it's very funny to imagine this as something to ask about at vogons, but i've been thinking about a few things that would make it very useful to keep a dedicated XP rig. easily consolidates some hardware and application needs that are currently either spread out or not getting filled at all good …

hah! yeah, that was me that bought it. i've tinkered around with it a bit since then but haven't needed to change much, it's a solid machine. i'm second-guessing myself on the cd drive now, though - the one in there now is compaq-branded, which i thought came from an old compaq i had. but it looks …

thanks lunarg. i may change a lot of parts in this machine, but i'm holding on to this case forever. that switch is just so nice! well how about that? i did buy the case and motherboard together off ebay, though the cd drive was from one of my old computers. i don't suppose you could tell me …

i somehow lost the notepad file that was tracking everything installed in the 386 i use for old dos games, so opening it up and taking pictures of everything was in order. while i'm at it, why not share? this was basically baby's first retro rig, though i had more than enough help from friends and …

i'd like to build a good win98/2000 era machine, but have had trouble figuring out what parts i should focus on. managed to put together a nice 386 just from browsing discussions here but later machines have been more difficult for me as there are more options and i'm not familiar with any of them. …

wow, yeah! loadfix b:/ultima.com worked and now it's playing just fine! i thought that packed file is corrupt business meant my disks were shot, hah. dos is way out of my field of experience. i guess now i can try putting the program disk on the hdd and adding the music patch...

this is definitely not new hardware, but maybe someone here can tell me what's going on. i'm attempting to play ultima iv on a 386dx-33 system using dos 6.22 and have no idea what i am doing. i've tried several things and while i can get the title, new game intro and character creation, the game …

i'm on the east coast of the us - it's fine if you don't have any to spare though, i don't need handouts so much as brand names to look for. hell if most ebay sellers can be bothered to bust out a ruler and measure a stick of ram they're selling at a dollar each.

ah. well, now i feel dumb. the drive is a panasonic cr-589 with an ide cable so the sb16 in here takes care of that. derp. the one set of ram i have that fits are panasonic (4mb, three chips), and i couldn't turn up any more of them by checking with friends or searching ebay. they're 12mm tall and …

i've got an old 386 here that i thought had a fried motherboard. after getting some help from a friend though, it turns out i just did a crap job of testing the ram; i have two bad banks and a dead cd controller card to boot. so i have two questions for you fine folks. first, can anyone recommend …