My favorite is the AMD xp Barton 2500+. It was my first ever pc build in a big green Chieftec tower. It was also my first overclocking experience. I got it up to 2.3ghz from 1.8 in the winter with a window open and a large fan blowing into the side of the open case. I eventually got a 9700 pro in that system and had fun adding a pc heatsink to it and overclocking that as well.
Not sure that auctioning off all the stuff Paul Allen built a museum around would have been what he liked to happen with all that, but what can you do. Regarding the favorite CPU: I guess there are only subjective answers to that. So for me, that would be the Cyrix 200+, which was in the first PC I had bought new (and not got handed down or bought second hand). That stayed with me for a long time, I had my first LAN party experiences with it (AoE, CS) and defended the little lame thing against all the laughter and ridicule that friends made about it and how it was really a turtle speedwise. As many times before, my passion for having chosen an underdog with Cyrix (which I was not aware of when I bought it) kicked in 😅. Even after I got more powerful machines, which came and went, I used it for a long time with Star Commander, transferring C64 diskettes back and forth and playing some older games on it. Got a slightly more powerful Cyrix PC again a few years ago, because nostalgia, I guess 😂.
Seattle resident here. Its been making the local news, and its very sad. Highly doubt that is what he would have wanted but the family is possibly looking at selling off the Seahawks Football team and other things to cash out. :( As far as processors go. I adore the Slot 1 line of processors though I still love the 486 and Pentium 1.
Standards, software, the operating systems and everything in the IBM compatible world moved in steps back then instead of an incline like it has since the late 90s to today. The 8088/CGA/128K era early on. 286/EGA/512KB and finally the 386/486/VGA/1MB+ generation. If you had any kind of 486 with VGA and enough memory you were running any and all software out there. I used a 33Mhz 486 up until 1997. DOS and Win 3.1 in the early 90s was dominant. Sure some games need 8MB of memory and better CD-ROMS but practically everything else ran on almost any 486.
Hi, Ress thanks for sharing with us the development of that SC-55 emulator, thanks for the mention you got my name pretty well there. What do you think of that Universal Chip Analyser, that thing looks like black magic to me, apparently he want to develop a motherboard with ISA slots following that concept.
Funny you mentioned the fascination of wondering about certain options in the old setup menu (Video, sound etc). I did the same thing. Later I got those odd-jobs, like the Covox, Disney-thingy etc (they were quite cr*p).....Shout out for you, keep the good content coming :)
Thanks for the kind comment! It's amazing really how we all kind of independently had these shared experiences. Like you, I've since learned that the Disney thing was terrible, but at the time it was so intriguing - I mean, it was Disney!
No love for the Celeron 300A which could easily be overclocked to 450mhz? That one is still the craziset overclock I have ever seen. Though I still prefer the Motorola 68k or even the 6502.
I hope the big DEC10 and 20 systems that Allen had end up in accessible homes. You would think with proceeds in billions from the art sale that it wouldn't take much to form and fund a non-profit to keep the museum running. It's a shame that Allen didn't get this set up before his passing. (Or maybe he was showing off to us plebes and really didn't care. I don't know.) Favorite CPU? Probably Alpha. It came out when I was in college, and was killed when I was still working for my first employer out of college. It still amazes me how a small faction of DEC could go toe-to-toe with Intel and other heavy hitters of the time. Architectural elements and decisions definitely live on in modern CPU designs, but I always wonder what Alpha could have been if DEC hadn't been such a broken fragmented company. I like 68k, too, and just missed working on coldfire v2, instead using a 68331. Great to have what seems like a SC-55 version of MUNT! If Nuked is as close to the SC-55 as MUNT is to the MT-32, it's a boon for emulation. I assume it can also be connected to x68000 and Atari ST emulators?
I agree with you about the museum, but I don't think I can really share my thoughts about how wealthy people perceive and deal with money without getting sued, either. Alpha is a nice choice, and it was shockingly fast compared to the SPARC in the admittedly aging SPARCstations I was routinely using at the time I encountered it. That was in the form of a box resembling a DECstation and thus not bringing much attention to itself, thus permitting somewhat uncontended access, unlike the Silicon Graphics workstations in our department. Of course, DEC rather dragged their feet getting their own RISC product out the door, and I wonder whether they might have been more sensible applying their expertise to enhancing and fabricating MIPS, as they later did with ARM in the form of StrongARM, having elected to adopt MIPS in the DECstation in order to have a RISC workstation to sell. But instead, being DEC, they had to have their own thing, tipped their DECstation customers over the side, and then presumably wondered why "DEC's decade" wasn't going as planned, as customer loyalty evaporated. I can't bring myself to choose a favourite CPU, really. The 6502 was the first one I used, but it is cumbersome to program for compared to, say, ARM. Although ARM proved to be a relief, and perhaps a source of nostalgia, my impression is that ARM products these days are an incoherent mess.
My favorite CPU is Pentium II 266 mhz slot A that is powering my IBM PC 300GL. One of the last Pentiums with unlocked multiplier. I can overclock it stable at 300 mhz so I can play any "late" ms-dos games at SVGA resolutions. I can underclock it at 199 mhz for Jazz Jackrabbit and other games with 200mhz speed bug, AND if I disable L1 and L2 cache it performs like a 386, so I can play Test Drive 3 and other speed sensitive games. Such a versatile CPU/PC.
My favorite is the AMD xp Barton 2500+. It was my first ever pc build in a big green Chieftec tower. It was also my first overclocking experience. I got it up to 2.3ghz from 1.8 in the winter with a window open and a large fan blowing into the side of the open case. I eventually got a 9700 pro in that system and had fun adding a pc heatsink to it and overclocking that as well.
What a shame aout the museum :(
That Coleco Tarzan looks brilliant... and have a lovely time at Kickstart!
Not sure that auctioning off all the stuff Paul Allen built a museum around would have been what he liked to happen with all that, but what can you do.
Regarding the favorite CPU: I guess there are only subjective answers to that. So for me, that would be the Cyrix 200+, which was in the first PC I had bought new (and not got handed down or bought second hand). That stayed with me for a long time, I had my first LAN party experiences with it (AoE, CS) and defended the little lame thing against all the laughter and ridicule that friends made about it and how it was really a turtle speedwise. As many times before, my passion for having chosen an underdog with Cyrix (which I was not aware of when I bought it) kicked in 😅. Even after I got more powerful machines, which came and went, I used it for a long time with Star Commander, transferring C64 diskettes back and forth and playing some older games on it. Got a slightly more powerful Cyrix PC again a few years ago, because nostalgia, I guess 😂.
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23:47 Ctrl-Atari-Rees? 🤣 No surprise here...
Fav CPUs: Z80, m68k and some of the recent generations of i5 (low power, high performance).
My favourite CPU? Triangular Fish Toes. You said there was no wrong answer.
Definitely the best answer so far
Seattle resident here. Its been making the local news, and its very sad. Highly doubt that is what he would have wanted but the family is possibly looking at selling off the Seahawks Football team and other things to cash out. :(
As far as processors go. I adore the Slot 1 line of processors though I still love the 486 and Pentium 1.
Ataris at an Amiga show... Did you manage to get Amiga OS/Workbench working on an Atari!?! 😮😅
Standards, software, the operating systems and everything in the IBM compatible world moved in steps back then instead of an incline like it has since the late 90s to today. The 8088/CGA/128K era early on. 286/EGA/512KB and finally the 386/486/VGA/1MB+ generation. If you had any kind of 486 with VGA and enough memory you were running any and all software out there. I used a 33Mhz 486 up until 1997. DOS and Win 3.1 in the early 90s was dominant. Sure some games need 8MB of memory and better CD-ROMS but practically everything else ran on almost any 486.
Hi, Ress thanks for sharing with us the development of that SC-55 emulator, thanks for the mention you got my name pretty well there.
What do you think of that Universal Chip Analyser, that thing looks like black magic to me, apparently he want to develop a motherboard with ISA slots following that concept.
Funny you mentioned the fascination of wondering about certain options in the old setup menu (Video, sound etc). I did the same thing. Later I got those odd-jobs, like the Covox, Disney-thingy etc (they were quite cr*p).....Shout out for you, keep the good content coming :)
Thanks for the kind comment! It's amazing really how we all kind of independently had these shared experiences. Like you, I've since learned that the Disney thing was terrible, but at the time it was so intriguing - I mean, it was Disney!
No love for the Celeron 300A which could easily be overclocked to 450mhz? That one is still the craziset overclock I have ever seen. Though I still prefer the Motorola 68k or even the 6502.
I hope the big DEC10 and 20 systems that Allen had end up in accessible homes. You would think with proceeds in billions from the art sale that it wouldn't take much to form and fund a non-profit to keep the museum running. It's a shame that Allen didn't get this set up before his passing. (Or maybe he was showing off to us plebes and really didn't care. I don't know.)
Favorite CPU? Probably Alpha. It came out when I was in college, and was killed when I was still working for my first employer out of college. It still amazes me how a small faction of DEC could go toe-to-toe with Intel and other heavy hitters of the time. Architectural elements and decisions definitely live on in modern CPU designs, but I always wonder what Alpha could have been if DEC hadn't been such a broken fragmented company. I like 68k, too, and just missed working on coldfire v2, instead using a 68331.
Great to have what seems like a SC-55 version of MUNT! If Nuked is as close to the SC-55 as MUNT is to the MT-32, it's a boon for emulation. I assume it can also be connected to x68000 and Atari ST emulators?
I agree with you about the museum, but I don't think I can really share my thoughts about how wealthy people perceive and deal with money without getting sued, either.
Alpha is a nice choice, and it was shockingly fast compared to the SPARC in the admittedly aging SPARCstations I was routinely using at the time I encountered it. That was in the form of a box resembling a DECstation and thus not bringing much attention to itself, thus permitting somewhat uncontended access, unlike the Silicon Graphics workstations in our department.
Of course, DEC rather dragged their feet getting their own RISC product out the door, and I wonder whether they might have been more sensible applying their expertise to enhancing and fabricating MIPS, as they later did with ARM in the form of StrongARM, having elected to adopt MIPS in the DECstation in order to have a RISC workstation to sell. But instead, being DEC, they had to have their own thing, tipped their DECstation customers over the side, and then presumably wondered why "DEC's decade" wasn't going as planned, as customer loyalty evaporated.
I can't bring myself to choose a favourite CPU, really. The 6502 was the first one I used, but it is cumbersome to program for compared to, say, ARM. Although ARM proved to be a relief, and perhaps a source of nostalgia, my impression is that ARM products these days are an incoherent mess.
My favorite CPU is Pentium II 266 mhz slot A that is powering my IBM PC 300GL. One of the last Pentiums with unlocked multiplier. I can overclock it stable at 300 mhz so I can play any "late" ms-dos games at SVGA resolutions. I can underclock it at 199 mhz for Jazz Jackrabbit and other games with 200mhz speed bug, AND if I disable L1 and L2 cache it performs like a 386, so I can play Test Drive 3 and other speed sensitive games. Such a versatile CPU/PC.
I wonder about getting that onto my mt32-pi
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@@ReesRambles Yessir, I think I've found the sister channel I wasnt aware of as well LOL
@@ReesRambles Oh wait, this was the other channel I think LOL
3:20 nice to see you are a Weezer fan 🥂 great performance that 😊
Oh yes! Saw them live for the second time a few weeks back supporting Smashing Pumpkins. How can people not like Weezer? 😁
@@ReesRambles seen Weezer a couple times too. Great band.
AMD K6/2 for me 🏁
2600 graphics are Less Defined, not Crude. & there's no way the game is fake. Who would go to so much trouble?