pattern dithering in real time. 256-color support on the other hand is done really badly. System still uses 16-color palette with 4-additional colors, leaving 236 palette entries unused. This was intentional since programs can change palette on their own, which will look weird when two such programs are opened. One that lost focus will get broken colors when the other one changes palette. Unfortunately you are stuck with just 20 colors for color themes and Paintbrush. Paintbrush can read 256 color BMPs and will set palette accordingly, but still no way to define colors in palette beyond those 20 colors, and since it don't have color picker, you can't use 256 color bitmaps as a palette. In 16 or 24-bit modes those limits are gone. Color themes are now full colors without dithering and you can use any color in Paintbrush. It's just amazing how ahead of it's time Windows 3.x was in terms of colors. 24-bit color graphics cards become popular when Windows 95 was taking over. Also Windows 3.x looks way more modern with it's simple design than Windows 9x.
@Richard-bq3ni
@Richard-bq3ni 4 жыл бұрын
I remember paying a huge load of money for an ISA windows acceleration card that was advertised "faster then vesa local bus". And indeed it was fast in windows 3.1, but not for anything else. I hate it that I can't remember what card that was.
@cliffsnyder3620
@cliffsnyder3620 4 жыл бұрын
I had this card. I still remember the palpable disappointment when I realized how bad the DOS gaming performance was. I didn't realize until I watched your video that the DOS games were using the Oak chip with 256k RAM instead of the Weitek. Sadly that wasn't even my worst tech flame out of the 90s. That honour went to the two differential SCSI drives I bought without realizing that differential SCSI wasn't compatible with regular SCSI. Thank god the internet came along so I could throw my money away in a more informed manner.
@caoYB
@caoYB 4 жыл бұрын
1:32 the f? thats vram? I thought those were heat fins, so amazing
@DavidWonn
@DavidWonn 4 жыл бұрын
My Pentium 3 in the early 2000s had an integrated 4MB Intel 815 chipset, capable of 1600*1200 resolution in Windows for Workgroups 3.11, 95, and NT4. I rarely ever used that resolution though, as the 60Hz refresh was an eye strain, and the color depth forcibly dropped to 16-bit. As for the 132-column mode, I love having that capability on my even older IBM PS/2, though only some OSes support it, and the ones that do have caveats. Neither NT 3.51 nor NT4 seem to support it in full screen Command Prompts, though as a cmd window, I can set it to nearly anything. Windows 95 supports 132-column mode in full screen, but not all console apps do. The Lynx web browser is perfect this way, but I can’t Alt-Tab away from it until I end it or change to 80-column mode. EDIT.COM freezes, forcing a reboot if I accidentally launch it in 132-column mode. The alternative is to run the E.EXE editor from PC-DOS, which runs great in 132-column mode, or the older MS-DOS EDIT.COM, which will automatically jump to 80-column mode. MS-DOS 6.22 naturally supports 132-column mode, though running Windows 3.x has mixed support. If I try to run 132-column modes in an MS-DOS Prompt while in 386 Enhanced mode, it jumps to some invalid mode, shutting off the monitor. I have to blindly type commands to get back to 80-column mode or back to the GUI to get the monitor back on. Real mode Windows 3.0 and Standard Mode 3.1x will support 132-column mode, but Alt-Tabbing away and back forces it back to 80-column mode. Not bad for a 1MB XGA-2 card. I haven’t figured out yet if I can do 132*43 on mine, though, so maybe I just need the right utility.
@Dertinus
@Dertinus 4 жыл бұрын
I'm spanish and I had either a CirrusLogic CL-GD5446 and a TsengLabs ET-4000, and both gave me the best results in gaming. S3 cards and STB failed most of times due to some issues with my Gravis sound card, which later I changed it to Sounblaster 32 AWE.
@goodonyahmate-1160
@goodonyahmate-1160 4 жыл бұрын
I came here so I can sleep and it's not that your videos are boring, it's because your voice is so soothing and the background music is so good 😴😴😴
@LGR
@LGR 4 жыл бұрын
Hey I'll take it. Sweet dreams!
@goodonyahmate-1160
@goodonyahmate-1160 4 жыл бұрын
@@LGR thanks man
@LastV8Interceptors
@LastV8Interceptors 4 жыл бұрын
I am so glad LGR exists. I think I was 13 last time I opened\saw the parrots opened in PS3 on Win3.1. Thx for the nostalgia overdose almos no one else can provide!
@RandomInsano2
@RandomInsano2 4 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite content. I have no idea why I enjoyed this so much as I was 7 in 1993 and can’t claim nostalgia.
@lonelymtn
@lonelymtn 4 жыл бұрын
Watching videos like this during the New Zealand COVID-19 lockdown just pleases me. 😎
@cantbehelped
@cantbehelped 4 жыл бұрын
Dang that screensaver opened a floodgate of nostalgia. That and the 3D maze
@Finwolven
@Finwolven 4 жыл бұрын
Damn, the startup noises made me have a nostalgiagasm.
@dsilvermane_
@dsilvermane_ 4 жыл бұрын
No other channel takes me back to my childhood like LGR. Thank you Clint!
@Icza
@Icza 4 жыл бұрын
That screen @3:20, I remember seeing that a lot. That was suddenly so nostalgic.
@StevenMcFlyJunior
@StevenMcFlyJunior 4 жыл бұрын
Diamond. Man, good stuff. My friend had a Stealth. Geezus that thing was sick!
@creamthelapin
@creamthelapin 4 жыл бұрын
"...Klondike social distancing" is all I will be able to think about when playing Solitaire from now on.
@s4ndwichMakeR
@s4ndwichMakeR 4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: The Windows 1.x and 2.x GUI was actually designed to work more with vector graphics than pixels and could thus fully take advantage of those high resolutions. It wasn’t until Windows 3.x when Microsoft realized, vector-based UIs wouldn’t have a future compared to the pixel world. About Sim City 2000: I always enjoyed the Windows port because the resolution was not hard-coded as in the DOS version so I could run it on 800×600 or 1024×768 which was way better to work with for me.
@tsarstepan
@tsarstepan 4 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I was laying down while watching this video when you dropped the 2MB bomb that was the tech stat of this graphics card. Those specs? Could've floored me.;-) Reminds me of a great American philosopher who once opined, "Smokin'!"
@sacamentobob
@sacamentobob 4 жыл бұрын
Stay safe out there too Clint and everyone else. This is truly the time to enjoy PCs and stay indoors as much as possible
@davidmeyer6908
@davidmeyer6908 4 жыл бұрын
I have absolutely no idea what any of the technical information LGR talks about means, but I still can't get enough of these videos.
@Geomanb
@Geomanb 4 жыл бұрын
That's what I need to watch after a long workday on the icu. LGR always lifts me up 🙂
@leafyisherearchive4484
@leafyisherearchive4484 4 жыл бұрын
Diamond Viper: Y'all Cowards Don't Even Accelerate Windows
@Th3Raz96
@Th3Raz96 4 жыл бұрын
I got that reference
@shorty1k
@shorty1k 4 жыл бұрын
Man I forgot how satisfying it was to watch Print Shop Deluxe draw out a scene. I used to love going through all the different printouts when I was a kid just to see them get drawn out.
@SnazzyFerret
@SnazzyFerret 4 жыл бұрын
Dang dude, this makes me happy. I honestly wish I knew more about this sort of stuff, it really interests me but its hard for me to wrap my head around. I dont even know where to start or what to look up to begin with. I'd like to mess with older computers someday. Great video
@charlesswenson259
@charlesswenson259 4 жыл бұрын
Hey smokers, Clint here. Bringing you an awesome video about old cards.
@THEBaratusII
@THEBaratusII 4 жыл бұрын
Winbench - Graphical weirdness kind of stress testing PC Bench - MS-DOS gives you a chaotic seizure kind of stress testing. Other than that, great to see an LGR video while staying at home.
@derks0
@derks0 4 жыл бұрын
your videos are always calming man. thank you
@mikematkovic8733
@mikematkovic8733 4 жыл бұрын
I love LGR because with all his subs, he still reads his comments !!!
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