First post, by blaker1983
Hey guys, I'm a lurker but I want to become more involved with Vogons. At any rate I have a few systems here that I want to start using but I'm unsure about what exactly I want to do. I miss the good games from 90-96 or so but also those afterwards until about 2002.
Right now I have a "old pc" that I'm using which is a PC Chips board with a Pentium 3 1ghz and 256mb of ram. It also has an AWE 64 (which for some reason the gameport doesn't work) a 52x cd rom drive, and a Voodoo 3 AGP 16mb card. I have a lot of games, I mean, a lot. Mostly ranging from 1989-2002. I threw this PC together running Windows 98 SE but I'm backtracking. I've been loading up things like Simon the Sorcerer, Knights of the Sky, Dark Forces, Silent Thunder, Sid Meier's Gettysburg! and so on.
Though, I have another PC that's tugging at me to be used. An all original Packard Bell Platinum 55. It has a Pentium 133mhz, I believe it has 16 megabytes of ram, the lovely S3 Trio, the built in sound etc. I'm looking at it, and wondering. Should I just ditch the P3 pc, put the AWE64 in the Packard Bell, throw in a Voodoo2 (really rather not, I'd rather use a banshee or something with 2d also) pop some more ram in it and go? I mean I could always try to source a Overdrive with MMX for it, maxing out at maybe 200mhz but I'm unsure. I want to keep the system around a "pure" 1997 spec.
I just don't know what to do, please help me make up my mind!