/vr/ - Retro Games

What is considered retro PC gaming in terms of hardware?
The usual cutoff point of the new millennium doesn't exactly reflect the boundaries that can be drawn from the PC hardware market. There's little dispute over the late 90's hardware of Voodoos and Pentiums running on Windows 98, so the first transition into a new territory arguably takes place in 1999 with the world's first "real" GPU. The next leap was made in 2001 with the introduction of shaders to the graphics world, as well as Windows XP to accompany it. The most liberal cutoff point has to be in 2006 with DirectX 10, Windows Vista, and the dawn of GPGPU's. It was also around this point that a mass migration from CRTs to LCDs occurred.

best way to play Windows 9X games? Can virtual machines do it?