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?

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    So many favorites.

    • Diablo 1 and 2
    • Star craft brood war
    • Red alert
    • Doom, hexen, heretic, quake
    • Doom 3 I think was out around then
    • Dawn of war
    • Guild wars
    • Heroes of might and magic 3
    • Counter strike 1.6, half life, half life 2

    And so many more I’m sure I’m forgetting.

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Hexen to CS 1.6. We must be very similar in age. That’s basically my teens.

      Red Alert was my favourite. Dial-up multiplayer with my school friend. Rarely finished a game because someone’s house got a phone call or someone picked up the phone. We both got in trouble when the first phone bills came in. Would spend about $2.50 in local calls each time tuntil the computers linked up. A $60 phone bill was savage back then for families living in government housing and struggling to pay off a base model computer.