This is very personal I think. I see globally 2 approaches, either take best hardware (and/or OS) to support an old game and run it maxed out, or build a (more or less) age appropriate system and play as best as possible. For me, I like hardware so I definitely fall in the second category. I like to …

Found this 386 Single Board Computer at my father's place of work. I don't even know how to power this thing on. Nice :) That is a PC104 motherboard . You can stack PC104 extention cards (ISA in a pin header format) on top (e.g. network or audio). Like this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication …

My guess would be rear if the case. But, it looks like a 2 layer PCB. To be sure, trace which ISA contacts connect to the ground fill. Then you can match it up with the ISA pinout. Also, improve the marking on the card 🙃

Technically I did not find it in a dumpster, but for free on Marktplaats (Dutch Craigslist) near me. I picked it up this morning :) IMG_20201022_161440.jpg It is a Samsung SyncMaster 753DFX, in great condition :) This is my first CRT monitor since I switched to TFT 15 years ago. The image is just …

I updated the BIOS of my GA-7IXE (slot A), and my Abit HotRod 100. Because having the CD-rom connected to onboard IDE, combined with my harddisks on RAID0 were causing stability issues. The Raid Controller update did the trick 😀

My current Slot Athlon + Voodoo 5 is running with a 20 year old, no-name power supply. I would hate for it to destroy my precious hardware. So I bought 2 Enermax ATX power supplies . They have decent 3.3V and 5V rails for older machines. But most important, decent failsafe mechanisms to minimize …

Last week, I burned a Windows 98 SE CD-rom ISO. In the process I (re)learned the following: My stash of ~10 year old (Maxel) DVD-R is still good :D (event though it has been exposed to a wide range of temperatures, never to UV light though) Burning a CD image onto a DVD works fine, but it will not …

Thanks for the welcome 😀 My introduction turned out a bit long, I am glad that you enjoyed it anyway! @Digger nice to see that there are more Dutch people here. I hope to see you around here more 😀 @Jo22 I did not know that retro emulation was a scene.

Dear Vogons, I would like to introduce myself, however since this is a public forum, I will keep my real name private (you may PM me if you do need to know ;)). I live in the northern half of The Netherlands, with my wife and kids. Recently I picked up my old hobby of (now retro) computers again. …