The Joy of Playing Old Games with Modern Hardware

Building a computer to play old games is a hobby that brings back nostalgia and allows enthusiasts to experience classic titles on modern hardware. One of the most exciting aspects of this hobby is the use of a time machine, which enables gamers to get a taste of what it's like to play their favorite childhood games on original systems. The author of the video has experimented with both period-correct builds and time machines, highlighting the differences and advantages of each approach.

For those who prefer to stick with traditional hardware, period-correct builds can be a great way to experience classic games without compromising on authenticity. However, this approach can be limited by the availability of original components, which may not always be easy to find or compatible with modern systems. On the other hand, time machines offer a unique opportunity to play old games on more powerful hardware, resulting in a smoother and more enjoyable gaming experience.

One of the challenges of building a period-correct machine is sourcing compatible hardware. For example, joysticks and gamepads from the year 2000 may be hard to find or not as smooth or ergonomic as modern alternatives. The author notes that while it's possible to find modern input devices that plug into older systems, such as a Logitech Precision Gamepad plugged into a Windows 98 machine, these devices may not offer the same level of performance or comfort as their modern counterparts.

Similarly, power supplies can be an issue when building period-correct machines. Older systems often used different connectors and power rails than modern motherboards, which can make it difficult to find compatible power supplies. For example, a mainboard from this era may have a CPU power connector that doesn't exist on modern motherboards, relying instead on the 5V rail for power. In contrast, modern machines typically use ATX power connectors and 12V rails, which can be a challenge when building period-correct systems.

Despite these challenges, the author notes that many of the aspects of building old computers are still enjoyable today. Tinkering with hardware, researching different components, and experimenting with different configurations can all be rewarding experiences for enthusiasts. Additionally, the hobby has inspired some creative solutions, such as using modern power supplies with period-correct machines.

In terms of specific gaming experiences, the author notes that playing classic games on both a period-correct build and a time machine was vastly different. The AFLon 64, equipped with the GeForce FX graphics card, proved to be underpowered at times, resulting in dropped frame rates and poor performance. In contrast, the Eon 700, paired with the Logitech Precision Gamepad and Thrustmaster joystick, offered a smoother and more enjoyable gaming experience.

The author concludes that while there are many benefits to playing old games on modern hardware, such as improved performance and comfort, the hobby also offers many rewards for enthusiasts who prefer to build period-correct machines. By embracing both approaches, enthusiasts can enjoy the best of both worlds and experience classic games in a unique and nostalgic way.

Tach On The Fringe: A Game Worth Playing

The author notes that Tach On The Fringe is an excellent game that they highly recommend for anyone interested in retro gaming. While it was released in 2000, the gameplay holds up surprisingly well today, making it a great choice for players looking to experience classic titles on modern hardware.

In terms of playing the game on different machines, the author notes that the AFLon 64 proved to be the better option. Although the GeForce FX graphics card struggled with frame rates at times, the game was still playable and enjoyable. In contrast, the Eon 700 struggled to maintain frame rates above 30 FPS, making it a less smooth gaming experience.

The use of modern hardware, such as the Logitech Precision Gamepad and Thrustmaster joystick, greatly improved the author's experience playing Tach On The Fringe on both machines. However, even with these upgrades, the game was still not as polished or well-rounded as some modern titles.

Conclusion

Building old computers to play classic games is a unique and rewarding hobby that offers enthusiasts a chance to relive nostalgic experiences and enjoy modern hardware in a period-correct format. By embracing both period-correct builds and time machines, gamers can experience the best of both worlds and enjoy their favorite childhood games on improved hardware.

The author notes that while there are many challenges associated with building old computers, including sourcing compatible hardware and power supplies, these difficulties can be overcome with creativity and research. Additionally, the hobby has inspired many innovative solutions, such as using modern power supplies in period-correct machines.

Ultimately, the joy of playing old games on modern hardware lies in the nostalgia and sense of accomplishment that comes from successfully building a machine that meets the author's needs. Whether you're a seasoned enthusiast or just starting out, this hobby offers something for everyone, from the thrill of experimentation to the satisfaction of reliving classic gaming experiences.

Joining the Community

For those interested in joining the community of retro computer enthusiasts and gamers, there are several ways to get involved. The author invites viewers to share their own builds, configurations, and gaming experiences on social media and forums, where they can connect with other enthusiasts and learn from their experiences.

Additionally, the author notes that there are many online resources available for those interested in learning more about building old computers and playing classic games. These include tutorials, blogs, and YouTube channels dedicated to retro gaming and computer hardware.

By joining the community and sharing knowledge, enthusiasts can help create a thriving ecosystem of support and inspiration for fellow gamers and builders. Whether you're looking to build your first period-correct machine or simply want to learn more about classic gaming, there's never been a better time to get involved.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys and welcome to another video the topic of today is if you're building a retro gaming PC should you go with a period correct machine or what about a time machine so period correct is all about having a c monitor mechanical hard drive that makes all those hard drive seeking noises whereas the other camp that likes building a time machine well we want some Modern conveniences a SSD that's nice and fast doesn't make too much noise or using a modern USB joystick and of course better performance to enjoy our older games on the screen we have a few computer builds from my patreons that they shared on our Discord server and the variety is really interesting we have period correct retro PCS with that c monitor but we also have modern time machines with beautiful cooling LED light effects and yeah the variety of the projects and the machines is just really interesting I put together two machines two systems one period correct the other one our time machine the perod correct one is a slot a system with an aflon 700 we have a GeForce 2 a sound blaster aw 64 for dos and also a sound blaster live as well as a mechanical hard drive a typical system from the year 2000 for our time machine we've got an aflon 64 so a much more modern platform for the graphics the gForce FX we've got our a G2 sets for the sound card and also for storage we are upgrading to SSD to help us along we will be referring to the July edition of the PC Player magazine from the year 200000 um me looking at these magazines it's a real trip down memory lane and looking at the prices of these old components yeah it really takes us back but it also helps us structure this video a little a little bit and the main game that I've been playing on both of these machines is tachon The Fringe so uh have some real world experience now comparing how this game runs on a period correct machine compared to having something a little bit more modern let's start looking at motherboards firstly availability the PC industry well every year it grew more uh products were manufactured and that's why the more modern the motherboard the easier it is to find one on the used market so a slot a motherboard you will have a harder time finding one compared to one for aflon 64 this also has an effect on prices the reason many go down the route of a time machine is because the parts are more affordable now in terms of build quality and this is actually yeah quite surprising to some of you I find that the older main bools are actually built to a higher quality standard I mean this is a really beautiful main board and the capacitors for example they're all Japanese they're from SEO so the build quality is really good whereas a lot of the main boards from the aflon 64 era they uh were manufactured During the period of the capacitor plague and very often you actually have to replace the capacitors and yeah that firstly time consuming you need some equipment but you also need to buy replacement capacitors so this sometimes actually ends up costing the same uh in terms of uh how much it costs to obtain these main boards there are differences when it comes to the BIOS with an Aon 64 we get more modern versions and a good example is support for larger hard drives on a period machine you often have hard drive capacity limitations 32 GB is a classic one whereas on the afon 64 well you can use a terabyte hard drive and Windows XP without any issues there are differences when it comes to the AGP Port so we can see here there are two notches here and then we can look at the motherboard there's one on the left side on this main board whereas on the Alon 64 the notch is on the right side and this is quite important that has to do with the voltage 3.3 or 1.5 volts and in short what that means is certain old video cards like a voodo 3 AGP they will not be compatible with the aflon 64 for those video cards you need a older mainboard that has the olda AGP port with the time machine we're getting more and more advanced interfaces for example we're getting four USB ports and and that can be yeah quite important if you only have two USB ports and you use a USB keyboard and a USB mouse then yeah you can't plug in a joystick uh and you need a hub so also this speed we getting USB 2 on such a platform much faster copying from uh thumb drive another difference is the storage controller on the Eon 64 we're getting udma uh 100 or 133 so much faster transfer rates whereas on a period correct machine from this vintage you would get around 33 or 66 megabytes a second which is still plenty but you will get much faster storage performance out of a time machine the processor is a very big decision that you need to make when building a retro gaming PC what I'm finding is that processors that are period correct you will often quickly r run out of steam so to speak when you approach uh the year 2000 and games from the early 2000s or late 1990s I find that the requirements that the games come with the recommended requirements are just not sufficient for locked 60fps gameplay so on the aflon 700 playing T On The Fringe it will still have some performance issues and here the Alon 64 does much better you will also find that faster CPUs for example good luck trying to find a slot a eon processor with 1 GHz they are really hard to find and you will have to pay a hefty premium whereas on the Eon 64 you can use the cheapest sempron CPU even downclock it in the bias and you will get much much better performance there also some advantages when it comes to the cooling socket 754 you can buy a modern processor cooler and it will be compatible with the socket meaning it's nice and quiet the fans are also larger this one is 70 mm so it's easy to replace and all that means uh you can turn your machine make it really quiet on the socket uh a and Slot a well yeah you will have to buy a vintage processor cooler they are not made anymore and the fans are quite small this one is a 50 mm fan so it's a little bit harder finding a replacement and they're running at around 5,000 to 6,000 RPM so they Al also make a little bit more noise both of these platforms can be slowed down by turning off the CPU cach and you will end up with the performance of 386 on both of these platforms however here we are stuck with the PCI interface for sound cards so here having a Dos compatible PCI sound card is a lot harder to obtain whereas on the on this platform the period correct platform you usually get an Isa slot and then it's really easy you can use any of the Sound Blaster card es audio drive Yamaha ymf many many options let's talk about the monitor now on a period correct machine you definitely want to have a c monitor I have a few screenshots here from the PC Player magazine a 19 in CT was the go in the year 2000 so that's what you're looking at availability and pricing is the Big Challenge and also these monitors yeah they age they have analog components they can fail and yeah it's just a matter of time until they fail so in a time machine many of us use LCD monitors and there actually quite a few aspects that you need to consider because LCD monitors have a fixed resolution you need to play the games at an appropriate resolution but not every game supports the resolution of modern LCD monitors and so a couple of recommendations I can give you one is buying a 19 uh 20 by 1200 Monitor and then playing at600 by 1200 that's one solution another one is a 1366 X 768 monitor white screen and playing a 1024x 768 and a third option is buying a 12 80x 1024 monitor together with a gForce 4 or GeForce FX enable GPU scaling in the driver and then play at 1024x 768 or 1280x 960 for a nice 4x3 aspect ratio the challenge is if you're playing games that are hardcoded to like 640 by 480 then you have to use the display scaling of the Monitor and you will get an image that's a little bit on the soft side it's more blurry than it should be the graphics card is is also another big decision in the period correct machine we have a GeForce 2 this was pretty much the fastest video card you could buy in the year 2000 this is a GeForce 2 GDs it has 64 megabytes of RAM and the performance is perfectly capable it was running uh tun the range pretty well but in combination with the aflon 700 the performance was not silky Smo all of the time especially large battles the machine would slow down quite a bit on the time machine I'm using the GeForce FX 5200 this one has a 128bit memory interface also 64 megab of ram what I like about the GeForce FX is it has DVI out this makes my life very easy for capturing it's also wonderful connecting it to the LCD monitor you get a very nice clear image and another benefit of using using a gForce FX is we can use an isotropic filtering anti-aliasing it has more options than the gForce to in terms of performance even the FX2 200 can slow down in tach On The Fringe so here you might want to go for something more highend but that is the beauty of going with a time machine you can just go with a faster video card increase the resolution turn on all the eye candy and play at 60 FPS locked we need storage and for the period correct machine well it's got to be a mechanical ID hard drive we have such a drive here in terms of capacity this one is 120 GB perfect for Windows 98 that's pretty much the maximum capacity these these mechanical hard drives they emit a sound they make noises and they've got a platter that's rotating they've got read r heads that move around so all of that gives that authentic nostalgic sound and feeling that you just don't get with a modern SSD on the downside is of course again availability and pricing they're getting a little bit harder to find especially uh ID drives with a larger capacity and reliability a lot of my ID drives started to slowly tick and click and sometimes take longer to actually get going after turning on the machine so reliability is a big challenge and with modern machines well we can go with modern flash storage a 120 GB SSD is a really good option uh it's got enough capacity for Windows 98 very high performance writing as well as small file performance is terrific on such a drive but we need to use adapters like s to ID some of the main ports have S ports this one does but it's got a chipset from via and the s Port implementation is pretty bad so it doesn't actually work that well so on such a system I prefer using aada 2 ID adapter however if you've got an Intel penum 4 on that platform the S ports actually really good and you can plug this in natively without any conversion chips you will get excellent performance no noise now there are some concerns about wearing them out um I spoke to a few SSD manufacturers and they said even without trim support they have enough logic integrated to handle all those situations so apparently it's not an issue you can do some over provisioning for example buy a 240 GB SSD and then just uh have a 120 GB partition or something like that and then there will be enough flashh CES for the uh for the wear leveling algorithm to work with let's talk about the sound I have a few screenshots here from the PC player magaz and the sound Bluster live was the main sound card at the time they also mentioned the oral vtic 2 and a card with the Yamaha ymf chip but the sound plus alive is a really good choice for a year 2000 machine because we have Isa slots we can also install an Isa sound card for dos games this is a sound blaster aw 64 value I really like this card and it will give you perfect compatibility under dos now with the time machine we're a bit more flexible we don't have to stick with the sound Bluster life we can go with something a bit more highend this is the AIG G2 sets it's basically uh very similar to the life in terms of eax support but it uses higher end components it has a higher signal to noise ratio so it will sound quieter and just over overall listening to it the AUD A2 sets will just sound a little bit nicer so these are some of the advantages you have with a time machine you can get aart from the future so to speak and get better sound what about input devices you can go period correct but you will find that joysticks or game pads from the year2000 will be hard to find and they might not be as uh smooth moo or as ergonomic as some of the modern joysticks and the cool thing is you can buy a modern input device like we have a thrustmaster t16000 joystick here and this is a Logitech Precision Gamepad you plug them into a Windows 98 machine and they will just work so that's really amazing and the same goes for keyboard and mouse with the time machine you can use a really nice Logitech Optical USB mouse a mechanical USB keyboard if you want so that is the nice thing of the time machine we can have modern conveniences and still enjoy our old games depending on a system the power supply can also be a challenge on the more modern machine we have our regular ATX power connector here and then there's another four pin connector there so this is very similar to Modern motherboards most of the power will come from the 12vt rail which is how things are at the moment this wasn't always the case a main board from this era it does have the CPU uh sorry the power supply connector right here but the other four pin connector doesn't exist so most of the power here comes from the 5vt rail now on this system it's not a big deal the entire system consumes around 60 watts and modern power supplies have enough power on the 5V rail to handle that but if you are building something that draws more power maybe a dual slot machine or a aflon Thunderbird 1.4 GHz or an aflon XP 3200 plus and that power is drawn from the 5 volt rail that can be too much for a modern power supply so those are little aspects that you need to keep in mind a few comments on tach On The Fringe so this is the game I've been playing on both of these machines and firstly it's a really fantastic game I highly recommend that you check it out so what system do I prefer to play it on well definitely the time machine so on the aflon 64 it runs better I do feel that the GeForce FX was a little bit underpowered sometimes it would drop below 60 and playing with vsync you can really notice that cuz the frame rate Hales from 60 to 30 but with the AUD G2 with the nice USB joystick the LCD screen and playing at Native 1024x 768 it was a beautiful experience so in terms of actually sitting down and playing the game once you you know ignore the um nostalgic feelings about the hardware in terms of just playing the game I definitely had a better experience with the time machine on the Eon 700 you always feel like that the hardware is just not quite enough that the game needs something faster it is playable but the frame rate is usually around more than 30 to 40 FPS most of the time so it is still playable but yeah coming from an experience of modern games you know it's a little bit hard playing games like that uh so still playable but not as enjoyable as on the time machine so guys there you have it I really hope you found this video interesting there's a lot to talk about and luckily you have some other things that I didn't mention so leave them down below in the comments I really think this hobby is fantastic building old computers or maybe not so old computers to install Windows 98 msdos and playing these old games for me yes games is a huge motivator but I also really love tinkering around with the hardware and I see a lot of different builds out there and there seems to be a divide between period correct and time machine but I'm also seeing um let's call it hybrid yeah uh period correct machines where people then upgrade for example the storage to SSD or they use a modern power supply so we are making some compromises because the reality is these older Parts they simply do fail and with the input devices it's really nice having a nice Optical USB mouse and a joystick like thrustmaster in win Commander it makes a real difference so if you have something to share and also about the year 2000 and Tack You On The Fringe and anything else we discussed in this video as well as requests for future videos leave them down below in the comment section I always read your comments it's something I really enjoy having a coffee in the morning and then checking my comments on my phone and yeah that's it for this one I really appreciate your support if you're uh interested in joining our patreon community and our Discord server link Down Below in the description and that's it for this one thank you so much for watching and I shall see you soon with another onehey guys and welcome to another video the topic of today is if you're building a retro gaming PC should you go with a period correct machine or what about a time machine so period correct is all about having a c monitor mechanical hard drive that makes all those hard drive seeking noises whereas the other camp that likes building a time machine well we want some Modern conveniences a SSD that's nice and fast doesn't make too much noise or using a modern USB joystick and of course better performance to enjoy our older games on the screen we have a few computer builds from my patreons that they shared on our Discord server and the variety is really interesting we have period correct retro PCS with that c monitor but we also have modern time machines with beautiful cooling LED light effects and yeah the variety of the projects and the machines is just really interesting I put together two machines two systems one period correct the other one our time machine the perod correct one is a slot a system with an aflon 700 we have a GeForce 2 a sound blaster aw 64 for dos and also a sound blaster live as well as a mechanical hard drive a typical system from the year 2000 for our time machine we've got an aflon 64 so a much more modern platform for the graphics the gForce FX we've got our a G2 sets for the sound card and also for storage we are upgrading to SSD to help us along we will be referring to the July edition of the PC Player magazine from the year 200000 um me looking at these magazines it's a real trip down memory lane and looking at the prices of these old components yeah it really takes us back but it also helps us structure this video a little a little bit and the main game that I've been playing on both of these machines is tachon The Fringe so uh have some real world experience now comparing how this game runs on a period correct machine compared to having something a little bit more modern let's start looking at motherboards firstly availability the PC industry well every year it grew more uh products were manufactured and that's why the more modern the motherboard the easier it is to find one on the used market so a slot a motherboard you will have a harder time finding one compared to one for aflon 64 this also has an effect on prices the reason many go down the route of a time machine is because the parts are more affordable now in terms of build quality and this is actually yeah quite surprising to some of you I find that the older main bools are actually built to a higher quality standard I mean this is a really beautiful main board and the capacitors for example they're all Japanese they're from SEO so the build quality is really good whereas a lot of the main boards from the aflon 64 era they uh were manufactured During the period of the capacitor plague and very often you actually have to replace the capacitors and yeah that firstly time consuming you need some equipment but you also need to buy replacement capacitors so this sometimes actually ends up costing the same uh in terms of uh how much it costs to obtain these main boards there are differences when it comes to the BIOS with an Aon 64 we get more modern versions and a good example is support for larger hard drives on a period machine you often have hard drive capacity limitations 32 GB is a classic one whereas on the afon 64 well you can use a terabyte hard drive and Windows XP without any issues there are differences when it comes to the AGP Port so we can see here there are two notches here and then we can look at the motherboard there's one on the left side on this main board whereas on the Alon 64 the notch is on the right side and this is quite important that has to do with the voltage 3.3 or 1.5 volts and in short what that means is certain old video cards like a voodo 3 AGP they will not be compatible with the aflon 64 for those video cards you need a older mainboard that has the olda AGP port with the time machine we're getting more and more advanced interfaces for example we're getting four USB ports and and that can be yeah quite important if you only have two USB ports and you use a USB keyboard and a USB mouse then yeah you can't plug in a joystick uh and you need a hub so also this speed we getting USB 2 on such a platform much faster copying from uh thumb drive another difference is the storage controller on the Eon 64 we're getting udma uh 100 or 133 so much faster transfer rates whereas on a period correct machine from this vintage you would get around 33 or 66 megabytes a second which is still plenty but you will get much faster storage performance out of a time machine the processor is a very big decision that you need to make when building a retro gaming PC what I'm finding is that processors that are period correct you will often quickly r run out of steam so to speak when you approach uh the year 2000 and games from the early 2000s or late 1990s I find that the requirements that the games come with the recommended requirements are just not sufficient for locked 60fps gameplay so on the aflon 700 playing T On The Fringe it will still have some performance issues and here the Alon 64 does much better you will also find that faster CPUs for example good luck trying to find a slot a eon processor with 1 GHz they are really hard to find and you will have to pay a hefty premium whereas on the Eon 64 you can use the cheapest sempron CPU even downclock it in the bias and you will get much much better performance there also some advantages when it comes to the cooling socket 754 you can buy a modern processor cooler and it will be compatible with the socket meaning it's nice and quiet the fans are also larger this one is 70 mm so it's easy to replace and all that means uh you can turn your machine make it really quiet on the socket uh a and Slot a well yeah you will have to buy a vintage processor cooler they are not made anymore and the fans are quite small this one is a 50 mm fan so it's a little bit harder finding a replacement and they're running at around 5,000 to 6,000 RPM so they Al also make a little bit more noise both of these platforms can be slowed down by turning off the CPU cach and you will end up with the performance of 386 on both of these platforms however here we are stuck with the PCI interface for sound cards so here having a Dos compatible PCI sound card is a lot harder to obtain whereas on the on this platform the period correct platform you usually get an Isa slot and then it's really easy you can use any of the Sound Blaster card es audio drive Yamaha ymf many many options let's talk about the monitor now on a period correct machine you definitely want to have a c monitor I have a few screenshots here from the PC Player magazine a 19 in CT was the go in the year 2000 so that's what you're looking at availability and pricing is the Big Challenge and also these monitors yeah they age they have analog components they can fail and yeah it's just a matter of time until they fail so in a time machine many of us use LCD monitors and there actually quite a few aspects that you need to consider because LCD monitors have a fixed resolution you need to play the games at an appropriate resolution but not every game supports the resolution of modern LCD monitors and so a couple of recommendations I can give you one is buying a 19 uh 20 by 1200 Monitor and then playing at600 by 1200 that's one solution another one is a 1366 X 768 monitor white screen and playing a 1024x 768 and a third option is buying a 12 80x 1024 monitor together with a gForce 4 or GeForce FX enable GPU scaling in the driver and then play at 1024x 768 or 1280x 960 for a nice 4x3 aspect ratio the challenge is if you're playing games that are hardcoded to like 640 by 480 then you have to use the display scaling of the Monitor and you will get an image that's a little bit on the soft side it's more blurry than it should be the graphics card is is also another big decision in the period correct machine we have a GeForce 2 this was pretty much the fastest video card you could buy in the year 2000 this is a GeForce 2 GDs it has 64 megabytes of RAM and the performance is perfectly capable it was running uh tun the range pretty well but in combination with the aflon 700 the performance was not silky Smo all of the time especially large battles the machine would slow down quite a bit on the time machine I'm using the GeForce FX 5200 this one has a 128bit memory interface also 64 megab of ram what I like about the GeForce FX is it has DVI out this makes my life very easy for capturing it's also wonderful connecting it to the LCD monitor you get a very nice clear image and another benefit of using using a gForce FX is we can use an isotropic filtering anti-aliasing it has more options than the gForce to in terms of performance even the FX2 200 can slow down in tach On The Fringe so here you might want to go for something more highend but that is the beauty of going with a time machine you can just go with a faster video card increase the resolution turn on all the eye candy and play at 60 FPS locked we need storage and for the period correct machine well it's got to be a mechanical ID hard drive we have such a drive here in terms of capacity this one is 120 GB perfect for Windows 98 that's pretty much the maximum capacity these these mechanical hard drives they emit a sound they make noises and they've got a platter that's rotating they've got read r heads that move around so all of that gives that authentic nostalgic sound and feeling that you just don't get with a modern SSD on the downside is of course again availability and pricing they're getting a little bit harder to find especially uh ID drives with a larger capacity and reliability a lot of my ID drives started to slowly tick and click and sometimes take longer to actually get going after turning on the machine so reliability is a big challenge and with modern machines well we can go with modern flash storage a 120 GB SSD is a really good option uh it's got enough capacity for Windows 98 very high performance writing as well as small file performance is terrific on such a drive but we need to use adapters like s to ID some of the main ports have S ports this one does but it's got a chipset from via and the s Port implementation is pretty bad so it doesn't actually work that well so on such a system I prefer using aada 2 ID adapter however if you've got an Intel penum 4 on that platform the S ports actually really good and you can plug this in natively without any conversion chips you will get excellent performance no noise now there are some concerns about wearing them out um I spoke to a few SSD manufacturers and they said even without trim support they have enough logic integrated to handle all those situations so apparently it's not an issue you can do some over provisioning for example buy a 240 GB SSD and then just uh have a 120 GB partition or something like that and then there will be enough flashh CES for the uh for the wear leveling algorithm to work with let's talk about the sound I have a few screenshots here from the PC player magaz and the sound Bluster live was the main sound card at the time they also mentioned the oral vtic 2 and a card with the Yamaha ymf chip but the sound plus alive is a really good choice for a year 2000 machine because we have Isa slots we can also install an Isa sound card for dos games this is a sound blaster aw 64 value I really like this card and it will give you perfect compatibility under dos now with the time machine we're a bit more flexible we don't have to stick with the sound Bluster life we can go with something a bit more highend this is the AIG G2 sets it's basically uh very similar to the life in terms of eax support but it uses higher end components it has a higher signal to noise ratio so it will sound quieter and just over overall listening to it the AUD A2 sets will just sound a little bit nicer so these are some of the advantages you have with a time machine you can get aart from the future so to speak and get better sound what about input devices you can go period correct but you will find that joysticks or game pads from the year2000 will be hard to find and they might not be as uh smooth moo or as ergonomic as some of the modern joysticks and the cool thing is you can buy a modern input device like we have a thrustmaster t16000 joystick here and this is a Logitech Precision Gamepad you plug them into a Windows 98 machine and they will just work so that's really amazing and the same goes for keyboard and mouse with the time machine you can use a really nice Logitech Optical USB mouse a mechanical USB keyboard if you want so that is the nice thing of the time machine we can have modern conveniences and still enjoy our old games depending on a system the power supply can also be a challenge on the more modern machine we have our regular ATX power connector here and then there's another four pin connector there so this is very similar to Modern motherboards most of the power will come from the 12vt rail which is how things are at the moment this wasn't always the case a main board from this era it does have the CPU uh sorry the power supply connector right here but the other four pin connector doesn't exist so most of the power here comes from the 5vt rail now on this system it's not a big deal the entire system consumes around 60 watts and modern power supplies have enough power on the 5V rail to handle that but if you are building something that draws more power maybe a dual slot machine or a aflon Thunderbird 1.4 GHz or an aflon XP 3200 plus and that power is drawn from the 5 volt rail that can be too much for a modern power supply so those are little aspects that you need to keep in mind a few comments on tach On The Fringe so this is the game I've been playing on both of these machines and firstly it's a really fantastic game I highly recommend that you check it out so what system do I prefer to play it on well definitely the time machine so on the aflon 64 it runs better I do feel that the GeForce FX was a little bit underpowered sometimes it would drop below 60 and playing with vsync you can really notice that cuz the frame rate Hales from 60 to 30 but with the AUD G2 with the nice USB joystick the LCD screen and playing at Native 1024x 768 it was a beautiful experience so in terms of actually sitting down and playing the game once you you know ignore the um nostalgic feelings about the hardware in terms of just playing the game I definitely had a better experience with the time machine on the Eon 700 you always feel like that the hardware is just not quite enough that the game needs something faster it is playable but the frame rate is usually around more than 30 to 40 FPS most of the time so it is still playable but yeah coming from an experience of modern games you know it's a little bit hard playing games like that uh so still playable but not as enjoyable as on the time machine so guys there you have it I really hope you found this video interesting there's a lot to talk about and luckily you have some other things that I didn't mention so leave them down below in the comments I really think this hobby is fantastic building old computers or maybe not so old computers to install Windows 98 msdos and playing these old games for me yes games is a huge motivator but I also really love tinkering around with the hardware and I see a lot of different builds out there and there seems to be a divide between period correct and time machine but I'm also seeing um let's call it hybrid yeah uh period correct machines where people then upgrade for example the storage to SSD or they use a modern power supply so we are making some compromises because the reality is these older Parts they simply do fail and with the input devices it's really nice having a nice Optical USB mouse and a joystick like thrustmaster in win Commander it makes a real difference so if you have something to share and also about the year 2000 and Tack You On The Fringe and anything else we discussed in this video as well as requests for future videos leave them down below in the comment 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