First post, by Rhuwyn
Hello all! I've been in the business a long time but this is the first time I've gone back to build a "retro" PC. Before getting into Corporate IT type stuff I spent a lot of time building PCs so this is all kinda nostalgic in more ways then one.
One thing that surprised me is how much retro hardware has gone up in cost. By todays standard I have probably thrown away 10s of thousands worth of working retro hardware which in hindsight makes me sad.
So, that being said I was also surprised to find how little retro hardware I had left. I figured I'd start with what I got and add on to it.
Current Build
Gateway Chassis
Gateway Socket A motherboard (MS-6330)
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 850mhz
448MB of PC-133 RAM(3x128MB modules 1x64MB modules, just loaded it up with everything I could)
Asus V6800DDR (Geforce 256 32MB)
40 GB Seagate Hard Drive.
Aureal Vortex2 Sound Card
Going through my old stuff I thoguht I had a Voodoo5 and a pair of Voodoo2s gathering dust but I can't find it for the life of me. Looked at prices on e-mail and about had a heart attack.
My goal is to have a system that will play as many games from the DOS to Win9x era as possible. I am not worried about playing games that will also play on newer OS's just games that won't work properly on newer systems. Outside of getting a 3DFX card for Glide based games any suggestions?