The resurrection has occured!

[adosorken]

Woohoo! Just for the hell of it, I decided to try rebuilding my dead P233...figured I had nothing better to do anyways. After tooling around with it for a bit, it sprang to life! I was kinda shocked coz I thought it was really dead! I tempted fate and rebuilt the entire computer over the next couple of hours, piece by piece, fully expecting it to die at any time...and it didn't. Now I have it completely reassembled (with a couple of exceptions of course), but the killer part is this...not only is it more stable now than before, but I finally got it to take a NIC...I'm writing this from my dev computer! I know this may not seem like a big deal to most people but to me this is a major event.

Anyways, to celebrate this event...when I was up and running again, I finished up a ton of stuff on Useless Sock, fixed up the user manual for it, and packaged it up for distribution. It's not on the LSS site just yet though, so for now I've uploaded it to my main server at Nodtveidt Dot Net. It's vastly improved over the version I released way back in 1999, so without further adeu, I give you...

Useless Sock v0.10a!

http://www.nodtveidt.net/useless_10a.zip

This time it's compiled as a quicklibrary and it should work very well. I haven't had a chance to really test the compiled version, but the demo.exe inside it was compiled with the quicklibrary rather than the sourcecode version, and it runs fine (it's the same demo from the original 1999 release with one minor change), so it should all work just fine.

This is the main library that powers The King Of QBers 2004. Speaking of which...I will upload some screenshots at some point in time as well to show the progress of the development.

Thanks for reading my rant/joyous post

[Rhiannon]

thanks to me that put up with you every step of the way :lol:

[na_th_an]

Good ol' 233s, they are the most nifty pieces of hardware in the world I still miss mine. I was playing Soul Reaver on it whilst people argued that it should need a 500 to play properly.... they got amazed of my overclocked, overdeveloped, overfeatured small box.

Well, I replaced it with a XP 2000+

[SJ Zero]

Soul Reaver ran on everything. My first pentium was a K5-PR90, and it ran soul reaver without (too many) problems.

[TheBigBasicQ]

K5-PR90 was a pentium???

[Zack]

Athlon, I think he meant.
My first Pentium was a 120 MHZ P1. Then I moved on to this P4, 2.4GHZ.
I never really had any classic comps: a 286,386,486, but never a Commodore or anything

[TheBigBasicQ]

I knew he was refering to althon. I was just kidding . My first comp was a 386 33Mhz with 4Mb ram =P. Those were the days...

[na_th_an]

Soul Reaver ran on everything. My first pentium was a K5-PR90, and it ran soul reaver without (too many) problems.

I mean at 1024x768 craze

[adosorken]

Err guys...AMD's CPU wasn't named an Athlon until the K7 line...the K5 and K6 were just that...K5 and K6. AMD had the K5, the K6, the K6-2, and the K6-III...then the K7, dubbed the Athlon. The K5 and K6 CPUs were, of course, Pentium clones...so calling them Pentiums isn't exactly inaccurate. The K7 was the first chip AMD introduced which actually outperformed Intel's Pentium competitor (yes, the K7 outperforms the P3, and mainly due to certain bugs in the P3's design, like the partial register stall). It is also ironic to note that certain builds of the Pentium II outperform the Pentium III, clock-per-clock, due to the flaws in the Pentium III's design, but neither can compare, clock-per-clock, with the K7.

[TheBigBasicQ]

Whatever. I love my Pentium III!