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Unread 2 Nov 2002, 22:54   #1
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the oldest most compatible rig i can make.

i want to make a new pc. I want it to be as old as possible,so it will work with as many old games (i.e pre 2k ) as possible. To this end i would like to know what you feel were the best bits of kits around then,that worked with the most amount of games. Os will be win95 with a dualboot of dos if thats possible.

oh,and whats VESA? i know its to do with graphics cards,but what is it exactly?
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my pc

pIII 733mhz
384mb RAM
****ty Ati Rage Fury Pro 32mb card

put win 98se on it, and u have urself a decent machine to play games
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Unread 2 Nov 2002, 23:09   #3
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my pc

pIII 733mhz
384mb RAM
****ty Ati Rage Fury Pro 32mb card

put win 98se on it, and u have urself a decent machine to play games
pre 2k? im talking about stuff like constructor,whos mimimum specs are as follows:

Windows 95
Pentium 75 Processor
16 MB RAM2x CDROM Drive
2 MB SVGA Windows 95 compatible PCI video card
4 MB Hard Drive Space
DirectSound 2.0 compatible Sound Card
Mouse

DOS
486DX2/66
16 MB RAM
4x CDROM Drive
4 MB Hard Drive Space
1 MB Vesa video graphics card
MS-DOD 6.0 or greater
SoundBlaster or 100% compatible soundcard

this is what kind of pc im talking about. an old one. very old.
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i ran constructor fine on my pc

why do you want an old pc anyway? get a decent one which will run old games aswell
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becuase im skint. i have no money. sothe oldere and hence cheaper the better. i might consider the graphics card you have.
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i did a benchmark on my system today

i get 430 3dmark points

some people are getting 12000 lol


depends on how much ur willing to spend too, and where the hell you live

look around on eBay
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Unread 3 Nov 2002, 13:56   #7
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You won't have to pay to get a machine like that
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You won't have to pay to get a machine like that
this was the idea. get it dirt cheap.
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this was the idea. get it dirt cheap.
Find a company that uses computers, like data processing places or something, check their skips
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What you'll probably want to aim for (depending on the games you want to play) is something like this:

Pentium 166MMX
32Mb EDO RAM
3Dfx Voodoo Banshee 16Mb
1-5Gb Hard Disk
Sound Blaster AWE64
8-20x CD-ROM Drive
15" monitor

This should enable you to play any old game without overkilling it. Program such as Mo'Slo or Turbo can help if even the 166MMX makes them run insanely fast.
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Program such as Mo'Slo or Turbo can help if even the 166MMX makes them run insanely fast.
Play Theme Park on a 1GHz + machine, it's funy
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Play Theme Park on a 1GHz + machine, it's funy
i've tried that....was disappointed
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VESA is an old video chipset type.
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my pc

pIII 733mhz
384mb RAM
****ty Ati Rage Fury Pro 32mb card

put win 98se on it, and u have urself a decent machine to play games
You'd be surprised at how many games refuse to run on anything later than Win95, or any CPU made after the PII. I was quite annoyed to find that even if I dropped back to my oldest version of Windows, my Athlon would not play Space Hulk, while my sister's ****ty Cyrix machine ran it happily.

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Play Theme Park on a 1GHz + machine, it's funy
Hi-Octane is truly absurd. Turn all the graphics detail off and you're racing around at around a mile a second.
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Heh - I remember that game.

It was too fast on a P200, never mind todays stuff...

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