Do i need original hardware to play Retro PC games in their purest form?
>>125941569850x3d (gayming)9950X (prod)9950X3D2 (gayming + pord)anything else is not worth buying
>>12594156Depends entirely on which era your game of choice was produced.86box should be capable of emulating basically everything up to Pentium 2 with a GUS/SB16 and a Voodoo2 very accurately.
>>12594170like 1995 to 2006
>>12594176i have an i9 14900k 32gb with an Arc 580 12gb but i haven't tried building anything more than a virtual copy of my actual oldass P2however, i do see motherboards and CPUs in there that support PCI and clock speeds exceeding 450mhz but YMMV
>>12594156No because modern hardware's strong enough to "pretend" to be the original hardware for retro PC games. Couple that with all the GoG releases and various fan patches that every game is getting and you can enjoy older games without needing to build for it.Besides, some games don't run very well with period-accurate specs.
>>12594156>Do i need original hardware to play Retro PC games in their purest form?I mean, what era of PC gaming do you want to get into? Micro computers? Early IBM compatible DOS? Late era DOS? Wintel era (Pentium, Windows 9x?) , Windows XP era? Your image seems to suggest Windows 9X. In some cases, yes when it comes to drivers and OS. In some cases no, as compatibility layers can handle most of this. It is probably more fun to play on hardware from this era.
>>12594176>like 1995 to 2006Dualboot Windows 98/se and Windows XP then? Maybe build a cheap Core2Duo machine or an AMD Athlon XP?
>>12594170>86box should be capable of emulating basically everything up to Pentium 2 with a GUS/SB16 and a Voodoo2 very accuratelyThe problem is that there's no CPU currently on the market capable of running that setup in 86box without regular slowdown, and it also wouldn't be fast enough for later Windows 98 games anyway. Though frankly the list of stuff worth caring about which isn't covered by fan patches or dgVoodoo2 is so small that it isn't worth spending hundreds on period-accurate hardware unless you actually have an interest in the hardware itself. There IS an inherent neat factor about having a game running on a retro box with some legendary pieces of hardware, but you missed the boat on getting any of it for non-scalper pricing by at least a decade.
>>12594170>86boxHave you actually looked into how that garbage pile works?Everything's the same under the hood, for example every GPU in 86box has the exact same VESA mode compatibility. Unfortunately that's not the case for real video cards as most cards have broken VESA support to at least some degree with some being beyond busted.Just building a perfectly standard backend that works exactly as it's supposed to completely misses the point of using such a resource hungry emulator then, might as well use Dosbox.It even breaks some titles, as some games know about broken GPUs and attempt to fix them in various ways which is itself then broken due to 86box just lying to the game about its hardware.This even affects much fancier hardware on the Windows side of things, as 86box only emulates hardware barely enough to get drivers running, and once again some software knows about broken hardware and various software incompatibilities and those fixes are then broken by 86box lying about its hardware.
>>12594156Not at all. There's all sorts of wrappers and translation layers that assist with compatibility. There's even chips that are built for the purposes of replicating old hardware for industrial use. Emulation is also a fine way to enjoy games too.
>>12594156Literally nobody who played games at the time thought "I really don't want it to be any easier to play these games, and the frame rate should stay at a shaky 20"
>>12594231This, only DOS and certain sound providers like Aurreal/EAX (later versions mostly) is the only thing that really might matter
>>12596265>marble aesthetic>handwritingAre you a homosexual?
>>12596483marble aesthetic is more indicative of someone having a cheap repurposed countertop desk than being a hipster.
