The original Panzer General game had a release with the DOS and Windows 95 versions (possibly even a MacOS version) on the same CD. The Windows version pre-dated DirectX.

I was watching DVDs on my Pentium II 400 desktop in the late nineties running Windows 98 SE. It had a Voodoo3 3000 video card and a Sound Blaster Live Value. I used PowerDVD and it all used software decoding or very limited hardware acceleration. I believe it was barely enough at the time. I don’t …

I believe PCem is technically a more accurate emulator than DOSBox when it comes to emulating specific hardware such as specific CPU speeds and graphics cards. It requires a bit more technical skill to get it working as you need to deal with gathering firmware/BIOS packages and working with virtual …

Splinter Cell and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow were distributed on multiple CD-ROMs. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory was a DVD-ROM release. Call of Duty 2 had both a CD-ROM and DVD-ROM release. The DVD-ROM version was marketed as a “Limited Edition” and had some extras on it, I believe. The same …

I used to have a Dell XPS M170 gaming laptop. It had the option for a GeForce 7800 GTX Go GPU so that was a laptop that was confirmed to have it. I’m not aware of an external USB X-Fi sound card but I did own both a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX USB sound card as well as an Audigy 2 ZS CardBus sound …

I just got an HP T5710 myself. Unfortunately, it's got at least one leaking capacitor, and I don't have the time or the skill to replace the capacitor myself. If you guys are going to go down this road, make sure the sellers you're getting them from can verify the caps are OK before they ship them …

Nineteen years ago I salvaged a Dell Dimension Pentium 120 tower from my college's IT department. It had a Matrox Millenium II PCI graphics card, 3COM Etherlink II PCI NIC, a full 128 MB of RAM and 512 KB of cache. I even spent some money to upgrade it with a PowerLeap adapter for a Pentium 233 MMX. …

Correct me if I'm wrong (I've used DOSBox before), but I'd still need to have the configuration entered in the autoexec.bat, wouldn't I? DOSBox's sound settings would have to be configured in the dosbox.conf file. You need to define the type of sound card and resources (Address, IRQ, DMA, etc.). …

The Capacitor Plague. The gift that keeps on giving.

I got slightly obsessed with trying to build a Windows 98 SE on an HP Thin Client T5710 after reading some posts on here. I found one for cheap on eBay for about $28, and it was a fairly upgraded one with a 1.1 GHz Transmeta CPU. I took it apart to check the hardware and remove the 256 MB DOM, but I …