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Title: Pc specs by year
Post by: SithMaster on October 10, 2005, 04:32:02 pm
Does anyone know of a list or database that shows what year a game came out and what type of pc can play it?  If there is none then i might start work on one.
Title: Re: Pc specs by year
Post by: Skadar on October 10, 2005, 04:51:16 pm
Wow... that's a tall order!

What you're talking about is basically a database of the box "side info" for every PC game ever made?  The Minimum and Recommended specs to play the game?

Most likely the database you're looking for is Google.  :)  My guess is that information is available somewhere online for just about every game.

Gamespot appears to have a lot of this information.  Here are the Descent specs (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/descent/tech_info.html) as an example.
Title: Re: Pc specs by year
Post by: mahuti on October 10, 2005, 05:46:40 pm
by game... I'm assuming he means mame games.

There is not a list... and it would be difficult to compile and accurate and useful one, due to the large amount of differences in system, ram, and software used to play them.
Title: Re: Pc specs by year
Post by: SithMaster on October 11, 2005, 11:38:42 am
Well i tried playing 1945k iii and it ran on my p266 with 64mb
but the sound was messed up and it lagged.  So i want to find what games can run on it.

i tried google searching but i dont find what i need.  So a less general question is all games before 1980 will run on it correct?
Title: Re: Pc specs by year
Post by: Tiger-Heli on October 11, 2005, 12:32:08 pm
Well i tried playing 1945k iii and it ran on my p266 with 64mb
but the sound was messed up and it lagged.
Title: Re: Pc specs by year
Post by: SithMaster on October 11, 2005, 12:46:21 pm
Okay i actually remember reading over that now.  I'll try older versions its just that i havent tried using anything but mame32 as that was the easiest to run on my newer pc.  thanks
Title: Re: Pc specs by year
Post by: Skadar on October 11, 2005, 03:06:39 pm
by game... I'm assuming he means mame games.

My brain was on vacation.