Very well.Thanks for the comments guys, I was quite lucky and managed to get the motherboard NOS and the case was brand new as well which helps with the clean appearance.
Guest 2 - I've never come across PCem, how does it compare to real hardware especially the 3dfx card and the AWE32?
Chris
No problem. There's loads of other hardware that can be selected too, 8088, 8086, 286, 386, 486, socket 4, socket 5, socket 7, socket 8 and slot 1.Hi
@Zaf - Our second PC was a Compaq Presario P75 which at the time was great coming from a 386 SX20 but in hindsight the P75 chip wasn't that brilliant due to its 25mhz bus.
@cee-S-dee - That a really nice clean looking system, I do have a Riva TNT2 Vanta PCI card I can use but was having some weird issues every so often with it, so reverted back to the S3 Virge DX, I would love an original Riva TNT PCI card but they are very difficult to get hold of now.
@Guest2 - Thanks for putting up your PCem setup it's really interesting and something I may well look at, as there are a few weird and wonderful setups I'd like to have a play with
Cheers Chris
I only just realised they do bluetooth controllers and receivers for the original Mega Drive! They were on offer on Amazon so I snapped a couple up. My original controllers were getting a bit dodgy and I'm now now longer tethered to the console by a metre cable.
Which ones? 8bitdo are supposed to be really good.I only just realised they do bluetooth controllers and receivers for the original Mega Drive! They were on offer on Amazon so I snapped a couple up. My original controllers were getting a bit dodgy and I'm now now longer tethered to the console by a metre cable.![]()
Np. I would be interested in knowing how different a ‘real’ hardware setup compares to PCem too.@Guest2 - Thanks for putting up your PCem setup it's really interesting and something I may well look at, as there are a few weird and wonderful setups I'd like to have a play with
Cheers Chris
That's the ones! The clear blue version are on Amazon for a tenner so it was about £35 all in for two with receivers. Definitely a step up from the old battered ones I had.Which ones? 8bitdo are supposed to be really good.
I would highly recommend the Krikzz Mega Everdrive X7 or Mega Everdrive pro if you own an original Megadrive.
Easy to use and hold their value
X7 minimum for save/load states. Those things are a god send for some of the impossible megadrive games.That's the ones! The clear blue version are on Amazon for a tenner so it was about £35 all in for two with receivers. Definitely a step up from the old battered ones I had.
The controllers had already set me on the slippery slope towards the Everdrive!I didn't realise all these things were available!
Looks fantastic.
I had a similar system so decided to recreate it in PCem. Not quite the same but it works really well and certainly is the most stable and plays games without needing needing patches or anything.
CPU - Pentium MMX233
Motherboard - Intel i430VX
RAM - 64MB RAM
VGA - S3 Virge DX
3D - 3DFX Voodoo 1 4MB
Soundcard - AWE32 28MB
OS - Win 95 OSR2.5
The DB50XG is definately the icing on the cake
PCem 17
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Thanks Chris@Guest2 - I've tried to do some benchmarks for you but im struggling with 3DMark 99 as I don't think it likes the DirectX 5 drivers im currently using for the Voodoo 1
I did manage to get Sisoft Sandra 99 working by updating the VCRedist version
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I've got a P2-450 with a Voodoo 3 running Windows 98 if you want me to do some benchmarks on that as well?
Chris
ThanksThat's beautiful and takes me instantly back. Those icons.
- I know Operating Systems are ten-fold more powerful and UI focused today but even after all this time I could jump right back into that and instantly do what I need. I swear I still second guess my Windows 11 every time I boot it up.
I'm with Chris and not heard of PCem but going to look it up now. Take it you have set that up on a socket-7 system (looking at title bar) - so the hardware is emulated as well? If so that's impressive.
Been thinking about rebuilding what I used to call my "main" retro machine for a while which had been mostly sidelined because it was getting unstable and unreliable..
Stripped it down today and think I might have found the cause of that reliability issue:
Now to go shopping for one of those desoldering pumps.