/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8474887
You can just zip-tie a regular fan on top of the heatsink. The heatsink itself has pins to hold in on the PCB so it's easy to remove and put back in place. Ram chips barely get warm so no need to cool those.

>>7482857
Get yourself a few things:

>Some shitty cheap p4 motherboard that you aren't afraid to ruin
>Basic soldering iron and solder
>Flux

Practice by removing and adding caps on that motherboard. It's pretty simple and you'll have it all figured out within 30 minutes.

Soldering is a VERY useful skill if you have any retro hardware.

>>7176237
And forgot to mention, it takes advantage of nvidias soundstorm, so it has some really nice audio just like HL1.
For some reason Valve decided to not go with hardware accelerated audio on PC like in HL1, even though you could get soundstorm on nforce chipsets or similar stuff on Audigy.

>>6643923
>that you had to go on a waitlist to get
Eastern Europoor here, there were no waiting lists for home computers. You just couldn't get them at all. Either you worked in a lab and just fucking stole chips or you smuggled them in.

>>6529740
CD was OK and people could get over the 32x.

What really killed Sega was them killing the Saturn in 1997 by openly declaring that it "wasnt Segas future" and stopping new game releases soon after.
Imagine forking out $ on launch for the most expensive console in 1995 and then seeing Sega just kill 2 years later...

>>6437663
>Platform/CPU
I suggest Slot-1 or socket 370 to keep it slightly above requirements. Will be good if you want to run something like Blood above standard resolutions.
>Graphics
For best 2D compatibility try to go with some kind of s3 card, preferably Savage range. You can also do 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 if you can, but those are expensive these days.
>Sound
Best case would be a Soundblaster 16 with a genuine OPL2, but those are expensive and some have midi bugs. Some AWE64 versions are still cheap, but are crap at emulating Yamaha's OPL2 chip and overall just sound bad IMO.
Yamaha 719 cards are really good, cheap and compatible. So are ESS 1868/1869 cards.
If you're going PCI instead of ISA, Yamaha 724/744 cards are quite good for older games.

>>6260195
one of the best from the entire EA sports line-up
Good choice

Some tracks with a bit more unique sound (not 100%-flatulance free, unfortunately):
https://youtu.be/rwojy6LCUB4
https://youtu.be/sKXnqhCNeZE
https://youtu.be/wdBDWV-9X9U
https://youtu.be/e_JGXouRuQA (sounds horrendously flat, but the military drum work it tries to render is excellent)
https://youtu.be/Wvv0klw_XU8
https://youtu.be/AdIyE9TQnYk
https://youtu.be/thDYHrGLAwg (8bit and proud, but it pulls off in terms of complexity)
https://youtu.be/wWpf1cKdHzw
https://youtu.be/lldxsSXQnx4 (fuck you - it's good! I'll just open the window)

>>6016024
>Just a couple of years before customers felt burned when the commercials constantly told them that a Commodore64 will change their day-to-day lives, when in reality it was only good for games
>Jack Tramiel burned every business partner and distributor he dealt with. Europe was run by different people and so that didn't effect things here.
>Shit marketing
>Commodore couldn't figure out what market this was aimed at
>Doom

>>4664223
>Sony starting to manufacture the PlayStation
>Production not yet streamlined
>Just use parts that they already have stocked up in warehouses somewhere
>Use a DAC from their high-end CD players because that's what they have in stock
>Early Playstations play CDs in similar quality to a more expensive CD player from the time
>Audipfhaggots buy these up, add huge capacitors and claim it's the best shit ever to listen

>>4664339
>>4664375
The part that makes all this retarded is that CD playback tech improved significantly through the 90's and most cheap players from the early 2000's had better quality.

>>3778171
Someone actually did do that.

Could anyone recommend some games to run on a Voodoo? Already have:

>Need for Speed: Hot pursuit/Rivals
>Quake 1/2
>Half-Life
>Unreal
>Tomb raider 2
>F-16 (flight sim by novalogic)
>Wing Commander Prophecy