Old Gaming Rig is DONE!

[450]

Pentium 200 O/C 233 MHz
96 MB PC66 RAM

Floppy Drive ( A: )
8 GB HDD ( C: )
4x CDROM ( D: )
4x CDROM ( E: )
Iomega ZIP 100 Paralel Port ( F: )
Flash Drive (128 MB) ( G: )

8 MB Matrox Mystique
12 MB Voodoo 2 SLI (24 Megs)
Sound Blaster 16 ISA (Vibrapnp)

Windows 98/2000 Dual Boot

Yum! Quake II, Need for Speed 3, Hitman...mmm...smooth. I've yet to get System Shock and Thief.

Thanks to everyone here who gave me advice on what to buy!

 

[gsferrari]

Mua ha ha ha ha!!!!

This post deserves a sticky!!!

What a classic...I havent laughed this much since the weekend when the "coconut" thread gave me some comic relief.

ROTFLMFAO

 

[Flasken]

My phone has more power than that LOL

 

[Jahn]

that floppy better be a 5.25 not a 3.5!

 

[skiingemt]

Quick question, and maybe this was covered in another thread, but why would you overclock a cpu that old? I'm sure we could scrape up our pennies and send them to you if you need another cpu. There are much faster ones on the dollar table at my local computer parts store!

G

 

[MD1032]

OMG...you've gotta play Descent I and II on that thing. Pure bliss.

 

[450]

I got the thing to play my older games. Yeah, I know there are faster CPU's (FX 53 anyone?), better RAM (PC1066 RDRAM), better everything, and DOSBox (Which doesn't always work well for me)...but nothing beats an authentic DOS 7.0 machine with an ISA soundcard and DOS games.

No...In contrast to popular belif I have another computer...although its kinda old too...

Pentium 4 Willamette 2.53 GHz (533Mhz Bus)
512MB PC800 RDRAM
GF4 MX420-->Radeon 9800Pro (Future upgrade (maybe))
SoundMAX
75GB HDD-->300GB
16x DVD
2.4 DVD+RW


Why am I overclocking the machine (The Pentium 200 MMX)? Because although it brings little performance boost, it still doesn't effect the other components in my system very much, so performance (if you want to call it that) is gained with no immediate loss.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jahn that floppy better be a 5.25 not a 3.5!

Send me one (5.25) and I'll make it my B:!

WOWF! <<<---NOT A TYPO, ITS A REAL WORD


"coconut" thread??? Link me someone...

 

[D-EJ915]

http://search.ebay.com/1-2MB-Floppy-...FloppyQ20Drive

Have fun!!...I love floppies, they're so floppy!!

 

[450]

I dont have any disks

...

Someone send me some BASIC programs!

 

[mustang]

Haha sweeet---oh man I'm having some nostalogia from the old days,---voodoo 2 SLI, hehe I totally remember that. I remember printing out loads and loads of pages about the specifications of the matrox mystique card only to end up getting a diamond monster fusion (voodoo banshee)

 

[amol]

aah the nostalgia of the old games. I never remember having more fun and scares than playing system shock 2. That game is simply the best game ever made. Scariest too.
Anything scarier would be probably be seeing a real ghost.

My first gaming PC was ,
P 1 166 MMX
32 MB ram
Creative blaster permedia 2

1.2 gb harddrive.

 

[Clown12]

You know you can get emulators for machines like the Amiga, BBC, C64 and so on back to your DOB. Some of them have pretty unbelievable games, I would recommend "Cholo" as the grandfather of home PC FPS gaming, it's got just as much value (story, gameplay and graphics in it's day) as something like Far Cry, but it's only 82.3kb!!!!

 

[raif]

I think it is hilarious that people consider that machine old school. I am officially old enough that my old school, was still old school during your old school.

Anyone else here consider "old school": sierra adventure games, wolfenstein 3d(downloaded from a BBS), the original sim games, sid meier, and the great Dune II.


And before someone comes in with their "I was playing text games in the 70s" retort, I was playing games back in the day too, but I am sticking with the clearcut "rise of the pc in the 90s" era of gaming whose ideas are still being recycled to this day.

EDIT: Except for the adventure game, may she rest in peace.

 

[warubozu]

Cool old school set up, now all you need as mentioned earlier is a 5.25" or a 5.25"/3.5" combo floppy drive to complete your set up. I still thinK I have a ton of 5.25" floppies lying somewhere in my closet.

 

[AuroraProject]

Quote:

Originally Posted by raif I think it is hilarious that people consider that machine old school. I am officially old enough that my old school, was still old school during your old school. Anyone else here consider "old school": sierra adventure games, wolfenstein 3d(downloaded from a BBS), the original sim games, sid meier, and the great Dune II. And before someone comes in with their "I was playing text games in the 70s" retort, I was playing games back in the day too, but I am sticking with the clearcut "rise of the pc in the 90s" era of gaming whose ideas are still being recycled to this day. EDIT: Except for the adventure game, may she rest in peace.

Yeah, Space Quest was my favorite game way back in the day, in fact it was my first pc gaming experience.