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I found a box of CD-Roms and floppy disks in my mum's basement and damnit, I want to play them! I could use emulators, DosBox or VMs but it's never quite the same as having the real thing, so between an eBay mobo and a box of old parts I managed to build my new gaming rig to cover 1990-2005.

Its running a P3 at 1GHz, 512MB of ram, and an ATI Xpert98 with 8MB of memory. As I didn't want to run an old IDE drive with a million hours on it, I tried an SATA-IDE adapter, it caused some issues during the install but that just felt like the standard Windows experience.

Though unpopular, I went with ME for 2 reasons, the first was Dos support, the second is that I went from W95 to ME as a kid, 98 wouldn't have felt the same. The install bricked twice with video drivers but I finally got it up and running with the default drivers and an 18" Samsung flat CRT (runs up to 1600x1200 at a nauseating 60hz).

So what were your favorite games from the 90's and early 2000s?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Get a modem and dial up too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

There is one installed but I don't have a phoneline to my house >_<

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I just got Falcon 3 Gold running in DOSBox the other day

[–] MeanEYE 2 points 6 months ago

Original, and in my opinion best, Fallouts 1 and 2. M.A.X. which doesn't get as mentioned as it should. Good old Blizzard games back before they turned evil. Sanitarium, awesome game from a studio who released it and promptly died after.

[–] Etterra 2 points 6 months ago

Oh man that takes me back.

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