Recently I have picked up quite cheaply some P4/Pentium M laptops that have dedicated period discreet graphics. Normally I dont even look at laptops for gaming. but on paper these are perfect for 98 (if I can track down all the drivers) and early XP period, being made around 2004, they were sourced …

So, since this thread seems to be all Intel stuff, what about AMD? what are the newest officially supported AMD platforms? As it just so happens ive got my hands on a LOT of AMD AM2, AM3 and AM3+ boards. some with some decent specs for the time. and ive a few Athlon II's, Phenom, Phenom II and FX 4, …

I have a couple of Belkin cards, that have a NEC chip on them, havent used them yet, so im hoping when i get round to building my 98 machines that these will work without to many issues.

Thanks for the info Thermalwrong. Shame the screen cannot be replaced, It kinda makes it nigh on useless for my needs. As I have umpteen very fast desktops (figuritevly speaking.. they are retro) so having to hook this up to an external monitor to make use of it with anything involving moving …

Hey folks. Usually I dont really go near laptops for gaming of any kind. But when hunting down my next haul of retro goodies. I got offered firstly this Toshina Sattelite 220CS, the usual for the model 133MHz Pentium CPU, with the pants 2mb "GPU" yeah.. i had to use the commas as it barely describes …

New here so forgive me hopping right in. Im in the process of building 3 high end builds (98SE, XP and 7) none will be strictly period only hardware, but still have native drivers. just end of era. What i will do though is use the 98 machine for all the DX7/8/ early 9 games. I have a selection of …

Ok I've been looking and reading online a long time, and yeah I have been building computers a long time, even doing it for a living in the 90's until I got into software dev and graphic design. But hey I'm old 50 shortly and the old brain has forgotten near as much as I remember. I don't want to be …

New here so forgive me hopping right in. Im in the process of building 3 high end builds (98SE, XP and 7) none will be strictly period only hardware, but still have native drivers. just end of era. What i will do though is use the 98 machine for all the DX7/8/ early 9 games. I have a selection of …