Same excitement I had when I got my first retro mac, the B&W G3 (Yosemite). It had a 300mhz G3 with 256mb RAM, CDRW, 40GB HD and ATI Rage128 16MB PCI. It now has a G4 400 @ 450mhz, 1GB RAM, DVDRW, 40GB+80GB HDs and ATI Radeon 9200 128MB PCI. I can tell Macintosh gaming is damn fun! Most mac ports …

Very nice system! I saw one exactly like this in a thrift store recently. Almost took it home but then I looked closer. The case was scratched, there was some paint on the screen, and the keyboard had so much dust/crumbs/grime inside it that one could have grown plants between the keys. It didn't …

Congrats! I've the SE Snow version, one of the later slot loading models. I'll have to set it up again once I get more space.

Sanity is highly overrated as well. You won't be saying that when your mind actually goes. I've been there (locked myself in for 4 months straight at one point), and it's certainly not pretty. I got out of isolating myself from the world so much and it helped a lot for my mental state - went out …

27, in a relationship of 6 years. The GF doesn't mind my hobbies at all. Moving to the UK soon.

Have a Logitech G9 from 2007 and it still works fine, including the mouse wheel, although I had to open it up a few times over the years to clean it. The only iffy thing that happens from time to time is the middle click which sometimes double triggers. Leaving the house and being social is highly …

I'd rather get a good IDE HDD, they're often cheaper online and offer more space. You could get a SATA HDD and use a converter too, but never tried that to see if they actually work properly or not.

New member, here's some photos of my mancave: http://i.imgur.com/RYiWU8nl.jpg Gaming PC for early 2000s PC games and for light DOS gaming. Despite the fact it's not a dedicated DOS machine (I'll plan on building one at some other point), it surprisingly runs most DOS games I've tried with it fine, …