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I understand wanting to play an old game, but why would you want to jump through hoops to run it on old hardware?
It’s not like the CRT enthusiasts where the old stuff had advantages. What does support for a Voodoo5 get that you couldn’t get from an entry level modern GPU?
The voodoo5 series is pretty rare. The initial geforce video card came out around the same time and completely ate their lunch. It was smaller, more efficient, and faster.
That said the card was still neat. It was big and hot for the time, but also rare and interesting. I'd play some quake 3 on it for nostalgia.
Why do people want to climb a mountain when we have roads and helicopters.
It's a fun hobby.
Sure thing, but I wonder if this will actually be used by anyone but the guy who ported it?
Part of the point of ReactOS is that it can use the existing Windows drivers for existing hardware, so every driver that doesn't work is because of a bug that needs to be fixed. Even if no one uses a particular piece of hardware, the same bug might have stopped another driver for another piece of hardware working.
A lot of early developed stuff are barely used by anyone.
At certain point, it will be suitable for larger group of people.
It's not my thing either, but I understand running old games on the original hardware. There's probably very little reason then to put a modern operating system between the two, let alone one which offers "near-native" (= worse) performance (and reduced compability in the first place).
It's just a feel that some nostalgic collectors have: they want to handle the real hardware thing to put together with the software. (yes, I know it sounds naughty; no, I won't take it back)
But if you want all vintage everything, wouldn’t you run Win98 or XP on it?