Old PC games

[jonemery99]

Getting the game to work was often better than playing it, your "Soundblaster 32 Compatible" sound card was in today's terms, false advertising

My eldest now cant comprehend when his minecraft save gets corrupted, in my day you had level code and like it! God I've suddenly got old!!

 

Did anyone actually have a proper sound blaster or Roland card?

 

I feel old too! :-( We found a 586 pc in a cupboard ages ago and it brings painful memories of my friend getting a 486 and trumping by 386sx

 

Kids today will never understand the pain of editing the dos scripts and decided wether to have a mouse or the CD-ROM as your 1mb of ram could not cope with both...

[DJ-1701]

Did anyone actually have a proper sound blaster or Roland card?

 

Yep, had a Soundblaster... but it wasn't all peaches and cream, the problems I always had were with the compatibility of the graphics card!

[bald_pig]

Had a soundblaster too, also had a pentium mmx processor!

[GuyJD]

I remember my 486 having a turbo button that took the clock speed from 33 Mhz up to a dizzying 66 Mhz, that extra 33 Mhz made all the difference playing Doom.

[CHR1S]

Had a soundblaster too, also had a pentium mmx processor!

 

Ohhh check out Mr Fancy Pants haha

[Geoff]

I had a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 which had a Aureal Vortex 2 chipset.

 

It's odd how sound card hardware has actually got worse since the 90's. :/

[GuyJD]

I have a Soundblaster live 5.1 sat at home that doesn't have a driver that will work with windows 7 or above and every time I look for one everyone in forums keeps saying "don't you have onboard audio?" it does my head in

[Geoff]

Still works on Linux. On my Gaming PC I have compromised and have a Terratec Aureon 7.1 USB sound card. Getting the sound hardware out of the PC case is half the battle and solves so many of the interference issues. Edited February 8, 2016 by Geoff

[CHR1S]

Still works on Linux. On my Gaming PC I have compromised and have a Terratec Aureon 7.1 USB sound card. Getting the sound hardware out of the PC case is half the battle and solves so many of the interference issues.

 

I just had a USB headset when I had my gaming PC, think it was a basic plantronics. Sounded ok to me, is there a big difference?

[Geoff]

Plantronics are pretty good. Not exactly Sennheiser of course but far better than your onboard AC97 realtek soundcard tat.

[CHR1S]

Then again, I dont mind the on-board either, cant really do a side by side any more tho.

[3s-gtech]

Never tried a trusty old SB Live on 7 or above but my lovely Auzentech/HDA X-plosion still works lovely from XP to 7 to 10, despite them going pop. I know that the SB Audigy 2, which is not a young card, works perfectly in 7 but not tried it in 10 yet. Not got a SB Live to test any more.

[Geoff]

SB Live was a pig to get working in XP. I doubt it worked in anything higher than that.

[newpersn]

Bring this back from the dead.... a little. I had the SB Live in the days of XP with my 486 P4 (both 1.7 GHz 512mb ram and 3.02 HT GHz 1.5GB DDR ram)

 

cant rember that graphics card i had. althouh i know its a nvidia 5xxx something.

 

Games i used to play was:

 

Driver (first game)

Sims 2 + add ons

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit

NFS Underground 1 & 2 (had a steering wheel for my driving games)

Age of Empires II

Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader

X beyond the frontier

 

I'm sure ive missed more off the list..