Honestly, GoG is a godsend. I’ve been able to pick up so many of my childhood favorites on there for a buck or five and they usually make sure the games run well on modern systems.
You know if starwars episode 1 pod racing works bettter bought from gog. I bought the steam version. But doesn't work. Some say it doesn't work on windows 10. I guess its the same, but In case you knew anything.
Love gog but some of the older games like Vampire Masquerade bloodlines I can't get to run on windows 10. I really need to build an old xp system too so that I can play my Black and White 2 game. Can't get it to run properly on windows 10 either.
@@willy102073 Try PCEM on your modern PC. It can accurately emulate nearly any configuration from the 80s to early 2000s, starting at 8086, all the way through to 486 and Pentiums, including early 3D gpus ... Linus Tech Tips did an episode on it a while back, showing it flawlessly running late 90s/early 2000s games w/ Win XP or 98.
GOG is amazing -- though they aren't always the most accurate reproductions of the original games. You should definitely check out the eXoDOS collection. It's a hefty 600gb download, but has 7200 DOS games with all the original big box content included, w/ manuals/strategy guides/inserts for each game. All are configured to run optimally in DOSbox.
yeah I noticed that too, it seems with him having so many systems to maintain this poor PC was left unmaintained, I hope now that he show it he will clean it.
Just wanted to say thanks for helping me find my love for gaming again. Started watching your channel when my son moved out and I decided to turn his room into a game room. Just the past couple months I've picked up a few older systems along with the new XBOX Series X. Been supporting the eBay sellers with all my retro purchases and room décor! Found a lot of great stuff from watching your videos! Love the channel and all the content!!! Gotta grab me some of your Merch next! Thanks, MJ! Appreciate you and the cru!!!
I miss it so much. Had it on Win95, wish it was on GOG. I also was addicted to Microsoft Hellbender (wherin EVE, the ships' computer, was voiced by Gillian Anderson) 😁
That is a nice CRT you have there, I'm lucky enough to own a Hyundai ImageQuest Q95 flat-screen CRT with 1600x1200 res, looks jaw dropping to this day and still puts even the most expensive LCD's to shame. Consoles look amazing hooked up to it also, OGXB,GC,PS2,DC,SNES,SMD and so on.
I love you so much for putting games title in the description and all other necessary information we need, i am not able to collect games because of financial reasons but i found you to feel nostalgic through your amazing videos
The dedication you have is cool. I grew up in the 98/xp era and I know how much of a headache it is to get old games to run. The first thing I always did was download the no-CD crack for a legit game that I didnt want to keep in the drive. I dont know how you find time to do any of this and play new games also.
Totally needs a CF card oe SSD plonking in there. Also - use Windows 98 Second Edition, as that's MUCH less buggy. I need a nice CRT - I had FIVE of them - Dell 19" Trinitrons, but disposed of them back in 2014 like an idiot. They were taking up a large amount of storage and desk space, and I wasn't using them. Massive regret that I didn't keep one of them. Excellent video!
I built a Micro ATX Sempron 3000 with a GeForce Ti 4200 (OG Xbox GPU), an Audigy 2 ZS, a 120GB SSD and 1GB RAM. It can go from 800MHz to 1.8GHz. It's a great for the early 2000's. It's amazing to see Doom 3 running on it. Playing Half-Life with EAX at the mo...
I have two of those MS keyboards. They are solid performers, and even though they look weird they are comfortable. I never had any problems with W98SE, BUT I never played many games at the time and the ones I did were not demanding in any way. I was primarily doing programming and it seemed fine for that. Solely for DOS, boot disks are definitely the way to go because all the settings are set and you can just boot and go. Today, finding floppy disks and drives can be a challenge, especially for the 5.25" form factor.
Right now I'm playing through one of my favorite games of all time, Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, and I'm doing it via a Windows 98 SE VM. And you're absolutely right about VMs vs actual hardware. I'm lucky that Jedi Knight is playable, but a lot of these games just aren't at all. Actual hardware really is the way to go if you're willing to go to the trouble. My experience with DOSBox (limited though it may be) is very positive, but Windows 95/98 era is much more difficult.
I have a few Win 98 computers. Those are mostly for Whiplash and Atomic Bomberman but we also play some GTA 2, Age Of Empires II, Diablo II, Stargate, Freedom Force, Jazz Jackrabbit. I've had Triple Play 97 working before too but not right now. Then I have a a couple XP's and Win 7's. Those are mostly for Star Wars Battlefront II (the old one) and I think Age Of Empires works on those too.
I bought a crt monitor about year ago. And it was a spark to build retro machines. So far i have 2 of em one with pentium 166mhz which have specs same as i had in my first computer with exactly same case :D. It's a machine for dos and win 95 games kinda like 1996-1998 era. Second one is a beast with Pentium III 1,13GHZ voodoo 3 2000 and diamond monster sound mx 300 for newer games from 1999 to 2001 i have also geforce cards for newer games. And damn having a native hardware is such a fun and brings me a nostalgia as well you need to know how to tinker games but overall its worthy experience and best way to play old games :D.
I have an old 750Mhz Pentium III with a SB Awe 32 audio card, 2x Voodoo 2 in SLI paired to a Geforce 6200 for video, and a 200gb IDE drive formatted in FAT32 that I install the games too. I use a front mounted IDE to Compact Flash adaptor for the Operating System drive and install each OS to a different CF card. I can switch between Win95, 98, Millennium, or XP by powering down and swapping the CF card. Neither boot time nor game performance is noticeably affected by the CF adapter and I freed up a lot of desk-space and room by going this route.
MetalJesus, Happy New Year! Been a fan for years! This is my first-ever comment. I'm a retro gamer, but only on consoles. Recently, I got a hankering to play an old PC favorite from 1997, Blood, by Monolith Productions. I did what I always do and sought out an original copy. Now that I've got it, I don't know what my next move should be. Do I buy a modern PC and figure out how to run it on that? Or do I buy a 1997 PC like I had back in the day? There's at least one other PC game I'd love to revisit, Clive Barker's Undying from 2001. In what direction would you recommend I go? Budget is a consideration.
This is HOT...and love the video picture the video really reminded me of the father...who in that early 2000s Era would let me play coo action gamesl games. Now that I'm older 29 now I love going back especially to watch long plays of old pc point and click or fmv horror. One recently I found police quest 4 and It really made me think I would LOVE if that took that sort of early 90s style of the game and used that as a basic for LA noir two......
Ahh, the days of loading DOS "high" to free up around 600k of conventional memory to run games. All the time spent configuring (and re-configuring them when I upgraded my PC) games just right.
GOG galaxy now has the cloud sync for games that never had it but still hasn't got steam like game achievements which may be impossible as most of the game companies that made those old games are gone. Still want original dune cd on gog
Great video man. I actually think windows 98 SE is a really stable operating system. Way better than when Win98 came out. I had my first real job in tech doing phone support for Microsoft the day win98 launched. It was the first day after our month long training and I supported that sucker for a year. So maybe I just know how I fix many issues with 98 haha. I'm running a Windows 98Se box with a AMD K6-2 350mhz cpu. Ati Rage, 8gb Compact Flash card in a IDE to Flash adapter. I have a 5 gb windows fat32 windows partition and a 2gb fat16 for Dos and windows install. Plus a Awe64 that works with all the dos games but it did take some work haha. I also installed a NIC just to make it easier to transfer files from my win10 machine. I have the 2 same controllers as you. gamepad and precision pro. Great combo :). I originally built it to play FPS Baseball Pro 98 but just kept finding more games I remembered from my college days.
I have an AMD K7-600 with a voodoo 3 2000. I love this machine but it needs some checkup because it shuts down at random moments and doesn't want to boot again for like half an hour. The other problem with this system is finding a correct psu. Because these old systems have special requirements which aren't met by modern power supply units.
The Dell build is OK, but they got some things wrong for the time period. You would have had 64 or 128MB in 1998 or 1999. You wouldn't have had 384MB (typically) until around 2001 or 2002. The hard drive would have been larger than 2GB as well. Perhaps an 8GB or larger at that time. But anyway, still a nice rig primarily for the 3DFX card. I would definitely seek out more HDD space. That motherboard can handle more, and so can a Win98 MS-DOS session.
You can program your autoexec.bat, or was it config.sys(its been a Long time)to have different boot options. A fiend did it on my 486 PC back in the Day.
Nostalgia city. Does anyone remember a game that played & looked like old school Kings Quest??? I remember a part where you SIT on a bed with a love interest then KISS, KISS, KISS and then fireworks flash and you wake up alone lol. Maybe it was a KQ afterall and I don't remember but I'm thinking it was based in a more modern (90s) time. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated
I wanted to replay sammy sosa high heat baseball 2001 for nostalgia but it literally does not work on windows 10. I may have to get an old windows 98 pc again one of these days.
Why create a boot disk ? Just hit "F8" when the computer is booting and select boot into MS -DOS mode. Have a solid config.sys and autoexec.bat file. I never once made a boot disk
You could set up a SCSI Hdd on your win98 box. That’s how we used to get larger drives to work back in the day. You can use fdisk to partition it into chunks windows can see.
My dad passed in 2019 and These videos remind me of Him, back then in that era of 90s pc games early 2000s he was obsessed. He played alot of games you had.
Great breakdown and info MJ. Some old classics get sadly forgotten about due to our technological advancements. Let the old classics live forever we say!
@@Scarsuna ..And computers weren´t AS CHEAP as they are now !. A rather crappy Windows 95 computer had a price tag of 2500 dollars (not converted to present day value), late in 1995. We´re talking 32 MB (not GB !) RAM, early Pentium II CPU (about 250 MHZ), 8 GB hard drive, no GPU/card and a semi-buggy Windows 95 as OP. And this was A MID RANGE model !. There were no "game computers" at the times, but if it was, it would have cost 5000+ dollars !. Because of the ultra fast product development in those years, YOU as consumer was ALWAYS the loser in the end. A computer as the mentioned was close to "old crap", already by the millennium shift !. From ´97 and onward, you had PS1, Sega Saturn and N64 to chose from. "The most sensational game experiences the world had seen" at the time !. (First person shooter´s, 3 D-graphics, real music in Pro logic surround/stereo, and [except from Nintendo] the ability to play CD albums too !). Not cheap of course, but FOR REASONABLE MONEY !. The combination of "current Triple A titles" and "PC gaming" was almost entirely for rich fellows, or/and tech nerds, before 2005 or so.
More of this please! The 90s to early 00s of PC gaming is completely underexposed in general and definitely here on RU-vid compared to console gaming. LGR have showed there’s a massive audience for it, too. It’s basically just him plus a bunch of smaller channel covering it ATM.
Mine too, minus MS-DOS. I remember an old 98 game, Chip's Adventure I think it was called (feel free to correct me if I got it wrong) I was maybe a quarter of a way through the game when I forgot one of the passwords it used. My gramps (God rest his soul) tried to help me remember what it was and out of nowhere he made me spell "fart".
Yo metaljesus I recently got hit with a strong case of nostalgia and I recently started browsing your channel hard again. Perfect time for you to post this!!!
Make sure you stick that floppy disk on your refrigerator with a magnet next to where you wrote your wi-fi password on so you always remember where it is
Man, I didnt realize how much nostalgia I have for PC games until this video. Maybe I should get myself an old computer so I can run some Red Alert, Redline Racer and Quake 2! Great video, Jason!
I've been using steam and gog for an ok list of classics. Then there's The Internet Archive, and dosbox and abandonware and vaporware sites. But probably the best way is to just build an old PC. Especially if you're using an old CRT monitor those are really the best thing.
I ran XP for *So* looonnnng well into the life of W7. Then FINALLY I ran W7, which I ran until Last year. W10 is pretty nice. I'm not having any issues with it. Like MJR, I have a few old computers dedicated to running older software. So I still have XP and W7 going.
I ran XP until I needed more than 4 GB RAM, which was somewhere around 2011?, After that I switched to 7, which I'm actually still using, since I got an upgrade coming later this year, and installing 10 for that short a time is just not worth it. But XP lived so long, 2001 to 2015, that is longer than between then and now. It went from sub 1 GHz single core machines with 128 MB RAM into times where quad cores well over 4 GHz and more than a dozen GB of RAM were common, and it runs on all of that. Steam stopped support as late as in 2019! You can run it on your old Athlon with to play the original Halo or Unreal or boot up your i7 and play GTA 4 or Skyrim.
I just look to my left and see two of them :D A Pentium 3 with 98 SE/XP and a Core 2 with XP/7, both fully functional and in use. And about 3 half build things that at some point should bridge the time between the running ones.
Loved your video, as always. I was listening you talking about why you don't use Virtual Machines, and I agree with you that is not the best solution if you don't have the real hardware, is because VMs are meant to be production software for running several modern OSes at the same time, not for gaming, and definitely not for old school PC gaming, this is because it uses a technique called "passthrough", gives resources from your host machine but your guest machine will read directly from that, so if you have a Win98 virtual machine it will recognize an i5, not a Pentium I, that's why compatibility is so bad, same for video and sound cards, etc.However, I think we have to start to look to those kind of solutions, hardware sooner than later will fail and "retro pc parts" are getting more and more difficult to get. First of all DosBox is excelent for early-mid age DOS games, because is emulation not virtualization, so is just fine for games that are prior to 1995. For Windows games that goes from 1995 to 2000 that needs 3dfx and Voodoo stuff you should really really look at those projects called PCem and 86Box, same concept of DosBox but for a full blown x86 emulation, included sound cards and 3dfx video cards emulation, so you can install WIndows 98 running on an emulated Pentium MMX with full 3D supports with an emulated 3DFX Voodoo 2 SLI, and an emulated SoundBlaster 2.0, no virtualization whatsoever, so is very very easy to setup a "virtual rig" from 1998, no tricks or hacks or patches needed, just the program, the roms for the bios, your windows 98 copy (or iso), the files for the voodoo drivers, and fire up your favorite 3dfx compatible game, i'm having a blast playing Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed right out of the box. This project aims for accuracy so you need a powerful PC, nothing super expensive but an i5 7600 should be more than enough. v17 introduced Pentium II emulation up to 450mhz and Voodoo 3 emulation but this are very slow at the moment, so I would stick to a Pentium MMX at 233Mhz with a Voodoo 2 emulation for a proper Windows 98 setup. Seriosly, you really need to check this out, is an amazing project. pcem-emulator.co.uk/ From 2001 to 2005 or so, I would recommend just to install Windows 7 32 bits on any cheap laptop, the older the better, but as long as WIndows 7 32 can be installed is fine. Why 32 bits and not 64bits, this is because Windows 7 is 95% compatible with Windows XP software, included games from that era, as long as the OS is capable to run 16 bits software. 64 bits Windows 7 can just only execute 64 bits and 32 bits backwards but not 16 bits software that many late 90s and early 2000 games are based on, thats why compatibility is broken so much just because of that. Windows 7 32 bits can execute 32 and 16 bits architecture so virtually is fully compatible with WIndows 98 and XP games. Sorry for my long a** explanation, but i'm really passionate about this kind of stuff so I hope you and other people read my comment, and try out those emulators in case they want to remember old stuff but dont have access to old hardware. Thanks for reading! (if you made it to this point).
Don't forget to have a monitor that can run the older 4:3 resolutions right. Goold old 320x200 stretched to 4:3 (1600x1200 would be perfect for 5x6 integer scaling) and the later common 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. Since TFTs by nature only look sharp in their native resolutions, unlike CRTs who are fine with anything, you'd either have to scale up by full integers or play in a smaller window to avoid scaling artifacts. Most games also don't scale their interface to modern resolutions, It's actually quite common that the interface is fixed size and doesn't scale at all. So even games like Unreal or Half Life 1, which run perfectly fine on a modern machine and in widescreen will have text that is unreadable small.
DOSBox for some, others with source ports (like Doom) and others again run natively just fine. That reminds me, have they ever fixed the savegame corruption in Black & White? I remember it was recommended playing it on 98 because under XP the savegames will get corrupted over time.
Loved XP but Windows 7 was the best. Experienced W98 when my older bro had a Gateway PC with it and played Carmageddon back then on that computer. Loved that game.
OMG, MetalJesus. Please respond to this. In the video, when you are talking about your keyboard, you are playing a racing game. What is that game's name? I have searched for that one so hard and I can't get the name. This was the first game I ever had as a little kid. Please help me!
@@MatthewJohnCrittenden dude is hella cool. Seems like someone you’d want to have a beer with. Honest and true kinda cool to have someone in the rock kinda vibe also. Coming form a 36yr old punk musican :)
@@MatthewJohnCrittenden I’m 36 and I’ll be playing for the rest of my days..... Do any of y’all know a hard date on little nightmares 2 is going to be out?
My first computer was an old Compaq LTE 5300 that was retired from GM. It only had parallel and serial ports, so I had a Gravis Stinger. That thing takes me back. So many evenings playing Croc and Earthworm Jim with that thing. Man, looking at pictures on Google makes me want to pick one up again, but I know my full-sized adult hands would never fit it.
@@MetalJesusRocks I had a poster growing up of the 5000S (Like everyone else in the 80s/90s), but that movie was amazing! The Diablo is my favorite though. If you watch Hoovie's Garage here on YT he just got both a Diablo and Countach for the price of 1
as a console kid i was very much against PC due to the Elitist crowd and how expensive they can get, but nowadays i'm more open and i can see what the Elitists see when it comes to PC gaming. god knows that it IS an investment though. XD
