I have separate 98 and XP machines, best of both worlds 😊

I miss Abit, they made the best motherboards!

I have 2 XP platforms. 'High end' C2D E8400@3,8 GHz/GTX 970/4Gb RAM and 'lego' AM2 platform. For this I have CPU's from Athlon 64 3200+ to Athlon 64 X2 5400+. Radeon 7770 and 4gb RAM. Both serve me well. BTW, onboard sound chip on Intel computer supports EAX.

For some reason I had better luck with nvidia drivers for Windows XP.

get some duck tape for that tripod lol

Older games should come installed with and run within an invisible "Windows XP" shell, so that games run like they are supposed to, but appearing just like a regular program to the user.

My Athlon wouldn't act straight until i gave it some more voltage with the pencil trick.

Great video. Dungeon Seige 1 was my game why I got back in retro pc's. The sound with EAX and a 4:5 screen is so much better...

Got me a WIndows XP retrobox, that very close to my original XP PC back in the day. (Except for the GPU and Audio choice) Athlon XP 1500+, 4GB RAM, 60GB SSD, Soundblaster Live AWE32 and a 3DFx Vooodoo3 2000 (OCed to 185MHz, Fan and Custom Heatsink). Played through several classics on it, including Half-Life, Unreal, Shogo and a few others.

what were your high end CRT brands and model , what is their problem?

1994-1997 i used windows 3.11, 1997-2004 i used windows nt4, 2004-2011 i used windows 2000 and since the end of 2011 i use daily windows xp since 13 years

hoenstly while doom3 was a graphical powerhouse .. i first heard about them workign on it in 1999 , but by the time it came out , we had already gotten games that surpassed it in gameplay like Halo and games that rivaled it graphically like Far Cry. it made the whole experience for me kinda underwhelming .

invested my whole childhood, pleasant days, now 40y old, such wise words in the beginning, my friend. glad, that I can find people like you online (and phil also, hi phil! :D ) ! you capture my feelings in so many videos, it feels awesome, thank you for it!

At this point you either tweak the software with various degress of success or tweak the hardware. Either way it is a great journey to take. I wished more people go that route. Baffles me that people wishes to play some older games and begs publishers to re-release them. If it was released for PC or older console there's a way.

Gpu passthough + kvm, one machine to rule them all.

That title made me shake my head... It was an amazingly great card at the time.

Awesome vid! You've justified my possession of old machines😁

Could you tell me which monitor you are using? The white lcd one 8:25

I was in kindergarten when this hardware was new.

Now that i see this, i think back and realize most of my enjoyable computer game playing back in the day was on XP not win98

I have a Windows 98 SE machine with a Pentium III 1.4 GHz and FX 5950 Ultra, a Windows XP machine with an AMD FX-8370 and Titan Xp, and a Windows 11 machine with a Ryzen 5800X3D and RTX 4080 Super. I want real hardware compatibility with my games.

At 4:18 the gpu you are showing has one swolen cap, upper left one. Since its footage from ~3 years ago, i guess you have fixed it. Great nostalgia trip of a video!

I also have a few old computers here with Windows 2000 SP4. The GOG versions can also be installed there. However, XP has the advantage of compatibility mode and a longer support period. In 2000, for example, the GeForce 8 series no longer had drivers. That's why I prefer XP.

Just use qemu for emulating

My 1st PC I bought had a 1Ghz Athlon Thunderbird.

Not available in digital format? Only on vinyl? 2:35

Prescott >>> Cedar Mill.

q6600 and gt 740- are they good for xp gaming?

I have a few wrecks that I might turn into an XP system, a 98 system, or maybe a DOS system.... DOS - 486 VLB, or fast DOS, P133... maybe more? 98 - P133 already has 98, and an Athlon XP (which may get a Ti 4200) XP Dimension 8200 upgraded to 2.8GHz, may get a 9800 Pro. Then I run into a couple of PCIE systems, an Athlon 64 and a FM1 socket 4 core, or a LGA775 P4 HT (board will not even take a P4 dual core)

Thanks i'm not alone with multiple xp computers 😁. Nice video again, thanks!

At this point the internet of 20 years ago should be small enough to fit on a computer. Would be interesting to put the entire internet of then onto the computer as well so you really have the feel of being in 2004. You could even have it show the news day by day but from 20 years ago. But I’m not sure if that’s possible.

I have a "copy" of Battle for Middle Earth 2 and it runs fine on 11.

Got given a HP Pavilion with an Athlon 64. socket 754. I upgraded to 2 gig Ram, SSD, going to use it with XP and run an emulation system.

I took the easy way out, and bought a used Optiplex. I miss the old Control Panel menus and Windows Media Player.

Thaks Mario for the review

I love building xp machines, currently building an early xp machine as my e8600 & 9800gt feels too good. XP is king in my world & as you would say Windows 98 hates me so this is as early as I can go. Thanks again for your efforts & I like the 2 channels

I think steam does work on xp you just have to download an older version and do some sort of workaround to get it running. That being said GOG is better then steam for xp, and cd is the best

I am glad i build myself a WinXP gaming system. I found some Pentium 4 PCs in the trash at my workplace. I asked to pick them up and was allowed. So now i have P5GD micro ATX Mainboard with a Pentium 4 HT 3,4 Ghz CPU, 2 GB RAM and a GTX 750 (without TI), on two 250 GB HDDs i have installed about 250 games from the 4:3 era from the early 90's to about 2006 for the newest games. I use an EIZO FlexScan L778 19" and a Creative Soundblaster 128 CT4810. And i have to say the result is super nice for my needs. I often enjoy playing on this old system much more, than on my rather modern system (Ryzen 9 5900X, 32 GBRAM, GTX 3070Ti, 2TB SSD Win11). So i have the absolut proof that joyful pc gaming has nothing to do with high tech and stunning graphics.

A sign of maturity for gamers is realizing that modern computers may be 1000x more powerful, but the games are not 1000x more fun

Windows Xp retro builds almost always focus on late generation core 2 quad or core i5 processors. I build my windows xp rig with original parts from release of windows xp. Tualatin Celeron + Geforce 3

My first Socket A motherboard. Rock solid. But now it needs some new caps :(