Vintage Pentium MMX PC running Descent with 3dfx patch

Vintage PC (PA-2007 with 1 meg cache running overclocked 233 mhz MMX CPU) with Voodoo Graphics Monster3D with Hercules Dynamite 128 as primary device. This PC was built back in 1995-1996 and is almost original aside from the hard drive (same model, the original died long ago) This was THE rig to have back in the day, boots Windows 95b in 21 seconds! 64 megs of EDO ram, 3com 3 way network adapter with 28.8 modem and Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 with wavetable card.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• 3dfx
• descent
• voodoo

[concujak]

WOW 64 MB of EDO RAM ???? in that day, that was unheard of lol

I thought I was king of the hill with 32mb back in 1995 lol !

[gsdonovan]

I think I paid $400 for it, crazy now huh?

[iris030380]

I was so lucky back in the day. My friend bought a brand new P166MMX for £250, and an orchid righteous 3dfx for £210. A month later I 'stole' a vanilla P200 from a shop that had ripped me off, and bought a Maxi Gamer 3dfx for £125. My system totally killed my friends in gaming.

Six months later at a lan session in his parents dry cleaning shop, a new friend gave me a brand new VooDoo 2 just so I could play TOCA2 with a decent framerate on the night. He let me keep it! :D

[KedViper]

@hitachi088 I spent $660 on mine, with the same parts now a few months later it's only $570.

[hitachi088]

@gsdonovan

400$ is nothing .

a video card costed like 150$++

a normal PC with almost no Add-on Card costed something near 500$ .

[earthwolf82]

@concujak I was so jealous of you 32mb types back then with my 16mb:P

[tutsiwitchking]

yeah but does it play crysis LOL

[pietrora]

Classic!

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

Looks fun, might get it and fire up the old rig.

[mystftg]

Great system, very close to something I'm building.

Back in 1996 I just had a P133, but the Diamond Monster3D made all the difference. I don't have that computer anymore, so I'm currently rebuilding it with some better components from 1996.

Descent looks great on the Voodoo, nothing came close, maybe except Descent on 3D glasses in software mode ;)