LTX

[AvocadosGuac]

I wont be attending LTX...

 

But i have a good idea or two on what you guys could do  

 

1. 5 Min Build Challenge!

 

Two People go face to face building a PC (from OLD or dead parts) in 2 cases supplied by a manufacture.

 

2. Pin the tail on the Motherboard!

 

Blindly put a GPU in the PCI-e slot on the MOBO.

 

Fastest time wins!

 

3. Guess the mouse!

 

Have several mice in a line, blindly, someone has to guess which is which except there's a twist, theres an actual mouse in the lineup

 

@LinusTech @Slick @nicklmg

 

These would be funny in a CSF Video.

 

Anyone else got any ideas?

[themctipers]

dont make me more jealous of people who goto LTX  

[AvocadosGuac]

Just now, themctipers said:

dont make me more jealous of people who goto LTX  

See, i'm jealous of them too dont worry...

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, Jrock said:

See, i'm jealous of them too dont worry...

wat

 

i read 'i will be attending LTX'

 

[yathis]

Its going to be quite small if its just a rink size. They should have had more room, perhaps even a field, with tents.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

4 hours ago, Jrock said:

I wont be attending LTX...

I'm not going either Wish I could :BibleThump: :FeelsBadMan:

 

4 hours ago, Jrock said:

 

But i have a good idea or two on what you guys could do  

 

1. 5 Min Build Challenge!

 

Two People go face to face building a PC (from OLD or dead parts) in 2 cases supplied by a manufacture.

For my idea I'd allow a bit more than 5 minutes, but I suggest using OLD, but still living parts, AND set up the PC, including installing OS, drivers, software, etc.  Parts used should include

• motherboards with ISA slots (no PCI allowed),
• RAM in individual chip sockets on mobo (no SIMMs / DIMMs allowed),
• MFM hard drives (no IDE/SATA/NVMe allowed),
• Serial/Parallel peripherals (no USB, PS/2, etc) & the old style keyboard connector (pre-PS/2),
• and so on.

Then install a period-appropriate OS on it and several older games & a few programs.  (I doubt it'd run anything newer than the original 2D Duke Nukem or Commander Keen, though.  Wolfenstein 3D would probably be a stretch, and at lowest settings would probably be about like trying to run Witcher 3 or Rise of the Tomb Raider on an Intel GMA Graphics

 

 

4 hours ago, Jrock said:

 

2. Pin the tail on the Motherboard!

 

Blindly put a GPU in the PCI-e slot on the MOBO.

 

Fastest time wins!

Install an M.2 SSD AFTER the GPU is installed.  (Motherboard needs to have the M.2 slot immediately below the PCI-E slot housing the GPU.)

 

4 hours ago, Jrock said:

 

3. Guess the mouse!

 

Have several mice in a line, blindly, someone has to guess which is which except there's a twist, theres an actual mouse in the lineup

You mean a mouse like this?  

 

[vanished]

I like this.  For the build one, they could compete against Luke maybe, at least some times, or maybe the best get to once they're filtered down.  If he has the time for that, that is

[elis]

14 hours ago, PianoPlayer88Key said:

OLD

You mean those white things on Linus's office wall ???

[WindirBear]

What is LTX?

 

 

Pin the tail on the motherboard sounds fun.  Would be funny with a twist, like have their SO that knows less about computers pin the CPU blind folded while you try explain where it's connected.

[yathis]

I hope there will be alcohol served at LTX cuz knowing me, I will be plastered drunk!

 

What prizes are we talking about here?

[PianoPlayer88Key]

56 minutes ago, elis said:

You mean those white things on Linus's office wall ???

 

I'm thinking more like these.

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a partial build video (1st in a 3-part series) on a system that's has some similarities to my dad's first PC, the one I cut my computing/gaming teeth on.

 

If it has any of these, it's too recent of a PC.

 

Spoiler

     

    

 

 

 

 

Some games to install and play include:

 

Spoiler

• Centipede (1980?)
• Donkey Kong (1981)
• MS Flight Simulator 1.0 (1982)
• 3-Demon (1983)
• Archon: The Light and the Dark (1983)
• Alley Cat (1984)
• Sopwith (1984)
• Gapper (1986)
• King's Quest I (1986)
• Captain Comic (1988)
• Battle Chess (1988)
• MS Flight Simulator 4.0 (1989)
• Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons (1990)
• Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy (1991)
• Duke Nukem (1991)
• Hovertank 3D (1991)
• Catacomb 3-D (1991)
• Capture the Flag (1992 - Richard Carr)
• Ultima Underworld (1992)
• Wolfenstein 3D (1992)

The few with links are to youtube videos.  The rest I was able to find on Wikipedia, although youtube videos also exist for most of them.

 

I doubt newer games than about 1992-1993 or so would run - for example forget about trying to play Doom, Magic Carpet, Descent, Quake, etc.