First post, by red_avatar
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In March, I was lucky enough to buy a new house which has a nice size attic with regular stairs leading to it so my dream of having a game room finally could come true.
At the moment, I already have my modern PC there, my arcade cabinet, 4 tall CD cabinets contained my hundreds of original DOS & Windows games and 4 big shelves showing my favorite big box DOS games.
The idea is to also fully set up my old IBM PCs of which I have three:
IBM PS/1 386SX 25Mhz
IBM Aptiva 486SX 33Mhz
IBM Aptiva P1 150Mhz
I want all three to share a single screen, keyboard, mouse and speakers. The keyboard I already bought (IBM KB-8926) and I'm currently looking for a Logitech Mouseman with three buttons for maximum game compatibility
Now, I have a few problems which I could use some help with:
a) the IBM PS/1 no longer works. A few years ago I bought an Italian version of it (same specs) which also didn't work - I'm tempted to try and Frankenstein the two into one working one BUT I lack the original software which I really want. The original was in Dutch but English is fine as well. It had IBM DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 with a bunch of IBM specific software + when you quit Windows, you got a blue menu to help you navigate to DOS, Windows or DOSSHELL. Anyone have any idea where I might find this software? The drive originally had recovery data on it which was deleted to make more space (it took a whopping 15MB of a 85MB drive so you can imagine why it got deleted).
b) I would like an easy way to transfer stuff to the two oldest PCs. Right now, I have to take out the drive, use a IDE box to hook it up to my PC, transfer the files, unhook it, put it back in the old PC and put everything back together again which is a pain in the ass. Does anyone know of anything that might be handy to use for this?
Retro game fanatic.
IBM PS1 386SX25 - 4MB
IBM Aptiva 486SX33 - 8MB - 2GB CF - SB16
IBM PC350 P233MMX - 64MB - 32GB SSD - AWE64 - Voodoo2
PIII600 - 320MB - 480GB SSD - SB Live! - GF4 Ti 4200
i5-2500k - 3GB - SB Audigy 2 - HD 4870