[niffiwan]

I'm sure I ran it fine on the 1st computer I personally purchased, a Pentium 166 w/ ... ??? RAM (I forget) and most importantly, a Voodoo2 video card.

* niffiwan wonders when Nakura is going to reply in this thread...

[headdie]

suspect it was a drop and run

[Wobble73]

I'm sure I ran it fine on the 1st computer I personally purchased, a Pentium 166 w/ ... ??? RAM (I forget) and most importantly, a Voodoo2 video card.

* niffiwan wonders when Nakura is going to reply in this thread...

That was pretty much my first PC, with 128mb ram, later upgraded to 256mb. And of course the wonderful Voodoo2 Graphics card

[Luis Dias]

lol reply ahah

[Mongoose]

Man, you guys had it nice for your first machines.  Our original family Gateway 2000 had a Pentium-166 and a whopping 16 MB of RAM.  I don't even know what the video card was, some Matrox something-or-other.

[Wobble73]

This was 18 years ago and my first PC was a friends cast off that I bought off him cheap and then I had to buy the graphics card, cd drive, cd re writer and ram seperately, and it still wasn't the top of the range then as Pentium II's were coming out and maximum Ram was 1GB (IIRC). Also NVIDIA and ATI were becoming the best video cards!

[Dragon]

lol reply ahah

Well, he might be busy sending his computer to a museum. The answer to his question was a definite no, so it's not like there's much to discuss, aside from old computer nostalgia. And there's nothing nostalgic about this kind of rigs for him...

[Trivial Psychic]

My first system was a Pentium MMX-166 with 64MB RAM(?) and an ATI 3DXpression 4MB video card.

[niffiwan]

Man, you guys had it nice for your first machines. 

Well, that PC I mentioned earlier wasn't the 1st computer our family owned.  My Dad was an old school COBOL programmer in the 1960's, and we got into the home PC market pretty early.  Started with a Commodore64, later he bought an 80286 12Mhz, 2MB RAM, 40 MB hard disk (keyboard only, no mouse!).  And the all important "turbo" button, which halved the clockspeed to 6Mhz!!! Mind you stepping down was damn important if you wanted to play "The Ancient Art of War at Sea", it was ludicrously fast at 12 Mhz    I even managed to play X-wing and Wing Commander 1 on that old piece of junk (IIRC Elite 2 demanded a math co-processor though, so no luck there).

[headdie]

I think the first pc in the house was a Toshiba MSX, followed by a C64, first IBM was a 80286.  my first PC was a hand-me-down from my dad which was an 80386 with a 30 mb hard drive.

[LHN91]

Just to get in on the nostalgia trip - the first system my family had was a second-hand Digital Rainbow 100 (With only one working 5.25" drive). After that it was a second-hand IBM PS/2 with the entry level 386 and a clearanced Packard Bell with a Pentium MMX 233 with 32MB Ram, some onboard 2MB graphics chip and a Yamaha sound chip that sounded wonderful.

And that was what I used until I bought my first Prescott-based system (Celeron D 2.4 w/256MB Ram) in (i think) 2004-2005.

[swashmebuckle]

My first computer has an lusty 512K RAM. Can FS2 B&W at 512x342 resolution on 8-bit mono sound? I have 8MHz chip.

[Luis Dias]

count me in in the 386 bandwagon thing. 20 MHz with "turbo" at 40. Lol "turbo". An amazing hard drive of 12 MB. Man those were the days. A few months later we got it switched to a 486 33 MHz.

[ShivanSpS]

I did played the original FS2 on a K6-266 with 128mb of ram and Savage 4 PCI gpu, and FS1 even ran on software.

I have a old pc with a sis igp, let me check something.

If the IGP supports D3D the original one will run.

[Wobble73]

Actually if we are talking Commodores and their ilk, I had an Oric Atmos as my first Computer, then a ZX spectrum followed by a Commodore 64 and then an Amiga. The PC I mentioned earlier was the first computer I had that run MS Windows.

The Oric Atmos was abominable and you could only get games on it if you were willing to type lines of basic yourself and then save on a tape. I got a book of games with it but they were terrible, best game I had was a slot machine game. I got bored after three spins and I had spent an hour typing out the code for it! 

[niffiwan]

The Oric Atmos was abominable and you could only get games on it if you were willing to type lines of basic yourself and then save on a tape. I got a book of games with it but they were terrible, best game I had was a slot machine game. I got bored after three spins and I had spent an hour typing out the code for it! 

Wow, we had one of those books.  There's nothing quite like spending an hour painstakingly typing in the games code and then finding that the game is terrible! (looking at you, you horrible shoot-the-sniper "game")

[Grizzly]

Let's just go full Poe's law and answer the question fully:

Nakura, whatever laptop/desktop you are using currently to post all this stuff is most likely able to run FS2, as long as you use FS2_open, of which I am quite sure has mac executables if that is your problem.

[Kolgena]

Wow, those specs are amazing. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a cellphone from the last 3 years that would be slower.