Legacy Machines

[ZrByte]

So how many of you still have an old computer (Or Lagacy Machine) that you keep for the sole porpose of playing those DOS4G and other games that wont work on your current Machine (Due to OS & CPU beeing overpowered)??

What system do you use?
What games do you enjoy playing on them?

I only just finished mine, My uncle gave me his broken Machine about a year ago, I was planning to link it to the network and use it as a legacy machine but first I stripped out the hard drive as I figured it was better suited for my media PC downstairs.
The machine has sat under my desk unused for quite sometime until Saturday when I dug it out and began to restore it, first thing I needed was a hdd so I striped out a 1.5gb from a Compaq I had lying around also, needed to decide wich machine to keep so I made a list of specs etc and went with the best one...

Mitsubishi Apricot MS540
p133
48MB Ram
1.5gb hdd
ATi Rage pro MAch 64 2mb
Soundblaster Pro 16
24X CDROM

Or...

Compaq Presario 4110
P120
32MB RAM
1.5GB hdd
S3 Trio+ 2mb
ESS audiodrive 1888
Quad speed CDROM


I went with the apricot (I think you will agree it was the best choice)

So far I have been playing.........
1) UFO Enemy unknown - Way ahead of its time, possibly the most fun & addictive game I have ever played.

2) X-Com Terror From the deep - Sequal to the above game, Better in a lot of ways (I.e. even though the interface was the same it was better coded so the mouse tended not to stick occasionally) worse in other ways (The aliens looked more cartoony) but still very addictive and fun

3) WarCraft II - Much better than the cr@p that they made called WarCraft III, also very fun but not quite as good as UFO or X-Com

Will be adding more once I buy a NIC to link the computer to my network, I have no CD-Rs spare to burn these old games to and its getting quite irritating having to copy them over with floppies

I run all this with my normal Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor through My KVM switch (I wish I had a monitor like this when these games first came out, so much nicer on a flat CRT 19" than a crappy 14" wich flickered a lot)

[Richard M]

I was thinking only the other day that I could do with a machine like this for playing games like Police Quest.

Bargains here!

[ZrByte]

Originally Posted by Richard M

I was thinking only the other day that I could do with a machine like this for playing games like Police Quest.

Bargains here!

It depends on the games your trying to play really, I dont need to play anything that old so theres no point in getting anything lower than a Pentium, I do have a lot fo old games on floppies here that even the machine listed above is probably too fast for

[John Smiths]

Originally Posted by ZrByte

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1) UFO Enemy unknown - Way ahead of its time, possibly the most fun & addictive game I have ever played.

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You legend! I recently found a version of that game that runs on XP with any modern processor...v. v. addictive - is possibly the best strategy game ever...!

[ZrByte]

Originally Posted by John Smiths

You legend! I recently found a version of that game that runs on XP with any modern processor...v. v. addictive - is possibly the best strategy game ever...!

My God!!!! How ?? Ive been looking for that everywhere, so far I have only been able to play with a cpu throttler or on a legacy machine.