Reply 120 of 142, by brostenen
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wrote:wrote:wrote:What about the perfect retro gaming computer ? What hardware would you use ? […]
What about the perfect retro gaming computer ?
What hardware would you use ?What CPU
What Motherboard ?
What amount of ram ?
What Graphics cards ?
ISA/PCI or AGP or PCIe ?
What sound card ?I would say that it depends on what type of era of games that you are interrested in, and what you personally consider as being retro. To me, the XP era will never be retro, as I have no nostagia for that era. Never had a machine that was able to game the newest games from around 2001 and onwards, and when I finally had the money, I was building computers for a living. Between 2003 and 2006 I was working with it, and during that time, I was fed up with computers so much, that I only used a Windows computer for home banking, searching for normal everyday living information and emailing. And it stayed like that untill 2013, when I went back to retro computing, and then it was all Win98 and MS Dos 6.22 gaming all over for me. To me, the time between 1987/88 to 1991, are all Amiga500 territory when finding the best machine. 1982 to 1985/87 are Commodore64 era. When dealing with pure Dos then we are talking 1990/91 to 1997 and Windows9x are 1995 to 1999/01. So all era's are overlapping each other, and sometimes a 386sx33 are better than a 486dx4-120 (Wing commander as an example).
To summarise.... What era of gaming are we talking about, when finding the ultimate computer? As one single machine is not the ultimate retro/vintage gaming machine.
I mean a DOS gaming computer ?
So you are talking about what is the best "Pure-MS-Dos-ONLY-Gaming-machine"? Am I right?
If so. Then you must take into account, that in some years, other type of machine's were a better choice.
Like in some cases, the Commodore64 were a better choice, and some times the Amiga was a better one.
Like from late 1987 to some 1991 (1992 in some cases), the Amiga500 was a better choice for games.
Depending on if you want to look away from a better gaming experience or take it in.
Then you can have pre-1992 into the pool of choices as well. Or not. Hope you understand what I am saying.
Let's pretend that we take the best of best into account, then you will end up with a list much like this:
1982-1987: Commodore64 (because games were usually better on C64 compared to x86)
1988-1991: Amiga500 (same reason as C64, and the year might stretch into 1992)
1992-1996: Some kind of MS-Dos-only compatible x86 machine. Windows games became better in 1997.
So if you are looking for the absolute best machine, and the rule is that you can only pick an x86 MS-Dos-Only machine.
Then you have to look at the years between 1992 and 1997, and only these years.
Sure we love MS-Dos hardware from 1988, 1989 and 1990 equally as much and sometimes more than Amiga's,
yet you asked about Dos-Only.
So what is the best machine.... To be honest. I do not know. All in all, it depends more on what games you want to play.
Because Dos games from 1986 tends not to run well on a 1997-x86 machine. You know... Incompatibility and speed issues.
I mean. Directly and without modifications or tricks or anything. Like playing IBM AlleyCat on a Pentium3.
And yet there are one platform, the SS7-Platform, that can do an awesome and nifty trick.....
One solution for the best, are something like the following... And yet, there are better hardware than this below.
- Gigabyte GA-5AX or other SS7 boards.
- K6-III+ 550mhz
- 16mb Ram
- S3-Trio64v+, S3-Virge325 or CL5446
- Voodoo1
- Sound-solution with as many standards as possible. (you may need 3 ISA-Slots)
I have used late-90's motherboard and CPU, yet it can be throtteled, so you can emulate the speed of 386's to Pentium1.
As I said.... There might be better solutions out there, and better hardware choices.
Yet I like to quote SquallStrife and others. There is no perfect computer. And you need multiple machines to span all years
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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