First post, by Ricimer
I've been assembling and working with OS installs over the last year for this build. I missed the original PIII era, going from a PII to AMD Duron at the time. I'm mostly covering late DOS games to around 2000, for me this is DS9 harbinger to Homeworld 1.
The CPUs and GPU are fanless, so I have a number of case fans to keep everything cool.
Hardware:
Tyan Tiger 100 motherboard (Rev F)
2 x Pentium III 750MHz CPUs (SL3XP)
4 x 256MB PC133 RAM
MSI Geforce3 Ti 200
3Com 3C905C-TX-M network card
HighPoint RocketRAID 1520 SATA controller
Creative AWE64 Gold CT4390 sound card
Panasonic UJ-850 DVD-RW (works mostly with CDBeQuiet in DOS!)
GoTek Floppy Emulator
Corsair HX850i PSU (from my previous computer, it has 150w available for the older voltages).
1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD
Case:
For the case I wanted something modern with 5.25 drive bays on a budget. I have no love for old PC cases, I still have a scar on one finger from a computer case!
Be Quiet! Silent Base 600 case
4 x 140mm Pure Wings 2 fans (these are the OEM version, only £4 each!)
1 x 120mm Pure Wings 2 fan
Dell caddy (an excellent suggestion from the "All Things Dual" thread about another Tiger build).
Software:
The Tiger has issues with drives larger than 32GB, so I recently moved away from a pair of 32GB CF cards to the HighPoint and a 1TB SSD.
OS Installed (all on their own 120GB partitions):
FreeDOS
Windows98SE
Windows NT4
Windows 2000
Boot-US: For boot menu and partition hiding. I really like this software and purchased it many years ago. It allows me to keep all installs separate, only having their relevant C: drive visible to each OS, and also stops Windows 2000 from silently upgrading my NT4 install to NTFS 3.0 without asking!
Ghost solution suite: Combined with the above it makes patching and preparing OS partitions much easier (version 1.1 still supports NTFS 1.2).
The HighPoint drivers and bios allowed me to work around any LBA issues for everything which was nice.
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