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Ultimate win98 pc?
drventure:
+1 on Ark-ader's advice with VMWare. Excellent piece of software and well worth the money.
The difference between VMWare and putting Win98 on the bare metal is one mainly of convenience. I find it +way+ more convenient to be able to move around Virtual machines just by copying the virtual disk file than by formatting and copying whole harddrives.
Haven't really tried much gaming under VMware though. However, it sounds like ader's done it with decent results, which wouldn't surprise me. I do know that VMware's virtual video card hasn't really handled 3d stuff in the past very well, but for older Mame roms, it should be perfectly fine.
mimic:
--- Quote from: drventure on July 10, 2011, 11:14:32 pm --- but for older Mame roms, it should be perfectly fine.
--- End quote ---
That's the thing I'm not into playing older ver of mame, I want to go back and play MDK or QUAKE I, etc with support of 3dfx cards (or open GL/Glide) So I rather put a new machine together and now that it works 100%. Of course if that VMware can give me close enough results, I'd probably be more interested.
DillonFoulds:
I've gone both ways to set one of these up. I've got a decent windows 98se VM going on VM Ware. There is noticeable input lag, and the video still is only so-so, at best. These factors make it difficult to game, really.
Then I've tried building a machine. I did it with a Soltek Socket A motherboard, Athlon XP 3200+, 2x512 DDR ram (OCZ, dual channel), a 120gb IDE hard drive (did a full format, wrote 0's the the entire drive to try and smooth out any potential read errors). I'd say everything considered it's a decent rig, very fast for windows 98se. The setup takes MUCH longer to complete, and finding drivers was easily the hardest part of the task, but in the end windows 98 and 95 era gaming is 10x better than through a VM.
newmanfamilyvlogs:
Just a small plug for my friend LordHavoc's Quake 1 engine rebuild, DarkPlaces:
http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/screenshots.html
If you want to run Quake 1 on modern hardware it's easily the best way.
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