One of the more modern successful takes on Genre mixing was Sanctum, combining tower defense and FPS.



And you can't forget Command and Conquer Renegade either.


Giants Citizens Kabuto blended 3rd person shooter and RTS.


Can't forget the venerable Black and White in the face of Lionheads closure either.


Majesty: The Fantasy King combined RTS and RPG elements.


I also have a soft-spot for X-Com interceptor too, I played the hell out of it when I was younger. - Combines RTS and FPS space shooting.


Can't forget Independence War 2, because it was just awesome, I need my retro box up and running after all these memory's. :P
Going to use 64Gb Flash memory for the Hard drive using an IDE converter off ebay and find a decent 4:3 LCD 1024x768 monitor.

I had command & conquer renegade. That game was awesome. So was Turok 1 and 2.

Overallt though I think the golden age was from the release of Red Alert up until the release of Warcraft 3. During that time so many awesome RTS games were coming out every year. I always prefered the pure RTS games to the games with other elements mixed in. RTS really made you feel like a god when playing them.

Tiberian Sun is such an underrated game from that era. It did so much cool stuff. And apparantly if not for EA rushing the release, it would have been even better, with the mutants being a playable faction.

Some other RTS games I loved back then

Homeworld

Taking RTS into full 3D

Total Annihilation

So many units on screen

Myth

That beautiful carnage

Command and Conquer, War craft, Dungeon keeper, Age of empires, Settlers, Populous: The beginning, Tropico, so many good times.

Homeworld is just one of those games whose gameplay is timeless and graphically/artistically has aged stupidly well, you wouldn't have thought it came out at a time where the Nintendo 64 and PS1 were supreme!

Homeworld remastered though steps things up a notch, worth buying IMHO.




Vietcong, Earth 2150, Stronghold, Earth 2150, Dark Colony, Imperium Galactica, KKnD,  are also worth a look. :P

Can't forget Impossible Creatures either:

Okay, so I'm getting ready to order some extra RAM for my old computers, so I'm having some questions.

For the 1996 computer, it currently has 12 MB of RAM (3 4MB sticks). How much RAM could I expect to cram into it? I read somehwere that the motherboards of that time only cached about 64MB of RAM, but that Windows 95/98 can handle 512MB. So what I would want is 64 MB total or something like that?

Another question. How do I remove RAM that looks like this? And what should I replace it with?

I've tried bending aside those metal thingies, but the RAM still feels a bit stuck and I don't want to break it. The metal also chipped away some of the silicon from the cirquid board :/

I would like to insert four 16MB sticks instead of these three 4MB sticks. When I search Ebay for 16MB RAM I find SIMM EDO RAM and one that was labeled FPM-RAM. Are those the kinds of RAM that goes in a 1996 computer?

I'm happy that quite a few classics have been made avaiable digitally like:

C&C: Red Alert + Tiberian Sun (origin)
Diablo 2 (battle.net)
Heroes of M&M 3 + Theme Hospital + UT + UT2014 (gog.com)
SW Jedi Knight + SW Jedi Knight 2 + SW Republic Commando (steam)

As I don't think they're available online I still need to find an old rig for my incompatible discs though:

Motocross Madness 1+2
Get Medieval
Dune 2000 (I can live with this but I'd like to own (as in buy) it digitally)
NFS Underground 2

The jedi knight games are crazy fun. Especially when you use the console to spawn Darth Vader and a rancor.

Yeah. The console had all kinds of awesome cheats. I always went for dual lightsabers that sent enemies flying :p

Nice thread btw.

To tell you which RAM is correct to use, that's a tricky question, as there where several standards coming out around that timeframe. Apart from EDO RAM (starting in 1995), there was FPM RAM (Fast Page Memory), which most PC where using at the time, and SDRAM, which started out in 1993 and slowly began getting wider acceptance around that time. If you can tell which Processor and Motherboard this 1996 computer uses (or originally used), it could be a bit easier to determine.