spec me a retro pc!

[daryll]

Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever tried Tiberian Sun in a VM? Or any other 16bit game?

Its not something ive thought to try.

 

[Little_Crow]

I would go with the Virtual Machine route, unless you have a stash of old hardware (and an understanding partner who doesn't mind 'junk').

If anything breaks in it, you may have a hard time getting replacement parts, and it's only likely to get harder, and potentially more expensive.
The hardest component is going to be the soundcard, I remember getting incredibly frustrated configuring the settings correctly to get both SFX and music.

Download a trial of VMWare Workstation and give it a shot, you've nothing to lose.
(sorry forgot you have a Mac, VMWare Fusion for you then)

@mame: best sig ever, and fitting for this retro thread.

 

[The Halk]

Imagine someone in 2015 saying spec me and old PC to play games like crysis and GTA4

2 reasons why GTA 4 couldn't done.

A) PC specs in 2015 wouldn't be able to handle it without turning the detail down
B) Copy protection on it would probably have expired the websites used to verify would have been taken down etc.

 

[whitecrook]

2 reasons why GTA 4 couldn't done.

A) PC specs in 2015 wouldn't be able to handle it without turning the detail down
B) Copy protection on it would probably have expired the websites used to verify would have been taken down etc.

By2015 I imagine there will be an Xbox360 emu so the problem would be non existant, unless you were a massochist.

 

[Infam0us]

2 reasons why GTA 4 couldn't done.

A) PC specs in 2015 wouldn't be able to handle it without turning the detail down
B) Copy protection on it would probably have expired the websites used to verify would have been taken down etc.

 

[MuGeN]

got hold of the cd version of monkey island 1 & 2, and bugger me it worked in XP with no faffin so didn't even need to do the 98 install...

also, doom 2 is absolutely awesome on the zdoom launcher, you now get look up and down and proper strafe its really good... so all in all, not in need of a retro pc at the mo...

 

[Solari]

A good point is made above actually - with modern games potentially using online activation and the like, what happens when we want a bit of nostalgia several years down the line? Are we going to be stopped from running the games because their DRM mechanism fails due to the online dependencies being offline?

I guess the practical answer is a crack from a "backup" site, but it's highly annoying regardless.