What small games for 570E,600X,ect system's?

Older ThinkPads.. from the 600, the 7xx, the iSeries, 300, 500, the Transnote and, of course, the 701
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What small games for 570E,600X,ect system's?

#1 Post by SaberX » Tue May 01, 2007 5:07 pm

Thease older systems only have 2.5meg video ram.Not much.
What older games do you play on you system?
Say a P-III 500mhz ish system?
Something you could run from the hard drive.Eather download froo games from the net,ect.
Just want to get some ideas and things to put on my 570E for a upcoming trip.

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#2 Post by pianowizard » Tue May 01, 2007 5:09 pm

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Re: What small games for 570E,600X,ect system's?

#3 Post by epbrown » Tue May 01, 2007 6:22 pm

SaberX wrote:Thease older systems only have 2.5meg video ram.Not much.
What older games do you play on you system?
Well, I'm old, so I play video games from the 80s using M.A.M.E. (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). Mostly Joust, Donkey Kong, PacMan, Asteroids, and the like.
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#4 Post by spalen » Tue May 01, 2007 7:14 pm

Quake / Doom / Castle Wolfenstein should work.

Counter Strike should work

I cant test because Im just rebuilding my 570e for my son to use for just this purpose ;-) when its up and working I shall advise ;-)

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#5 Post by epbrown » Tue May 01, 2007 9:29 pm

spalen wrote:Quake / Doom / Castle Wolfenstein should work.

Counter Strike should work

I cant test because Im just rebuilding my 570e for my son to use for just this purpose ;-) when its up and working I shall advise ;-)
I've got DOOM on my 701C. Playing DOOM on the 701 back in 1995 was the first time I'd seen the game in color or with sound. My previous Thinkpad was a 355 with monochrome display and wasn't Soundblaster compatible.
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#6 Post by whizkid » Wed May 02, 2007 10:24 am

I played Quake on a 200MHz PPro system. A 600X or 570E with a PIII at 400-650MHz will be very enjoyable.
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#7 Post by Cheesemanx » Wed May 02, 2007 2:19 pm

Here is what games I have installed on 770Z see scpecs below.

Command and Conquer 1 & 2
Age of Empires 1 & 2 (also both expansion packs)
Sim Copter
X-Wing Alliance (turn down the settings)

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#8 Post by WarMachine » Wed May 16, 2007 11:10 am

Hello, ;)

Every game older than Quake Classic (1995) should run on your machine.

I've even successfully played Quake II on the 600E (a little choppy, but playable (of course w/out Open GL acceleration... :D)

I've played Carmageddon too (the 1st one). What a blast !!! :P

Also Dune, Dune II, DOTT (Day Of Tentacle), RAMA... And others I don't remember (Yeah, I'm an old man too ! 32 y.o. in 3 weeks)... :cry:

:D

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Re: What small games for 570E,600X,ect system's?

#9 Post by andyP » Wed May 16, 2007 2:03 pm

epbrown wrote:
SaberX wrote:Thease older systems only have 2.5meg video ram.Not much.
What older games do you play on you system?
Well, I'm old, so I play video games from the 80s using M.A.M.E. (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). Mostly Joust, Donkey Kong, PacMan, Asteroids, and the like.
I think you forgot one of the cult games which belongs to the group of
PacMan, Asteroids,
, what's about good old Space Invaders?
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#10 Post by vmesquita » Mon May 21, 2007 5:10 pm

Some games that work on my 600E:

Daytona USA
Destruction Derby
Half Life
Shadow Warrior (be sure to get the updated engine)
Duke Nukem 3D (be sure to get the updated engine)
ZSNES (SNES Emulator)
Gems (Genesis/Mega Drive emulator)
Simcity 2000
Need for Speed 4 High Stakes (NFS 3 only allow 320x240 without 3d acceleration, NFS4 allows 640x480 so it looks fine give the limitations)
Gran Theft Auto
Gran Theft Auto: London 1969

There's a few a can't remember right now, I'll update later. Just look for some abandonware websites, you'll find some fun games. Of course graphics is not as today's games (I have a GefForce 6800xt on my desktop) but you can defintally have some fun. I even bought a Playstation-style USB joypad to play with my 9-yo brother-in-law and preserve the keyboard. I suspect it's possible also to play Playstation 1 using Bleem! emulator (which minimmal specs were a 166MMX pentium) but I don't have Playstation CDs to try.

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