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Really happy with how my “Millennium Era” gaming PC build came together!
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I found this beautiful beige PC tower case at a yard sale a couple years ago, and I’ve been steadily building it out ever since. I found the awesome Gateway monitor on the sidewalk, bought the Dell “Bigfoot” mechanical keyboard at Goodwill for $6, and the other bits-and-pieces have come from eBay, thrift shops and my own stash of retro stuff. Here’s a quick summary:
* CPU: Intel Celeron D @ 3.06GHz
* RAM: 1gb PC7200
* Hard Drive: some old 40GB drive I had in a junk box
* Optical storage: Lite-On CD burner (top bay) + Creative DVD-ROM drive (middle bay)
* Display: Gateway VX700 CRT found on the sidewalk recently
* GPU: Nvidia FX5200 PCI (no AGP slot in this machine)
* Audio: Creative Sound Blaster Live PCI + LiveDrive + Roland MT-32 MIDI Processor (sitting on top of the display)
* Speakers: generic no-name PC speakers found at a thrift shop for $4
* Controllers: SpaceOrb 360 (perfect for playing Descent I and II!) + Gravis Destroyer Tilt
* Keyboard: Dell “Bigfoot” mechanical keyboard
* Operating System: Windows 98 Second Edition
Tips, suggestions and questions are welcome – this system is very much a “work in progress!”
**EDIT:** This PC case actually came in a pair, and I don’t plan to build another system like this. If anyone is in the San Francisco Bay Area and wants to built a retro rig like mine or a “sleeper” PC, PM me!
This gave me a tiny adrenaline spike because I flashed back to all the times when coming home to a setup like this like the best thing in the world, a virtual slice of heaven in my haven, if you will
That’s pretty cool.
Sweeeeeet
Zug Zug!
I had that Soundblaster card. That thing was expensive back in the day.
“Job done”
Ready to serve
I can hear this picture. I had the exact same monitor growing up. Such a great time.
Death Knights were my favorite in that game
This makes me happy.
Look at you fancy pants with a Roland MT-32. What a beauty.
i can hear the picture!
TAAAAAAAAAAADADADADA ramtatatam tatata taaaaaaa ramtatatatatatataaaaaaaa RAMTATATATATATATAAAAAAAA RAMTATATATATATAAAAAAAAAAAA
Enjoy your steady drip of nostalgia. I grew up on WC2 myself; building a PC sounds like this is a fantastic idea if you have the know how
4:3 CRT 🤤
Be honest you actually stole all this stuff from LGR didn’t you?
(kidding in case it’s not obvious)
Nice PC. Mine broke.
there’s a kitchen in your gaming station
For anyone feeling nostalgic, the soundtrack still slaps
Nice job placing it in the kitchen – where millennium era pcs belong.
I remember getting that game for Xmas and being so excited to play but we had to travel to my grandmas house and spend the night. Thank god blizzard had beautiful manuals back then. I stared at those illustrations until we got back and I could finally play.
Those eMachine speakers is all I can see.
things to do when u have a pc last time
autoexec
setup
mscdex
I still have my PC from college in 2004. Because apparently I’m a tech hoarder
Is it in the kitchen? That’s the only way it’s really a Millennium Era.
Gateway 2000 was the best computer manufacturer in history.
I will not be taking any questions at this time.
So many blue mohawks so much fun
Wow this is amazing and wonderful and such a blast from the past trip. Love the set up.
Gonna try to remember the cheats for this game without looking them up but I can only remember one
Operationblacksheepwall to remove fog of war I think.
I can hear this picture
The speed on the DVD burner, I forgot those ! If you want maximum nostalgia, you need the mouse holder that you could glue on the side of the monitor/case.
Warcraft2 is such a fun game!!!
I like this photo 🙂🙂
Zug zugg
I am so unbelievably jealous. My CRT still rests in my mother’s basement because my current apartment is too small to have a dedicated set up like this. One day.. Still have to source an era appropriate pc. Enjoy every second! Sick setup!
THE ORB!!! i used to have that controller… it sucked i got it to play Quake
Well done. That fucking rules.
That’s the most ridiculous game controller
Probably my favorite game ever.
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Zug zug.
Top of the line! Wow great memories.
it is a good day to die
Warcraft II difficulty spikes hard Act 3
There better be a 1000 hours of free AOL CD in there!
Warcraft 2, Quake, and Diablo with a Pentium 3 and 3dfx Voodoo 2 GPU was peak gaming. Prove me wrong.
In case youre interested, there is a community that has updated Warcraft 2 to run a custom battle.net server.
You can also get a widescreen hack that works really well.
and finally the coolest thing, someone has a mod to make maps have triggers so you can play tower defence maps and stuff AND it works on that custom battlenet server! The trigger editor is still fairly new and its made by a russian person so the translations are not that great.
Back in the good old days when warcraft was good until wow