First post, by Navjack27
Here is a semi complete list of games I used to play and would like to be able to run now.
- Strife (with SoundBlaster)
- All the Civ games up to 4
- Carmageddon 1 & 2
- Worms
- WarCraft 1 & 2
- Duke3D & Blood & Shadow Warrior
- & more
I think you get the picture.
It's a mix of games that I don't think are that much of an ask.
I'm just wondering what OS would be ideal. I remember using Windows ME with very fond memories on my AMD K6-2 rig back in the day.
Do you think I'd be able to achieve this on a semi old laptop?
I really think an old laptop would be something I'd use way more often when I have a retro gaming itch then if I built an entire desktop.
I wouldn't want this system to be able to access the internet but if it does I can just block it from WAN on my router. SMB sharing would be a convenient plus.
I built a NAS recently that has an Intel g5600 in it running Windows 10 Pro but since it's headless my dream of using it as a Remote Desktop VM/DosBox universal retro gaming thing kinda fell flat. It almost works perfectly except audio issues in VMware and Virtualbox & Remote Desktop 3D acceleration weirdness with DosBox. I really liked the idea of a single machine that could essentially have a bunch of old games in a virtual container system that anything on my network could bring up and play. I might still explore this for academic reasons. This would be ideal since no new hardware would have to be bought.
NavJackKnows 😏