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Re: Best System Configuration For 90's PC Games?

Posted on 2007-12-03, 21:43

in PC Emulation
Most early Windows 9x games that aren't shooters don't need much CPU power. Diablo runs fine on a low-end Pentium, for example. As for sound cards, well a lot of DOS games have native support for Soundscape. So I guess you'll just have to see if you have trouble with it. Back in the day I ran a …

Re: Best System Configuration For 90's PC Games?

Posted on 2007-12-03, 21:22

in PC Emulation
Soundscape has better MIDI than AWE32 for DOS Games. AWE32 also has a big, annoying TSR called AWEUTIL (I believe) that is needed for General MIDI support quite often. This needs EMM386 to be loaded, or it won't work. That's not ideal at all... The only downside to Soundscape is its lack of SBPro …

Re: Best System Configuration For 90's PC Games?

Posted on 2007-12-03, 21:12

in PC Emulation
CentaurHauls is the id of a WinChip C6 CPU. It's a Pentium equivalent unless you want to play 3D games that use lots of floating point math. It sucks for that. Luckily, most DOS games are for 486s or less which have even worse FPUs (or don't have an FPU). 64 MB is plenty for Windows 95. Even for …

Re: Share your 3D accelerator nostalgia here

Posted on 2007-11-26, 20:48

in Milliways
heh i had a 4mb s3trio card first and unreal tournament ran sloow :P then i got a TNT 2 card and it ran fine so long as there was no smart AI or too many AI ;) ah the limits of a p133 and 48mb ram :) the image quality with the tnt 2 was vastly better then the s3trio :P S3 Trio can't accelerate much …

Re: Share your 3D accelerator nostalgia here

Posted on 2007-11-26, 20:46

in Milliways
It's also neat when you find the "best" version of a game runs on an obscure 3d accelerator that nobody has and isn't produced anymore. So which card-specific game that looks the best? Unreal before the D3D patch. :) D3D support was awful for years anyway. Hell, Glide still runs the game better …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-20, 21:38

hey that O2 is pretty cool. I'm not sure how well a VIA CPU will cope with DOS games though; they are pretty slow. Still much better than a cell-phone or PDA CPU. I used to have a Sharp Zaurus. It had a 206 MHz Strongarm CPU. I never tried DOSBOX on it, but there were many good game engine ports. …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-20, 20:53

Dark Forces in DOSBOX stresses my Pentium M 2.13 GHz. I can't imagine any pocket PC CPU being able to remotely handle it. You might be able to play games meant for a 286, but that's probably about it. The CPUs in phones and PDAs are pretty basic, with little cache memory, limited integer performance …

Re: Mechwarrior 2 Original dos 3dfx edition

Posted on 2007-11-07, 21:04

in DOS
Yeah it's a Windows 95 game that uses the earliest Glide API version basically tailored specifically to Voodoo 1. I'd suggest digging up the Titanium Pack somehow instead. It has D3D support.

Re: YOUR dance anthems?

Posted on 2007-11-06, 20:37

in Milliways
Rapture by IIO. That tune is an all-time fav for me too. How about: Perpetuous Dreamer - Sound of Goodbye Riva - Stringer Solid Globe - North Pole Sarah McLachlan - Fallen (Gabriel & Dresden remix) Evanescence - Hello (Gabriel & Dresden bootleg mix) <-omg Paul van Dyk - For an Angel Paul van Dyk - …

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