Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Diablo, Duke Nukem 3D in high-res and Quake II.

devius wrote on 2026-05-10, 20:19:

Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Diablo, Duke Nukem 3D in high-res and Quake II.

Duke Nukem 3D and Quake/Quake II sound like swell ideas. As for BG 1&2 and Diablo, I have those on way too many computers I think, and play regularly 😀)

I'm thinking Sierra and Lucasarts games. I've been coming back to Monkey Island 1 & 2, but there's more out there and I'd love to replay those.

I thought you meant period appropriate games for those specs 😅

devius wrote on Yesterday, 09:42:

I thought you meant period appropriate games for those specs 😅

To be honest, from all the reviews I had come to the conclusion that Intel 740 is a terrible graphics card. Today I tested it out, and well, getting 36-39 fps in Quake 2 hardware accelerated is not bad at all for a 1998 graphics card. About the same in Quake 1 in software mode. So I may have gone a bit overboard, and you know what, Intel 740 actually delivered. Sure it was 640x480, but I had every graphics setting maxed out. It performs well in Direct3d and OpenGL. Sure it's no Voodoo and I think TNT and Rage128 might be better, but if I had this card in 1998 I'd be in love. Every game from this era I threw at it, it delivered, even had some fun with Half Life 1 later.

I honestly expected it to be a 2d card with terrible 3d implementation because of the whole AGP aperture texture memory thing. Instead, I got a card with awesome VESA 2.0 and even 3.0 (in Windows) support, great 2D performance and really nice 3D performance in 640x480. It played Twisted Metal 2 like it was nothing.