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First post, by Scythifuge

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Greetings!

Some of you may recall past posts of mine about creating the ultimate Pentium III 700 PC, codenamed Farnsworth ("State of the art, Alex!" - Farnsworth to Alex in the movies, Nemesis.) Well, I gave up on that idea. It had a Voodoo5 with a Voodoo2 and a Voodoo1 with two passthru cables, a SB Live! AND an AWE32 PnP, and a NIC, with failed attempts at installing a PCI USB card I have lying around. The idea was to run all sorts of Windows 9x games and MS-DOS games by disabling the AWE32 in Windows and not using the Live! SB16 emulation in DOS. Since I have two Gateways, with the second one having a 550 cpu, I decided to turn that one into a slightly faster version of my old Gateway I got back in 1999 (a Performance 450 with 64mb RAM and a Voodoo3 and upgraded from integrated AudioPCI to a Live! X-Gamer,) since I have a Voodoo3 not in use and a couple of OEM Live! cards I have collected. That one does have an AWE32 CT2670 which is on a separate MS-DOS/WfW 3.11 install on an 8gb SD card, Win98 on a 128GB SD card, and Windows 95 OSR2 on a 128GB SD card, using Moslo Deluxe to put command.com into Pentium 166 mode to emulate a suped-up version of my old Pentium 90. I left the Voodoo2 out of both PCs and put the Voodoo1 in the 550. Along with my 486 (still waiting on a Trio64 card,) and an AthlonXP with a Radeon X800, I have almost everything covered for MS-DOS to Windows XP gaming and app usage.

To make a long story short, other than some games I played back in the day, I am looking for recommendations for Windows 98SE games and apps for getting the most out of the P3 700 and Voodoo5, and Live! with 512mb RAM. I have a NOS mechanical 128GB drive in there until I can get another SD-to-IDE drive (I highly recommend these over SATA converters and CF drives due to speed and cost, plus my P3 wouldn't see an SSD on a SATA converter for some reason.) I beat Deus Ex on my old Gateway 450/V3, probably at 640x480. I remember playing Revenant, Quake 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Ultima Online, and pushing myself to play Ultima IX until I completed it. I plan on making music with a mixture of period correct hardware and ways with some modern stuff on the 486 and one of the P3s. However, other than ICQ and whatever web browser I used, I do not recall any other apps other than what came with things, such as using Playcenter to play tunes. I am interested in any recommendations!

I never had a V5 back when they were new, so I am looking for games to throw at it!

Many thanks!
Scythifuge