So, the vintage bug has bit me once again, so I decided to do some old-skool mac gaming with Mac OS 9 as the host.
The setup:
PowerMac Beige G3 Rev.2 board with Revision C ROM. Desktop Form-factor
366Mhz G3 CPU with 512KB L2 Cache
3x 256MB Low-Density, Low-Profile RAM (768MB Total)
Radeon 7000 32MB PCI video card with DDR RAM
Whisper Personality card (no need for Video in/out)
10/100Mb PCI Ethernet card (D-Link 530TX+)
36GB 10k RPM SCSI Drive (80-pin SCA) on the 50-pin SCSI bus
DVD/CD-RW Drive (Compatible with iTunes as well)
19" View Sonic 1440x900 LCD Monitor attached to DVI on Radeon 7000 card
I have a girlfriend that grew up using a G3 as a primary computer for a long time. I am going to do some old-skool gaming of games I grew up with to show her some of the stuff she missed because she didn't either have or know about the game.
Setting up the following games:
Widget Workshop
Sim-City 2000 w/ Urban Renewal (SKURK) kit
Diablo I and DIablo II with Lord of Destruction Expansion pack
Myst
Soulblighter II
Sim Ant
Escape Velocity and Escape Velocity: Override
A crap-ton of shareware
Terminal Velocity
Doom
Marathon
as well as any other things I can think of. I also have an old version of Photoshop and dreamweaver I will use on it as well to fart around
I already have the G3 but dropped $55 with shipping for all the other parts I needed. So I had to get a video card, as well as RAM and a new CPU since my old one kicked the bucket. I am OK with it being 366Mhz G3. I could bump it up to 400 I am sure, it's a 350Mhz ZIF CPU, and I couldn't get the 1MB version since they are getting a bit harder to source.
I already have the SCSI HDD with adapters. I will probably hook my old LC III up as well via Local-Talk or Ethernet (i have an LC PDS for the LC III) to play some networked games on it. I will also invite my friend Evan (Eisenfaust88 on the forum) to do some old gaming as well. Would be fun to do Diablo II with him
The setup:
PowerMac Beige G3 Rev.2 board with Revision C ROM. Desktop Form-factor
366Mhz G3 CPU with 512KB L2 Cache
3x 256MB Low-Density, Low-Profile RAM (768MB Total)
Radeon 7000 32MB PCI video card with DDR RAM
Whisper Personality card (no need for Video in/out)
10/100Mb PCI Ethernet card (D-Link 530TX+)
36GB 10k RPM SCSI Drive (80-pin SCA) on the 50-pin SCSI bus
DVD/CD-RW Drive (Compatible with iTunes as well)
19" View Sonic 1440x900 LCD Monitor attached to DVI on Radeon 7000 card
I have a girlfriend that grew up using a G3 as a primary computer for a long time. I am going to do some old-skool gaming of games I grew up with to show her some of the stuff she missed because she didn't either have or know about the game.
Setting up the following games:
Widget Workshop
Sim-City 2000 w/ Urban Renewal (SKURK) kit
Diablo I and DIablo II with Lord of Destruction Expansion pack
Myst
Soulblighter II
Sim Ant
Escape Velocity and Escape Velocity: Override
A crap-ton of shareware
Terminal Velocity
Doom
Marathon
as well as any other things I can think of. I also have an old version of Photoshop and dreamweaver I will use on it as well to fart around
I already have the G3 but dropped $55 with shipping for all the other parts I needed. So I had to get a video card, as well as RAM and a new CPU since my old one kicked the bucket. I am OK with it being 366Mhz G3. I could bump it up to 400 I am sure, it's a 350Mhz ZIF CPU, and I couldn't get the 1MB version since they are getting a bit harder to source.
I already have the SCSI HDD with adapters. I will probably hook my old LC III up as well via Local-Talk or Ethernet (i have an LC PDS for the LC III) to play some networked games on it. I will also invite my friend Evan (Eisenfaust88 on the forum) to do some old gaming as well. Would be fun to do Diablo II with him