[VR-Zone]DirectX 11 screens...

[DaMulta]

Good mood

 

[Wile E]

So what pills did they give you now?


And can I have some?

 

[imperialreign]

That is why I have 80286 boards, FM Hard drive with Controlers, all sorts of old odd cards, a eaily 90's sun machine. The first real apple in my eyes Macintosh 128K. WHICH still works I started it up not to long ago.....

not my pic

If you open the case on mine! You see that all the main people that went into creating it signed it. One of the FIST ones off the line.

damn! I haven't seen a single-button mouse like that if effin' ages! Nor an old MAC like that

almost makes me want to dig out my old C64 sometime



damn - have we gone all nostaliga or what?! I swear we should start a 3DFX owner's club at some point

 

[DaMulta]

Adpex...they just need to double my dose because I run out


I have not had a migraine in TWO MONTHS. I say thank you to those pills!!!! I swear for the past two years I had one every other day, and at least one every other week that would almost bring me to tears...

 

[Wile E]

Adpex...they just need to double my dose because I run out


I have not had a migraine in TWO MONTHS. I say thank you to those pills!!!! I swear for the past two years I had one every other day, and at least one every other week that would almost bring me to tears...

I know your pain D. I get them so bad they make me vomit. I take Fioricet for them.

 

[DaMulta]

damn! I haven't seen a single-button mouse like that if effin' ages! Nor an old MAC like that

almost makes me want to dig out my old C64 sometime



damn - have we gone all nostaliga or what?! I swear we should start a 3DFX owner's club at some point

I also have

http://www.axess.com/twilight/sock/

From Sock Master's Tandy Color Computer 3 page:

The Tandy Color Computer 3 may well be the ultimate hobby computer. It's easy to program, easily interfaces with the real world (It has 4 analog inputs, 1 analog output, and numerous digital inputs and outputs built-in), and it's easy to create your own hardware.

I always remember my dad and his friends messing with that. They would make all sorts of programs and hardware just for fun. I think after it he never really liked computers like he did in those moments.......I think I have two, 2 fool long drawers of 1/5 floppy disc programs for it....



He did run an arcade business for 5-10 years after that. Which he would fix all the problems. In those times, a cap would fry a chip any thing all the time. You would have to read the waves of all the chips to hunt it down and fix it. My dad was VERY VERY good at it. His main job(One of the top 5 oil companies in the world) before becoming a Network Engineer was fixing computer hardware monitors to motherboards you name it. Back then it was cheaper to have a in house guy to fix the part. Now they just throw it away...even when the part is 20,000 because it would be cheaper than to fix it.

Also he is all self taught to this day for the most(only HS and 4 years in the air force). He will only take a class if forced, and he has not been forced to in over 15 years. Right now he is moving into the major airports main systems, and they are telling him he needs to get certified. He more or less said no I don't want to, and they still hired him. If you know your stuff then IMO you don't need that silly paper work.

My dad used to love this stuff like many of us do around these parts. I hate that he does not like it really at all anymore. He really does not care and he used to big time. I have told this sooo many times, but it is cool every time I say it. He and his friend(he claims, but my dad never lies about anything) made the first the first high res monitor. Then they put it in PC magazines and sold a few, but the big company's stepped in with a better idea from their idea and they went broke..the other guy from what my dad tells me more or less became a drunk on the side of the road...He does not really talk about it(even if I ask about it the topic dies real quick(only reason I know is my mom brought it up one day, and he told me about it really that 1 time only),I think it pisses him off.



I always go off talking about him. He is the one that made me love tech the way I do today. To me he is the man, even if he is not up with the times in hardware(besides network). He still knows the basics of how it all works.

 

[DaMulta]

To me and my dad on this stuff. It's almost why overclock it and kill it? Why not just make a faster one that works better? That's the smarter thing to do......BUT he does understand that it's what I like to do, and if I need help I can always ask......

 

[imperialreign]

similar to how I grew up - my father was an aeromotive technician for the military for 20 years, mostly programming and troubleshooting the onboard computers of the F-14 fighters. My father started teaching me how to program a C64 around the age of 5, and I've had my hand inside a computer chasis ever since. Spent many a year when I was younger OCing early systems. The only ocmponet I've ever killed OCing so far was an old Pentium Pro CPU, and mostly because I had accidentally set the switches on the mobo wrong.

even still, I don't think I'd be as far into it as I currently am if not for that upbringing. Still rather intersting to look back on how much has changed in the last 15-20 years, though.

 

[Wile E]

My dad taught me how to smoke weed and drink. Does that count?

 

[DaMulta]

I never had to overclock until I had to buy my own things(From p-2 up and that was doing my own learning not internet really. I used the net for other things(I into BBS hardcore before internet)). They would just throw the stuff away for a update all the time in those days.

I always had a board maxed out with ram or what ever. Any kind of new hard drives. Heck when video went into CD-Games I would just load the cd on a SCSi drive LOL damn cd speeds lol

I miss video being inside games

O the good times you have to remember this game on PC.

Star Wars - Rebel Assault - Gameplay Part 1/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=359qyiXskCE

Wiki says
1993 so I was 13 teen years old.....

My dad taught me how to smoke weed and drink. Does that count?

Are you good at it? Even tho you don't do that stuff anymore?
(just messen)

How did you get into cars wile?

 

[Wile E]

I never had to overclock until I had to buy my own things(From p-2 up and that was doing my own learning not internet really. I used the net for other things(I into BBS hardcore before internet)). They would just throw the stuff away for a update all the time in those days.

I always had a board maxed out with ram or what ever. Any kind of new hard drives. Heck when video went into CD-Games I would just load the cd on a SCSi drive LOL damn cd speeds lol

I miss video being inside games

O the good times you have to remember this game on PC.

Star Wars - Rebel Assault - Gameplay Part 1/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=359qyiXskCE

Wiki says
1993 so I was 13 teen years old.....



Are you good at it? Even tho you don't do that stuff anymore?
(just messen)

How did you get into cars wile?

Grandfather owned a garage, and we used to go to the drag strip a couple times a month.

 

[DaMulta]

There you go, and now I understand why you love it so much.

 

[reviewhunter]

Microsoft DirectX 11 Screenshots







more at: http://lly316.blogspot.com/2008/11/microsoft-directx-11-screenshots.html

 

[smalls21]

Those shots are amazing. Especially the one of the Joker. So real looking. I need to rebuild my gaming rig so that when direct x 11 comes out I can rock some sick games that will look like that..

 

[Homeless]

I think someone posted these here and confirmed them to not be real. I could be wrong though

 

[DaMulta]

Lots and lots and lots of reading.....
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=76534

 

[InnocentCriminal]

I haven't seen the Joker one before.

 

[stuartb04]

unreal pics.
amazing

 

[James1991]

Lots and lots and lots of reading.....
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=76534

lots and lots is a bit of an under statement.

oh and was it fun trying to explain all that stuff to everyone and who knows you might have to again in this thread

 

[titan_zero]

woo what now when I start to see the power of directx 10 they think in directx 11 this is a crazy
i will not waste my money in a new video card that support direct x11 i have a sli that is enough for me ........

 

[Morgoth]

wondering if this works with larrabee

 

[oli_ramsay]

Here's a couple more that are apparently DX11 taken from vr-zone a couple of days ago. Some say that they're actually showcasing ray tracing as oppose to DX11, either way they're pretty stunning:

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Errr... deja vu!