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I got by for years on a Pentium 75 and 8mb of RAM. The specs always said the game wouldn’t work, but it did. You could get away with this right up until PC gaming (finally) moved away from DOS. One big issue was the real mode DOS Plug n play drivers (dwcfgmgr.sys - burned into my brain) which occupied just enough of my 640k that most games would fail to start cause they couldn’t claim the whole lot.

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Specs similar to mine. Not far after that I got a diamond nv3 ..

1MB ATI Radeon all the way baby :)

ATI 3D Rage (1996), 500 nm, 50mhz or so.

Had to look it up, didn't know they had 1MB 3D accelerators.

I think my first was 8MB and it blew my hair back for sure.

It wasn’t a Rage it was a Radeon :) not even a 3D accelerator :) this was the first generation of graphics cards that had hardware acceleration for 2D

Was just about time for MDK, Quake, Tomb Raider etc even though it was way outside the official specs for these.

Oh wow, I stand corrected. Didn't know they brought back the moniker.

No you were originally correct. The Ati card mentioned was most likely a Mach64 or original Rage 3d.

I'm 100% certain your memory is incorrect. Radeon came after Rage in 2000 and was the first Ati 3D accelerator with hardware T&L. Your 1MB 2D only Ati card was most likely a Mach64 or original Rage 3d.

I went and looked it up and you are right. Memory failing me. I got a card in 2004 that was a Radeon which must be the mixup …

EDIT thanks for the push. I’m nearly certain it was an S3 Trio based card

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Trio

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