First post, by epicbrad
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Hey everyone
So today I finally managed to work on a project with my GF
Please note this is just the configuration we mashed together to "bring it up"
We will be "upgrading" and picking parts carefully over the next few months.
It is based on GA-568VX Motherboard (3.37)
Pentium 150 CPU @ 180 Mhz Stable
32MB Single stick SD RAM
Sound Blaster 16 w/IDE pulled from Osborne 386 machine (another project)
Promise TX4-150 Sata adapter
8.6 GB Seagate IDE Hard drive (W98SE BOOT)
Samsung 128GB SATA SSD (Games storage)
Currently no working mouse (serial port seems flaky)
Diamond touch keyboard with windows keys
3.5 Floppy was replaced, old faulty......
512KB Paradise ISA Video card (No drivers - tried some from vogons no go.....seems like an odd card - To be replaced... my S3 card is faulty...)
4/8x Matsushita CD-RW drive (Works VERY well for this build!)
today we loaded win98se
I copied some games from my Library including some apps and we tested Bio Menace, Apogee space shooter from 1993 (Stryker?) and a few others. It works perfectly.
Service pack 3 and kernelEx is installing right now (Taking forever!)
Future plans
Install a cheap USB2.0 Card, so we can install 2 USB joysticks and play some games together (Anyone want to tell me some fun 2P Joystick games?)
Take all the parts out, clean it (Case as well - it has rust) or move it to another case
Ideally I want to put this build into a more modern case, as we want to do some perspex on one of our retro projects (doesn't have to be this one)
or we want to make this one unique with a paint job after clean with a bit of basic lighting.