This is about the time I started building my own machines. I watch these videos with not an ounce of feeling nostalgic. I remember headaches and the urge to punch the monitor. I love how far these things have come. I can't for the life of me understand the desire to use such old tech now days.
@alwaysobsolete and I haven't gotten my hands on a voodoo2. Too expensive! I got a good deal on Voodoo 1, as the bracket to mount to the PC was missing. I also got a good deal on a Voodoo 3500, as the heavy breakout lead had ripped out one of the support screws. Works fine though.
When others had Pentium MMX; I had Cyrix 166mhz. I had to find fixes from gaming magazine BBS hubs for some games like Screamer Rally(iirc). AMD K6-300 after that and of course AWE32 was so good!
I still have my first pentium based PC. When i first bought it it had a 133MHz pentium CPU, 16 MB Ram, S3 Virge DX video card (I can't remember what sound card it had) a pretty small HDD (but was under 1GB). It eventually got a 200MHz MMX CPU, 64MB ram, 3Dfx voodoo 3 2000, (can't remember what sound card i put into it).
For AWE32 I recommend the soundfont "GeneralUser GS 1.35"; GeneralUser is a very good sountfont, and while the latest version is just a little too big to fit into the 28MB of RAM on that card, the older version 1.35 fits perfectly. It's what I use on my AWE32. Other good sountfonts for that card are "Chorium" and "Unison".
This is about the time I started building my own machines. I watch these videos with not an ounce of feeling nostalgic. I remember headaches and the urge to punch the monitor. I love how far these things have come. I can't for the life of me understand the desire to use such old tech now days.
Oh yeah and I edit out most of the little problems. In a weird way I enjoy the challenges.
Nice build. I went with Voodoo 1 in my MMX build. I think the Voodoo 2 wouldn't be much better, as would be held back by the CPU
I still haven't gotten my hands on a voodoo 1 yet.
@alwaysobsolete and I haven't gotten my hands on a voodoo2. Too expensive! I got a good deal on Voodoo 1, as the bracket to mount to the PC was missing. I also got a good deal on a Voodoo 3500, as the heavy breakout lead had ripped out one of the support screws. Works fine though.
When others had Pentium MMX; I had Cyrix 166mhz. I had to find fixes from gaming magazine BBS hubs for some games like Screamer Rally(iirc). AMD K6-300 after that and of course AWE32 was so good!
I still have my first pentium based PC. When i first bought it it had a 133MHz pentium CPU, 16 MB Ram, S3 Virge DX video card (I can't remember what sound card it had) a pretty small HDD (but was under 1GB).
It eventually got a 200MHz MMX CPU, 64MB ram, 3Dfx voodoo 3 2000, (can't remember what sound card i put into it).
Cpuspd also adjusts for speed sensitive games, so it may also be worth trying that.
For AWE32 I recommend the soundfont "GeneralUser GS 1.35"; GeneralUser is a very good sountfont, and while the latest version is just a little too big to fit into the 28MB of RAM on that card, the older version 1.35 fits perfectly. It's what I use on my AWE32. Other good sountfonts for that card are "Chorium" and "Unison".
I don't think I have that one yet, I'll check it out for sure!
Yeah, i would say that Trident card slows down the machine a bit, at all speed settings.