/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5941385
>Square
>Mysterious

Oh, this is a cool thread given what I've been getting into recently. I think the best thing you could have for /RCG/ is a combined general for all "classic" computer hardware. A good definition would be for period-accurate core hardware up until the introduction of the Dreamcast, 98-99. I'll get more into my reasoning for that shortly. Combining all the PC's from before that point will certainly have some unrelated discussions, but it'd be a good start. For example, there's tons of overlap with all that awesome Roland hardware between early DOS through Windows as well as with the MSX and PC-98.

The reason I suggested 98-99 as the cutoff date is because a lot of what you see from then couldn't do terribly much with 3D. DOOM, Quake, Half-Life, sure. Deus Ex? Eh, not so much. The other part of this is because of the machine I'm working on right now; it's a Super Socket 7 system. With the right settings it'll run late 386 and 486 games at accurate speeds as well as most Windows 98 games. For me to get XP on it will be doable but a pain in the ass, the entire challenge of that being to run Diablo II with the latest patch so I can still play online officially with old-ass hardware.

I am also working on buying an MSX Turbo-R from a guy a couple towns over. Now THAT will be a crazy fucking awesome rabbit hole.

Pic related. It's how I feel when I look at all the hardware I didn't know about as a kid that would have added sounds to all those DOS shareware discs I had.

>>4691481
That's it.