Someone told me this Community might enjoy this big gal! Got her along with a keyboard and mice for 90€! Check out these specs!

Boi she’s also massive, especially compared to my main Gaming PC!

Both Train Simulator and Unreal work lovingly on it, though Stronghold 2 does struggle quite a bit the more I build… also awaiting Half Life 1 with all expansions and a copy of Age Of Empire (which I haven’t played a single part before) so thats exciting. Im also considering trying to get HL2 to run on it, but idk if it can handle that, what do you all think?

  • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    8 months ago

    Would it be possible to dual boot with Windows XP? I feel like that would be era appropriate and allow you to play more games.

    • DosDude👾MAEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      Honestly, that computer is windows me/2000 era. It was old by the time xp came out. Considering 2000 is not the best for gaming, 98 is the next best choice. XP was more straining on the computer, so you wouldn’t get the best bang for the buck. All drivers are fully 98/ME supported, and ME has always been pretty unstable. And Microsoft hid the ms-dos mode on ME, which makes 98 the only real choice for gaming.

      XP was the best choice for pentium 4 onwards.

  • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    Somewhere at my parents’ house is my old Gateway with an 800 MHz Athlon and an Nvidia Riva TNT2…and you’re making me want to dig it out.

  • magikmw@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    I’ve Return Fire iso I’m trying to get running in a vm, this might just run it.

    • DosDude👾MAEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Love that game. Shame it needed 256 colors, so I always had to change the screen settings before playing.

      • magikmw@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Speaking of which, I can’t remember which version of windows display settings stopped offering the color space option.

        • DosDude👾MAEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          I’m not sure. But already was obsolete by xp times. My guess would be 7, but I have no idea.

  • DosDude👾MAEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    If you like age of empires, and like star wars, be sure to check out galactic battlegrounds! It’s a star wars age of empires clone. Loads of fun!

    • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      YES! I played so much of that shit as a kid! I wondered how it became so forgotten

      BRB gonna go play some ancient strategy game instead of working lol

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Whoa, that Philips CD-RW drive just unlocked some core memories for me. That was my first CD burner. It was in a Dell Dimension XPS 233. How has your build been treating you the last 5 months? It’s awesome. Bet it didn’t run HL2. I tried installing the orange box on my XP build recently and couldn’t get Steam to connect.

    • Mr.Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Haven’t used it in a while sadly. Getting my PC 10-III to run took a bit of priority… and then life happened and I haven’t really worked on any of my Computers. Gotta get done with some stuff before I can sink more Money into them!

      Sadly that particular CD-RW doesn’t seem to work. Never managed to get it running…

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, I know what you mean. Just this week I got my XP machine out for the first time in months and months. There’s just no time anymore.

        Getting my disc drives working was a bit of an adventure. I have a Dell E510 that survived the capacitor plague. But for some reason, the IDE controller is shot. Luckily it had two sata ports for the HDDs, but I ended up getting a pcie sata card and then two IDE to sata adapters for my disc drives. I’m totally surprised that it worked.

  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Boy am I jelly. I need a medium to large case with a bunch of bays, but I don’t want to pay $100+ for it.

    I’m tempted to build one out of scrap wood and line it with foil.

    • Mr.Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Heh well it runs Train Sim pretty flawlessly… though Stronghold 2 does shug around on mid settings, especially the more I build