If you're just looking for throwbacks to the era, then don't miss out on the Infinity Engine RPGs - Baldur's Gate, Planescape - Torment, and Baldur's Gate II. That's about all I have that absolutely needs a Win98/DX6/super-old-hardware environment to run. MechWarrior 3 is a must, since it absolutely will not run playably on modern hardware. The developer who made it went on to make the Eurofighter 2000 sims, and I've only ever heard good things about those.ĭon't forget about X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and the rest of that lot, either. If it had better resolution settings, it would be much, much cooler. TFX is pretty old, but is very neat for its age. It's not as good as the Mac version, but it still packs a pretty realistic flight model, a great damage model for your aircraft, and the most authentic simulation of the A-10A's armament control system I've ever seen in a flight sim. In that regard, see if you can find A-10 Cuba! for Windows. Just recall that the 90's were the age of the popular flight sim, where each (good) sim was aimed at realism, and simmers/gamers liked it, and strived for it in fact. In general, searching about Abandonia is a good idea if you're looking for DOS games, but you're more than sharp enough to figure anything out from here. Never played that one, but Comanche: Maximum Overkill is easy enough to find. I'll also have the Windows 98 Plus pack and the Second Edition update, which both contain themes and additional utilities in case I need them.Īny other games you guys might recommend? The Best of Entertainment pack (Chip's Challenge, SkiFree, etc.) RollerCoaster Tycoon (+ Expansion Packs) Also bearing in mind that Windows 98 has excellent compatibility with DOS games (allowing for the authentic experience, given that it has the DOS kernel at its core), I can take those into account as well. The purpose of this topic is to ask you guys what old Win9x games you think I should get for this machine. I suppose I could always hunt for a PCI graphics card, however. Unfortunately, the case form factor doesn't permit AGP style graphics cards, so it isn't really the 'ultimate' machine, it's just what I want to use as a substitute for emulation of these old systems. With all of this, I am setting out to do something I've wanted to do for many years-create the ultimate Windows 98 gaming machine. Just recently, I got my hands on an older Windows 98 computer, with some spare hardware parts such as a SoundBlaster Live! card, and an ethernet card, all contained in a machine with a Pentium MMX (233MHz) processor, a 40GB hard drive, and 64MB of RAM (unfortunately the case contains SIMM-style RAM sticks, so I may not be able to go higher than 96MB anytime soon-also not sure of the maximum amount of RAM that a SIMM motherboard can support). The FreeSpace Universe Reference Project.
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