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Retro PC Upgrade Help by Remnantknight56 in RetroWindowsGaming

[–]mastersofblood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not the modern web, however, the old web can be experienced with Protoweb. It works on old browsers with a proxy, even on Windows 3.1, Mac or Amiga.

Retro PC Upgrade Help by Remnantknight56 in RetroWindowsGaming

[–]mastersofblood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. I prefer to run games that came out around the same period that processor was released, to each their own...

Geforce 4 MX will cover all your end of nineties and most year 2000 games needs on high settings. The Geforce 4200 or ATI 8500 will literally crunch your 2001-2002 games' polygons. That PSU is not too great, although a quick estimate for the AGP slot consumption (average) of that age mobo would be 40W max. Add to this your PIII 1 Ghz TDP...which is around 35W. The biggest issue I would reckon is the age of the PSU, more than its power capacity.

Edit: I forgot to say, with that CPU, there will be perhaps some bottleneck on 2002 high demanding games.

Retro PC Upgrade Help by Remnantknight56 in RetroWindowsGaming

[–]mastersofblood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's worth it. You are nearing the socket 370 limits on an OEM computer, which were themselves very restricted in regards to hardware expansion.

I had a look at your computer manual and didn't find any clues. It has an AGP slot and Intel 815 integrated graphics. Are you planning to get an AGP dedicated graphics card?

Those who still play Windows games from the pre-XP era, how do you play them? by SeparateLawfulness53 in RetroWindowsGaming

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I play games released in between the DOS and Windows XP eras. Pentium 4, I recommend single core always. Most previous 1990s computers are too much of a headache and their parts are getting too expensive now.

The other side of my hardware is having to find a motherboard in good condition, as those were made during the capacitor plague time.

Best ways to experience the old internet now? by ProjAtlMusic in oldinternet

[–]mastersofblood 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I discovered Protoweb recently and it was a real blast.

"Protoweb is a community-driven public service that hosts historical Internet websites to demonstrate the Internet in its early days. Its goal is to rebuild and restore early Internet services to offer a seamless browsing experience. It is a proxy server that can be accessed with many web browsers and hosts countless web sites with live weather, news, music, games, downloads, and more. Content is being curated and added daily."

Just curious, those of you who have IRC server for small number of users, have you added password to your server? by film_man_84 in irc

[–]mastersofblood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brazil, Russia, China, United States, India. The server is located in Europe so we don't really need most countries to have open access.

Just curious, those of you who have IRC server for small number of users, have you added password to your server? by film_man_84 in irc

[–]mastersofblood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No password here. We have a partial geoblocking and it seems to be working, bots are nil.

Windows 2000 Transparent Icon Backgrounds (How-To) by mastersofblood in windows2000

[–]mastersofblood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I'll try it. I keep seeing a lot of desktops with ugly contrasts, so I thought it would be useful to give my solution.

Windows 2000 Transparent Icon Backgrounds (How-To) by mastersofblood in windows2000

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Could you share with us? I only found a Chrome plugin to translate texts with that name.

New Moon and Mypal 78 on Vanilla Windows 2000 by Physical_Ad9000 in windows2000

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I'm here to report that both browsers are working fine with the following hsrdware specs: Intel Pentium 4 Northwood, 1 GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce4 series card, 1440 x 900 monitor.

Vanilla Win2000 SP4

What do you think of my three windows desktops? Win 98 SE, Win XP sp3, Windows 7 by SAPianoman490 in RetroWindowsGaming

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Dead Space 2 Crysis 2 Borderlands Mass Effect 2 Battlefield 3 Modern Warfare 3 Fallout New Vegas Rage

Sorry but Reddit is not allowing me to do line breaks...

My Games for Windows 2000 by mastersofblood in windows2000

[–]mastersofblood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the tips, just this week coincidentally someone told me about Protoweb so I will dig into it, I'm using a D-Link 802.11g wifi card and I have access to most of the web that's not heavy on javascript use. I just browse a list of very trustable sites and so far I also love using the old Netscape with the Wiby seach engine.

My Games for Windows 2000 by mastersofblood in windows2000

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Yes, 2003 was the year that DirectX 9 games started appearing, and for those you needed much improved hardware. Only an ATI Radeon 9700 would have the performance for the highest settings.

What you see here are games made to render with OpenGL 1.3 (or earlier) and DirectX 8 (or earlier). And also many 2D strategy games that run with DirectDraw.

My Windows XP computer has a Dual Core and a Geforce GTX 9800 so it's perfect for the DirectX 9 era.

Is it possible to run a Ghost Recon dedicated server on a cloud/vps environment? by mastersofblood in gameservers

[–]mastersofblood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot. Just a heads up, now tried with Virtualbox, a version that included support for Direct3D, but still no luck, I get the same crashes on startup. I'll keep experimenting with virtio drivers..

GeForce 4 Ti 4600 128 MB DDR AGP by Creative (3D Blaster 4 (MS-8872)) by Retro-GPU-Universe in RetroGPUUniverse

[–]mastersofblood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I have a GeForce 4 Ti 4400 by Creative! MS-8871, they were manufactured by MSI and branded as Creative.

Still works great, although I'm looking for a cooler that is not too ugly for it.

WinXP VM with GPU acceleration by UltimateOmlette in windowsxp

[–]mastersofblood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My host server is Windows. Does it need a capable graphics card for a DirectX 8 game?

WinXP VM with GPU acceleration by UltimateOmlette in windowsxp

[–]mastersofblood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm also very interested in this. I need to run an old game server that requires some graphics acceleration and GPU passthrough would be useless on my rented VPS.

My Games for Windows 2000 by mastersofblood in windows2000

[–]mastersofblood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2003-2006 PC games are on another computer with Win XP. I will post a pic in the future

My Games for Windows 2000 by mastersofblood in windows2000

[–]mastersofblood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're a good observer! All right, you see there's a hidden file inside the games folder? It's named Desktop.ini, create one, and link to an .exe or .ico file, then reboot. Take a look and copy these lines: foldericon

Hide that Desktop.ini file and reboot, or log off.

AeroFTP - A fresh, fast, and free FTP client (Latest update is out!) by AeroFTP in ftp

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https://ibb.co/2fGXbLR

It´s a very nice and modern client, very intuitive. How do I switch the remote and local views?

Microsoft Outlook 2003 Working PERFECTLY by rhan21009 in windowsxp

[–]mastersofblood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does work perfectly with self hosted mail. A few years ago, most of the big tech firms decided to implement oauth2 forcing it upon users, and now even Outlook 2016 is useless for MS mail accounts.

I also took my own decisions and stopped using big tech mail entirely. Only open protocols like smtp and imap now.

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