First post, by Neonstar
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- Newbie
Hi there! I'm a student and an enthusiast (in my opinion) of computers and gaming. I've recently discovered all these Win 9x era games such as the early MechWarriors, Carmageddon and other games that don't run particularly well on my Win 10 64-bit main rig. I'm thinking of building a legacy gaming PC and dual booting a DOS and 98SE to play all of the classics from before my time. (1999) 😜
Basically I would appreciate input from any experienced users of legacy hardware on whether or not I'm mad, or if I'm picking the right components, doing everything right, etc.
From what I can gather, the essentials of 9x gaming is a Voodoo2 based card? What would be the best card to pair that with? I've got a friend who might possibly have a RIVA TNT or TNT2 to give me, but I'm still a bit dizzy over which cards did what. I attach a Voodoo2 to another card, and the Voodoo2 does all the 3D while the other card does all the 2D work? (I have quite a few Glide based games I want to play.) Should I use something instead of a Voodoo2? I've heard that newer Voodos, newer ATI Rage cards, and basically each new card lost compatibility with predecessor generations.
The CPU I've picked out at the moment is a ~2.4GHz Pentium 4 along with a motherboard and RAM that I scored for 50 bucks. I figured I can underclock it or use a CPU killer program if I need to play slower games; is this the right state of mind? 😀
Lastly, I'm still all over the place on a soundcard. There seems to be very mixed feelings over which AWExx card is the best, and I'm still between an SB16, a kind of AWE32, or a kind of AWE64. If I got an AWE I was going to expand the RAM to that card's capability and replace a few of the 'meh' sounding patches like the guitars in a custom soundfont. When I've got more money to burn, I was going to try and find a Roland Sound Canvas and use that to fuel my rages in Doom, Duke, and co. What are your opinions on the best soundcards?
That's about it really. The power supply, drives, RAM and all that extra stuff is already taken care of for the moment. How am I doing? (Stupid teens, right? 😁) Again, main OS is currently planned to be Windows 98 Second Edition (That and Vista are the only disk copies my family owns).