Unregistered wrote:

VDMSound is awesome, but if you truly want to play these classic games, I recommend hitting Ebay, garage sales, or friends/family basements to find legacy hardware to play them on. It's really the only way to truly recapture the proper environment, let alone the feeling. The games were made for these machines, after all. No slowdown problems, incompatibilities, hours of trying different configurations to no avail (although sometimes, that's the fun of it!)

Okay, this post is really off-topic for this forum. This would go better in "Milliways" or possibly "The Guide - DOS" or something. I will cut you some slack since you're a first-time poster and all, and the other thing is that both those forums require registration. I know we have a bunch of lurkers here (we just breached 300 registered members WOOHOO!) but if you feel the need to make an off-topic post for the "VDMSound - General" forum, please register and post in the appropriate forum. If you bother to register, I'll move the thread to "Milliways." Until then, I'll keep it here ("Stiletto - the more caring of the moderators..." 😀 )

3. Custom Intel P2-400, Voodoo 3 3000, Soundblaster Live!
This sweetheart runs all my later era Win98 games and peripherals. It even runs many older games, as well as newer games (Ok, Warcraft 3 doesn't run THAT well on it.) Also good for "3Dfx-only" versions of games ... which I have WAY too many of ... also my Emulation station, SNES, NES, N64, Intellivision, you name it.

It sounds very much like my machine, although a bit faster. Unfortunately, my machine is my ONLY machine. 😀
Here's my specs:
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If you do have a heck of a lot of 3dfx-only games, we recommend you try out OpenGlide and GliDOS. Both support forums are located here at VOGONS. OpenGlide is, obviously, a Glide wrapper - and GliDOS is the first-ever Glide wrapper for DOS Glide games. Go read messages in the forum, especially if you have a system faster than 3. that you can do game testing on.

I'm interested to hear what other legacy stuff everyone is running ... please don't take this as a slam against VDMSound (a geek I am, a programmer I'm not, and wow, what an awesome proggie!) but more of a post of curiousity.

I'm not taking it the wrong way. It's just off-topic. 😜

....and that fact that using an old machine (or OS) is highly recommended already by pretty much everyone one the forums..... 😀

It's not like it some revelation or some such (it's on the box for crying out loud!) to run the games on the platform they were created for. 😉

Who wants Compaq P133 desktops with 10-base-T ethernet cards and no sound? I've got three of 'em.

Keep them, they make good backups for the Vogons. 😉 Or make a load-balancing system with them... wow, redundant Vogons! 😜

V.

Snover wrote:

Who wants Compaq P133 desktops with 10-base-T ethernet cards and no sound? I've got three of 'em.

Clustering! 🤣! 😁

But can we make a Beowulf cluster out of VOGONS? 😁

-1 I Have No Sense Of Humour