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 :-)!
@@PJL3791 I'd love it if that quote becomes incredibly outdated sooner rather than later.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!
@@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.
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!
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.
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 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
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!
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.
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 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
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.
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! 👍👍
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 UA-cam (at least to me). Thank you for all your hard work!
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!
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.
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
"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
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.
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.
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.
Great review Clint! I do recall seeing an Accelerator Card from this brand way back - definitely bringing nostalgic vibes on this one! Anyway, looking forward to the next one bro'! Stay safe (due to COVID-19), more power, and God bless!
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!!!
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.
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!
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.
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
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'!"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Klondike Social Distancing". Haha! I had to laugh out loud at that line. Great episode, man! This is interesting stuff. I could have seen my Dad getting a card like this back in the day as he did a lot of CAD work back then. Shame it's poor for games.
Almost Literally I’ve yet to see any reason to use Windows 10. I have one computer I use for work a couple days a week that runs Windows 7, and for everything else I get by just fine using my iPhone.
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.
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..
Always letting us hear the sound of the computer booting is why I love LGR so much : He knows what we like.
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?
@@truckerallikatuk LOL i was able to tell the type of error by the beep alone.
@@truckerallikatuk ...who couldn't tell the difference between those two???
Such a satisfying sound.
cant argue with that
[Floppy drive makes floppy noises]
[Beep!]
10/10 subtitle job
as usual
[computer whirs to life]
[memory check buzzing]
[floppy drive makes floppy noises]
[beep!]
10/10.
Classic :)
“Screwing around with random parts and playing Duke 3D”. That sounds like the life to me.
Because it is. :)
It's definitely LGR's life 😃
adjusted for inflation post corona virus, $84,642.
This really makes me want to see an LGR video all about DOS graphics acceleration!
That would be great. He did mention it for the future.
I'd watch the shit outta that
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 :-)!
+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. 😓
I would love to see reviews of
- tseng labs ET6000
- Number9 Imagine 128
6:07 "Maybe I don't want to be the bad guy anymore."
[explosions, AdLib Music]
$549 for a higher-res cool crab?
_Worth it._
"Cards practicing Klondike social-distancing" - That earned a like. 👍
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.
@@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!
@@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.
@@PJL3791 We just watched a video about a graphics card from 1993... None of us ever go outside anyway. B-)
Indeed! I wonder if this saying will age well?
You'd think that he'd be excited to have an *oak* chip in his *woodgrain* 486. ;)
Nobody was or is or ever will be excited to have an Oak chip. Not even in a woodgrain 486.
@@nickwallette6201 You hear that? That's the sound of the pun going over your head.
Terrible(great) pun, btw.
Pun acknowledged, but the fact remains. :-)
Again, I acknowledge the pun. Moving on....
Almost as exciting as having a Teac CD ROM
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!
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.
Same. PC like that was WAY out of most people's budget.
Wow, couldn't have said it better myself
Shoutouts to the guy that wrote [jazztastic jazz music] into the intro sequence subtitles
Shoutout appreciated 👍
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 :-)
I remember seeing these at CompUSA wanting one soo bad.
@@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
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!
Sames, except I was pushing 30.
Your poor dad was a idiot.
Maaaan the only thing that gets me smiling these days is seeing that notification from Clint that some new LGR awaits.
I recently saved a poster from an old office we were clearing out
"3.1 Is Here. Your Computer Just Got Easier To Use."
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.
I love every single time I receive a notification that another video is up from Clint (LGR)! Keep up the amazing work.
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!!
Thank you! It's my art at this point, years of practice and always trying to improve :)
@@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
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.
5:27 "and without a proper benchmark, I can't declare precisely anything precise with precision" LOOOL
I just love the cute little Y2K bug sitting on the speaker =w=
I know right. I'd love to get one.
3:08 those sounds bring back my childhood. I love it.
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! 👍👍
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 UA-cam (at least to me). Thank you for all your hard work!
Thank you for watching!
My appreciation goes out to you for continuing to provide entertaining videos during these hardships.
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!
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.
I can’t wait for thrift stores to be open again
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
"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
That was truly incredible in 1993. Still good in 2005. Buy then again, 2005 is 15 years ago...
Even more incredible was that John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor back in 1995
CRTs are cool, keep it
you're running a 74hz crt?
@@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
your videos are always calming man. thank you
This is super cool! These videos always brighten my day!
Great video Clint, was really cool to watch and listen to. Keep making more !
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?
Effectively but in a soothing way. 😀
a few decades too late I finally found out from XKCD that hitting F in SkiFree will speed you up faster than the monster
After all this time he could outrun the yeti, my boi
Goddammit. At least this proves there really is a relevant XKCD for everything.
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.
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.
Everybody sleeping on the Oak Technologies logo's ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ
It's not small, Windows is just cold.
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.
Thanks for keeping all of sane!!!! Love your vids and looking forward to more of your videos to alleviate cabin fever! Thanks!
It's wild how few pins those old processors have
lol. Go look at an Intel 4004.
Its even wilder that you can pull out an AMD unit and replace it with an Intel unit.
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
"Some of the cards will appear in the future on LGR"
That would be awesome!
Retro Puffer Hopefully prices don’t become even more insane.
This was Amazing! Now i just need a video where you Do find a card that helps with all that Dos Gaming Goodness!
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.
It’s 2020 and we still have scaling problems in windows
Thanks for the videos. I work in intensive care and these clips help me take a quick mental break
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.
Yup same. For Autocad it was highly desirable.
Great review Clint! I do recall seeing an Accelerator Card from this brand way back - definitely bringing nostalgic vibes on this one! Anyway, looking forward to the next one bro'! Stay safe (due to COVID-19), more power, and God bless!
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!!!
Thank you for this wonderful video.
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.
I love your voice 😄 it sounds sincere and sarcastic at the same time. And that's difficult to pull off!
Love this channel, I absolutely die everytime he throws lines out like "klondike social distancing" you make my day sometimes
No other channel takes me back to my childhood like LGR. Thank you Clint!
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!
Great video Clint. Stay safe.
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.
Cool video. Thank you, I needed a interesting diversion. Hope all is well - stay safe, stay healthy !
Your videos calm me. Thank you
3:12 that floppy symphony is truly nostalgic! Thank you for keeping that!!
Please don't ever stop filming the post... That little sequence of noises makes my heart flutter.
I love LGR because with all his subs, he still reads his comments !!!
thank you! I needed this!
Cool! I had one of those during the day, thanks for the video!
Great episode thank you.
Great video man! ;)
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
Thanks for the video. Appreciate it.
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'!"
Last time i was this early i had to ran Doom in low detail
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.
The Moment when you realise that that ist NOT a heatsink, just a whole lot of memory Chips 😅
I crapped myself when I saw Windows 3.11 in such a high res on it's original hardware.
teh_supar_hackr 0010101 hope you have toilet paper
@@danieldaniels7571 I do, printed from my dot matrix printer!
Fantastic, Clint!
Watching videos like this during the New Zealand COVID-19 lockdown just pleases me. 😎
And people say GPU prices have skyrocketed.. lol
1993: Diamond Viper
1998: Voodoo 3DFX
2020: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080Ti
That last one is definitely the most sexy.
If you consider inflation, they're around the same price.
That benchmark program looks like a straight-up virus from the late 90s, early 2000s.
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.
90s graphics cards, ahhh memories!
Well, THAT SimCity monster knew well how to save the environment, and punish stupid humans!
The content I need during a pandemic!
Thank you for your ADA compliant closed captions. :)
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 😴😴😴
Hey I'll take it. Sweet dreams!
@@LGR thanks man
i would give my life to protect cool crab. i love him
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 😄
That start-up beeping and buzzing on these old 90s PCs are just so nostalgic.
Diamond. Man, good stuff. My friend had a Stealth. Geezus that thing was sick!
That's what I need to watch after a long workday on the icu. LGR always lifts me up 🙂
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.
I love these vintage hardware LGR videos!
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.
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.
Oh just a good video to watch during im stuck at home. Sci free i used to play it alot. Dawm snow yeti always eating me. Love ya video
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
RIP
Don't die.
My condolences to your liver.
I had the Viamond Viper V550 16MB PCI version. Thank you for the Video.
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!
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.
"Klondike Social Distancing". Haha! I had to laugh out loud at that line. Great episode, man! This is interesting stuff. I could have seen my Dad getting a card like this back in the day as he did a lot of CAD work back then. Shame it's poor for games.
30 years later... Windows still suck at scaling most of the things in hi-res.
True that!
That very reason is why I returned my 4K monitor after only 1 week of use. Most programs were either super tiny or hideously blurry.
@@Jakek200 sorry to hear that, I love my monitor. But I use Linux, most of things are scaling gloriously. :)
Sucks if you want to go low-res too.
Windows just sucks in general. Win10 is the worst OS i have EVER used
Almost Literally I’ve yet to see any reason to use Windows 10. I have one computer I use for work a couple days a week that runs Windows 7, and for everything else I get by just fine using my iPhone.
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.
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.
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..