buckeye wrote:

I like your setup, are you able to run Descent 2 and Tomb Raider without any adjusting? On my 850 PIII I have to ratchet the FSB […]
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tayyare wrote:

I clearly remember playing these games in a 486 class computer (with Cyrix 5x86 100, OC'd to 120 by mistake) without a Voodoo. Y […]
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awgamer wrote:

... wing commander 3, 4 nfs, settlers 2 screamer, flight sim 5.0 quake tomb raider redneck rampage ... […]
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wing commander 3, 4
nfs,
settlers 2
screamer,
flight sim 5.0
quake
tomb raider
redneck rampage
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I clearly remember playing these games in a 486 class computer (with Cyrix 5x86 100, OC'd to 120 by mistake) without a Voodoo. Yeah, they were probably being played in a fashion not very comfortable, but that was what was available so we had fun with what we had.

Puting this aside, at this age, what's the point in going thru again all the hassles caused by lack of money for better computers? Go for the fastest thing that will allow you to max out everything that these games can offer. To me, retro gaming is not "exactly replicating what I was able to do in the past", but actually "to experience what I couldn't do back in days".

I'll play most of the games in this list on nothing less than my PIII 1400 with Voodoo2 SLI and Ti4200. The best kill is overkill 🤣

I like your setup, are you able to run Descent 2 and Tomb Raider without any adjusting? On my 850 PIII I have to ratchet the FSB down to 66 which in turn allows me
to slow the cpu down to 300mhz which allows both games to run fine.

The whole idea with this is to build a 3rd sysytem with what I had left in spare parts plus maybe adding a Voodoo 1 and a 300/333/350mhz cpu and trying out the DOS games my PIII setup seems to disagree with. Also have a awe SB32 pnp with new simm modules I wanted to stick in there and play around with in DOS just for the heck of it.

Actually, I never liked descent much and I don't own a physical copy of Tomb Raider. (I love Tomb Raider series and I have them in in my GOG account, but GOG titles I own are for my daily rig to play with)

This rig I have in my sig is for playing the games from late 90s to 2001, that I have as physical media. Just to make it clear, if I would have a physical copy of Tomb Raider, I would still use that rig and do whatever tweaks required to play it. And as a side note, I mostly choose playing the game in my modern rig first if I have the GOG version in my account (I mostly do, it's about 700 titles now 😊). I have another active, slower and more DOS/less Windows rig (MMX233 with Voodoo3), too, but it is rarely used.

These are the games installed in the rig:

2002 and later physical media titles are ianstalled in the XP rig, but since I can mostly play them in my modern rig, too, this XP box is also being used rarely for playing games.

Ultra Wide Screen Pentium III? Heresy!

(It is SCARY how close our tastes are and how much of our game collections overlap, by the way..)

appiah4 wrote:

Ultra Wide Screen Pentium III? Heresy!

Not that wide actually, its one of those 1680 x 1050 monitors. It's part of my two monitor main setup and also used for retro builds via KVM. It's my first ever non-CRT monitor (from 2005 if I remember correctly) and I sweared that day I will never ever again own one of those stupid huge heavy tubey things again. I really really don't like them. And I still don't want to own them. So much that, I will probably pass even if I ever see a 21" Sony Trinitron NOS for five bucks (Don't worry, I'll let you know if this ever happens 🤣).

More over, my Pentium MMX (all the time), and my 486 and 386SX PCs (when I use them, not active all the time) are connected to the same monitor. How about that? 🤣

appiah4 wrote:

(It is SCARY how close our tastes are and how much of our game collections overlap, by the way..)

I don't know, Is it possible that we were being exposed to same kind of games from the same publications during the same period of time? 😊

What about those ones?: (XP Box) 🤣

I tried to put together a tualatin based rig but parts new were too expensive, especially since I let loose the cash for my V2 based one.

You seem to have a weakness for Lara Croft as I do, doubt we're alone in that regard!

buckeye wrote:

I tried to put together a tualatin based rig but parts new were too expensive, especially since I let loose the cash for my V2 based one.

I'm working on this one since 2009-10, and it was complete about only 2 years ago. I started when PIII era gear was dirt cheap, and taking advantage of opportunities during the whole duration. It started its life as a PIII 866 on a different, non-tualatin board with a Voodoo3 and Millenium. I remember paying 10-15 USD for an AWE64 gold, less than 20 USD for mobo and 10-15 USD for Voodoo 3. I upgraded it thru time according to my evolving tastes whenever the good catches shows themselves. It's considerably harder now from the budget point of view, unfortunatelly. And I still miss my AWE64 golds that died one by one during that period of time.

buckeye wrote:

You seem to have a weakness for Lara Croft as I do, doubt we're alone in that regard!

Even my wife presented me an 8" Lara figurine as a birthday gift once, so maybe... 😊

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My daily rig has a Y-Wing in the background, though 🤣