LGR - Diamond Viper VLB Windows 3.1 Accelerator Card (Patreon)
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Greetings! I hope things are going as well as possible wherever you happen to be. Times are truly getting surreal over here, so uh...
Let's look at VLB graphics cards! Specifically the 2MB Diamond Viper VLB from 1993, which cost $550 back when it first launched back then. The equivalent of a thousand bucks considering inflation, all for a whopping two megabytes to run Windows 3.1 at higher resolution, color, and speed. Worth it? Ehh, maybe if you were really into certain productivity apps.
I don't really consider this as part of the "Woodgrain PC Update" series, even though I'm using that computer throughout the video. I won't be leaving this card in there and have already replaced it with something more suitable to my desires, for reasons that'll become clear in the video I think.
Anyway yeah, not sure what the next topic is going to be at this point. This video was started several weeks ago, before Doom Eternal and before the social isolation guidelines went into effect. So several of the things I had in the works no longer make any sense to do right now, like traveling to a retro event, reviewing a digital camera that requires me going out in public more than is advised right now, and finishing the next episode of Thrifts (which has been postponed for the foreseeable future.) I guess there's a Cities Skylines pack coming out soon, maybe I'll review that since it's the first one of those in a while! If nothing else, I've got a buncha sidelined projects here at home.
I'm also still releasing random unscripted videos about things and whatever over on LGR Blerbs. The most recent one is a video about Software Evolution's shareware packages released in Canada in the early '90s. Nothing super special, but I do plan to open a few of those up and try them out soon as well.
Stay safe, folks!