Let's have a thread to talk about old Windows games. Things Chip's Challenge, Skifree, Jezzball. Or the discs that came packaged with 50 or 100 games. I want to be reminded about the kinds of things that existed back then.Does anybody remember "Rats!" ?
Slam! was one I wasted a lot of time with. I don't remember if it was a demo or the full game for free.
Gravity Well is a game that sticks with me. It controls and plays a bit like Asteroids, but instead of breaking rocks, had a goal of taking over planets and destroying the enemy off of them so you could claim them, like an RTS, but each team only controls the 1 ship at a time. I think I've seen literally 1 person on 4chan acknowledge that it ever existed.
>>11657145>>11657162>>11657148i remember all theseanyone play kye? great hybrid of a puzzle game with sokoban elements
Slay is great
TDK Pinball Machine. It was weird seeing a videogame come from a manufacturer of hardware like cassette tapes and floppy disks, and it was even weirder how well done the pinball game was. It's only one simple table, but still very fun.>>11657570I had Kye on my 486. Great game. Some levels are a real bitch, some feel like RNG, but great game all the same. Action puzzle games are underrrated.
>>11657570Yeah Kye was great, really challenged the grey cells.
>>11657570I used to make my own kye levels. So cool it had its own editor.
>>11657145This guy's store seems to be down. I'm actually kind of worried that Rats! full version has become lost media at this point (the android version seems worse, sadly)
>>11657691damn, i just did a deep dive and could only get demo versionshope someone can find this
>>11657691I just checked his site and it seems to be working. Either way, I have the full version of Rats! and can upload it somewhere if you want.My question is: does anyone have the full version of football o saurus with the original (souful) graphics?
>>11658207Pic related
>>11658207Not sure why but the link still seem non-functional for me. If you could upload it, I'd really appreciate it.
Pipe Dream / Pipe Mania
Does this count?
>>11658224I remember some shitty political version with George Bush Senior and I think Bill Clinton's heads on the monkeys.It plays like Scorched Earth, right?
Almost all of mine were on those shareware discs you could buy in stores that had a few hundred games on them, almost all of which were demos.Microman was great, so was Zeek and that strange kill your boss murder fantasy game.
This was very fun. It's the bomberman of PC. I had no idea there was bomberman
>>11658224>QBasic GorillasI learned to program by messing with that game as a kid :)
>>11658269>It's the bomberman of PC.We also had Atomic Bomberman, which was funny because they cursed up a storm, which was really strange for such cute robot men to so casually do.
>>11658293didnt know about that. i think fracas would be a relative success if it was remastered or sold again on steam/gog, it had good graphics and mechanics. it's impossible to not have fun with these types of gamesthere's also this platformer i played and discovered its name recently, crystal caves. curiously it got not only sold again on steam but also a remaster
>>11658207>>11658216seconding this, would really appreciate it
>>11657165>>11657573>>11657689Real ones
>>11657145canyon.mid was pretty good I feel good about having solved the South Pole level of Chip’s Challenge in one go
I kind of wish Microsoft would just give away known good copies of the Windows Entertainment Packs
>>11657573I still play Antiyoy (a freeware Slay clone for Android) on my phone sometimes. It has lots of user-made levels, including some that are effectively puzzles, so you aren't just fighting the AI on samey random maps over and over. A simple but fun game.
I still like Minesweeper. I still like FreeCell
Help me, /vr/, there was a "game" on my family Windows 95/98 PC as a kid that was a little helicopter flying around a very barren 3D environment with a bright blue sky and green grass. If I remember correctly, the desktop shortcut was titled "Visual 3-D Copter" or "Virtual 3-D Copter". I cannot find anything about its existence online, I may be massively misremembering it or just fabricated the memory of it entirely.
>>11657149Those Desktop Adventures style games were so comfy.
>GO!
fuji golf
>>11659120Oh shit, I almost forgot about this one.
>>11658216>>11658374Here you go ladshttps://www.mediafire.com/file/mkbxir7dcku349j/Rats.zip/file
>>11659268Anon delivers. You made my day.
>>11657165>>11657689>>11658224Good shit
>>11657573The best
>>11659268unfathomably basedthanks anon
>>11657145the game where you destroy a society by sterilizing and forcing gender transition ops? mighty ahead of the times, id say.
There's something super comfy about games that utilize the operating system's native UI
>>11659326It's a game about funny sex and fart noises, let's not overthink this.
>>11659740You can actually replace the game's WAV files with any sound you like, as long as you use the same filenameanyway here's WinRoidshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_NL2mXhHmA
>>11659817As a young man, I definitely would have replaced the audio clips with low bitrate porn audio. And then lost the will to play a funny rat game and fap instead.
>>11658808You can just grab them on archive.org, though of course you'd have to run them on DOSBox or PCEM. There IS a leaked pack that has 32-bit ports meant for Windows NT that will run natively on modern Windows, but a couple of the games are a bit glitchy.
>>11658869TC Choplifter maybe?https://archive.org/details/win3_TCChopliIt was part of big series of 3D shareware games that are almost entirely forgotten now, the full list is here (click the Show Full Quote on the readme.wri file)https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=86889
>>11657689Mein nigger.I only found the other day there is a fully playable beta on the internet archive. Gameplay’s fairly similar but dungeon layout is completely different and the monsters, spells and items are much more DnD:https://archive.org/details/W3CASTLE
>>11660667Neat. Thanks!
Bless you for this threadI came here to ask about a game called "Drain Storm", which I discovered many years ago but became unplayable when I 'upgraded' windows. For some reason no matter what I tried, it just wouldn't run.Just now I searched for this screenshot to post, and stumbled on a site where I can play it in the browser.Many thanks anons, godspeed
Fuck yeah, you're the best Wizardry clone ever!
>>11661019that's mordor, isn't it? I fucking loved the main theme.
>>11661029>mordor, isn't it?lmao, I need to get some sleep.
Dweep Chads rise up
>>11660974>Drain StormGreat game
>>11657148>[space jam theme intensifies]
Has somebody played this game? I never could understand what the hell you're supposed to do.
>>11661547played through this entire game at work like 15 years ago
>>11660974this and exile 3 were the best windows 3.1 games
I currently have a PCem machine set up with Windows 95 and a bunch of Windows games (mostly stuff like the WEP and Microsoft Arcade collections). I'm tempted to install most every game mentioned ITT, then share it here. Would anyone be interested?
>>11659130a fun game for intellectuals
>>11661683Share it, meaning share the files with us? That would be rad, especially if you included a properly tuned emulator.
>>11661559I played the demo. I sort of understood what was going on because I read the review, but I still never managed to make a flint or hit a rabbit, and after going too far away I always got ganked by a tiger.
>>11661696Yeah, I'm gonna try making a portable pack you can just open and run without any fuzz.
>>11661723thing i miss most about old games is how they all ran portably and could fit on a single floppy disc
>>11661193>>11661583Don't suppose either of you know how to make it run on windows 10? I found a browser based version but it seems to crash about 50% of the time I bubble two enemies in the same turn.
>>11662027I'd just make a Win3.1 machine in PCem or 86box instead of trying to make it work natively on Win10.
>>11660784Thanks anon, this looks very similar to what I remember, just with textured grass and sky (the textures always reminded me of the 3D Maze screensaver), and I don't remember there actually being anything to do other than fly around. I wonder if someone made a win9x version as a shitty tech demo?
This game creeped me out as a kid, this sexual offender non-stop pursuing you throughout the whole level
>>11662027You could maybe try using winevdm:https://github.com/otya128/winevdmI haven't tried winevdm myself, but Drain Storm works fine for me in regular Wine.
For me, it's Bricklayer for Windowshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj7iBVT2UmU
>>11662027archive.org is just running it in dosbox, so presumably you could too.
>>11657145A simpler time. A better time.
>>11662426>>11662194>>11662134No matter what I do, I keep having the problem where the game itself keeps crashing. Is it unfixable, or are you guys using a specific version of the game?
>>11663015I think I had it working in the Win3.1 PCem pack I uploaded on the depot. Look under [ROM Packs]/PC/.
>>11661461love it
As promised, here's my PCem Windows 95 installation. It has nearly every game mentioned ITT and a lot more. I even went ahead and added desktop shortcuts for them, as can be seen in the screenshot.There's also a couple of games in the C:\Windows Games folder that I downloaded but kept giving me installation errors, including Mordor and Lode Runner. I'm not sure what the problem with them is, but they're there if you want to figure it out.As for the machine itself, it's running a very stripped down Windows 95B with DirectX 6.0 installed. It's running a Pentium 100 with a S3 Trio64+Voodoo graphics combo and AWE32 sound card, so it can handle more advanced Windows 95 games as well. I also installed 95 Plus! for the extra themes if you wanna personalize it a bit.Grab it here:https://mega.nz/file/ledyzb6Q#g9cQPW8hJHIcQo48ikGG1M8akKEo9nOCKn77jR-vR08
>>11664075Almost forgot to mention: some games will exhibit graphics glitches or perhaps even some slowdown unless you switch to 256 color mode. Thankfully you can easily do so using the graphics applet in the bottom right corner.The machine is also not quite set up for DOS games, as I haven't gotten around to setting up the AWE32 DOS drivers or mouse support. It shouldn't be too hard to do, however. There's already a handy desktop shortcut for quickly exiting to DOS mode, and that's as far as I got lol.
>>11664075>odell down undermy niggathx anon
>>11664075God's work, anon I tried to get Mordor to run in a Win3.11 machine, but neither installing or copying a pre-installed folder seems to work. Installing just errors out immediately, trying to run a pre-installed copy throws an error about being unable to read specific data files. Sad
>>11661718If I remember correctly, the flintknapping minigame was one of the things that was very dependent on your CPU speed being in a certain range.
https://www.angelfire.com/az2/duckey/programs/getsaddam.html
>>11664367Spiffy site, anon. Really takes me back to that era of personal web pages.
bump
>>11664075>LanderI forgot about that fucking game, fuck that fucking game.
>>11665358Yeah, it would be a decent little time waster if it wasn't so poorly programmed. Half the time it doesn't fucking work, and on some computers it's unplayably fast.
>>11663310Picture of games from the pack.
>>11665750I think RattlerRace was my first experience with snake games.
Anyone got this game to run? It always froze on startup.
>>11665750Cool pack, anon. I'm the Windows 95 fag up above. Any games that you recommend from your end to add to my setup?
>>11657581nice. now show me TKD pinball.
>>11657148HOLY SHIT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS GAME FOR YEARS. Thanks, anon.
>>11665921The 3D Pinball games like Space Cadet, Skulduggery, and Dragon's Keep, SimTower, the MacVenture graphical adventure games like Deja Vu and The Uninvited.
>>11666110I'll definitely be adding those (already have Space Cadet, though). So far I've also been sticking to the small games, but I'll be adding some of the larger CD-ROM games as well. Can't have a Windows 95 PC without Sim City 2000 and the like, after all.
Windows had the best game... Murderhttps://youtu.be/8VaJUOU6il8?si=6A93yOBu4hRGGxIs
>>11666503If you are looking for more small games that don't require a disc in the drive, every game in my screenshot can be played without a disc after installation. The Journeyman Project Turbo may claim it needs the CD during play, but you can force it to load off of the HDD. I can't remember how I did it though, I made this pack ages ago.
>>11666630Ah, right, that's why I've been putting off installing some of those games - the CD requirement. I know cracks are out there, but it's a pain.
One of my earliest internet downloads (maybe the first) was a popular Klik & Play game at the time someone uploaded to AOL. It was called something like "The Hunt for OJ" and it was full of Ford Bronco and glove memes. When I started playing around with Klik & Play to make my own games I realized how amateurish it was, even for the rather lame tools of this game maker, but the OJ trial references attracted tons of downloads, clearly.
>>11664075>Jezzball and maxwells.Hell yeah, i played a bunch of those.
>>11666749Klik & Play was awesome, it made me learn programming.
I've been adding more games to my Windows 95 VM - it now has some early 3D accelerated games such as Monster Truck Madness, which runs pretty well. Even though it's not the focus, I eventually do want to fully set up the DOS environment and so include a whole bunch of classic DOS games.Also, I've set up a near-identical machine on 86box that can run my existing Windows installation, and maybe it's just me, but it actually feels smoother than PCem. I may actually include it as an alternative.
>>11657145LIFEGENi have been thinking of this game for a while and finally remembered the name/found it. https://archive.org/details/lifegen_win
>>11664075crazy how people will download and run this without having a second thought. I know this is not /g/, but man. zoomers really are technologically retarded.
>>11667924Wow, nostalgia blast. I remember thinking up unstable shapes that would cause an explosion of life. IIRC it was a V with 1 dot at the base and 3, maybe 4 dots in a line at both sides.
Shout out to really good games that you could only get through malware ridden launchers
>>11667964>implying /g/ isn't overrun by technologically-retarded zoomers now
>>11667964Can anyone confirm if there's malware in that link?
>>11667964Stop pussyfooting and just tell everyone what's wrong with it.
>>11669375>>11669605It's a .7z archive. If you are worried it's a virus archive, then run it through anti-virus. If you really don't trust the person who uploaded this PCem pack(like you think they modified PCem to include a buttcoin miner), then you can always copy and paste the HDD file and config file for the machine into your own copy of PCem. As long as you have the needed roms, then it will function fine.I used to distribute my PCem packs with just the HDD file and config file, but too many people whined about not knowing what to do with them, so I just started including PCem with it.
>>11669605Makes mustard gas
>>11660667Last I've known all the WEP shit just worked on Win 7They should also probably run no problems on Wine
>>11661151I've posted several times about it in the pastAny ways to have the game runs windowed? It would be the perfect pick up and play desktop toy if it wasn't for that
>>11667964In all my years of 4chan, I've rarely found anons to be malicious. If you're on Windows, a basic anti-virus would usually do the trick. Hell, the one Windows comes with nowadays is pretty decentObviously, still do exercise cautionThe only time I've ever really found malicious shit, was in obvious jokes like, what was it called? "Internet optimizer 2000" or some shit? It just deleted like 3 important dlls that you could easily copy back from your Windows CD back then
>>11665921I'd recommend UZ, which was somehow known as 3D UZ too. Let me know if you cannot find it. The stopped working at WinXP SP1. Plus anyways, the game is CPU dependent for speed, so you don't want to run it in a modern PC. It has a speed function and I even went ahead and edited the save file with an hex editor and the maximum value the game accepts is still too lowPerhaps too new for the Win95 era you're going for, but Dweep Gold, Crimsonland are good shit. Same for AirXonix. Snood? If fuller games like SimCity Classics counts. The Incredible Machine 3
>>11661114Can you even win this game? I remember going over to my grandma's house when I was a little kid and playing this and the yeti would always catch me.
>>11670167Not really, it goes on foreverThe main point is doing the actual courses challenge. I don't even remember if there's a leaderboard. But anywhere on the map, at 5000m or something like that, the Yeti WILL appear to gobble you up, it doesn't matter if you're up, down, left, right, it will appear always at the same number. You can hold a key to go very fast and outrun it, but good luck staying properly in that mode without crashing into something sooner rather than later. No actual map limit I've seen or heard of and isn't the thing randomly generated anyways? It's been a while
>>11670108If they did, it would've only been on the 32-bit version. 64-bit Windows cannot run 16-bit applications.
>>11670369Maybe I'm misremembering
>>11657145Here, doggy doggy...
>>11661114The original developer has a website where he goes into the history of the game:https://ski.ihoc.net/He even provides a 32-bit version that will run on modern systems.Also pic related.
Does anyone remember that one with an elk?
>>11670112Does it happen to have an ini or config file? I've run across a couple of games that have the option to toggle windowed and fullscreen modes hidden away in a text file of some kind.
>>11671334Looking at the files, nope. Not seeing an easy save file looking file anywhere, it may be buried somewhere
>>11670746>doesnt have a tshirt with the abominable snow monster fucking
>>11671606Well, that might just be how it is. Early Windows games were all over the place with this.
>>11671709Shit man, I never knew that was a thing I wanted, but here we are.
Does anyone have screenshots from Launch Pad? It was a point-and-click game for children on Mac and DOS
>>11673120wtf even are those names
>>11667026 here, I've been trying out my machine with one of the latest development builds of 86box, and I have to say it feels fantastic. Together with the ps2rate utility, mouse movement on Windows feels butter smooth, much better than on PCem. Whatever they did to improve it over the past few months worked wonders. 86box also has a lot more options and extras, with support for various MIDI options. I'm thinking if I update this pack, it'll be with 86box front and center, though I'll go ahead and include PCem as well because it's still the more performant of the two.I also finally got DOS mode fully working with sound, mouse and CD-ROM support, easily accessed through the Restart in MS-DOS Mode shortcut on the desktop. As such, I'll perhaps be adding some DOS games into the mix (I was considering throwing in the 4chan DOS Pack in there wholesale, but it's over 1.5 gigs, so I'll have to be more selective so as to not bloat up the already big download size up too much). I'm also looking to add some more 3D accelerated titles, but ones that make sense (i.e. games not easily accessible through source ports and such).
>>11673120>>11673185>renesmeesounds straight out of twilight
bump, welcome back /vr/
>>11664079>window titlehttps://youtu.be/RZHi6agHUcQ
>>11657573Does anyone have a network license key for Slay? Buddy and I have been dying to play it but neither of us has one.
>>11676408It's crazy how many shareware games there are floating around where the registered version is very hard to find. Shit, it was only just the other day that I finally discovered a registered copy of Bow and Arrow. I honestly thought it had become lost media.
>>11670934I played this shit out of this as a kid, found it on some game compilation floppy disk.
>>11677031The weird thing is, this is the full version. The singleplayer content is all there, you just have to enter some registration key in order to play online. But I get what you mean.
>>11661019not really a wizardry clone, it's an Avatar clone, a PLATO rpg. wizardry was also influenced by them.
I know we've got a pack in the thread already, but I'm gonna ask anyway. What's a good configuration for 86box if you're trying to run a mix of both 2d and 3d games? I've been trying to get one going that can handle everything from simple window based stuff like Simtower Or Gaz Deluxe to more graphically intensive stuff like Hardwar or Wild Metal Country.
>>11677356I'd say just build a machine with the best CPU and GPU that your PC can handle at full speed.For the GPU, a Voodoo 3 will probably run just about anything up to 1999 no problem, though in all likelihood an S3 Trio64 + Voodoo 2 combo will likely also work well, not to mention have better DOS compatibility (should you wish to dabble in that), at least in theory. The Voodoo 3 will give you access to higher desktop resolutions, though.As for the CPU, again, I'd just go as fast as your rig can handle. You can probably get away with a Pentium MMX 166 in most cases for games of this era, but if you can go up to a 200 or even a Pentium II, by all means go for it. There may be some games that will have issues with faster processors, but AFAIK they are few.For the sound card, it kinda depends. Do you want proper DOS compatibility? If so, I'd go with the Sound Blaster AWE32, as it's pretty much the ultimate DOS-compatible Sound Blaster card that will also work pretty well on Windows. If you don't care about DOS, though, just go with either an Ensoniq or Sound Blaster PCI card.
>>11676408>>11677236Did a check, apparently the guy who made Slay is still selling it to this day, even on Steam. Also still sells keys to the older windows versions. $10 for a PC version, $4 for a mobile version(android and ios).>>11677356Socket 370 motherboard running a Cyrix III at 133MHz, 32MBs of RAM, AGP Falcon Northwest Voodoo 3500SE, ISA16 SoundBlaster of your choice(I recommend the AWE64 Gold). Should run any 2D or 3D DOS game as fast as 86box can do it. You could go with a PCI Matrox Millenium 2 with 16MBs of VRAM for 2D and use a stand-alone Voodoo or Voodoo 2(SLI) setup for 3D. Technically, 2 Voodoo 2 cards in SLI are supposed to beat the 3500 in 3D performance, but I hear the Voodoo 3's have better 2D SVGA performance than the Matrox cards. And you can try to go with a faster CPU, but on my recent Ryzen build 86box struggles to remain fullspeed at idle in the Win98SE installer at anything above 150MHz.
Huh, just found out you can install Microsoft's IntelliPoint driver, and the mouse wheel will work on Windows 95 in 86box, complete with wheel click and universal scroll. This actually makes a couple of games easier to play.
nostalgia factor on this thread is through the roof
>>11677434I bought Slay through his website and never got a network key for it. Just a zip file with the game in it.
>>11677751did you email him?
>>11677434>AWE64Doesn't that use Creative's CQM for FM Synthesis instead of OPL3? I don't know if 86box properly emulates both, though, never really tested it.
>>11659109YOU WILL DIE
>>11658269In my childhood it was DYNA BLASTERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWyTDXFPC84
>>11670934there is a Win3.1 pack made by oldgames which unfortunately lacks higher resolution
>>11678716link?
>>11679409https://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/windows-31/download/8675/if someone updates this with new drivers and dos support for vidya on staging and x would be nice, i use it to play sothr
>>11679410Ah, looks pretty basic. A while back I had my own DOSBox Windows 3.11 installation with hi-res support and a bunch of games installed. I might actually have it still in one of my old flash drives somewhere.
>>11678716I just use this.https://mendelson.org/win31dosbox.html
>>11673120Isn't that "Bad Dog" from After Dark?on that note, I loved playing Lunatic Fringe on After Dark
>>11662170The music was very soothing thoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSBFygFwT2s
Is there any real advantage to running Windows 98 over Windows 95 for games? I know Windows 95 tops out at DirectX 8.0a while 98 goes up to DirectX 9.0c, but assuming you're only playing games up to 1999/2000 (after that point you're probably better served by a Windows XP machine), you really only need DirectX 6 or 7 at best. Windows 98 uses more space and resources than 95, so wouldn't it be better to just use 95? Or am I missing something crucial that 98 has over 95 besides a bit more polish in the UI and other non-gaming-related features?
>>11677938Yes got no response though. Who knows he may not even use that address anymore.
>>11680996If you are using an AGP video card, or plan on using USB mice or keyboards, then Win98 will do the job with less work out of the box. You can use Win95, but you need the OSR2 update and the USB enhancement pack installed. Win98 also has support for SSE2 and 3DNow!. I can't speak for SSE2, but 3DNow is a straight improvement in games that support it.
>>11681418Hmm, from what you're saying, it seems to me that Windows 98 really only has the advantage if you're mostly playing games in that late period circa 2000 and maybe a year or two later precisely due to its support for later x86 extensions, though now I'm wondering if it might not be better to use Windows 2000 for those instead.
Help me anons, I'm trying to find a game.My memory might be pretty fuzzy, but it was a robot game, and iirc it consisted of like 5 minigames. One of them was assembling the robots where parts would fall tetris-style. The other ones... something like a running competition, something about avoiding bugs, feeding the robots, I'm not sure. Maybe the robot factory was just a single minigame about robots and others were unrelated to robots.The graphics (robot designs specifically) were simplistic and low-res like the snowman here >>11670746 and the background (at least for the most minigames?) was pale yellow. It was probably a part of a "Windows 95 Games" collections, but I couldn't find it lookiing through these packs.
>>11681573The way I see it, if I'm running hardware that actually needs the additional resources Win98SE would ask for to the point where Win95 is a better option, then I'm probably better off putting DOS6.22 and Win3.11 on there instead.>Win95 required specs:>386DX, 4MBs of RAM(but you really need 8MBs for full speed operation)>Win98SE required specs:>486 at 66MHz or better, 24MBs of RAMIf I'm running a 386, 486, or Pentium/PentiumMMX, then its a DOS/Win3.x system. P2-P3's are for Win9x. And if running a Win9x machine, I see no reason to not have at least 128MBs of RAM, which should cover just about any 90's Windows game. On the off chance I had some P2/P3 laptop that maxed out at 32MBs of RAM and couldn't be upgraded any more, and only had Win9x drivers for the video and audio, then I would use Win95. If it's a P4 and I can put 4GBs of RAM in it, it's a WinXP system. If I can't max out the RAM, then I drop it down to 512MBs and make it a Win98SE machine.I had enough of running games on minimal resources growing up. I'd rather play SimCity Classic in Win3.x with SVGA resolutions at full speed than play SimCity 3000 on Win98 on a low resolution at 40% speed.
>>11682090Interesting. I've never thought of Pentium systems (let alone MMX ones) as being DOS/Windows 3.11 systems. Maybe it's just me, but that particular era is what I associate with Windows 95 the most.
>>11683194i ran win95 on my pentium 120 but if i wanted the best framerate from zsnes and nesticle i had to quit to DOS and run them there so i spent as much time using windows as i did DOS on it i bet with all the other DOS games i played as well
>>11680996Windows 98 does everything 95 does but better. Personally I run 95 for the nostalgia as that is what i used in the 90s
>>11683194That's because once Win95 came out, all the pre-built vendors started selling Pentium and Pentium MMX machines with Win95 installed. I got my first taste of Win9x on a Pentium as well, but I sure as shit don't want to go back to that slowness.
>>11684059my first machine was pentium MMX 166 with win 95, shit was damn good to run vidya, even the OG battlezone cd demo ran fine there with the software card and voodoo2
I've been looking for the name of a win95 game where you picked like 5 spaceships with different arsenal of rockets, it was turn based and you had to chose the trajectory of your movement for each ship (represented by an arrow showing the path it could move based on its current velocity) and decide whether to fire rockets or not. Basically a physics game.If you were about to get hit by a rocket an alarm would go of until you avoided it iirc.
>>11684059I'd say Pentiums were fine for Windows 95, so long as you mostly stuck to 2D Windows GDI or DirectDraw games. For 3D titles, though, yeah, you would definitely be much better served by moving up to at least a Pentium II or AMD K6-2.
>>11684548Found it. It was Critical Mass, by Sean O'connor games.
>>11685429Same guy who made the OP game then. Sean's games are/were pretty cool.
>>11685657That's Mr. O'Connor to you.
Excellent thread, /vr/ is rarely this helpful and based.
