Halo (1999 build): How it runs on a 1998 PC — Intel Pentium II 400 MHz / 3Dfx Voodoo 2 / SB Live!
8REAL HARDWARE CAPTURE IN 4:3 ASPECT RATIO. Commentary subtitles are available!
Also known as the “Blam beta” (named after the executable; blambeta.exe)! It’s the infamous Halo "Speartest" leak that has surfaced recently, now running on a 3D card/GPU and CPU that actually existed when this was first compiled (supposedly around October 1999)! Behold as I drunkenly test out a few basic features and scratch the surface of all the cool weapons and characters hidden within this build.
Operating system used: Microsoft Windows 98 (First Edition/FE)
Drivers used for Voodoo2 card: Glide 3.03.00b DirectX 7.0 beta drivers.
Drivers used for Sound Blaster Live: VXD 4.06.704 (Liveware 3.0, September 1999) drivers.
Texture quality settings being used: High Res 16 Bit.
Resolution settings: 640x480 pixels.
This footage and audio was captured from the following computer:
Dell Dimension XPS R400 case and motherboard (manufactured on April 30th 1998 according to case label)
Intel 440BX motherboard (all board components are manufactured before April 30th 1998)
Intel Pentium II 400 Mhz processor (S-Spec SL2S7, manufactured week 14 1998)
Matrox Millennium II AGP (8MB) video card (manufactured somewhere in Q1 1998, don’t exactly remember)
Creative Labs 3D Blaster Voodoo 2 (CT6670) (12MB) 3D accelerator card (old variant with dark-colored circuit board, maybe manufactured around March or April 1998, don't remember)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! (CT4620) sound card (manufactured around August 1998, don't remember exactly)
Turtle Beach Montego (Aureal Vortex) (A3D) sound card (manufactured around March or April 1998, don't remember, need to check again dammit!)
192MBs of PC100 SDR SDRAM (all DIMMs manufactured around 1998, some earlier and some later in the year probably)
The capturing was done with VCS (which can be found on the Internet Archive) and OBS Studio using a Datapath VisionRGB-E1S PCI-Express capture card plugged into an ASUS Maximus IV Extreme motherboard with an Intel Core i7-2600K using 8 GBs of DDR3 SDRAM and an nVidia GTX 580 video card installed (basically, using my 2011 “vintage” PC). A VGA cable is connected between the source computer and the Datapath capture card to enable video capturing. Audio capture was done by feeding a 3.5mm stereo jack cable into the line in on the ASUS Maximus IV Extreme motherboard from the sound card of the vintage computer. Resizing/upscaling of the raw original 640x480 capture to 3200x2400 was done using VirtualDub2.
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