Re: What were your first computer(s)?

Posted on 2014-09-13, 23:01

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a custom P166 machine my dad built for my 8th birthday back in 1997 , had an ASUS motherboard , 32Mb of RAM (later upgraded to 64Mb) , a Sound Blaster of some kind (most likely some sort of SB16 clone) and Windows 95 , later upgraded to Win98SE. Also had an 8GB hard drive which was pretty awesome in …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-12, 21:26

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Just remembered that Hitman and Mafia were some serious ressource hungry games at their time. Hitman minimal specs : -PII 266 Mhz -64 MB RAM -12 MB Video Card with DX 7 support (12 MB? what a joke) Damn my poor K6-2 350 with 192 MB of RAM and a Kyro 3D Prophet 4000 XT 32 MB was crawling to death …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-12, 08:40

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GTA3 caused 2 caps to fall off on the only Geforce 4 I own (back when it was new), a Gainward TI 4400 model. I managed to solder them back on but one of them fell off again, during another play session of the same game lol . I don't remember it running really bad... but it must of been stressful on …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-11, 15:04

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2fort5r wrote: I received a free copy of Giants with my GeForce3 card yeah the game was updated later to use the Geforce3 with some new textures and effects. The original was I suspect really intended to show off the Geforce2 , although the game is pretty CPU heavy.

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-11, 09:34

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Hmm, I thought Giants was a 2001 game, interesting. I wouldn't play MDK 2 on a K6, unless you've got one with L2 cache and >=450MHz. I actually played MDK2 on a K6-III 450 and a Voodoo3, it was playable, usually hovering around 30fps , but youre right in that it wasn't ideal , it often dropped into …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-11, 09:18

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Giants Citizen Kabuto and Sacrifice are indeed 2 games from 2000 which have some pretty steep requirements, even on my Athlon 1000/V5500 machine , the 2 games typically run at 30-40fps, and thats not even at the maxed settings. No One Lives Forever is the same, even that has its moments of slowdown …

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-10, 18:58

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Wow..The Lucas arts games on the left alone at the top of the mark if everything is mint condition can fetch about $50 to $100 each. I've seen maniac mansion go for $120 on ebay and day of the tentacle go for $70 and loom in the original box too? About the same ...about $70.... everything you have …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-10, 15:45

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Total Annihilation (1997) Minimum CPU Type: Pentium Minimum CPU Speed: 100 MHz Minimum RAM Required: 16 MB Minimum Hard Disk Space: 40 MB Graphics Type: SVGA Graphics Resolution: 640x480 Color Depth: 256 Colors Those listed requirements aren't that bad, but the actual game will play like crap on …

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-10, 09:39

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Wow..The Lucas arts games on the left alone at the top of the mark if everything is mint condition can fetch about $50 to $100 each. I've seen maniac mansion go for $120 on ebay and day of the tentacle go for $70 and loom in the original box too? About the same ...about $70.... everything you have …

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Re: Doom 3 + Voodoo 2 SLI + PIII Coppermine...

Posted on 2014-09-09, 18:39

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maybe its just me, but those Voodoo5500 pics look a bit different compared to the V2. maybe something to do with the 32bit colour and larger texture support I assume?

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-09, 08:50

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@F2bnp thats because great minds think alike :P I think the best PC deal I ever found would be that Diablo box you see in my picture, I got it brand new, still sealed for £1, which was an insanely good deal given the game usually goes for 30-40 at least for a full boxed version. It was the US …

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-08, 21:33

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Grim Fandango I actually got for basically nothing (less than the price of a cup of coffee), it was a 1 in a 100 deal , but I got it, the only issue with the box was , it was held together with tape, when I took the tape off (thankfully without damaging the box), the box fell apart. It wasn't torn …

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-08, 17:17

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I see some of the Sega PC games in there, those are quite interesting to me though Ive only got Sega Rally and Last Bronx in the jewel case. how is Daytona on the PC? the Saturn original & CE editions were good, but I have to imagine the PC versions were at least a small improvement.

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-08, 16:09

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Nah, I do some console collecting. Used to have a Saturn and some pretty cool games (including the quite expensive Burning Rangers) and I regret selling it. one of the games I sold was Albert Odyssey, made about £70 on it, very pretty game but mighty boring. of course I wouldn't sell Burning …

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-08, 15:16

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you could sell games you don't care much for, I did the same for some of my Dreamcast, Saturn and Mega Drive games, mostly spare versions of games I didn't need, or games I didn't play in 4+ years and had no intention of playing. nice collection though.

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-08, 09:14

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Very nice collection. I'll see if I can get a few pics of mine and upload them here. We have a lot of games in common Darkman, some fantastic games in there! thank you, my PC collection is the biggest part of my games collection , although I obviously left out my console collection out of this as …

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Re: Game collection

Posted on 2014-09-07, 22:30

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here is most of my collection , barring some modern games which I own in physical form (although as we all know, those tend to be useless, as its just a steam key) http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/darkman_019/IMG_20140907_2237210081_zps4296cc48.jpg http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/ …

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Re: Doom 3 + Voodoo 2 SLI + PIII Coppermine...

Posted on 2014-09-07, 10:49

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hmm... I wonder, would this method work on a Voodoo 5500?

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Re: Is 233Mhz really too slow for Windows 2000?

Posted on 2014-09-07, 10:26

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you could you use it, but it won't be the smoothest thing in the world, for a 233Mhz I would have gone with NT4 which would work better with a CPU like that. its a little like trying to run Vista on a P4 or Athlon XP , it would run and be usable. but its not ideal.

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Re: Win95 vs. Win98 for pre-Pentium 200 games

Posted on 2014-09-05, 14:31

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leileilol wrote: Darkman wrote: the only reason ME exists is due to the cancellation of Neptune ME was in gestation many many months before Neptune, starting development almost immediately after Win98SE you sure? I always thought ME was rushed out due to Neptune going into development hell.

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