Classic Rig For Old School Gaming

#1 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 - 22:25

Hey all!

I have been a long time lurker and now have something to ask!!

This may or may not have been discussed before but I will pose the question: What machine do you guys use for playing older Classic games?

I have a Motorola StarMax 4000 with a Sonnet G3/300 upgrade and 96MB RAM in it. I dusted it off the other day, loaded 9.1 on it and added a 20GB Hard drive.

I found in my box of goodies, 2 Creative Labs Monster II Voodoo2 cards (12MB) and installed them in SLI mode.

Now I am enjoying some Old School Unreal and Future Cop. MDK and Diablo seem to play well too!

So.....what are you all gaming on?

#2 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 - 23:20

I've a PPC 9600 G3 520Mhz/1.5GB/80GB with Radeon 7000 and Voodoo 5 5500 PCI, great machine! Unreal still looks amazingly good - especially the first level, oh and the music.

Another good choice IMO would be a 6500 with Voodoo 2 card installed, G3 preferable. A beige G3 would be fine too.

For 68K gaming, an LC630 is a good choice (crap case, but Marathon is somewhat hardware accelerated!).

JB

#3 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 - 00:56

68k? LC475, 36MB/1GB/8x CD-ROM/OS 8.1

PowerPC? iMac 333 160/40GB/OS 9.2.2 (Classic mode sucks - when I want to play games I always properly boot into OS 9)

#4 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 - 12:31

i got a 9600 too.

G3 530mhz/53mhz bus

768MB RAM

4x9GB U2W SCSI disks - two 2 disk RAID 0s

1x18GB UW SCSI

Radeon 9200

SCSI DVD drive

its running 9.2.2 like a charm. original UT and descent 3 FTW

#5 Sat, 6 Sep 2008 - 05:26

for ppc gaming, i use the g3 in my signature. For 68k, I use my Quadra 950 with 88MB of ram.

#6 Sat, 6 Sep 2008 - 11:47

PPC:

G3 B&W

800MHz 750fx upgrade

Voodoo 5 5500

896MB RAM

20GB 7200RPM Ultra33 HD

OS 9.2

68k (system 7+):

PB 540c

33/66MHz 'LC040

36MB RAM

320MB HD

Sys 7.5.5

68k (system 2-6):

SE

4MB RAM

800k floppy

20MB HD

Sys 6.0.5 on HD, Sys 2-5 on game floppies (SimCity 1.1, Transylvania, etc)