Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Diablo, Duke Nukem 3D in high-res and Quake II.

devius wrote on 2026-05-10, 20:19:

Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Diablo, Duke Nukem 3D in high-res and Quake II.

Duke Nukem 3D and Quake/Quake II sound like swell ideas. As for BG 1&2 and Diablo, I have those on way too many computers I think, and play regularly 😀)

I'm thinking Sierra and Lucasarts games. I've been coming back to Monkey Island 1 & 2, but there's more out there and I'd love to replay those.

I thought you meant period appropriate games for those specs 😅

devius wrote on 2026-05-11, 09:42:

I thought you meant period appropriate games for those specs 😅

To be honest, from all the reviews I had come to the conclusion that Intel 740 is a terrible graphics card. Today I tested it out, and well, getting 36-39 fps in Quake 2 hardware accelerated is not bad at all for a 1998 graphics card. About the same in Quake 1 in software mode. So I may have gone a bit overboard, and you know what, Intel 740 actually delivered. Sure it was 640x480, but I had every graphics setting maxed out. It performs well in Direct3d and OpenGL. Sure it's no Voodoo and I think TNT and Rage128 might be better, but if I had this card in 1998 I'd be in love. Every game from this era I threw at it, it delivered, even had some fun with Half Life 1 later.

I honestly expected it to be a 2d card with terrible 3d implementation because of the whole AGP aperture texture memory thing. Instead, I got a card with awesome VESA 2.0 and even 3.0 (in Windows) support, great 2D performance and really nice 3D performance in 640x480. It played Twisted Metal 2 like it was nothing.

It's alive! It's alive!

I've hooked up my oldest retro PC (System 1 from this thread), which has been disconnected for the last ~1.5-2 years, I think.
To my half-surprise, other than the CMOS battery being drained and BIOS settings lost, everything seems to work.

Here it is running some of my favorite DOS games, that I had spent hours playing as a teenager (some later).

And some Windows games as well.
I recall, even before the disconnect, Win98SE was already not so stable on this machine. It tends to crash after a while.

I like how you've dedicated a special space for it. Very nice system!

Is that an IBM DeathStar? Probably not, considering it still works...

Hey everyone, I'm new here. Not new to PC's at all, I've been into PC's since the early 386 days! This is my current resto project I'm just about finished with. It's a 1998 Micron PC Millennia. Pentium II 350MHz. with 192MB of RAM. It is all original except it used to have a Real3D StarFighter i740 GPU and a Winnov Videum AV-WAVI 97 ISA Sound and video capture card. There was no need for the sound card as this Intel 440BX Motherboard had a built in Yamaha YFM-740B-V XG-MIDI on board and I had a Nvidia GeForce FX5500 from another pc that would of been super weak so I used it since it's fully compatible with DOS/98 and would run everything I need it to perfectly. It does have a newer 80GB WD IDE drive from around 2002ish. Otherwise this machine is all stock with the Zip100, 1.44 floppy and Sony 4x CD ROM, I even have the MicronPC Keytronic Keyboard and Keytronic mouse. The machine runs GREAT and is my Late Dos/98SE Gamer! I have a few other projects here I'm working on ATM I may share in the future.

Some more pics

Some nice hardware you have. The BX is a great Slot1 board.
I have the same Altec Lansing Sub & satellite speakers for one of my builds. They sound great.

AndrettiGTO wrote on 2026-05-23, 00:31:

I like how you've dedicated a special space for it. Very nice system!

Indeed. The lack of desk space was the primary reason it had been disconnected. Now there is room for it again.

devius wrote on 2026-05-24, 21:18:

Is that an IBM DeathStar? Probably not, considering it still works...

I think the most notorious "Deathstars" were the 75GXP series. These were failing consistently. Mine is the 120GXP, for which there is only anecdotal evidence (and possibly people confuse and conflate data). Not sure these fail more than the average hard drive.

BadFox_1 wrote on Yesterday, 21:06:

It's a 1998 Micron PC Millennia. Pentium II 350MHz. with 192MB of RAM. It is all original except it used to have a Real3D StarFighter i740 GPU and a Winnov Videum AV-WAVI 97 ISA Sound and video capture card. There was no need for the sound card as this Intel 440BX Motherboard had a built in Yamaha YFM-740B-V XG-MIDI on board and I had a Nvidia GeForce FX5500 from another pc that would of been super weak so I used it since it's fully compatible with DOS/98 and would run everything I need it to perfectly. It does have a newer 80GB WD IDE drive from around 2002ish.

Nice one! Somehow I skipped over the entire P-II and P-III era in desktops, and now I think it may have been a bit of a shame, as there is surely more oomph potential to them compared to an SS7 K6-2/III system.

BadFox_1 wrote on Yesterday, 21:06:

...Otherwise this machine is all stock with the Zip100, 1.44 floppy and Sony 4x CD ROM...

Did you mean 24X CD-ROM?