mkdud
Rear Admiral
Over the past couple months, I have been working on restoring an older Power Mac (7300/200) as well as a original Blue Bondi Imac (G3 233) mainly for playing Super Wing Commander. Thanks to the advice from "Bandit LOAF" and others, I have finally assembled a machine that is playing Super Wing Commander very well.
I wanted to post this as I have received some interest from other CIC members who potentially wanted to do the same thing, and some wondered if it is worth going to such extremes when we have been blessed with SM 1.5 .
IT IS WORTH IT! If you are a big fan of WC1, WC2, and the Privateer era WC games, you will love playing SWC on a proper system. Smooth graphics and animation, great sound, actually good voice acting, and some very unique (and tough) missions make SWC an awesome experience.
My 7300/200 was a storage unit rescue that cost me $100. It was a complete desktop (with no monitor, keyboard, or mouse) and it would boot. However, it was running OSX when I received it. It was covered inside and out in concrete dust. It took me days just to get all of this crap out of the machine.
7300/200 as received: 32 mb ram, 604e (820-0928-01) 200mhz processor card, 256k cache, 2 gb HD, 2 mb Vram, no keyboard or mouse. This was too fast as stock to properly run SWC, and it also had issues that I will explain in my next post.
To be continued...
I wanted to post this as I have received some interest from other CIC members who potentially wanted to do the same thing, and some wondered if it is worth going to such extremes when we have been blessed with SM 1.5 .
IT IS WORTH IT! If you are a big fan of WC1, WC2, and the Privateer era WC games, you will love playing SWC on a proper system. Smooth graphics and animation, great sound, actually good voice acting, and some very unique (and tough) missions make SWC an awesome experience.
My 7300/200 was a storage unit rescue that cost me $100. It was a complete desktop (with no monitor, keyboard, or mouse) and it would boot. However, it was running OSX when I received it. It was covered inside and out in concrete dust. It took me days just to get all of this crap out of the machine.
7300/200 as received: 32 mb ram, 604e (820-0928-01) 200mhz processor card, 256k cache, 2 gb HD, 2 mb Vram, no keyboard or mouse. This was too fast as stock to properly run SWC, and it also had issues that I will explain in my next post.
To be continued...
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