Question Whats your ideal solution for retro gamers like me, who want to play 90 era games but have a hard time with technical difficulty ?

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So the games I love from the 90s are

GTA 1, (doesn't work on modern windows has all sorts of problems)
Total Annihilation 1, (all sorts of problems)
Dark Reign 1 (doesn't work on modern windows)
Command and Conquer 1 (has been modded well by the community works easily)
KKND 1 (not sure)
Doom 2 (works easily modded well )
Quake2 (not sure)

Question is for a lap top

 

[boju]

Gta 1 might work in a VM environment using an OS from that era.

Other games probably as well. I know Total Annihilation and Quake 2 (which has actually been remastered) from Steam works with Win10 as I've played them, Win11 should also work with these two.

 

[boju]

Quake 2 and all it's expansions are remastered. Buying it also includes the originals. Music as well + an additional expansion.

 

[Eximo]

I think many of your threads have mentioned PC EM, that can emulate 3DFX Glide/Voodoo cards which is the best way to run GTA1. I consider that the lost era of 3D games. Not all of them could be software rendered (and it looked awful anyway)

OpenRA, and Command & Conquer remastered are both great options for old C&C.

Pretty sure there are umpteen versions of Quake 2 you can run on modern platforms. Not really a complicated game to run being OpenGL capable. Looks like there is a version available on Steam and of course GoG. Quake RTX out there as well if you want to experiment with ray tracing.

I have an old CD copy of Ultimate Doom that has run on every version of Windows I have tried. Doom 1 & 2 + Ultimate and a whole host of custom stuff.

 

[boju]

Missed mention of C&C, to reiterate what Eximo said, the remaster on Steam is awesome, press that space bar commander! 😁 The game starts you off with the old graphics then when you hit spacebar, it transitions the original graphics to improved in realtime showing you the difference. Clever way of doing things.

Being a C&C fan, checkout Tempest Rising. There's a demo on Steam. C&C is making a comeback.

Also Duke Nukem 20th Anniversary is another remaster for Duke3D.

 

[geofelt]

You might look at Good old games:
https://www.gog.com/en/about_gog

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