How I play old PC GAMES in 2021 (Win98 / WinXP / Windows 10)

I just wanna play freddi fish so bad

Would there be any benefit to running a dedicated machine from the era, vs just using your modern PC to run PCEM and DosBOX? I've been messing with the EXODOS collection which has all the 90s DOS games accurately setup for a ready to play experience, and they all run as good as I remember. Haven't messed with PCEM yet but from what I've seen, it does the same for Win95/98 era gaming.

I really enjoyed the video bringing me back to my old games...Finally I use an emulator called PCem. I use Windows95C, 450mhz Pentium II, RAM at 512MB, Graphics Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (S3ViRGE) with a Voodoo Sidecard with2x 4mb for 3dfx purposes, SB16 and two HDD at 4gb.
Well I am really happy with this setup. It runs all my original Software so far. And most of them from ISO or Cue which I made for safety reasons.
DOS runs with configured configs.sys and autoexec.bat at startup, so I can choose for simple Himem, EMM RAM, EMM Extended, or it just run into windows 95
DOS works well with Vesa support, or with 3fdx by the Voodoo add-on.
Have fun

I wish i had my old E machine PC it was rubbish but it could play all windows 98 games very well NFS3 was my fav

XP still looks sweet and aesthetically pleasing...even today.😊

LISTEN MT GOOD MAN : I AM a stressed out 30yr old who want to game after my office job. I want a older 1998 pc game called Nightmare Ned which I have the CD for it but won't work on my new PC. How can I do this? PLEASE. IT IS MY CHILDHOOD GAME.

I just use virtual machine or dosbox

I see you have that 1 game I have that refuses to run on any GPU newer than the GeForce 4 series - STAR TREK DS9 : Dominion Wars 😲 I tried everything to get that running on my newer systems on various occasions with no luck - I eventually built a Shuttle XPC with an old AMD Duron, GeForce 4 TI4200 and win XP (I think it's XP) but it didn't look nice on my Acer X34A monitor 😒 I'll have to get a CRT 👍👍

my god , its US still selling old PC ?
damn you lucky

I just bought an old used win 2000 computer (waiting for it). Is it correct that most games for the win95/98 would be able to play on the win2000?

DOS/Win98 "challenges" were always part of the "charm/fun"..

gaming on laptops just sucks though. Even back in the day they were so limiting.. I play too many games to game on a laptop primarily o.o

Legend

i love your gibson les paul you have there !!! ive got an SG standard ... what was the heavy rock soundtrack at the beginning ?? cool !!!

Most of the time 3D acceleration just does not work with VM. Because none of VM actually has access to the real hardware. That being said, newest version of QEMU now allows GPU passthrough which basically gives a abstration access of the hardware from the VM.

However, many older games rely on CPU clock speed, Voodoo graphics and so on. Modern graphics card and CPU are just way too much powerful to give these games what they'd expect from back in 90's. If one doesn't have a real hardware, what I'd suggest is PCem. PCem emulates the original hardware that these games expect and gives a nice enviornment for retro gaming. Do note that PCem sometimes doesn't work properly and you may have to do some tricks to make it work.

Also, thanks for the video! it's really AMAZING!

Hail, Metal Jesus!

Here’s what I run for my 🪟🪟98 gaming:

Dell Dimension XPS T450 with

• Windows 98 OS
• Intel Pentium 3, Slot-2 type CPU
• RAM, I don’t know
• turtle beach Montego sound card
• VooDoo 3dFX GPU

Plays most games at 30 FPS.

1999 to 2009

Why not have same hardware different hdd

Win 98: dos games
Win Xp: dos games
Win 10: dos games

Just curious why you wouldn't use something like a virtual machine. Much cheaper, less power consumption, more reliable, less space taking, less wires, less plugs. All around better option, it seems.

I recently got a windows xp pc going so i could record old games i played as a kid i posted one video already i love this video

I play my video games on my 2002 intel pentium 4 laptop 💻 running windows xp home edition 32-BIT Sp3

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.

OMG.... that is 5 mins of my life I won't get back... what a waste of time....

Is it possible to set up a virtual machine on Windows 10/11 that you can do this on? So many games from childhood that I want to play but don't have the space for a completely separate computer

I've thought about getting an old PC just to play old DOS games.

Metaljesusrocks does rock 👍

I'm obsessed with the PlayStation 5 I've been playing a lot of PS4 games like Mafia Definitive Edition I love console games

awwww man gog dam i thought their was away to get a emu for 95 on win 10 with dos game play access dam wishful thinking on my end .

Hey Man, I was thinking of asking you an interesting question about a Windows 2000 game with Quake 1 Engine called "Urban Mercenary".... Because in the Windows 2000 I once had I could see a playable map (all white I think for a reading code) and the lights became white hanging on the ceiling and with the grate, while now that map is always the same, but original gray and brown with blue lights? In the past not too long ago, I had tried to play the second version of the game on another PC with Windows XP from running .rar files, and a similar thing happened making my whole map blank but without merging or manipulating objects, this was on the last map, but since I've always had another Windows XP (fixed), and I still play both versions, I don't understand why this reading method doesn't come out also from my Windows XP PC (laptop ), where the textures are colored... It's not like you can help me, my goal is to make the first white map reappear with the lights hanging, I also remember in 2005 that at the end of the map the screen was rotated, do you think it was of a reading error, was it a map taken from the internet (although I remember never playing on the internet in 2005), or is it the windows version? I beg you for years I've been trying to find a solution! 🙏🏻

Windows 8 ftw

Help I have a quiet weekend in capri I want to play on my win 10

That was very interesting thank-you:)

Can't be that difficult

My mum absolutely LOVES her split microsoft keyboard xD she's ended up buying multiple of them from second hand shops so she always has a backup for when it eventually dies xD

I have a new MSI laptop with windows 11 but I can not run the old PC games like "IL-2 Strumovik" and "WWII Battle Tanks T-34 Vs. Tiger". How can I do this without going to the Steam Website.

I love GOG. I haven't played on my old gaming pc from 2004 in over a decade. I finally got rid of it last year. It chewed through power supplies of all things. Watching this made me kind of regret my choice.. but I can still play most of my old games through emulators now.

xp machine still have the xp dust !

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.

Great stuff bringing back some good memories I still have most games on a hard rive back in the closet lol

I typing this on a acer laptop witha 169 MHz. it doesn't have any f-keys and all the letters are lower case, how can I play CM 9000 on it?

Don't get me wrong, but you should have used a VGA TNT 2 that already supported 32-bit colors, Voodoo 3 only supports 16-bit, despite being a little faster than the NVIDIA card. The Need or Speed ​​he played, for example, supports 32-bit color. Ahhh, great content, thank you.

where can i buy a good retro pc to play dos games maybe with win 98? I'm at europe Portugal

How to play "Prince Of Persia 3D" in modern PC??? 🙄

2012 Dell W7 i3 desktop (Dell order), free W10 upgrade, 22H2.
Dell Dimension XPS T600r, (Dell order), Feb 2000.
[orig. Pentium III 600 MHz]
[orig. 98SE]; duel boot now (W98se, W2000)
[orig. NVIDEA TNT2 M64 32MB]; installed NVIDEA GeForce3 TI 500
[orig. Turtle Beach Montego II A3D 320V Sound Card]
[orig. 128MB]; set max to 512 MB in W98se; 768 MB in W2000
[orig. Altec Lansing ACS-340 Speakers with Subwoofer]
[orig. 13.6GB Ultra ATA 7200 HDD]; 80 GB 7200 HDD now (3 partitions)
[orig. ATA 66 Controller Card]
[orig. 8X DVD ROM]
--- Added ---
TDK CD burner; MS Sidewinder Precision PRO
KVM switch for 2000 Dell & 2012 Dell; Dell 21.5-inch monitor

PCem e dosbox são a melhor solucao

Will you EVER GET TO THE POINT?