Just to note : BSD will not help, either. NetBSD is probably the most conservative of the BSDs and even that dropped support for the 80386 chip over two years ago. The 386 is dead, stick it in the bin! The 486 and definitely pentiums will stick around for a bit due to embedded kit. For actual …

Sim City Classic is infamous for it's freezes and error boxes on OS/2. It's not really worth hunting down except just to fill a hole in your OS/2 collection. Get the DOS/Windows version if you actually want to be able to play. I think I only ever played the demo of that. I'd agree - stick to native …

Most OS/2 users disable its default habit of restarting any programs/interface objects that were loaded on shutdown ;). You can bring Warp 3 reasonably up to date but it requires a *lot* of fixpacks, and my memory is a little rusty. Something like fixpack 34 (ish..) needs applying - this may have a …

;) I know that's one option, but a) I already have a shiny joystick and b) the SB32 gameport is in use by the MIDI cable. Yes, I do have a USB to MIDI cable (untested) that could perhaps be used for MIDI, and also a cheapo PCI soundcard with gameport that might help. I was hoping to use the spare …

I'm trying to get Tie Fighter Collectors Edition working, using a USB Joystick (Thrustmaster T.16000M) to control it. This is on my retro gaming PC (currently PII 300MHz, 384MB RAM, S3 Virge DX, SB32, MT32/SCC 1 (through SB32 MIDI port) and a Voodoo 2. Might get an upgrade to a P3 700 with up to 2GB …