My 300GL is pentium 3, not sure if it's 500 or 700 Mhz.
You have a voodoo 2 & some good soundblasters hey? Those are great. You need some of that old hardware to specifically run certain older games. Really good ones at that.
Rayman 2, mask of eternity, glover, hexen 2, and bugs & taz time busters use voodoo 2 if I'm not mistaken. Although glover (PC version) is one picky game for graphics. I end up running it in low-res graphics. Don't play it much anymore anyhow.
Windows 98SE is great for the older games in my opinion. I run it on all my older machines.
My 300GL is pentium 3, not sure if it's 500 or 700 Mhz.
You have a voodoo 2 & some good soundblasters hey? Those are great. You need some of that old hardware to specifically run certain older games. Really good ones at that.
Rayman 2, mask of eternity, glover, hexen 2, and bugs & taz time busters use voodoo 2 if I'm not mistaken. Although glover (PC version) is one picky game for graphics. I end up running it in low-res graphics. Don't play it much anymore anyhow.
Windows 98SE is great for the older games in my opinion. I run it on all my older machines.
I have a video card from some early PC or XT compatible system. That's about it.
Collecting old CPUs is far more interesting.
I have a Pentium 4 rig that uses SDRAM. Has a Radeon 9250SE. Before that, a Rage card that I had to upgrade to a 9250SE so that I could play Need For Speed: Underground. That's about the oldest I think. There might be a Pentium 2 computer.
Is your P4 a willamette?
Some games are very picky indeed; that's why I'm keeping all these parts in the first place. Many will run on my Q6600/8800 GT/Win7 64-bit box with a bit of compatibility mode and ALchemy fidgeting, but others won't work right no matter what. Fortunately, those games run on my XP 3200+/6800 Ultra/XP Home SP3 box without issue, but I want to be prepared for those that aren't. Unfortunately, my other PCs are in the Pentium II 233 MHz to AMD K6-2 350 MHz range, which won't be of much use beyond DOS games and maybe the less demanding Win9x titles.
I certainly didn't know that Rayman 2 and Glover had PC ports; figured they were N64 games. Hexen II is OpenGL and has source ports (id Tech 1/Quake, after all), so that's not a problem. Not familiar with the others.
CPUs are largely the same to me, even with all the different slots/sockets, instruction sets, and whatnot, thus I'm not particularly interested in collecting them.
About the only thing I have that's remotely interesting because of the CPUs are my dual Mendocino Celeron 533s topped with Thermaltake Golden Orbs and loaded into an Abit BP6. The problem I have with that setup is that I can't think of a good use for it that doesn't involve a major capacitor overhaul and socket adapters for Coppermine Pentium III use. Each CPU is rather slow by itself, lacks SSE, and have their multipliers locked DOWNWARDS, making it impossible for me to lower the multiplier enough and raise the FSB to 100 MHz rather than 66 MHz for greater performance. (Note that Mendocino cores generally hit a wall at around 580 to 600 MHz.) Anything that could use both CPUs is likely asking for an Athlon 64 X2 or Core 2 Duo at the least, save for Quake III Arena.
I've got some old cames too. Got the original Railroad Tycoon and SimCity.
Working 386/SX-40 sitting in my loft. I still have a Voodoo1 (MaxiGamer 3D), and a couple of 2MB Matrox Mystique cards there as well. and a Nice paperweight in the form of my first HD, a 5MB Seagate.
Yup, Full height, 5.25"
1.7GHz.
Some 300PLs came with an integrated matrox mystique 2 MB card; upgradable to 4MB.
These have the 2MB Upgrade sitting in the box next to them. HP Field Spares, fancy Anti-Static packaging and all.
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G450 is nowhere near vintage, my friend (I have the AGP version - dual head, 16MB per). Vintage would be 8088-386 era and prior...anything newer than that but older than late-model P4 is just "outdated", in some cases rather severely.
Come to think about it, I also have a Picasso IV... It's a little bit older. But you won't be able to use it in any standard IBM compatible computer. :)
Yeah yeah... that's why I wrote "starting to become"... its not vintage yet. But it will be.. some day... the years just fly by you know.... :)
Come to think about it, I also have a Picasso IV... It's a little bit older. But you won't be able to use it in any standard IBM compatible computer. :)
Picasso...retargetable graphics for Amigas with Zorro slots, IIRC?Yepp... :)
You can still buy the AGP one here:Yes. But that isn't the same card since mine is a PCI ;)
There's nothing remotely special about the card. It's got a heatsink, it gets hot. Two heads, woop de doo...that said, if you need to put dual monitors on something older, no sense buying a brand new card.No arguing there... there's nothing special with it. But there's nothing special with most 25+ year old gfx cards either. They are old... and I wouldn't even call the most of them vintage since the most of them was crap even when they where sold.
There's nothing remotely special about the card. It's got a heatsink, it gets hot. Two heads, woop de doo...that said, if you need to put dual monitors on something older, no sense buying a brand new card.