I have practically the same system: Athlon XP 2400, Epox board, 1 GB RAM, Radeon 9600 256 mb. And I also noticed mediocre performance in stuff like Max Payne, whereas Q2 ran much better. Haven't tested the ones you mentioned. I sort of suspect this is normal performance, to be honest. I used to …

Yeah, the removable HDD bays, or HDD drawers as we called them, were indeed a thing towards the end of the 90s. CD writers weren't widely available yet but we had old 'decommissioned' 850 MB HDDs which were perfect for moving 650 MB disc images. And since I was lucky to be the first kid on the block …

maxtherabbit wrote on 2023-03-04, 01:32: Yep. I even bought a line simulator so I can call one computer from the other 😀 Can you elaborate on that? What does such simulator do? Where can I read about it?

Thanks, I already love it here :) Oh, if you call it that way then I'm very into 'evolving' my PCs ;) A couple of years later I had a computer (based on a rather decent Asus M3A79-T Deluxe motherboard) which started life as an Athlon 64 X2 with a 3870X2 and thanks to numerous upgrades it lasted 11 …

I just popped by to say hi, I'm newly registered on VOGONS and here's one of my rigs. I consider myself a period correctness purist but this one is by far the least period correct of them all, albeit genuine - it just lived too long and transformed into this frankenstein of a 1996 PC over time. A …