Older PC games you reccomend.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:05 pm

I recently made a horrible decision to sell my top of the line gaming rig for next to nothing. So now I am stuck on this donated 600mhz celeron w/ 256mb of ram and on board Intel 810 graphics that my ex girlfriend gave me. Using CPUFSB I have it at 800mhz currently.

Was wondering what older PC games that could run on this machine you would recommend. I am currently downloading dungeon siege 1. Used to love that game.

Probably going to upgrade to a slightly newer 3ghz P4 machine soon so I will be able to play better games. We will see though money is tight with the baby. Any help or donations would rock, and I would love u forever. lol

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:34 pm

Duke nukem?

Quake 1?

I can't think of games other than those few that I played on a system like that back in the day.. Mechwarrior games may play.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:43 pm

Back in that area, Quake 2, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament. I pretty much just play FPS games so that's all that comes to mind.
Does it have an AGP slot to bump up that video card?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:35 pm

No agp at all.. this board even has a isa riser card with a few pci slots on it.

this sucks... I miss my c2d 3.4ghz game rig. Anyone have an old pci video card they want to get rid of? something better than onboard intel810 crap. I just hope dungeon siege works halfway good on here.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:17 am

Sava700 wrote:Duke nukem?

Quake 1?

I can't think of games other than those few that I played on a system like that back in the day.. Mechwarrior games may play.

LOL Duke Nukem/Quake/Mechwarrior 2 was in the Pentium 1 and 2 200-233Mhz days.

Joe, with a system like that, grab an emulator and play some NES or Genesis games. lol

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:25 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:LOL Duke Nukem/Quake the Pentium 1 and 2 200-233Mhz days.

Earlier than that even. Duke was around when most had 486 CPUs, I used to play Quake 1 on a Pentium 75.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:42 pm

installed DS and updated to latest got the crack and as soon as the game gets to the main menu it crashes. lame~ commies..

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:58 am

q3 will run but you will need to get rid of all eye candy and play at 640x480.
I thought I had a radeon 7500 pci but can't seem to find it.

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:43 pm

Warcraft 2 & 3, Starcraft, the earlier C&C series titles should run just fine on moderate hardware and provide some fun. For some of them new maps are still being released. Not in bulk, but there's a bit of a scene left.

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:10 am

SeedOfChaos wrote:Warcraft 2 & 3, Starcraft, the earlier C&C series titles should run just fine on moderate hardware and provide some fun. For some of them new maps are still being released. Not in bulk, but there's a bit of a scene left.

"I'm ready master...I'm not ready..."

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:38 pm

King's Quest.

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:32 am

Mad_Haggis wrote:"I'm ready master...I'm not ready..."

Make it run using DOSBOX with himem.sys and m?s?d?e?x? with sound on a 64 bit system, than I'm not worthy, ready master.

jeremyboycool · Post by **jeremyboycool** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:41 pm

Fallout, Fallout 2, Civilization 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 2, Birth of the Federation, Diablo, Diablo 2, Baldur's gate, Baldur's gate 2, Doom and Dune.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

But here is a sweet link. Careful pop-ups. For a good NES game try Maniac Mansion.

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/MainMenu.htm

Also with a Play Station emulator you can just pop PS games in the drive and play them. They sell PS game dirt cheap at pawn shops.

http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/psx/

Also if you like roguelike games this one owns.

http://www.adom.de/

I recommend Fallout 2 the most. That game just kicks ass.

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:37 am

Pong

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:39 pm

ReVolt

neo960 · Post by **neo960** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:53 pm

Commander Keen
Wolfenstein
Alone in the dark
Digdug aka digger
Ultima
King's Quest
Prince of Persia

You probably will need Windows 98 to play these...

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:46 pm

Red Alert 2 , command and conquer.. I think that might run on it..
A really good game.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:01 am

neo960 wrote:Commander Keen
Wolfenstein
Alone in the dark
Digdug aka digger
Ultima
King's Quest
Prince of Persia

You probably will need Windows 98 to play these...

you can run them with compatibility mode

horsemen_ · Post by **horsemen_** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:14 am

spend 300 and get a cheap dell

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:15 am

dell?

Laptop?

ram?

Do you really want to have fun with a labtop?
Know the mobo/Pop the shift keys/insert screwdriver

My labtop has/s 256 MEG of ram.

Double that, and it's a new PC.

Pretty sure I'm Speedguide helping with a desktop

want to run winXP, get yourself over 888

I hear there are aptches for xp with 512mB of ram?

"(c)"

No matter what.

Double the ram without increasing the max volts of the mobo.

Doubles the machine!!!!

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... teamnum=15

dimgt · Post by **dimgt** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:37 am

horsemen_ wrote:spend 300 and get a cheap dell

that's the best idea

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed May 27, 2009 10:47 am

dimgt wrote:that's the best idea

not really.. you have compatibility mode you can drop down into if your using Vista which works just fine and I believe you can do it on XP too

dimgt · Post by **dimgt** » Wed May 27, 2009 2:08 pm

Sava700 wrote:not really.. you have compatibility mode you can drop down into if your using Vista which works just fine and I believe you can do it on XP too

sorry, i didn't know

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Wed May 27, 2009 4:15 pm