What retro things have you done today?

Speaking about Quake I got my first PC back in 1996, the same year as Quake 1 came out and I remember buying the game (Quake 2 later as well) and also playing it at a friend’s house who has several PC linked up to play multiplayer games with :cool:
In fact 1996 started with a bang of an FPS game with Duke Nukem 3D, following up with another huge release with Quake. And let’s not forget other popular FPS games in 1996 like Powerslave and expansions like Final DOOM and Heretic Serpent Riders.

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Decided to revisit this little box and get it going again. Its small but its a overkill powerhouse for Win98!

Specs are, Pentium E5800 Dual Core, Asus P5PE-VM Motherboard, 256mb Corsair 3200 DDR (Will become 2GB with Rlowe Patch) Sapphire ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP 128GB SSD. Just built it so no Sound yet but most likely Vortex 2 and Audigy 2.

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Seeing as i had today off, I did some more retro activities. I carried out the Cache mod on a K62+ CPU. I pulled this CPU out of a busted Sony laptop. Its the 533mhz model. Popped the lid off and proceeded to move the required resistor to enable the extra cache. I thought I'd balls'd it up but thankfully it posted. It's actually a better clocker than my Original K63+ 450 CPU.

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Is there anything about a geforce 4 MX 440 that would give problems in DOS or is it a fault with my card?
When installed certain dos apps just show a blinking cursor and never load... Even in DOS so it cannot be the driver!
 
NinjaCool said:
Speaking about Quake I got my first PC back in 1996, the same year as Quake 1 came out and I remember buying the game (Quake 2 later as well) and also playing it at a friend’s house who has several PC linked up to play multiplayer games with :cool:
In fact 1996 started with a bang of an FPS game with Duke Nukem 3D, following up with another huge release with Quake. And let’s not forget other popular FPS games in 1996 like Powerslave and expansions like Final DOOM and Heretic Serpent Riders.

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Fantastic games.
US copies by the looks of it. Wasnt Powerslave called Exhumed in the UK / Europe? POwerslave / Exhumed was one of my favourite FPS games
 
Those are not a million miles from me but a starting bid of £100 is beyond what I am willing to spend on retro stuff these days! The Brighton one though is interesting given it comes with quite a lot of stuff.

I'm thinking of pulling together a fast-ish 98 PC and I am not sure if I want to go for socket 754 or 478. I've used both in the past and they've both been fine. It wouldn't be a high end 754 chip so I wouldn't be too worried by my modern power supply not keeping up. What's peoples preference?
 
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Fantastic games.
US copies by the looks of it. Wasnt Powerslave called Exhumed in the UK / Europe? POwerslave / Exhumed was one of my favourite FPS games
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I forgot about the Exhumed name since I mostly remember the game as Powerslave myself but it too became one of my top FPS games!
I probably got a hold of the US demo from a PC magazine before eventually getting the full game.

The following year in 1997 was also full of great FPS games such as Shadow Warrior, Blood and Outlaws :)
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I forgot about the Exhumed name since I mostly remember the game as Powerslave myself but it too became one of my top FPS games!
I probably got a hold of the US demo from a PC magazine before eventually getting the full game.

The following year in 1997 was also full of great FPS games such as Shadow Warrior, Blood and Outlaws :)
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Wow, they're all in great condition too.
Once upon a time I had big box versions of Blood and Outlaws. Shadow warrior I only had the shareware version (but did play the CD version as borrowed a friends)
The shareware was actually better IMO as had MIDI music instead of CD music. I much preferred the MIDI but the full game never had a MIDI option. At least not that I remember

Yep, MIDI only for Shareware

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Updates here, currently sat looking at a nice little pile of project stuff.

- Boxed XFX 7600GT AGP
- Boxed Abit SG-72 P4 Mainboard
- New old stock Akasa Vortexx Neo cooler to fingers crossed bring my X1950 AGP back to life (Been reading up how they artifact over heat as just a bi-product on numerous old threads)
- Boxed Sapphire HD4850 512GB Reference (one day to maybe be part of a Xfire pair unless I can get me some HD4870s....waiting to hear on them)

Oh! and a P4 2.8GHZ 512/800 Northwood CPU in the post somewhere :)

Just need to find time in what is shaping up to be a crazy last month of the year to test and start working on builds
 
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NinjaCool said:
I forgot about the Exhumed name since I mostly remember the game as Powerslave myself but it too became one of my top FPS games!
I probably got a hold of the US demo from a PC magazine before eventually getting the full game.

The following year in 1997 was also full of great FPS games such as Shadow Warrior, Blood and Outlaws :)
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Awesome games! Blood is baller money nowadays!
 
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