kohellus@gmail.com wrote on 2023-01-16, 16:18:
Pawlicker wrote on 2023-01-15, 21:09:
kohellus@gmail.com wrote on 2023-01-15, 08:26:
Bought this a few months back. It took a long time to arrive and it took a long time for me to get time to know the insides of it 😀
Nice machine, but you might want a nicer PC-9801 machine for those Window Accelerators (since they're for Windows and a few 256 color games). To use them you'll need to connect the onboard video to them and your monitor to the accelerator. You might also want to get a NEC PC-9801-26k board being that some games use the sound ROM. Also be sure to remove the NiCD battery if you haven't already. To write floppies for it, use SAMDisk and write HDM files.
Be very careful because you'll end up buying more 9801s guaranteed. Also get the rubber dome keyboards they're more likely to work from experience.
Thanks for the info. Iam complete newbie with these and just bought some random junk to see where i get. Probably will buy more, they are quite more fascinating than regular PC's, atleast this one is because of so much over engineering 😀
There's a Discord server with most of the PC-98 users in the west in it (PC-9800 Series Central) and you're welcome to ask any newbie questions there.
For a 9821 I'd recommend buying a CX/2/3/13 if you want gaming, they're compact and have FM. The Cs2/Ce2 is okay but the only CPU upgrades are "clip on" upgrades or else you're stuck with an anorexic 486sx. The 9801DA/FA aren't bad machines either, but the FA might need recapping. The 9821As/Ap/Ae definitely will, I have a 9821Ae project lying around I need to recap when I get time.
It's a good thing you bought a SCSI card however. You'll just need a weird SCSI cable, but you'll want one for every PC-98 you own without an HDD carrier/hardcard since PC-98s normally did not get provisions for installing internal HDDs without one until later on. The CX/2/3/13 doesn't need one and neither do the models of that era.
The other thing you can do once you get a HDD is load the YAHDI image on it. If you have a bigger HDD there's a trick to get bigger HDDs on said image as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz0aDJx8I78