First post, by F2bnp
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- l33t
Ok I found this some months ago while searching for my SNES.I was so exited:
Cyrix 6x86 133 mhz CPU
S3 Virge 2 mb card
64 mb ram
SB 16
HD Quantum Fireball 2.1(2 gb)
Searching the attic proved to give me the retro feeling back.I found an 15' Compaq monitor,freed up some space and mounted that thing over there.After a couple of time Windows 98 was running on it.I installed Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 and started playing.To tell you the truth I was disappointed...
The game run great at 320x280 but it was really annoying to play it like that.I tried 640x480 but the framerate was varying making it hard to play.I was stunned when pressing the 3D Accelerator option checked at 640x480 worked actually faster than the 3D Accelerator unchecked.Still it needed something.I put the Millennium 2 card I had and the game did run faster,a lot faster.But many games such as Warhammer Dark Omen,Legacy of Kain,Atlantis,Commandos either were unplayable or were very slow.Jazz Jackrabbit 2 had a some kind of problem with the 3D menus it was really slow,although the gameplay run perfectly.Then came school and the PC had to be pushed back in to the fire cauldrons of hell.
Some days later,a friend of me called about an old P166 mhz MMX he found.He wanted some more memory and a better video card.So I gave him half of my 64 mb memory and the millennium 2,boosting his memory to 64 mb he gave me his mystique 170 card with 4 mb ram.I was amazed that his PC could handle Dark Omen with full speed at full detail.So did Jedi Knight!But when I tried Blood 2 I saw that I wasn't the only one with problems 😜/It was then I understood that the problem was not only the cpu but the graphics card also.So the main task was to find a suitable p1 cpu and a voodoo 2 graphics card.But till now I haven't found anything.
Only yesterday I got the pc up and running again!I formatted it and then put Windows 95.Still everything was slow with the mystique card.Then I noticed a LED in the frond cover reading:
HIGH
It all came back,TURBO buttons and stuff 😜,within moments turning the LED to LOW using the jumpers from the back was the best I did.I actually got some performance,REAL performance.Still the whole thing was kinda slow.I thought using the Mystique for 2D and the Virge for some 3D and bilinear filtering would be the best for this...But here is the problem!How the heck am I gonna do this?:S Mounting both pci cards will use only one and until I build my REAL retro PC,I need to make this better.Please help me...!!!
REAL Retro PC thoughts:
CPU: P2 450 MHz
RAM: 128mb ram
HD: 10 GB
Graphics card: 2 Voodoo 2 cards on SLI