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chuckula wrote:Obligatory: Yes, but what about the performance hit from the Meltdown/Spectre patches!?!?!
chuckula wrote:FLASHBACKS!!!
Obligatory: Yes, but what about the performance hit from the Meltdown/Spectre patches!?!?!
Krogoth wrote:chuckula wrote:FLASHBACKS!!!
Obligatory: Yes, but what about the performance hit from the Meltdown/Spectre patches!?!?!
Jokes aside, I don't think there's any patches for that platform and for OS that can still run on it. Spectre/Meltdown are the least of your concerns if you intend on looking that system up to the general internet.
derFunkenstein wrote:Wow, what version of Opera runs on Windows 98? How well does it do with Gmail? Old PCs on the internet is always interesting, if a little unsafe.
FireGryphon wrote:That’s a nice machine. What other games and programs are you running on it? Just reading about it is great nostalgia.
CScottG wrote:I always liked Windows 2000 Professional for this.. with actual USB support! (..and then stripping-out Windows Explorer for a custom shell.) I don't think I ever found a game from '95-on (to it) that didn't play well on that OS.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:That's awesome. How well does it play X-Wing?
SuperSpy wrote:Virtual On!
I used to play the snot out of that game. I wonder if I can still get it working. I bet I still have the disk in storage somewhere...
liquid_mage wrote:Great Flash Back, excellent post.
I remember somewhere around 1998 I built a K6-2 450mhz, an ATI RagePro and a Voodoo card, and $400 cd-writer, wow good times. I loved the system it was built with money from my first job and I had it in my room while living at home, working in the day, and attending college classes at night. I was hesitant to share my precious gaming PC as it cost ~$2,000. My parents offered to pay half of the cost if I shared it and i agreed. My mom was really the only person who would have used it so it was all good. Flashbacks.
Krogoth wrote:X-Wing is very picky with conventional and EMS memory allocation like most "high-end" DOS games of that era. You typically have to create and use a "special" boot disk that loads up the bare minimal to provide just enough memory to keep the game happy.
DOSBOX in its current form is almost like a running a Pentium 200 Pro/Pentium 233MMX through DOS with a modern CPU platform.
Chrispy_ wrote:Oh man, Virtual ON makes me want to replay SHOGO M.A.D. again.
kvndoom wrote:Chrispy_ wrote:Oh man, Virtual ON makes me want to replay SHOGO M.A.D. again.
Grrr! You just made me remember that I never did beat that last boss! He kept stepping on me!
Chrispy_ wrote:IIRC the last boss and ending was pretty disappointing but the gunplay throughout the game was excellent and made the journey there more than worth it.