Old Gaming Rig is DONE!

[djgustashaw]

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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.

For me, old school is all the LucasArts adventure games. Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max: Hit the Road, Full Throttle, and The Dig are just a few of a ton of greats from back in the day. I really miss the old point and click games. Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max both had great humor while Indiana Jones is still one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played. We have an old PC in our basement, it's a 90mhz P1, 16mb RAM, 800mb HD and no real graphics accelerator that I know of. Maybe I should bring it back from the dead and install Windows 3.1 on it so I can replay all these games

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[Feanor]

Man, Quake 1 on LAN. say no more. The first Multiplayer experience for me. Loooooooooooooove it.

 

[raif]

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Originally Posted by djgustashaw For me, old school is all the LucasArts adventure games. Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max: Hit the Road, Full Throttle, and The Dig are just a few of a ton of greats from back in the day. I really miss the old point and click games. Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max both had great humor while Indiana Jones is still one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played. .

Monkey Island??!??!? hello! Should be number one on any adventure gamer's list

Actually I was going to mention those in my original post but I couldn't think of a way to do it without just listing each individual game. It's good to know I got some backup here.

As long as we are dating ourselves, I remember when adventure games made the jump from text entry to point and click. I hated it at first because I could never get the game to do what I wanted, but luckily I got used to it.

 

[450]

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Originally Posted by 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.

Was that your system for System Shock 2? If so, how did it run?

 

[Snake]

Hehe, talking about that old machine what's the motherboard? Matrox Mystiques and VIA chipset DO NOT mix well on Win95/98. If you have them together you'll probably have to drop down some level from full hardware video acceleration.

(old school!? Eh!)

Now why couldn't you get a 12Mhz 386SX to try out and be adventurous with, hmmm??

 

[D-EJ915]

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Originally Posted by Snake Hehe, talking about that old machine what's the motherboard? Matrox Mystiques and VIA chipset DO NOT mix well on Win95/98. If you have them together you'll probably have to drop down some level from full hardware video acceleration. (old school!? Eh!) Now why couldn't you get a 12Mhz 386SX to try out and be adventurous with, hmmm??

The funny thing is, I actually have one of those in my AT case in the next room

, the 6MHz 286 is in my attic

...I also have a 16MHz PS/2 under my bed, lol!!

 

[amol]

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Originally Posted by 450 Was that your system for System Shock 2? If so, how did it run?

No, i am just saying that was my first gaming PC, i didnt say i used it to run system shock 2. The system that i used for running SS2 was a socket 370 Celeron 2 Mendocino 600 overclocked at 900 mhz. 128 mb ram and Riva TNT 2 M64 video card. Sometime later i upgraded to a Geforce 2 GTS vid card.


The system that i mentioned earlier was good for playing games like Turok - dinosaur hunter, and the very early generations of 3D games.

 

[Snake]

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Originally Posted by D-EJ915 The funny thing is, I actually have one of those in my AT case in the next room , the 6MHz 286 is in my attic ...I also have a 16MHz PS/2 under my bed, lol!!

What's this, starting your own computer museum?

I think I would just like a TRS-80 model 4P, a HP 150 and a Gavilan (with the attachable printer, please) (ooh, purdy!

Let's see if any of you youngins know what those are! )

 

[450]

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Originally Posted by Snake Hehe, talking about that old machine what's the motherboard? Matrox Mystiques and VIA chipset DO NOT mix well on Win95/98. If you have them together you'll probably have to drop down some level from full hardware video acceleration. (old school!? Eh!) Now why couldn't you get a 12Mhz 386SX to try out and be adventurous with, hmmm??

What wrong with VIA? I have a VIA in my Compaq Deskpro 2000 (bought it garage sale for 5 bucks and upgraded it from other components in my house).

The Mystique works fine at full acceleration.

I thought the chipset was pretty good...USB 1.1 (main reason for buying) come with it.

 

[ls20]

Dune 2 is the most overlooked game of all time

Harkonan troopers and Rocket launders were badass. I loved the Heavy Siege tank (or was that the Devastator?), though it was pretty worthless

 

[D-EJ915]

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Originally Posted by Snake What's this, starting your own computer museum? I think I would just like a TRS-80 model 4P, a HP 150 and a Gavilan (with the attachable printer, please) (ooh, purdy! Let's see if any of you youngins know what those are! )

Well, I could I guess...since I've also got a Commodore 64 in the garage and Timex Sinclair in the attic (not really a computer...lol)...So...Sinclair->C64->286->386->486->PII 233->PII 400->PIII 550 fcpga->PIII 733 FCPGA->Athlon XP 1600+

lol

 

[450]

I have an AMD K6 233 lying around...which is better K6 233 or P1 MMX 200?

 

[Snake]

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Originally Posted by 450 I have an AMD K6 233 lying around...which is better K6 233 or P1 MMX 200?

Eh, it's kind of a toss up. Just about equal. The K6 was considered just a touch inferior to the P1 at the time so the 1 step up in speed about balances it out.

 

[Snake]

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Originally Posted by D-EJ915 Well, I could I guess...since I've also got a Commodore 64 in the garage and Timex Sinclair in the attic (not really a computer...lol)...So...Sinclair->C64->286->386->486->PII 233->PII 400->PIII 550 fcpga->PIII 733 FCPGA->Athlon XP 1600+ lol

Eh, I remember when the Commodore 64 came out. Now if you said you had a VIC-20 then we'd be getting a bit closer

Or how about a PET?

Is a S-100 system dating myself??

BTW, I'm not "too" old, I just mask it well

(I started young). It's so nice being a freak

 

[Imyourzero]

Has anyone here had luck getting System Shock 2 to run with complete stability in Windows XP? It was running at one time for me, but ever since my reinstall of Windows I can't get it to run. I tried setting the .exe to Win98/ME compatibility mode and I read on the net that the proper way to get the game to run under XP is to make sure "Disable Visual Themes" is checked. Did that too; still no dice.

I'm thinking it depends on which graphics card you have, because when I try to run the game it loads the game menu but when I try to start a new game or load a save game, the screen goes black for a few seconds and then I get an error that my graphics card driver or Direct3D is reporting the wrong amount of texture memory, and for me to contact my vendor for updated drivers. I'm running a GeForce 6800 GT with the latest drivers from nVidia's site, and still no dice. The game was running when I had my Radeon 9700 Pro.

I'm just wondering if the error is specific to WinXP. I want to play it again so bad I'm thinking of going back to a dual-boot setup with Win98SE just so I can play this one game!