Finally made space to create a home for my new retro hobby. It's a mess, I'm not done yet, had to end early as it was getting late. Left most machine is a finished P1 200mhz, 64mb, SB AWE64, nvidia TNT2 running Win98/DOS The machine to it's right is an unfinished P4 WinXP machine. I'm going to need …

The FX series was nvidias giant flop. would it be better to get the ATI Cards from that era? The Radeon 9700 Pro?

To add to it though, why would someone want to go for XP over 98? What games were made for XP that couldn't run on 98 that don't run on current hardware? I see the opposite being a problem, games made for 95/98 that may not run on XP. Wouldn't it be better for him to aim for the best 98 machine he …

So I took a look into the P3 machine as I have it on hand. It's an Intel se440bx2 motherboard, only 100mhz FSB, 3 100mhz SDRAM slots max 384MB AGP 2x IDE ATA 33 2 ISA slots, 4 PCI I don't have any ram in it so I can't boot it to see what CPU is in there but the sticker on the case says its got a P3. …

I did not know we still wanted ISA in an XP build. What will we need on the ISA in XP and DirectX era games?

I find myself a new father! So I've gotten this bug to create a library of games for my son so he can remember his gaming heritage. I have rebuilt a DOS/9x machine for him. AOpen AP5VM 64MB ram P1 P55C 200MHZ Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA PNY nVidia TNT2 M64 PCI Promise 133 TX2 PCI -> IDE to CompactFlash …

First post on Vogons Cleaned a Mexican built clone of an IBM 104 AT keyboard. Popped off the keys, took the clamshell apart, it's silicone dome so cleaned the silicone as well, looks nice. Also got in my nVidia TNT2 M64 PCI card and Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA card. Installed both in my P1 P54C machine, …