I was using a generic, biege "Joy stick with fire button" but it didn't work so well. Now I have 2 gravis PC game pads which seem much better. What are people's favorite joy/flight stick or game pad/controller from this era?

I took your advice and put a TSENG Labs ET4000 w/ 512k, a SBPro 2.0, and a Roland MPU-IPC-T w/ an MT-32. I found a copy of Wing Commander at good will and have gotten hooked on it. I also have an Intel Above Board w/ 8Meg EMS. Upon starting Wing Commander it says "found EMS.....EMS fully used". WOW! …

I managed to get Minix 2.0.2 nearly running on this system. I still need to copy the USR files and source code and then compile in the NIC driver. Its boot loader works great for selecting a specific partition to boot from so I can dual boot Minix and DOS. I added a SB Pro 2.0 as well. The game port …

My goal is to hotrod 1 PC from every Intel CPU generation between 8088 & 486. After months of painstaking work, here is my first submittal for your approval. An 8088 generation, hot-rodded XT clone. HW CPU: NEC v20 @ 10Mhz FPU: Intel 8087 Conventional RAM: 640k Expanded Memory: Intel Above Board …

I hope this is the right forum in which to ask this question. What is the best 16 bit ISA video, audio, and network cards for a 286-16 machine? My current understanding is: best 16 bit ISA Video - ATI Mach 64 w/ 4MB RAM Audio - Creative AWE64 NIC - 3COM 3C515 10/100 I have all 3 of these cards and …

If you're not going for 100% IBM why not add a SCSI HD controller rather than MFM. My XT clone has a 4.5G HD, although it can only see ~2G of it. Then get a Floppy controller with BIOS support for 1.2 and 1.44 floppies. Also, Video 7 made an 8bit ISA VGA card that could also do EGA, CGA, and MDA …

I'm glad I'm not the only crazy person who still likes to soop up old PCs. Let me start with my rant. This weekend I decided to unbox my old XT clone and get it going again. I ran into 2 major headaches. first, I have a Acculogic RAMpAT!-Plus. I decided to try to get it running in my XT for the …