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YouTuber TrashBench rebuilds his 1996 Pentium MMX PC to play original Need for Speed

Technology YouTuber TrashBench, frustrated with today's AI-saturated and parts-starved PC market, built a replica of his family's first 1996 computer. The machine uses a Pentium MMX 200 MHz CPU, an Epox Pronix motherboard, 32 MB of RAM, and an S3 Trio32 graphics card with no 3D rendering, all to run The Need for Speed: Special Edition as he did as a child.

tomshardware.com · 2026-10-24

Wine-NX homebrew brings Windows PC games like NFS Underground 2 to Switch

A homebrew project called Wine-NX ports Wine 11 to the Switch's Horizon OS, letting it run x86 Windows games via Box64's ARM64 translation and Mesa's nouveau graphics driver. Demonstrations show Need for Speed Underground 2 playing at 20-45fps, OpenTTD hitting 60fps, Quake III Arena running around 37fps at 720p, and WarCraft III partially functional with menus and cutscenes working.

tomshardware.com · 2026-09-14