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I spent some time setting up a Pentium II with Windows 98 and a Voodoo 3 on PCem this weekend.

It's really cool software, and a fun little project.

I spent a little time playing some Rainbow 6 (crazy how much the genre has changed over time) and Castle of the Winds 2.

Black and White runs well, but has some pretty bad audio stutter that I'll have to figure out a solution for.

Do you have a favorite game from the period that I should try? I'm particularly interested in ones that are hard to run on modern versions of Windows.

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[โ€“] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

About games hard to run, back on Win7 I couldn't get Dark Colony installer to run with any compatibility mode (luckily, you can run the game just by copying the files from the CD). StarCraft had some graphics issue but just on menus (I think on Win10 as well), and I couldn't play Outwars at all (although GOG version has some fix for modern Windows). A GOG game I bought that I couldn't run on modern windows was Slave Zero.

[โ€“] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the recs, you've got great taste and I've never tried a few of these before.