With that removed, I could take out the floppy drive. The front panel was removed by pressing three levers along the right side of the panel.
I’m fairly certain this did not come with the system, so I’ll need to verify that later on. We’ll dive into the video card some more later on, but we now know that it is a Matrox MGA Millennium 4MB video card.
#REAL WAR ZONE CODE#
There’s also a code next to the Matrox silkscreen at the top of the PCB that reads “590-05,” and this corresponds with the “Matrox MGA Millennium 4MB IBM” listed at the VGA Museum. They are SEC KM4232W259A modules at 1 MB each, so this video card has 4 MB of RAM. There are many versions available, but I do see what look like 4 DRAM modules on the card.
The large QFP IC reads “Powered by MGA 64-bit graphics” and has a part number of “IS-MGA-2064W-R3.” I did a quick search on this, and found an entry at the VGA Museum. I hadn’t seen SIMM memory modules in quite awhile, and it was cool to see a vertical mounting scheme for the HDD as I didn’t think that was a popular method back then. There was a decent amount of dust that I immediately vacuumed out, but pretty much everything is coated in it. The panel uses a single thumbscrew, and then two clips: one at the top, and one at the bottom that you depress and then slide the panel off. At the time this was seen as a convenient and inexpensive way of storing a large amount of data on removable and rewritable media– all 100MB of it.
#REAL WAR ZONE ZIP#
I do distinctly remember my dad opting for the Iomega Zip drive when we configured and ordered the system. We must have had a modem installed, I think originally, because this was right around the time I was heavily into BBSing, and my dad would have been using Compuserve or Nando. I’m fairly certain I added this NIC at some point after I took de facto ownership of the system. Moving on, it looks like both a video card and a NIC are installed. Perhaps this is a precursor to the Dell service tag? Searching for this string, in either form, yields nothing relevant. Is that a 6 or a G?Ī sticker on the back panel has a barcode with the text “906FX” or “90GFX,” but I think it’s the former. There are some smudges and other marks that will need to be cleaned up as well. This is from exposure to UV light, and it can be reversed using a process called Retr0bright. The plastic on the case as well as on the drives has yellowed over time.
#REAL WAR ZONE WINDOWS#
The original “Designed for Windows 95” sticker was even intact! I didn’t see anything structural that was damaged, e.g. Overall, it’s in nice shape given its age. It isn't suitable for anyone younger than 15, maybe 14 if they're particularly mature.After getting the system out of the closet, I took photos to document the current condition. let your kids be kids and don't expose them to this kind of mature overly competitive violent gameplay. As a parent, as an avid gamer and genuine lover of this game myself. Gore or not tho, this is in no way suitable for under 15s. And then you can spectate other users who may not have the gore filter on anyway and still see the blood. You will still have bits of brain matter all over the screen when you die. Turning off the blood and guts does NOT remove the gore.
Realistic weapons, realistic fighting, realistic tactics and a realistic intent to search and destroy. It is a war game and a realist one at that. This game takes girst player shooter games to a whole different level. Dispite the peer pressure to conform, which, I'm sure you are all too familiar with if you're reading this here. I will say that fortnite, I think, is not suitable for under 13s.
Even the weapons are, for the most part, fluffed up to compensate for the overarching violent intent of the game. Now I know fortnite is the same but there is an intentionally comic style to fortnite and an intentional lack of realistic war action. A war game where people run around a kill one another. Sure you can turn the gore and guts off but let's just take a second to call this what it is. There seems to be a massive gap between the reviews and reality about the suitability of this game for younger audiances.