I have a machine that's slated to be my retro gaming rig. Dell Optiplex GX200 P3-933MHz 512MB RDRAM onboard Nvidia TNT2-M64 w/8MB Aopen AW744-Pro Sound card (IIRC Yamaha 744-B chip) Quantum 10GB drive (same drive the machine shipped with when it was new) My original thought was to simply build a …

Pedantic (for misterjones): Splash screen logos can always possibly be fake, part of the game. Remember the "Powered by Nvidia" logos in mid 2000's games and what not. The only sure way to know you're running a Windows game that calls a proprietary 3D API that's pretty easy for most people to do is …

When MSI is used, just prior to the game launching you get a "Matrox" splash screen similar to the 3DFX logo when Glide is used and, IIRC, when RRedline is used on Rendition cards. On the version of MotoRacer that was included with the Mystique220, that Matrox splash screen comes up, indicating …

in hindsight, I should have pulled the processor along with everything else. Those 200MHz PPro's with 1MB of cache were pretty hard to come by even back then. Hehe, hindsight is everything ;) I said no to buy a 2nd hand Neon 250 AGP in 2002 for 10 dollars.... :blah: I tossed my old Matrox M3D, …

Shouldn't have tossed it with the price of PPro CPUs just going up and up... Back then I had simply figured I had done everything I could with it. It had SCSI drives (originally simple SCSI, then I progressively upgraded to U160. Still have that card and the drive I used for it), I had an S3 Virge …

Moto Racer - OEM version that was part of the bundle with the Mystique 220, but it is running on optimized Direct3D. By optimized Direct 3D do we mean optimized specifically for the Mystique in a way the regular retail version is not? I am probably going to purchase as many Mystique editions as I …

I ran a pair of PPro machines for yeeeaaarrss. The one I loved most was my old IBM PC365, dual processor capable (just had to get the VRM for it). I had a pair of PPro 200MHz/1MB cache processors in it, 512MB of RAM, Matrox G200 PCI, and loved every minute playing with it. I scored a P2-333MHz …

Small update regarding the P2: I have given up on the P3,coming to the conclusion (after checking Stason too)that this board doesn't support Slot 1 P3s.No biggie,I'll try to get myself another Pentium 2 CPU and hide it inside the old 350MHz P2 case,and run XP again.After all,if it will work fine, …

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