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Re: Windows 98 gaming machine - substitute for saturn/playstation

Posted on 2015-12-20, 20:19

in Windows
I was thinking of Myst, Sam N Max, Leisure Suit Larry, Maniac Mansion and whatever else. That hasn't ever really been my genre so I've only played each briefly. I beat Mansion of Hidden Souls on Sega CD and D on Saturn and saw the ending of Shadow Gate on NES once. ;) I don't know about Need for …

Re: Windows 98 gaming machine - substitute for saturn/playstation

Posted on 2015-12-20, 03:25

in Windows
Zombies is on Genesis and SNES, most folks favor the SNES version, as usual. I haven't played either. Toejam & Earl is great fun with a second player, it lets you work cooperatively or explore separately split screen. It also has infinite levels through a random level generator mode. I've seen point …

Re: Windows 98 gaming machine - substitute for saturn/playstation

Posted on 2015-12-20, 01:10

in Windows
Worms 1 & 2 ought to be easy for anybody to pick up and play. If you can get Armageddon and World Party to work they have all kinds of modes that even the least savvy non-gamer can get into (press a button, watch mayhem and huge explosions happen). I consider any 2-Playerr Beat-em up a Party game. …

Re: Windows 98 gaming machine - substitute for saturn/playstation

Posted on 2015-12-19, 06:50

in Windows
I'm not sure if a non-MMX Pentium 133 can run most of the Sega PC games but Virtual On is a great conversion. Depending on what kind of video card you have in there stuff like Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtual On might run at a decent pace. From what I remember you really needed a Pentium 1 with MMX …

Re: Q3Bench crashing with Geforce 256

Posted on 2015-11-20, 16:42

in Windows
Q3Bench is, as as I know, the equivalent of Quake 2's Crusher and Massive benchmarks. I need to swap cards out and see if any of the others will run it without crashing. I know I got the Riva TNT to run it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGwjEjTKppE Yeah, I was about to look for other Geforce 256 …

Re: Q3Bench crashing with Geforce 256

Posted on 2015-11-20, 05:02

in Windows
Sorry? I thought Quake 3 Arena was a Windows game. I'm running 98SE. -edit- That makes a lot more sense. I've been wondering why this sub forum was all about running old games on modern platforms for a while. I figured it was just the times a changing. I don't seem to have the rights to delete the …

Q3Bench crashing with Geforce 256

Posted on 2015-11-20, 04:48

in Windows
I am sorry to make this my first post in a while. Over the last year I have been running various benchmarks on my Asus P3B-F based system. I am currently trying to run all of my 1999-2000 video cards through Q3Bench and for some reason one of them, the Geforce 256, just won't finish the benchmark. I …

Re: Annoying eBay snipers....

Posted on 2013-03-08, 01:48

in Milliways
I am an ebay sniper The way ebay has been since the beginning is bidding early only drives the price up. Anybody who bids early only drives up the final price, that is all that happens. If all of us dropped our bids in the last ten seconds the outcome would be exactly what each of us imagined at …

Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2013-02-12, 14:58

I loved my M3D back in the day. I thought it would be a simple matter to find one again now that I've got my PIII machine, but so far no dice. I'm out of money for the time being so that isn't too big of a deal. I wonder how the M3D compares to the Riva TNT AGP that I already have in there. I'd …

Re: The Natural Evolution of the Retrogamer.

Posted on 2013-02-09, 02:49

in Milliways
I actually started with trying to get my modern PCs to work with my favorite games. When these games started to fail to even install I started trying emulators like Dosbox, or repurchasing on Steam (also Dosbox) and finally Virtual Machines. When none of these options satisfied me that I could …

Re: Too new for old

Posted on 2013-01-30, 03:26

in PC Emulation
Yeah but that's a limitation that you have with any 32-bit OS. :wink: As far as SMP optimization goes I have seen benchmarks where XP performed slightly better and some where Vista/7 was ahead. So unless proven otherwise I'd say they're equal in this department. It's a bit of a shame that XP x64 …

Re: Too new for old

Posted on 2013-01-29, 23:18

in PC Emulation
Dual booting to Windows XP would not be preferable because of your octal core, I doubt that XP supports it. 32-bit XP supports up to 32 cores. Thanks! I didn't know it went that high, since it only supports 3.5GB of RAM. I remember it being fairly poorly optimized for quad core CPUs when I decided …

Re: Too new for old

Posted on 2013-01-29, 13:39

in PC Emulation
Sorry, I assumed he would want to try some Windows 95/98 games at some point and I have run into problems even installing them in Windows 7 64-bit. Also, the amount of time I have had to spend individually optimizing dosbox per game seemed like a waste considering the performance I got at the end. …

Re: Too new for old

Posted on 2013-01-27, 16:59

in PC Emulation
You can try to install a virtual machine with XP on it. I'm not sure if Windows 8 is better or worse at that than Windows 7 is. I ended up installing Oracle's virtual machine software and Windows XP in my Windows 7 machine, but I still haven't finished getting it to accept my actual video and sound …

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