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submitted 5 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes to all of those, though I never actually played empire earth, so that goes on my modern day list

[-] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

There is some weird difficulty scaling on EE with faster cpus iirc. I got it on gog last year and its significantly harder than I remembered it being.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Ah that's good to know, might be one for 86box then

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