WIP. Volunteers are appreciated.


20th) February 15, 1998: Dale Earnhardt Sr. wins the Daytona 500 for the first, and last, time.

20th) April 18, 1998: Act 1 of the Initial D anime airs in Japan.

20th) May 3, 1998: GT300 racer Tetsuya Ota survives being nearly burned to death at Fuji Speedway after a Pace Lap pile-up.

40th) May 21, 1978: Lotus 79, the first F1 car with ground effects, debuts at the Zolder Grand Prix.

40th) September 11 1978: Ronnie Peterson dies as a result of his injuries sustained during an incident at the start of the Italian GP, driving the aforementioned Lotus.

40th) October 8, 1978: Gilles Villeneuve celebrates his first Grand Prix victory in his hometown Canada.

30th) October 30, 1988: F1 driver Ayrton Senna clinches the World Championship for the first time after winning the Japanese Grand Prix.

25th) November 7, 1993: At the Australian GP, Senna scores what would become his final victory.

20th) November 24, 1998: WRC driver Carlos Sainz fails to score his third Driver's championship after his Corolla's engine breaks down just 300 metres before the finish line of the Network Q Rally of Great Britain. Tommi Mäkinen takes the spoils.


Imprecise dates:

50th) 1968: Introduction of the Corvette C3. The longest-running generation of Chevrolet's iconic sports car.

25th) April 1993: Toyota begins production of the fourth-generation Supra in Japan.

35th) May 1983: Launch of the Toyota Sprinter Trueno/Corolla Levin AE86 (and its fifth-gen Corolla bros, the E80 series) in Japan.

25th) August 1993: Limited public release of Daytona USA.

20th) 1998: The Porsche 996, first water-cooled generation of the 911, is introduced.

I've told some people in other journals before about me attending a PC technician course this year, in which we once were assigned to make a working PC out of two broken/incomplete ATXs. Said activity was quite fun for me and brough back my love for old PCs, prompting me to make use of the old parts I had taken from past computers and stored in boxes, and get the missing parts I needed.

The specifications of my "Junker PC" are:

Motherboard: Soyo SY-6VBA 133, based on the VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset (info). Seller claimed to have replaced the cheap caps for which Soyo became known for.
Processor: Pentium III Coppermine 650 w/ slotket.
Memory: 256mb PC100 SDRAM (128mb x2).
Video: nVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 (buh) AGP 2X, maybe from TEPPRO.
Sound: Noganet A-6280. It's based on the C-Media CMI8738 chip, also found on Sabrent & Diamond XtremeSound cards. No DOS support for digital sounds, as the system wil freeze when trying to autodetect & configure the sound card for use with such games. OPL FM synthesis works fine.
Storage:
.Alps Electronics 1.44mb FDD.
.Samsung 4.3gb HDD (Win98 SE 2K7).
.Fujitsu 1.7gb HDD.
.Maxtor 30gb HDD (WinXP SP3).
.Hitachi-LG CD-RW drive.
Networking: Realtek ethernet card.
Other: USB 2.0 card.
PSU: 500w. Dunno what brand.
Case: Super Power ATX tower. The stickers on it said that it used to house an Asus mobo and a Pentium Dual-Core, prior to the case being discarded, which means I built a ricer PC. Is missing two 5 1/4" drive bay covers and an I/O shield.
Input: BTC 9000 keyboard & KEIO optical mouse. Both PS/2s.
Display: LG L177WS-BF, because we got rid of our CRTs many years ago. The TNT2 drivers included with XP provide 16:9 aspect ratio support, and a maximum resolution of 1280x720. THis can also be done under 98 with nVIDIA's final drivers for the card, although they don't seem to work well with games under DirectDraw.

Regarding the soundcard, I originally had plans to buy a vintage Sound Blaster or compatible, but those for sale in my area costed more than what I felt comfortable spending my money with. The C-Media card was the cheapest option, plus the claimed DOS compatibility drew my attention even further, but little did I know that by DOS they meant "AdLib and practically nothing else". Still, it works without problems with Windows & Linux's APIs.


Worth bringing to the topic:







Anybody else?

Sorry, I mean... a word on them.


.You're never owed free art, they're not commissions or trades. The artist has all the right to cancel or decline free art for personal reasons. Don't badger or beg.

.Don't be whiny if they got your character wrong here and there. Whenever somebody missed any detail in a character of mine, I gently mentioned them about it but that I had no problem with it.

.When you get art, be grateful, don't just run away with the finished product. The artist spent his valuable time doing a piece for no major profit (if any).

Stolen from  Scotti-Biscotti
Rules: "You must spell out your username and name a song beginning w/ the letter, then tag as many people as there are letters"

P - Poker Face - Isamu Ohira
U - You (U) Must Follow - Stratus (Couldn't find anything starting with the letter U within my favourites)
J - Jumping Up The Nations - Toby Ash
O - Outsoar The Rainbow - m.o.v.e.
T - Theme from RUNABOUT - The Surf Coasters

Not going to tag anybody because I don't feel like picking who.

And a reminder that my username is Peugeot in japanese romaji plus a T.

HOW THE CRAPPING HELL DO I GET THEM RIGHT???!!!

_{(lenght, angle, etc)}






Yes, I'm tinkering with Grace's design, if you didn't tell from my last submission.