Re: Speaking of old games...

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 06:11:14 -0000 (UTC), address@is.invalid (LucLan)
wrote:

Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:

... Which ACTION PC games do you still own when you bought them back
then? My parents still kept my Fire Hawk (Thexder 2) which I discovered
in my toy box that they kept. I remember playing that game on my IBM
PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC back then. :O

>
I still have Pentium 2 @ 350 MHz, with Savage3D 8 MB Video card, on which
I play Duke3D, and other games.

Ah, retro-PCs.
We all love them.
...
Well, some of us love them.
...
Well, /I/ love them. ;-)

My 'primary' retro-PC is my "Project98" box; Pentium II/300, Voodoo3,
and a hard-drive big enough to store the ripped CD-ROMs of waaaaay too
many games. But I've also a Pentium PC for running Win95, with a
Matrox Mystique, Pure3D 3DFX, Soundblaster Pro and my beloved Gravis
Ultrasound. Honestly, though, that one gets a lot less attention, just
because Win95 was /such/ a flakey OS. I've also an IBM Thinkpad, that
dual boots DOS/Win3 and Windows95... although I mostly love that one
for its Trackpoint mouse-nub thingee.

But I generally don't go for older hardware than that, just because I
can get much the same experience from emulation with a lot less
hassle. DOSBox lets me launch a thousand plus games without rebooting
once, and I can even swap 'hardware'. Win95/98 era computing isn't
quite up to that ease-of-use yet (somebody really needs to make an
easy-to-use Win9x VM with multi-level containerization). So I stick
with original hardware for those games.