Building a Quake PC(fabiensanglard.net)
7 pointsby roskelld5 hours ago1 comment
  • markus_zhang5 hours ago
    This is a fascinating read.

    Back in 1997 my father had a Pentium box with maybe 16MB of RAM. I was able to play Duke 3D and I stuck in E1M3 too and didn’t figure that out until much later.

    I wonder how well Fabien’s build runs Unreal. It was the pinnacle of classic FPS IMO. I used to drool over a voodoo card but I immersed myself playing in software rendering mode in a netbar.

    Good time.

    • pengaru2 hours ago
      I had pentiums with voodoos back then, when Unreal came out it did not perform particularly well on that hardware compared to nvidia and didn't have the same graphics quality. Unreal with the nvidia TNT2/GeForce 256 marked the beginning of the end for the voodoo era, if memory serves.

      3dfx hay day was really quite quake-centric, you'd be remiss to not use their hardware in a vintage quake pc build.